Earlier this week, Kamala Harris spoke to students at George Mason University where a “part-Yemeni, part-Iranian” student challenged her with the false claims that Israel commits “genocide” and that money is being taken from providing health care to Americans to funding the Iron Dome defense system in Israel.
These two intertwined smears, that Israel’s self-defense against actual genocide is genocidal, and that the Jewish State is taking money from “public healthcare, lack of affordable housing” and “all this money ends up going to inflaming Israel” is a classic antisemitic trope.
Kamala Harris could have dissented from these claims in even a small way, instead she treated the student’s antisemitic rant as if she were the victim of some sort of oppression adding a third antisemitic trope that the student haven’t even really introduced.
“This is about the fact that your voice, your perspective, your experience, your truth should not be suppressed and it must be heard, right?” Kamala argued. “The point that you are making about policy that relates to Middle East policy, foreign policy, we still have healthy debates in our country about what is the right path, and nobody’s voice should be suppressed on that.”
Except whose voice is being suppressed?
The student complained that despite anti-Israel rallies, funding for missile defense in Israel went ahead. Kamala escalated that into suggestions that anti-Israel voices were being “suppressed”.
Who was suppressing them? Those “influential Rabbis” invoked by the New York Times?
This reminds me of the time that Senator Bernie Sanders was ordered to explain his relationship “with your Jewish community” and he responded by declaring his opposition to Israel.
Kamala’s people have played defense by essentially telling everyone to ignore what she said at GMU and pay attention to what she said when addressing Jewish groups. Jewish Dems, whose head Halie Soifer, had worked as Kamala’s national security adviser, responded by dismissing the incident.
“Vice President Kamala Harris recently spoke to a political science class at George Mason University about democracy and voting rights. When a young woman questioned the use of taxpayer money to support Israel, the Vice President told the student that her “voice, perspective, experience, truth should not be suppressed.” This response was consistent with the Vice President’s overall message – that democracy means ensuring all voices are heard.
All voices, really? The voices of Klansmen also? If Kamala had been asked a similar leading question by a student suggesting that…
1. Asian-Americans were responsible for spreading COVID-19
2. Black people are lazy criminals
3. Insert your own trope here
… the response would not have been a sympathetic “your voice, your perspective, your experience, your truth should not be suppressed” affirmation.
Kamala’s response demonstrated that while she’s not ready to clearly endorse antisemitism and hatred of Israel, the way that radicals like Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and the Squad have done, like Cory Booker and other Democrat lefties, she wants to at least be able to play for both sides, and Jewish Dems, as usual, won’t hold her accountable and will defend her affirmation of antisemitism by arguing that we should pay attention to when she tells Jews what they want to hear, not when she tells Islamist antisemites what they want to hear.
Honest Ali says
I have American Liberal Jewish in laws. One in-law asked the Rabbi to prepare his son for his Bar Mitzva, and then got angry because the Rabbi was teaching his son about Judaism… and he wanted his son to be secular. He also “stands with Palestine”.
You cannot make this stuff up, but it illustrates the pathological mental illness that American Liberal Secular Jews have…
I blame a lot of the problem of the corruption that came when SOME politically minded Rabbis declared Judaism to be a race, instead of a religion. Complete with the false ideas that one can never leave Judaism, but is always a Jew, even if one does not believe.
Compelled membership in a religion is a blasphemy against God and the human spirit, and against freedom of belief. And it has had very bad consequences for Judaism, as we are seeing today.
A7E.Pilgrim says
I guess I am more interested in the reaction/response of your in-law’s Rabbi. So many secularized members are pressuring their pastors and rabbis to bend to the forces of secular change.
mortimer says
Dear Honest Ali, I have the same puzzlement as you. I cannot understand the cognitive dissonance in the genus Americanus liberalis judaicus! Can anyone explain this?
I think you are wrong to say that Jews do not constitute an ethnicity (like Estonians, Serbians, Hungarians and Catalonians).
I often explain to people that Zionism is a SECULAR ideology created by secular Jews. They were convinced that Jews needed their own state in order to create their own national identity and flourish as unapologetic Jews, rather than assimilating to another culture.
Secular Jews should learn about the secular origin of Zionism. They might feel it is more relevant to them.
mortimer says
Perhaps Daniel Greenfield can explain this cognitive dissonance. It is baffling to me.
Dov Berrol says
The Hebrew/Israelite/Judean/Jewish Nation is a complex civilization just like Japan, Germany, Russia, India, England, etc. Like all other civilizations, it has a geographical birthplace, a primary language, an annual calendar of communal celebrations and rituals, a common communal history, a library of stories and legends and literature and a theological philosophy that provides some guidance to understanding ultimate reality and the mysteries of life in our universe. The theology of the Hebrew/Israelite/Judean Nation is called Judaism.
