The Great Awakening-In God We Trust
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Comment by carol ann parisi yesterday
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Biden
condemns ‘the antisemitic protests,’ then mumbles words of equivocation.
President Biden opened his campaign-announcement video in 2019 by excoriating Donald Trump for suggesting “a moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it.” He was referring to Mr. Trump’s remarks following the 2017 Charlottesville, Va., demonstration in which some racists shouted, “Jews will not replace us.”
“You had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people on both sides,” Mr. Trump said. He later explained that he meant both sides of the debate over whether to remove a Confederate monument and that the antisemitic chanters were the “very bad people” he had in mind. He should have been clearer from the start.
This week Mr. Biden had his own moment of unclarity. Asked on Monday about current events on campus across the country, he said: “I condemn the antisemitic protests. That’s why I’ve set up a program to deal with that. I also condemn those who don’t understand what’s going on with the Palestinians.” He then mumbled a few unintelligible words.
Mr. Biden seemed to be saying that pro-Hamas demonstrators are no worse than pro-Israel demonstrators who believe that “what’s going on with Palestinians” is ultimately Hamas’s fault for invading Israel, barbarically attacking its people, and using Palestinian civilians as human shields.
Drawing such an equivalence is at best morally obtuse. There is no justification for what Hamas did and what its supporters at Columbia University say they want to do again a thousand times over. On the other hand, many reasonable people believe that Israel isn’t primarily at fault for “what’s going on with the Palestinians.”
We believe that Mr. Biden has a personal affection for Israel, if not for its prime minister. It’s clear, however, that he doesn’t want to lose votes among far-left and Arab-American Democrats who strongly oppose Israel’s existence. He is trying to strike a political balance under circumstances that call for real leadership.
Mr. Biden should unqualifiedly condemn antisemitism and harassment and violence against Jews. Trying to balance that justified condemnation by suggesting a false moral equivalence is wrong and will hurt him politically. Most Americans understand the difference between the murderers and rapists of Hamas and the defenders of Israel, even if they sometimes fault Israeli actions. If Mr. Biden fails to understand that difference—or, worse, understands but deliberately blurs it—voters will see through his politicization of a clear moral issue.
Many of these antisemitic rioters are as anti-American as they are anti-Israel. Their chants include “Death to America,” “Revolution,” and “Genocide Joe.” Some openly support Iran.
Those who genuinely care about the Palestinians should hope for Hamas’s defeat. Ending the terror group’s control over the Gaza Strip would be good for Palestinians and is a necessary condition for peace and for any two-state settlement. It won’t be possible if the American president fails to acknowledge the moral difference between good and evil. Mr. Biden needs to demonstrate the same moral clarity he demanded from his predecessor.
Mr. Dershowitz is a professor emeritus at Harvard Law School and author of “War Against the Jews: How to End Hamas Barbarism.” Mr. Stein, a Democrat, served as New York City Council president, 1986-94.
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This is Vivek Ramaswamy. I hoped to email you on a lighter note but I didn’t have another choice with everything happening right now.
The unholy alliance between Joe Biden, the corrupt Deep State, the DC Swamp, the Liberal Media, and the Radical Left Democrats is a national disgrace.
We, the American People, will never forget what they’ve done to us....
– Desecrated Easter Sunday with wokeism
– Arrested the leader of the Republican Party
– Removed Trump from the ballot in key states
– Raided Mar-a-Lago with armed agents
– Censored Conservative voices
– Spied on Catholic worshippers
– Gutted election integrity measures
– Peddled the Russia Hoax for years
– Threw open our border to illegals
– Abandoned Americans in Afghanistan
– Caved to the Chinese Communist Party
– Moved to pack the Supreme Court
– Forced propaganda into classrooms
And the list goes on and on and on! Never before in the history of the world has a truly great country fallen so far from grace in such a short time. If the Radical Left Democrats somehow win control of the White House, the Senate, and the House… America will be lost forever.
I know this to be true. You know it too. But when everything is on the line, moments like this separate the strong from the weak. And make no mistake – the future of our country hangs in the balance.
