Kamala Harris apparently does not believe in truth. She believes, rather, in many “truths,” and she thinks it’s important, and desirable, that those various truths, which often clash with each other, be expressed, be heard. A report on her relativism is here: “Harris praises student for expressing ‘your truth’ after anti-Israel rant,” by Dean Shmuel Elmas, Israel Hayom, September 29, 2021:
US Vice President Kamala Harris has come under fire for not condemning a student after she accused US policy of facilitating “ethnic genocide” of Palestinians.
Harris’ exchange with the student took place at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia on Tuesday [Sept. 27]. Harris could be seen nodding as the female student lambasted the US for its support of its allies in the Middle East.
“I see that over the summer there have been, like, protests and demonstrations in astronomical numbers,” the student, who identified as half-Iranian, half-Yemeni, said on the Palestinian protests during the latest Gaza flare-up in May.
“Just a few days ago there were funds allocated to continue backing Israel, which hurts my heart because it’s ethnic genocide and displacement of people, the same that happened in America, and I’m sure you’re aware of this,” the student continued, referring to the special budget passed by the US House to support Israel’s air defense system, Iron Dome, accusing this and other such measures as “inflaming Israel and backing Saudi Arabia and what-not.”
The unnamed student — half-Iranian and half-Yemeni — has just accused Israel of “ethnic genocide and displacement of people.” Harris let this appalling lie pass. She did not utter a syllable of protest. She did not say, as she might have, this:
Just a minute, I cannot let your charge go unanswered. I find your statement that Israel commits “ethnic genocide” absurd and disgusting. There has been no “genocide” by Israel, either of Palestinians or of Israeli Arabs. There are no extermination camps, no mass roundups, no nothing. Genocidal threats have been made, but not by Israel. It is Hamas that carries on a nonstop campaign of terrorism against Israeli civilians, Hamas that lets loose arson balloons, Hamas that launches thousands of rockets into civilian areas, Hamas that in its very charter calls for the total destruction of the Jewish state. That sounds to me like a “genocidal” threat. And as for the Palestinian Authority, it continues its “Pay-For-Slay” program to reward past, and incentivize future, acts of terrorism against Israelis. Meanwhile, the IDF — the Israeli military – tries to minimize civilian casualties among the Palestinians by warning those in buildings where Hamas has hidden its rockets and its launching pads, to leave them when they are about to be targeted; the IDF uses telephone calls, emails, and its “knock-on-the-roof” technique to warn those civilians away.
And by the way, when you accuse Israel of “ethnic genocide,” It might interest you to know that both Mahmoud Abbas and the late Saeb Erakat of the P.A., and Ismail Hanniyeh and Yahya Sinjar of Hamas, have deliberately sought Israeli medical treatment both for themselves or for several of their closest relatives; apparently they were unconcerned with that “genocide” you bizarrely accuse Israelis of practicing.
Here’s a quick summary of the P.A. and Hamas leaders who clearly show they don’t believe in “Israel’s ethnic genocide.” Saeb Erekat, the P.A.’s chief negotiator, spent his life denouncing Israel and Israelis. But when he came down with COVID-19, he insisted on being treated at the Hadassah Hospital, where he received – as he knew he would – a standard care unobtainable in Palestinian hospitals.
His boss Mahmoud Abbas had an Israeli doctor come to Ramallah in 2018 to treat him at home for an undisclosed ailment. Abbas also has had his wife, his brother, and even his brother-in-law, Abu Louai (who lives in Qatar, which has excellent hospitals but Abbas still wanted Louai to be treated in Israel) treated in Israeli hospitals. He obviously did not worry about “genocide.” The Jerusalem imam Sheikh Ikrima Sabra for years spewed violent incitement against Israel from his pulpit. But when he needed heart surgery, Sabra insisted that it be performed at Hadassah Hospital. Jewish doctors saved his life; he then returned to defaming Israel and inciting violence and terrorism against Jews.
