Did Biden just say the U.S. can’t protect Jews?
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Richard Kuper
JVL Introduction
The latest edition of The Wire, the newsletter from Jewish Voice for Peace, comments on a number of important issues in the States.
- a Presidential speech affirming that “were there no Israel, there wouldn’t be a Jew in the world who is safe”;
- the attack on three Presidents of major American universities for allegedly not protecting their students against calls for genocide of Jews; and,
- Congress passing a resolution equating anti-Zionism with antisemitism
All are dangerous developments, particularly Biden’s implication that the States can’t protect its that Jewish citizens who need to look to Israel for security, opening them up as fair game to charges of dual loyalty.
RK
This article was originally published by The Wire on Tue 12 Dec 2023. Read the original here.
Did Biden just say the U.S. can’t protect Jews?
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I agree with the writers – definitions matter.
McCarthyites defined “communists” guilty of “un-American activities” as people who wanted to end segregation and the barring of black voters from casting their votes in the American South; those supporting workers against exploitative bosses; and those with “liberal” social views on the sanctity of marriage, homosexuality and traditional authority. Such a definition could be used to threaten almost anyone. Many of those who could flee abroad did so.
I believe one of the principal McCarthyites was a key member of the US security services. His power grab was partly defensive – he wanted to protect himself from being sacked for professional and personal misdeeds. Attack is supposedly the best form of defence …
There really needs to be a sustained worldwide effort to replace the IHRC declaration with the Jerusalem Definition of antisemitism. There is a movement to do so – but it’s slow-building.
it really is the new mcarthyism
I was always taught this lie as a Jewish child in the 1960s. I was given the impression that if there was no Israel we would all be murdered some day soon by European fascists. Its actually the opposite of what’s true. It is Israel and its actions that puts us at risk.