Biden says antisemitism has no place in America in somber speech connecting the Holocaust to Hamas' attack on Israel

[sarisataka]

Biden says antisemitism has no place in America in somber speech connecting the Holocaust to Hamas’ attack on Israel

President Joe Biden on Tuesday issued a call to fight a “ferocious surge” of antisemitism, saying such hate has no place in America as he connected the horrors of the Holocaust to Hamas’ attack on Israel.

Biden’s speech was a somber – yet impassioned – moment of reflection amid a tense and pivotal time in his reelection push. The October 7 attack and the subsequent war in Gaza has proved to be one of the most politically fraught periods of Biden’s presidency, one that is particularly personal for the longtime supporter of Israel who views antisemitism as antithetical to American values.

“We must give hate no safe harbor against anyone,” Biden said.

But Biden’s staunch support for Israel’s war against Hamas, which has now led to the deaths of more than 34,000 Palestinians, has caused deep fractures in the coalition that sent him to the White House in 2020. Protests on college campuses over Israel’s campaign and the Biden administration’s support for it have spread across the nation, highlighting potential political problems that the president is facing with the younger voters he needs to win a second term.

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“Too many people denying, downplaying, rationalizing and ignoring the horrors of the Holocaust and October 7 – including Hamas’ appalling use of sexual violence to torture and terrorize. It’s absolutely despicable – and it must stop,” he said, raising his voice.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/07/politics/joe-biden-antisemitism-speech/index.html

Check, check, check and check.

[H2O Man]

1. Recommended.

Thank you, President Biden.

[yagotme]

2. "We must give hate no safe harbor against anyone," Biden said.

This, a thousand times over.

[tritsofme]

3. To be pellucidly clear, Biden is right on point, as usual. That is all.

Well, not quite. Some folks I know could really use to hear and understand these words!

[sarisataka]

7. I had some expectations of how this thread would go,

responses, views, recs etc. So far nothing unexpected has come up.

[tritsofme]

10. Yep, these folks are pros at meeting and exceeding expectations.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

4. Powerful, heartfelt speech!

[sheshe2]

5. Highly recommended.

Thank you President Biden.

[northern light]

6. Good

Now he needs to do something about the settler colonization in the West Bank. Because if hate has no place for the Palestinians the same should be true for the Israelis.

[SoFlaBro]

8. How is that related to Holocaust Remembrance?

[sarisataka]

9. At least one word of acknowledgement

before the diversion...

I guess it's a small win, it just seems the murder of over six million Jews and millions of others should not have to share the stage.

[Tarheel_Dem]

11. And far too many people either wittingly or unwittingly supporting the Hamas agenda. The criticism seems to be...

reserved for Israel as if Hamas doesn't even exist. Go figure.