The unfortunate result of the Roman expulsion of Jews from their homeland was the attitude that Jewish identity is only defined by theology. This was, thank G-d, corrected by the courageous founders and pioneers of the Zionist movement, whose goal was to return the Israelite nation to its natural Hebrew state in its homeland – Erets Yisrael. For 2000 years, my people has lived by the good graces and according to the definitions of others. The State of Israel has allowed the Hebrew Nation to enjoy the self determination that all other nations have enjoyed over the centuries.
gravenimage says
Actually, there are many Jews *and* Gentiles who are in denial about the threat of Islam.
Rarely says
“pathological mental illness”??? And what exactly is this “pathological mental illness”? Its symptoms? How does it manifest itself?
Phil Copson says
Harris’s failure to reject the student-activist’s lies, are a pretty good illustration of Rouhani’s prediction that “The next US administration will surrender to Iran.”
mortimer says
The Leftists need Islam to help them destroy Western civilization. If the Jews gets crushed, the Leftists think like the early Bolsheviks … to make an omelet, you have to break some eggs.
They really don’t care about actual people unless the can ‘pretend to care’ in order to gain more political power.
The Dems are trying to construct an American one-party state with the help and collusion of Big Tech which is doing their censorship work by blocking and banning all non-Leftist thought or at least, thoughts that are inconvenient at this time, but which may become convenient and conventional party line in future..
This is a time of American GLEICHSCHALTUNG … the ‘synchronization’ of all thought under the Dem Party’s hegemony.
A7E.Pilgrim says
The fallacy of this leftist thinking is that they believe they can control Islam once it has accomplished their goals of destroying western civilization.
German industrialists thought they could control Herr Hitler after they got what they wanted in German society.
mortimer says
Israel is doing ineffective and counterproductive job at genocide since it began. The Pally population has sky-rocketed with 4 or more children per Pally family! Far from being genocide, it is population FARMING of the Pallies.
However, the Pally leadership is the real problem here: rather than making the life of their population stable, well-educated and prosperous with high-employment, they do the reverse and create instability, war and destruction ,,, plus monster homes for all the Pally leaders in Cyprus.
The response of half of the Pallies has been to emigrate to stable countries where they and their families will have a stable future.
gravenimage says
Jewish Dems Stand By Kamala’s Affirmation of Antisemitism
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Sadly so.
Joeyn says
After listening to the utter BS by the Muslim student Kamala Harris responds to her that ‘your truth” needs to be heard. I guess she learned this from another great lefty Oprah Winfrey who gave a speech full of BS in an award ceremony some years ago regarding the importance of getting in touch with “my truth’. Maybe that is also why Joe Biden made the statement ‘truth is more important than facts. These lefties and islamists are experts at spewing.utter nonsense and BS and calling them truth. Unbelievable and sickening the level of their deceit.
Nigel Blumenthal says
My truth is that Harris the Camel has no brains and is simply an antisemite who has found a home among other antisemites, in a government full of them. As I say, that is my truth, and according to her, it needs to be heard, so let it be shouted from the rooftops.
Joeyn says
Amen!
Rarely says
Nigel.
She’s a true anti-Semite. She married a Jew just to make his life miserable — a common practice among anti-Semites.
Westman says
This demonization of Israel will never stop until either most westerners learn about the ideology of Islam or Israel is under attack and must attack for its survival.
The petty world plays mind games, centered on fantasy thoughts and second-hand propaganda, until forced into real action. Harris and her ilk have no conception of angry men screaming for their blood, the sound of rockets approaching, the fear of having suicide bombers in the marketplace, and knowing the desire of Hamas is your slaughter – NOT any two-state solution – they want the Final Solution.
A war is coming for Israel’s survival. Anyone who has read the Quran and Hadith is left with no doubt; only the time and political entity remains unknown. The primary antagonist is Islam, the secondary ideology is radical, hedonistic, liberalism.
VICTOR COWEN says
Yes, BUT a huge BUT 9/11 taught the Americans/The West absolutely nothing. Unfortunately, and I hate to say this but with people like Harris and the “squad” of lunatics anywhere near any power, there will be another 9/11.
gravenimage says
9/11 was when I seriously started to educate myself about Islam–but many Americans retreated into denial instead.
