More About Joe and the Jews
By Joan Swirsky
ThePostEmail.com
(Apr. 13, 2021) — Democrat Jimmy Carter became the
U.S. president in 1977, only 32 years after
six-million Jewish men, women, children and infants
were savagely starved, tortured, shot in cold blood,
buried in mass graves and gassed to death by
Hitler’s bloodthirsty Nazi regime in Germany and
other East European countries.
Yet, the longtime Sunday school teacher could not
control himself when it came to revealing
his hatred of Jews and detestation of Israel––sentiments
that ooze from his 96-year-old pores to this day.
This is who Democrats voted for. This is who Jewish
Democrats voted for.
I thought that Carter would hold the all-time
record for in-your-face anti-Semitism,
but then along came Barack Obama, with his
undisguised animus toward Israel and his appointment
to influential positions of a huge number of career
Jew-haters and loathers of Israel. I listed all of
them in my article “The Obama Voter––Not this Jew”
(look it up).
As longtime journalist Ed Lasky of the American
Thinker has written: “One seemingly consistent theme
running throughout Barack Obama’s career is his
comfort with aligning himself with people who are
anti-Israel advocates.”
And, I would add, anti-American advocates!
This is who Democrats voted for. This is who Jewish
Democrats voted for.
AS
NIGHT FOLLOWS DAY
Right by Obama’s side for his entire eight years in
office was VP Joe Biden, consistently endorsing,
approving of and applauding his boss’s policies,
including the Iran deal, which pretended to delay
the world’s most malign terrorist state from
acquiring nuclear weapons that the mullahs said
then––and say today––are intended to eliminate the
State of Israel.
But really no surprise. Ole Joe’s antipathy toward
Israel goes way back. According to writer David
Israel, in
the summer of 1973, only months after he
defeated a Republican incumbent to become the junior
U.S. senator from Delaware, Biden visited the
highest-ranking Egyptian officials and then––with
treachery aforethought––delivered their
disinformation to Israeli Prime Minister Golda
Meir.
“Biden told Meir that all the Egyptian VIPS affirmed
Israel’s military superiority and assured him that
it would be impossible for Egypt to go to war
against Israel. We all know how that turned
out,” writer Israel reminds us, of the Yom
Kippur War, with a decisive failure of
U.S. Intelligence agencies (surprise, surprise!) and
grave losses for our most reliable ally in the
Middle East.
Ten years later, in June 1982, Senator Joe Biden
banged the desk in front of him with his fist at a
Senate Foreign Relations Committee meeting and
threatened then-Israeli Prime Minister Menachem
Begin with cutting off aid to Israel.
Begin forcefully responded: “Don’t
threaten us with cutting off your aid. It will not
work. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a
proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history.
Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas
chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we
were striving to create our country. We paid for it.
We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by
our principles. We will defend them. And, when
necessary, we will die for them again, with or
without your aid.”
In 2015, on the occasion of Israel’s 67th birthday,
then-VP Joe Biden said the following: “…I’ve had the
great privilege of knowing every Israeli Prime
Minister since Golda Meir and more than just
casually. And I’ve worked with many of you in this
room for up to 40 years. You know me. You raised me.
You educated me. And I know you.”
As journalist David Israel wrote: “And we know you,
too, President Joe Biden. And as you put it in 1973,
we have no delusions.”
And just the other day, on April 8th,
Holocaust Remembrance Day––the day that commemorates
the six-million Jews who perished in the
Holocaust––the Biden regime released its push for
gun confiscation, red-flag laws, and the end of the
2nd Amendment.
“So that very day,” writer Steven Neill points out,
“we remembered the deaths of six-million Jews at the
hands of a tyrannical government and at the same
time [Biden’s] government is going full Nazi!”
And in keeping with their vicious antagonism toward
Jews and Israel, Joe
Biden’s Democrat-run House Foreign Affairs
Committee released a Yom HaShoah
statement that omitted reference to the six-million
Jews killed in the Holocaust and spelled Holocaust
with a lowercase H.
Yet again, this is who Democrats voted for. This is
who Jewish Democrats voted for.
RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX
Less than two weeks after his inauguration on
January 20th,
2021, ole Joe immediately made key appointments of
longtime Jew- and Israel-loathers. Here is a
synopsis of those early appointments from my recent
article, “Joe’s Jews”:
MAHER BITAR for
Senior Director for Intelligence of the National
Security Council (NSC)…according
to Daniel Greenfield,
an aggressive anti-Israel activist and
Boycott/Divest/Sanction (BDS) supporter who has
called for the destruction of Israel.
