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2023-11-03 13:39:28 UTC
This month has seen the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust.
It has also seen the worst global spike in anti-Semitism since the Holocaust.
According to Reuters, "In countries where figures are available from police
or civil society groups, including the United States, Britain, France,
Germany and South Africa, the pattern is clear: the number of antisemitic
incidents has gone up since Oct. 7 by several hundred percent compared with
the same period last year."
Such incidents range from verbal abuse to threats to property attacks to
assaults. Some are happening on our nation's campuses. The editor of the
Harvard Law Review, Ibrahim Bharmal, joined in accosting a Jewish student and
blocking his way.
Anti-Semitism also extends into the administrative halls of our universities:
Georgetown just hired the radical anti-Semite Aneesa Johnson as new assistant
director of academic and faculty affairs, who posted about "Zio bitches"
saying, "They're dogs."
Meanwhile, some Jewish businesses are being boycotted for the crime of being
Jewish businesses. According to the Washington Post, more than 30 Jewish
eateries and markets in Philadelphia are being hit with a boycott organized
by a pro-Hamas group because they are "owned by Zionists." Even some shops
that aren't owned by Jews are being boycotted for serving Israeli food,
because according to the Philly Palestine Coalition, such food is "a means of
erasing Palestinian existence."
But there's something peculiar about all the media reports about the
extravagant spike in anti-Semitism: They all carry notes about a supposedly
concomitant rise in "Islamophobia."
This is odd, to say the least.
What the hell does Islamophobia have to do with anti-Semitism?
The answer is: precisely nothing.
Precisely nothing, that is, unless you wish to suggest that response to
anti-Semitism is linked with Islamophobia -- that if you wish to oppose
radical Muslim anti-Semitism, that is an aspect of Islamophobia.
Which, of course, is precisely what anti-Semites are suggesting these days.
Take, for example, Corey Saylor of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
CAIR is the most frequently cited group on "rising Islamophobia." CAIR is a
group that, by the way, was an unindicted co-conspirator in the trial of
Hamas front charity, the Holy Land Foundation. Saylor refuses to condemn
boycotts on Jewish businesses; he told the Washington Post that "it is 100
percent on the table to criticize supporters of Israeli apartheid."
CAIR itself accuses Israel of "textbook ethnic cleansing" and "war crime" for
defending itself, trots out anti-Semite extraordinaire Linda Sarsour, and
promotes the Hamas lie that Israel bombed a hospital (it was Palestinian
Islamic Jihad). On October 7, the date of the Hamas massacre, CAIR National
tweeted, "We join @USCMO and the American Muslim community in reaffirming our
support for the Palestinian people's right to freedom and calling for an end
to the Israeli occupation, which kills hundreds of Palestinian civilians
every year, subjects millions of Palestinians to racist oppression, and
sparks the deadly violence that we see again and again, including today."
On October 7, before any Israeli response, they also called for an end to
American aid to Israel and the Abraham Accords.
We join @USCMO and the American Muslim community in reaffirming our
support for the Palestinian people's right to freedom and calling
for an end to the Israeli occupation, which kills hundreds of
Palestinian civilians every year, subjects millions of Palestinians
to racist... pic.twitter.com/eW4waBJGc2
-- CAIR National (@CAIRNational) October 7, 2023
The group has not offered _a single word_ condemning Hamas.
Good thing the Biden Administration infamously invited CAIR to participate in
its national anti-Semitism strategy back in May.
CAIR is, by any stretch of the imagination, a fomenter of anti-Semitism.
But that's the point of focusing on supposed Islamophobia: the goal is to
treat response to anti-Semitism as a form of Islamophobia. So Saylor claims
that it is Islamophobia to publicize the names of students who sign petitions
siding with Hamas, while claiming it is not anti-Semitism to boycott Jewish
businesses.
Fascinating.
Columbia University is playing the same game. The President of Columbia
University sent out a letter yesterday praising the "persistence and
perseverance of the students" who have signed letters supporting Hamas, after
their names and faces have been shown publicly. Opposing Hamas means
Islamophobia, apparently.
The legacy media feel the same way. That's precisely why, since October 7,
the media have rushed to link anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, as though the
two phenomena are part of a "cycle of hatred."