Frank Anderson says
mortimer, I spent from 1992 to 2015 a whole lot of time in the Jewish community. Judaism is NOT a race or ethnicity. It is a religion that includes 16,000,000 people worldwide, of more or less every race of humanity. I learned a lot and miss the people who died or moved away. Those who remain are just as blind, deaf and dumb as others describe here. I was excluded for daring to ask about the death plans for Jews taught and practiced by “believers” for 1400 years-It does not fit their delusional narrative.
Rarely says
Frank.
Being Jewish is much more complicated than belief in the religion and/or practicing its tenets. There is nothing in Judaism, of which I am aware, that provides for denying others their human rights. In fact just the reverse. There is an obligation to stand up for the oppressed.
For 1300 of those 1400 years Jews living in Muslim lands were treated much the same as any other minority, as dhimmis. In fact the muslim-style of anti-Semitism was much less lethal than the European-style until about 250 years ago or so. The American Revolution began the West’s liberalization. In fact, many Jews fled from Europe to muslim lands in North Africa to avoid life in Europe. It was only with the transportation of European-style anti-Semitism into the Middle East that this changed.
That there are some western Jews (too many, in fact) who are “blind, deaf and dumb” to the dangers that exist today is undeniable. Although that number, I believe, is decreasing daily there will always be those who are blind to the danger.
Democracy, human rights and the rule of law are often seen as the Messiah and to even imagine the US turning away from these principles is, to some, unthinkable. A delusional narrative? Perhaps.
Infidel says
So Rarely
What is a bigger threat to Jews worldwide? White supremacists, or jihadists in most, if not all countries – from Canada to New Zealand and from Russia to Suriname?
Rarely says
My guess would be jihadists but, when you’re dying, it hardly matters to you who pulled the trigger. It would, of course, be unwise for any Jewish person to align with or ignore either threat.
Infidel says
Except that hunting for white supremacists would be like mining for rare earth minerals. Whereas jihadists are as common as sand worldwide – w/ only closed societies like Japan and South Korea being free of them
Rarely says
There are likely more jihadists in Canada and the US with numbers increasing. However, violent White Supremacists are hardly a rarity. Both have their share of unstable and very dangerous idiots.
Frank Anderson says
Rarely, in spite of my being excluded for daring to question the “religion of peace” lie, after more than 20 years of presence in the Jewish community, about 15 years as a convert and member, your thoughts are just that, to which you are entitled. You cannot tell me or others about what I have seen, heard and experienced. Save it for someone who attends twice a year. For most of 20 years, if the doors were open for services or special events, I was there and listening.
The downside of being a convert is we often know more and look more thoroughly and critically at what is being taught and practiced than those who are “born into it”. Making excuses about how well Jews were treated AS DHIMMI SLAVEs is just as spineless and delusional as minimizing the treatment of Jews from Hitler’s first public speech in 1920 to the start of mass murders in the Holocaust. “It wasn’t so bad until the Holocaust”. Well, we can see the present intention of muslims to slaughter Jews, and their steps and actions NOW to make it as real as the earlier version. About half of Germany’s Jews saw the “trend” and did what they could to escape. The other half walked around in delusion and denial, imagining, “It’s not so bad. He doesn’t mean me!” If you are Jewish muslims want you dead. Every one of them. Not only Jews, but every person who fails to “convert or submit”.
My life, and yours, is a gift in TRUST from God. I do not own my life: I hold and manage it in stewardship for its true owner. From the sermon The TWO Lessons of The Exodus, (Rabbi D.K.), God does not want ANY of HIS children, ALL who call upon Him as Father, to live in any form of slavery or tyranny. Islam is both slavery and tyranny. The second lesson, which I lived is that no matter how well things start, things change. See there? I was listening. Please think it over with my sincere best wishes and deep love for many people who helped me through some really hard times. Frank
Rarely says
Frank.
I don’t see where we disagree.
I wasn’t suggesting any sort of Utopia for Jews living in muslim lands but, at that time in history, life was better for a Jew as a dhimmi than in Europe. Keep in mind that there was no place else to go. {I would refer you to the book “What Went Wrong?” by Bernard Lewis – a renowned authority on Islamic affairs (his Afterword addressing September 11th is very inciteful as well)}. Similarly, many Jews attempting to flee Nazism found there was no place to go. NO country would take them. It is telling that 4X more Jewish refugees were allowed into Shanghai than into Canada pre-WWII.
Nevertheless, it is hard to understand how anyone can ignore the rhetoric coming from islam towards non-muslims.