ANTHONY BLINKEN for
Secretary of State…he has praised radical
anti-Israel J Street as a “constructive force,” and
opposed designating the terrorist Iranian IRGC as a
foreign terror organization.
KRISTEN CLARKE as
head of the Civil Rights Division of the Department
of Justice. Paul Miller, executive director of the
Haym Salomon Center, documents that
Clarke “has a troubling history of advocating for
anti-Semites and representing anti-Semitic lies as
‘fact.’”
REEMA DODIN for
Deputy Director of the White House Office of
Legislative Affairs. According to the Zionist
Organization of America (ZOA), Dodin’s background as
a Palestinian propagandist and supporter of suicide
bombings is so egregious that she should be fired on
the spot. Dodin also organized anti-Israel
rallies at UC Berkeley, and has spread
Medieval-style blood libels…
AVRIL HAINES for
Director of National Intelligence. Described as
being rabidly
anti-Israel…last May she signed a vicious
J Street letter with 30 notoriously Israel-loathing
former foreign-policy officials calling on the
Democrat Party to oppose Israel’s lawful rights in
Judea and Samaria.
KARINE JEAN-PIERRE for
White House Press Secretary. The former head of
MoveOn.org, a far-left anti-Israel group, she has
praised lawmakers for boycotting pro-Israel groups
and has accused Israel of “war crimes.”
JOHN KERRY as
Envoy for Climate. Adam Berkowitz has
written that “even the Israeli leftist
newspaper Haaretz is appalled by John Kerry’s…utter
capitulation to Hamas.” And Joseph Klein has
written of Kerry’s farewell stab at
Israel when he was Secretary of State under Obama.
ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS for Secretary
of the Department of Homeland Security, is a board
member of HIAS, which partners with
terrorism-financier Islamic Relief. He has undermined Israeli
repatriation policies…and signed a letter defending and
praising Jew-basher Linda Sarsour.
DENIS McDONOUGH for
Secretary of the Veterans Administration. He has
spoken at the anti-Israel J Street convention and
falsely condemned Israel’s “occupation.”
SUSAN RICE for
Domestic Policy Advisor (aka Biden’s Valerie
Jarrett). The serial
liar and inveterate Israel-basher was
Obama’s senior foreign-policy advisor and also John
Kerry’s chief foreign-policy adviser when he ran for
President.
WENDY SHERMAN for
Deputy Secretary of State. Sherman negotiated the
disastrous Iran deal. Again, ZOA spokesmen spell
out Sherman’s threat to Israel of
consequences from the United Nations (aka the
virulently anti-Israel cesspool in NY City) if
Israel did not accept a Palestinian (terror) state.
KEEPING UP THE
DRUMBEAT
Since then, Biden has expanded his anti-Israel
appointments and policies significantly. Clearly,
whoever is running the show behind the armed camp at
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue believes that nothing is
more important than undermining, sabotaging, and
“getting” the Jews and Israel.
Space limitations prevent me from elaborating at
length, but here are the cold hard facts of some
but not all of the Jew-and-Israel-detesting
people Biden has appointed in just the past four or
five weeks.
HADY AMR for
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern
Affairs, to be in charge, as
Daniel Greenfield spells out, of setting
the Biden administration’s policy on Israel––the
perfect pick given his former praise for the
“Palestinian” intifada and former role as a Fellow
of the Brookings’ Doha Center for Qatar, a “tiny
Islamic tyranny allied with Iran, Al Qaeda, and the
Muslim Brotherhood…and a backer of Hamas.”
PETE BUTTIGIEG for
Secretary of Transportation, the guy who now
threatens to cut aid to Israel. As Greenfield
explains, he is being advised by close associates of
Obama and Soros, hence his wholehearted entrance
into the anti-Israel echo chamber.
DEB HAALAND (D-NM)
for Secretary of the Interior. In June 2020, she
signed a vicious letter––along
with anti-Semites Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Alexandria
Ocasio Cortez (D-NY), and Democrat Betty McCollum
(MN), et al––falsely accusing Israelis of violence
against the people who call themselves
Palestinians.
COLIN KAHL for
Undersecretary of Defense. According to ZOA
President Morton A. Klein and Chair Mark Levenson,
Esq. Kahl has a
dismal record of advocating pro-Iranian
regime positions, opposing Iran sanctions, advancing
an anti-Israel resolution at the U.N, holding
anti-Israel positions, and promoting anti-Semitic
conspiracy theories.
ROBERT MALLEY for
U.S. Special Envoy on Iran. Malley has a long and
alarming record of anti-Israel hostility and
appeasement of Iran, Hamas, the PLO, Yasser Arafat,
Mahmoud Abbas, and Syria.