That's a disgusting and wrong take that excuses anti-Semitism through false
charges of Islamophobia. But it's extraordinarily common on the Left these
days. One variation on the theme comes from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has
emerged as one of the nation's leading anti-Semites. She now accuses the
American Israel Public Affairs Committee of being an "extremist group"
attempting to undermine American democracy and targeting "members of color."
Yes, those wily Jews and their dirty shekels are clearly the problem as
anti-Semitism spikes. They must be stopped.
The Biden administration is falling into the trap of linking anti-Semitism
and Islamophobia -- a link that has the purposeful goal of demonizing
opposition to Hamas. Fearful of their own base, the Biden Administration
announced yesterday a White House National Strategy to combat Islamophobia.
Karine Jean-Pierre explained, "For too long, Muslims in America, and those
perceived to be Muslim, such as Arabs and Sikhs, have endured a
disproportionate number of hate-fueled attacks and other discriminatory
incidents."
In actuality, Sikhs are targeted _more often_ than Muslims, according to the
FBI, despite representing just a few hundred thousand people in the United
States; Jews represent around 60% of the victims of federally monitored hate
crimes.
But Islamophobia is top of mind. Vice President Kamala Harris announced the
new initiative yesterday.
Why is the White House playing this game? Because they're attempting to buy
back the support of Muslims across the United States who are enraged that the
White House has sided with Israel instead of Hamas. The latest polls show
that nearly six in ten American Muslims agree that "Hamas was justified in
attacking Israel as part of their struggle for a Palestinian state." The
White House is trying to buy off the Hamas fans by jabbering about the
supposed victimhood to which they are subjected.
It's perverse. It continues to drive a false narrative that opposition to
Hamas is opposition to Muslims -- a proposition that Muslims themselves
should reject, although precious few have done so publicly.
If the Biden administration feels the necessity to keep radical Muslims in
their electoral coalition by pandering, that says something pretty nasty
about their moral stature in fighting anti-Semitism, as they claim they wish
to do.
Ben Shapiro
Editor Emeritus,
The Daily Wire
--
Let's go Brandon!
It has also seen the worst global spike in anti-Semitism since the Holocaust.
According to Reuters, "In countries where figures are available from police
or civil society groups, including the United States, Britain, France,
Germany and South Africa, the pattern is clear: the number of antisemitic
incidents has gone up since Oct. 7 by several hundred percent compared with
the same period last year."
Such incidents range from verbal abuse to threats to property attacks to
assaults. Some are happening on our nation's campuses. The editor of the
Harvard Law Review, Ibrahim Bharmal, joined in accosting a Jewish student and
blocking his way.
Anti-Semitism also extends into the administrative halls of our universities:
Georgetown just hired the radical anti-Semite Aneesa Johnson as new assistant
director of academic and faculty affairs, who posted about "Zio bitches"
saying, "They're dogs."
Meanwhile, some Jewish businesses are being boycotted for the crime of being
Jewish businesses. According to the Washington Post, more than 30 Jewish
eateries and markets in Philadelphia are being hit with a boycott organized
by a pro-Hamas group because they are "owned by Zionists." Even some shops
that aren't owned by Jews are being boycotted for serving Israeli food,
because according to the Philly Palestine Coalition, such food is "a means of
erasing Palestinian existence."
But there's something peculiar about all the media reports about the
extravagant spike in anti-Semitism: They all carry notes about a supposedly
concomitant rise in "Islamophobia."
This is odd, to say the least.
What the hell does Islamophobia have to do with anti-Semitism?
The answer is: precisely nothing.
Precisely nothing, that is, unless you wish to suggest that response to
anti-Semitism is linked with Islamophobia -- that if you wish to oppose
radical Muslim anti-Semitism, that is an aspect of Islamophobia.
Which, of course, is precisely what anti-Semites are suggesting these days.
Take, for example, Corey Saylor of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
CAIR is the most frequently cited group on "rising Islamophobia." CAIR is a
group that, by the way, was an unindicted co-conspirator in the trial of
Hamas front charity, the Holy Land Foundation. Saylor refuses to condemn
boycotts on Jewish businesses; he told the Washington Post that "it is 100
percent on the table to criticize supporters of Israeli apartheid."