Ismail Haniyeh, the current leader of Hamas, arranged at various times to have his mother, his his daughter, and his sister-in-law all treated in Israeli hospitals. He obviously had no fears about genocide. Yahya Sinwar, another Hamas leader, was operated on by Israeli doctors for a brain tumor in 2007; this did not stop him from calling for more attacks on Israel, more killings of Israeli civilians.
These recipients of Israeli medical care were unembarrassed; they did not think of themselves as hypocrites; they knew that you could accept aid from Infidels and still want those Infidels dead.
But my main point is this: Not one of these Palestinians who sought medical attention for themselves or family members in Israeli hospitals, believed Israel was guilty of “ethnic genocide.”
That’s what Kamala Harris should have said. But she didn’t.
Back to the article on Harris letting the anti-Israel slander go unchallenged:
Harris did not directly address the student’s accusations but said she was “glad” that she was not afraid to come forward with her grievances. “This is about the fact that your voice, your perspective, your experience, your truth, should not be suppressed and it must be heard, right? And one of the things we’re fighting for in a democracy, right?” Harris said. “Our goal should be unity, but not uniformity, right?” Harris stated. The vice president then added, “Unity should never be at the expense of telling anyone personally that, for the sake of unity, ‘Oh, you be quiet about that thing. You suppress that thing. Let’s not deal with that thing.’ That’s not unity. True unity is everyone in that room has a voice.” She then touted once again that pluralism should be cherished, but once again did not take the opportunity to call out the accusations of genocide.
Not the truth, but “your voice, your your perspective, your experience, your truth” is what Kamala Harris wants. “Your truth.” But what if “your truth” is a monstrous lie? What if that “lie” — that Israel commits “genocide” — were to be believed, and revenge taken on Jews, both in and out of Israel?
“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,” she added.
I cannot make sense of this. It’s a mind in a state of deliquescence. We need “unity.” This “unity” comes when “everyone in the room has a voice.” It doesn’t matter, apparently, how idiotic and false that “voice”may be. Do you think if in her audience someone had expressed his views, as a member of the Proud Boys, or Q-Anon, or the American Nazi Party, Kamala Harris would have been quite so sanguine and encouraging? You know the answer to that. If a Proud Boy had offered his views on Black Lives Matter, or if a member of QAnon had described the “satanic, cannibalistic, pedophile ring” that was operating out of the basement of a pizza store in Washington, Kamala Harris would immediately have cut that Proud Boy or QAnon off, saying “there is no point in listening to such vile nonsense.” And if either one of them continued, she’d ask security to take them away. But she does not feel the same way about someone accusing Israel of “ethnic genocide.” Why not?
Harris says that “nobody’s voice should be suppressed.” But no one has asked for a voice to be suppressed, only that if what is uttered is a complete fabrication, then it should be answered, right then and there. Not to answer, as Kamala Harris did not, is to let the lies stand, unrebutted and thus likely to be believed by the ill-informed. Harris not only did not answer the girl’s vaporings, but instead praised her remark as part of a “healthy debate…about what is the right path” is for our country. Calling Israel guilty of “ethnic genocide” is not part of a “healthy debate.”
Presumably if someone asked ”how do we get the truth out when so much of our media is controlled by Jews” or “we all know that on 9/11 Jews didn’t go to work at the World Trade Center that day,” Kamala Harris would also let those statements go unanswered, and instead praising the remarks as contributing to a “a healthy debate.” A “healthy debate,” or the spreading of noxious lies that would not be out of place in the pages of Der Stürmer? On what theory does Kamala Harris think it just fine to have someone accuse Israel of “genocide,” and why did she not rebut such a charge? Doesn’t she have a responsibility to correct such malignant falsehoods at a meeting that she herself is hosting?
Kamala Harris has just given us her very own Preview of Coming Attractions. As she is, so shall she be, if she ever gets a chance to become, god help us, the President of the United States, she’s shown what we may expect. She doesn’t think she has a responsibility to step in and correct the record, when scandalous and meretricious accusations against Israel are made. She nods, she praises the accuser, she treats dangerous slander with respect. She does do one thing, however, for her boss, for which he must surely be thankful. She makes him look good.
mortimer says
KamaSutra Harris makes a leap here. If Israel is genocidal, then they are doing a HORRIBLE job of exterminating the Arabs in the region.