Frank Anderson says
Rarely, I sincerely hope we do agree on the future of Judaism, regardless of my personal separation*. When I asked my Rabbi, a most loved, treasured, inspiring guide, about islam, he exploded. He was in total denial of its teachings “because of what a muslim professor taught in rabbinical school”. The muslim was lying, as is taught by islam, to confuse and deceive non-believers, including my Rabbi. When I asked that one of the 3 profound teachings that attracted me originally be followed (to ask every question repeatedly, even to the very Existence of God) Rabbi waxed into a great trance of denial talking about the “tolerance” Jews experienced under muslim rule. “There are none so blind as those who REFUSE to see.” The German experience was that most who refused to see died.
* They have the absolute right to decide who they welcome just as I have the absolute right to decide where I go. That will never change my love for what I learned. Peace be with you.
Rarely says
Frank.
As I pointed out earlier Jews were treated fairly well under muslim rule for a long time — certainly better than in Europe. However, times have changed. Jews did well in Germany for quite a while too but times changed there as well. Lesson to be learned.
It is interesting that almost universal denial of the Holocaust (and that 6,000,000+/- Jews were killed in it) in the Arab/muslim world is followed by a threat to murder the 6,000,000+/- Jews living in Israel. It is would be supremely foolish not to take them seriously.
Frank Anderson says
Rarely, both personally and through history, I have learned at great loss what used to be is not important. What is NOW is important. When my Rabbi EXPLODED on my questioning the “religion of peace” lie and pumped the nonsense of Jews having better lives under islam than in Europe “in the past”, I walked away in quiet disbelief. Jews, Christians and all others are active targets for muslim holy war, declared 1400 years ago to never stop until the entire world “converts, submits or dies”, Only delusional ignorant fools believe they can change, moderate or reform the “final, perfect, complete and unchangeable” Neville Chamberlain has his imitators today. WE should not be among them.
Where muslims are concerned and involved, Jews are the “canary in the coal mine” for all others, with one exception: Jews are not allowed the choice to convert. They must submit to humiliation and slavery, or die. Peace cannot be obtained by dealing with people who teach and live that “bearing false witness” is encouraged whenever advantage can be obtained.
gravenimage says
Frank, my brother recently took at “23 and Me” genetic test and found to his surprise that we are a quarter Ashkenazi Jewish, even though we were raised Episcopalian and were unaware of this heritage.
Frank Anderson says
GI, the genetic testing is a game. The reports are “best guesses” for entertainment. On the same test, I have received about 3 different reports over the last 3 years. Originally I was 47 percent Irish. Now I am down to 5 percent Irish and 11 percent Scottish. There is no Jewish race, no matter what Hitler, Himmler, Heydrich and friends said. Ask any Rabbi. There may be some regional genetic markers indicating communities, but there is no race identifiable as Jews.
Oren says
The vast majority of Israelis, and A questionable amount of american Jews do not agree to muslims having A claim on Israel, we do not agree that Israel’s borders should be fundamentally compromised, we do not believe that muslims intend to end their war against Israel, if the Jews of Israel surrendered half of their country, we do not agree with the american media’s lies about islams war against Jews, in order to establish islam supreme.
I have not met american Jews who take the attitude of muslims attacking Jews equates to their truth, far from it, almost all the american Jews I met were very pro Israel, and did not believe in the muslim people. I am not saying they dont exist, I am just saying american Jews left support of the democrats is not accurate. In G-d I trust.
James Lincoln says
Fake VP Kamala Harris, there is no “your truth” or my truth.
You can have your own opinion, but not your own facts.
Joeyn says
Exactly, and there are also fiction /lies which are what both the Muslim studentl and KH are tellng and basing their opinions on in the video.
gravenimage says
Agreed, James. It is disturbing how many these days reject the whole idea of objective truth.
Roland says
Kamala Harris had a failure of nerve. She didn’t want a confrontation with the noisy militant minority of Democrats like the execrable anti-Semite Bernie Sanders and the Squad. If she had confronted the student, she would have been sucked into an interminable public debate about a complex issue and would have incurred the hatred of the Communist wing of the Democratic Party, the Islamists, and the inveterate utopians, whose acquiescence she’ll need if she becomes President. She should given the student a short answer thanking him for his opinion. That’s all.
Joeyn says
Kamala Harris is not some moderate. She is part of the dangerous hard left. Not at all a person who can be trusted with anyting. You can easily conclude that from her hypocritical and BS talk on uniformity and unity in the video.
gravenimage says
Roland, your idea that Kamala Harris really, really wanted to oppose antisemitism but was too scared to do so is not borne out.
Walter Sieruk says
That VP Kamala Harris has just exposed her ant- Jewish malice. This reveals that that she is also in essence un-American. As the late US President ,William Howard Taft , ,wisely, declared in a speech that “Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out it has no place in America”
Related that that grand statement in a speech former President Theodore Roosevelt, rightly, declared, “There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only one hundred percent Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.”