FIRST PUBLIC ADMISSION BIDEN SHIFTING ON ISRAEL
December 13, 2023View this post on Instagram
US President Joe Biden on Monday repeated that he’s a Zionist while speaking to guests at a White House Hanukkah event.
He also said that the US will continue giving military support to Israel but that they should be careful because “the world’s public opinion” might shift.
This is how the Jewish Voice for Peace reacted to his commentds”
“Did Biden just say the U.S. can’t protect Jews?
Yesterday, President Biden reiterated one of his favorite defenses of an indefensible policy: arming a state committing genocide. During a Hanukkah event at the White House, he claimed that “were there no Israel, there wouldn’t be a Jew in the world who is safe.”
This is a stunning thing to say for a man who leads a country home to 7.6 million Jews, the world’s second largest Jewish population.
Even if this statement were true, we reject any notion of safety that requires the murder and displacement of Palestinians. But it’s also hopelessly false; in fact, this rhetoric puts both Palestinians and Jews in more danger.
For the president of the U.S. to claim that it is only the existence of another country that keeps Jews safe is to imply that the seven million Jews who live in the U.S. are not at home here, and cannot hope to be kept safe by their own government.
This is antisemitism: invoking the idea of the Jews as not really belonging, degrading the homes that we have made in the diaspora for millennia. And this is how antisemitism is exploited, and Jews are ultimately used as political pawns — a sitting U.S. president invoking Jewish fear and trauma in order to defend the U.S. government’s arming of a genocidal state, all in order to further U.S. imperialism.
At the exact same time, we’re watching a new McCarthyism play out in real time, one carried out in the name of “fighting antisemitism” — but which will make Jews much less safe…”
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English Script:
Biden: 35 years ago, I said, you don’t have to be a Jew to be a Zionist and I’m a Zionist. And by the way you don’t have to be a Jew to be a Zionist. I’ve taken all my children when they turned 14 years of age, my three children who lived and my five grandchildren when they’re 14 years old. I put them on a plane, I take them to Dachau (concentration camp) and I want them to see I want to spend the day there and see. You can’t pretend you don’t know. Silence is complicity. Most of you know someone directly or indirectly, a family, a friend stolen from you, a wounded, traumatized or called up in reserves in this last attack in Israel. As I said after the attack, my commitment to the safety of the Jewish people, the security of Israel and its right to exist as an independent Jewish state and just unshakable.
Folks were there no Israel, there wouldn’t be a Jew in the world who was safe. Almost guaranteed. I make no bones about it. I’ve had my differences with some Israeli leadership. I’ve known Bibi for now, 51 years. He has a picture on his desk of he and I when he was a young member of the Israeli service here, foreign Service. And I was a 32 year old senator and I wrote on the top: “Bibi, I love you, but I don’t agree with a damn thing you had to say.” It’s about the same today. I love him. But look, it’s tough spot We continue to provide military assistance to Israel until they get rid of Hamas. But we have to be careful. They have to be careful. The whole world’s public opinion can shift overnight. We can’t let that happen.