BETTY McCOLLUM,
Democrat Representative from Minnesota, for the
Chair of the House Defense Appropriations
Subcommittee. The
vocal anti-Israel lawmaker spews
anti-Semitic tropes and aggressively supports
cutting aid to Israel.
DENIS McDONOUGH for
Secretary of Veterans Affairs. According to the ZOA,
while serving as Obama’s chief-of-staff he gave a
harsh, anti-Israel keynote speech at the anti-Israel
group J Street’s convention and falsely
and maliciously called Israel’s presence
on historic Jewish lands guaranteed to the Jewish
people under international law an “occupation of
‘Palestinian’ land.”
ERIN PELTON for
Special Assistant to Biden and a Senior Adviser on
Domestic Policy. She is a former lobbyist for
Qatar, which
has close ties to Iran, is a central hub for
terrorism financing, and is also suspected
of funding Hezbollah.
SAMANTHA POWER for head
of the United States Agency for International
Development (USAID). Obama’s U.S. ambassador to the
United Nations has, according to the ZOA, an “abominable
anti-American, anti-Israel, pro-Iran record”… [and
a] history of anti-Israel statements and
actions….Power indeed uses the mantra of ‘human
rights’ to condemn and damage human rights-loving
countries, especially the U.S. and Israel, and to
instead support murderous hateful regimes.”
JEN PSAKI,
White House Press Secretary., As a State Dept.
spokesperson during
the Obama-Biden regime, she questioned
Israel’s commitment to peace, defended the U.S.
working with the Hamas-Fatah-Palestinian Authority
“unity” government while Hamas’s charter calls
for Israel’s annihilation and murdering every Jew in
existence, and was
incapable of saying yes when asked if
Israel was an important ally of the U.S.
SYMONE SANDERS for
Senior Advisor and Chief Spokesperson to the Vice
President, a woman who gave a free pass to avowed
Jew-hater Linda Sarsour after Sarsour’s
violence-inciting statements, such as the notorious tweet that
throwing rocks at Israelis is “the definition of
courage.”
UZRA ZEYA, who
has a long record of denouncing the “Israel lobby,” according
to journalist Hugh Fitzgerald, as well as her full
supporting of the despotic and corrupt regimes of
Hamas in Gaza and the Palestinian Authority in
Judea and Samaria, and promoting claims about Jewish
media control and dual loyalty to Israel.
Once again, this is who Democrats voted for. This is
who Jewish Democrats voted for.
BIDEN’S JEW-HATING
POLICIES
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In an act of stunning rudeness and blatant
hostility, Biden
consciously refuses to call Israeli Prime
Minister Netanyahu for well over a
month since his oath of office.
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In February, Politico exposed a
U.S. State Department official in the Biden
Administration, Fritz Berggren, for
operating a website on which he refers to Jews
as “the seed of the serpent” and a “brood of
vipers.” To date, no word of sanctions or firing
of Berggren.
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While Iranian-backed Iraqi militias were likely
behind a
deadly rocket barrage on
a U.S.-led coalition base in northern Iraq in
February, that didn’t stop Biden from releasing
$3 billion in Iranian funds that have been
frozen in Iraq, Oman and South Korea due to
Washington’s sanctions. According
to Rabbi Yaacov Menken, managing director of the
Coalition for Jewish values, this funding violates
the Taylor Force Act––signed by President Trump
in 2018––which stops U.S. aid to the PA until it
stops paying stipends to martyred terrorists.
“Every global terror organization is delighted
to see President Biden in power,” Menken added.
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Just as the Obama-Biden regime was infamous for
leaking intelligence information that was
horribly damaging to Israel, the Biden regime is
already doing the same, leaking “to
The New York Times that Israel attacked an
Iranian ship in the Red Sea.”
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Biden now intends to
reinstate funding to the United
Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) —
hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars a year
for an agency that teaches “Palestinian”
children to hate “the Enemy” Israel and believe
“Jihad is the road of glory.”
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The ZOA’s recent
report on the U.S. State Department concluded,
not surprisingly, that it “is strongly biased
against the Jewish State of Israel, relies on
falsehoods from anti-Israel and terror-connected
Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and
others, and resumed using the inaccurate term
“occupied” to refer to the ‘West Bank,’ Gaza
Strip, Golan Heights, and eastern Jerusalem. The
Trump administration had correctly and
appropriately dropped the inaccurate term
“occupied.”
Once again, this is who Democrats voted for. This is
who Jewish Democrats voted for.
How could that be? What kind of psychopathology
drives people to support a political candidate whose
worldview and political philosophy wishes them dead?
As Eileen Toplansky sagely
asks: “American Jewry–– when will you
wake up?”