CAIR itself accuses Israel of "textbook ethnic cleansing" and "war crime" for
defending itself, trots out anti-Semite extraordinaire Linda Sarsour, and
promotes the Hamas lie that Israel bombed a hospital (it was Palestinian
Islamic Jihad). On October 7, the date of the Hamas massacre, CAIR National
tweeted, "We join @USCMO and the American Muslim community in reaffirming our
support for the Palestinian people's right to freedom and calling for an end
to the Israeli occupation, which kills hundreds of Palestinian civilians
every year, subjects millions of Palestinians to racist oppression, and
sparks the deadly violence that we see again and again, including today."
On October 7, before any Israeli response, they also called for an end to
American aid to Israel and the Abraham Accords.
We join @USCMO and the American Muslim community in reaffirming our
support for the Palestinian people's right to freedom and calling
for an end to the Israeli occupation, which kills hundreds of
Palestinian civilians every year, subjects millions of Palestinians
to racist... pic.twitter.com/eW4waBJGc2
-- CAIR National (@CAIRNational) October 7, 2023
The group has not offered _a single word_ condemning Hamas.
Good thing the Biden Administration infamously invited CAIR to participate in
its national anti-Semitism strategy back in May.
CAIR is, by any stretch of the imagination, a fomenter of anti-Semitism.
But that's the point of focusing on supposed Islamophobia: the goal is to
treat response to anti-Semitism as a form of Islamophobia. So Saylor claims
that it is Islamophobia to publicize the names of students who sign petitions
siding with Hamas, while claiming it is not anti-Semitism to boycott Jewish
businesses.
Fascinating.
Columbia University is playing the same game. The President of Columbia
University sent out a letter yesterday praising the "persistence and
perseverance of the students" who have signed letters supporting Hamas, after
their names and faces have been shown publicly. Opposing Hamas means
Islamophobia, apparently.
The legacy media feel the same way. That's precisely why, since October 7,
the media have rushed to link anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, as though the
two phenomena are part of a "cycle of hatred."
That's a disgusting and wrong take that excuses anti-Semitism through false
charges of Islamophobia. But it's extraordinarily common on the Left these
days. One variation on the theme comes from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has
emerged as one of the nation's leading anti-Semites. She now accuses the
American Israel Public Affairs Committee of being an "extremist group"
attempting to undermine American democracy and targeting "members of color."
Yes, those wily Jews and their dirty shekels are clearly the problem as
anti-Semitism spikes. They must be stopped.
The Biden administration is falling into the trap of linking anti-Semitism
and Islamophobia -- a link that has the purposeful goal of demonizing
opposition to Hamas. Fearful of their own base, the Biden Administration
announced yesterday a White House National Strategy to combat Islamophobia.
Karine Jean-Pierre explained, "For too long, Muslims in America, and those
perceived to be Muslim, such as Arabs and Sikhs, have endured a
disproportionate number of hate-fueled attacks and other discriminatory
incidents."
In actuality, Sikhs are targeted _more often_ than Muslims, according to the
FBI, despite representing just a few hundred thousand people in the United
States; Jews represent around 60% of the victims of federally monitored hate
crimes.
But Islamophobia is top of mind. Vice President Kamala Harris announced the
new initiative yesterday.
Why is the White House playing this game? Because they're attempting to buy
back the support of Muslims across the United States who are enraged that the
White House has sided with Israel instead of Hamas. The latest polls show
that nearly six in ten American Muslims agree that "Hamas was justified in
attacking Israel as part of their struggle for a Palestinian state." The
White House is trying to buy off the Hamas fans by jabbering about the
supposed victimhood to which they are subjected.
It's perverse. It continues to drive a false narrative that opposition to
Hamas is opposition to Muslims -- a proposition that Muslims themselves
should reject, although precious few have done so publicly.
If the Biden administration feels the necessity to keep radical Muslims in
their electoral coalition by pandering, that says something pretty nasty
about their moral stature in fighting anti-Semitism, as they claim they wish
to do.
Ben Shapiro
Editor Emeritus,
The Daily Wire
--
Let's go Brandon!