In a tweet posted Monday, President Joe Biden condemned the anti-Semitic attacks against that erupted over the weekend amid the violent Israel-Hamas conflict.
“The recent attacks on the Jewish community are despicable, and they must stop,” Biden wrote. “I condemn this hateful behavior at home and abroad–it’s up to all of us to give hate no safe harbor.”
A surge in anti-Semitic attacks has been reported in New York, California, Illinois, New Jersey, Utah, Arizona and Florida. Palestinian demonstrators were filmed accosting Jewish bystanders in New York City’s diamond district last week, yelling profanities and throwing a firework at people out shopping in the historically Jewish neighborhood.
The violence in New York City unfolded hours after Israel and Hamas agreed to a cease-fire in hostilities after eleven days of tit-for-tat rocket fire. Egypt helped mediate between the two sides to negotiate a pause in the fighting. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced he will travel to the Middle East this week to conduct diplomacy between the warring parties and Egypt.
While the Biden administration has asserted Israel’s right to self-defense, Democratic members of Congress have focused on the Jewish state’s role in the conflict almost exclusively, ignoring that Israel makes an effort to limit the loss of civilian life — by focusing its fire on military targets and giving warning when it plans to strike a civilian area — while Hamas indiscriminately launches rockets into known civilian population centers.
Source for text and photo: Nationalreview.com
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