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The First Amendment protects the right to say idiotic things, but the marketplace of ideas also requires that speakers be held accountable for the words they speak, especially if they are hateful ones.
The demonstrations currently taking place on many Ivy League campuses are not only about Palestinians, Gaza, or even Israel. The war in Gaza is providing an excuse for anti-American and anti-Western radicals and anarchists to try to damage and weaken our government and those of other Western democracies.
None of the slogans call for a two-state solution or for release of the hostages. At a minimum they call for the end of Israel “from the river to the sea” and its replacement by either an Islamic caliphate or a radical left-wing tyrannical state. Few protesters are seeking democracy, civil liberties, equality or decency.
They want to destroy Israel. They want to destroy America and they want to destroy Western values. Some among them are simply demonstrating because their peers asked them to. There have always been “useful idiots” that go along with any radical protest.
The protesters are comprised of four major groups: First, Arab and Muslim Israel haters and anti-semites who want to see the end of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people, and the end of any Jewish presence in the Middle East. These are the spiritual descendants of the grand mufti of Jerusalem will aligned himself with Hitler in the 1940s in an effort to eradicate the Jewish presence in what is now Israel.
Second, radical anarchists who use all conflicts as recruiting tools in their efforts to undercut American democracy, Judeo-Christian values and the free market economy. Third, professional organizers who raise and earn money orchestrating these demonstrations, and fourth, useful idiots who think it’s fun to join radical demonstrations, even at the expense of intimidating vulnerable minorities and fellow students.
Let there be no mistake about the fact that January 6 was extremely dangerous to democracy, even though it represented only a relatively small number of people trying to interfere with the congressional role and confirming the results of the 2020 election. So, too, was the Charlottesville March in which several handfuls of people were shouting “We will not be replaced by Jews.”
The current anti-Israel and anti-American demonstrations are different. They involve tens of thousands of elite students, many from wealthy and influential families. They are our future. Some of these bigoted demonstrators will soon be seeking jobs in the most influential and elite institution.
Before long they will run for Congress. These future leaders, by supporting Hamas are supporting the murder, beheadings, and kidnappings of Jews, Americans and others. That’s what Hamas did October 7. Some of the protesters promised a repetition of October 7 “Every day for 1,000 days.”
Some of these useful idiots have no idea what Hamas did on October 7 and what they are implicitly supporting. They have simply been told what to say, what to chant and they follow their pro-Palestinian pied pipers from the river to the sea without knowing which river or what sea are being referred to.
Useful idiots, though, must be held responsible when they promote the evils of Hamas. They were useful idiots who marched with Hitler’s youths in the 1930s and with Castro’s revolutionaries in the 1950s.
Those who chant hateful and bigoted slogans should be identified and their names and school affiliations publicized. Potential employers have a right to know whether job applicants support the rape of Jewish women or are willing to march with those who do.
The First Amendment protects the right to say idiotic things, but the marketplace of ideas — which is the foundation of the First Amendment — also requires that speakers be held accountable for the words they speak, especially if they are hateful ones.
Imagine if the shoe were on the other foot. Imagine if a group of white supremacists were to occupy an Ivy League campus demanding the lynching and rapes of African Americans, or imagine if a group of white former Apartheid leaders of South Africa were to demonstrate in favor of the return to white rule in South Africa: “From the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean, South Africa will be free of all blacks and returned to exclusively white rule.”
Would Columbia University tolerate such bigotry in the name of academic freedom? Most of the students and professors who are defending these student bigots are essentially saying “Free speech for me but not for thee.” That is not how the First Amendment works.
There must be one standard for all, but no Ivy League university would apply a single standard. They are part of the “intersectionalist” mentality that supports free speech for those favored by the diversity, equity, and inclusion bureaucracy but this opposes free speech for those who are disfavored.
Universities are supposed to educate our future leaders. They are failing abysmally in that task. And we will pay a heavy price if the current one-sidedness continues to be encouraged by university leaders.
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BOBBY KENNEDY FOR EARTH DAY
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