The Palestinian population in Palestine is growing at about 2.4% per year, which is 33% higher than Israel’s growth rate. The population is also the youngest in the region, with a birth rate of over 4 children to every woman. This will make the Pallies outnumber Jews in Israel by 2035.
The Jews are such failures at genocide … so, that theory surely doesn’t work!
gravenimage says
+1
mortimer says
My observation of the Left (people like Harris) is that they enjoy the practice of calumny (the sin of making up slanderous stories to destroy a person’s reputation).
Leftists are emotionally and perhaps mentally sick … they are practicing a form of sado-masochistic role-playing in which they are the dominant party engaged in the EROTIC HUMILIATION of the ‘bottom’ (submissive).
I have observed that most Leftists get deep emotional satisfaction from CALUMNIATING anyone who doesn’t agree with them or who dissents from their neo-Marxist narratives. This is surely a form of S&M ideation, whether they do it consciously or unconsciously.
mortimer says
The god of these people (who are recycling failed Marxist theories) is neo-Marxism … another version of classical Marxism.
The neo-Marxists think that THEY have discovered the secret of a new-improved Marxism … not like the nasty, old, traditional, Soviet-style Marxism. No .. they now have new-improved Marxism with marijuana and crack cocaine thrown in. A laid-back, West-coast, globalist Marxism. The problem with that version is that its results are being seen on the streets of California’s cities and it doesn’t look or smell too good.
The new-improved Marxism sounds a lot like present-day fascistic-Marxist China with its supposedly ‘communist’ billionaires.
mccode says
Any praise that comes from her of anyone or anything she endorses or admires automatically sets off my radar as totally worthless, or dangerous, or vile.
In that regard she never disappoints.
Doomer says
More proof the Left,being Marxist,and atheist,since Marx said there is no God,
secretly doesn’t believe in human rights.The 1948 UN Declaration of Human Rights says we have 30 human rights.
In its preamble it says ” recognition of the inherent dignity and of the
equal and inalienable rights
of all members of the human family”
At least the new generation of Muslims in the West ( youtubers Farid Responds, Mohammed Hijab, Daniel Haqiqatju and Subhoor,Ahmed ) is honest in saying “all are equal and have inalienable rights” is fiction, from an Islamic pt of view,
and from a non-Islamic pt of view,unless you are a Christian. Then you can honestly say human rights exist,based of Christianity, you have received the gift of faith.
Leftists,aka Marxists,who are atheists, have this in common with Muslims,who believe in Allah, both use deception,takiya, and both, in public, don’t publicly deny human rights. To maintain the deception
Muslims wrote the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam (1990).
When 2 opposite groups that are diametrically different cooperate,like in the Marxist-Muslim marriage of convenience, it is “les extremes se touchent”,they think, ” You say you believe all are really born equal, and actually
have inalienable rights. Get out of here!” It’s over.
gravenimage says
Doomer, you have said before that no Athiest is allowed to support human rights–despite many Anti-Jihad Agnostics and Atheists doing just this. You have never said what you think that non-religious Anti-Jihadists are getting out of (supposedly) lying when they fight to uphold human rights.
You have never said how Atheist Anti-Jihadists like Bruce Bawer and Jihad Watch’s own Hugh Fitzgerald are risking their lives upholding human rights against the threat of Jihad if they (supposely) do not believe in human rights.
How is this not calumny?
Then, you seem to admire Muslims sneering at human rights–even though Islam doesn’t support human rights at all, so this is just orthodox Islam. Muslims who say they are for human rights are either spouting Taqiyya or else do not adhere to orthodox Islam.
And advocates for Islam only tell the truth to Infidels when they are emboldened–not acutally a good thing for Kuffar. These Jihadist thugs are only being honest because they feel emboldened, and don’t believe they have anything to fear from the West. Taqiyya is the back-handed compliment that pious Muslims pay to those Infidels they know will fight back if they are honest about what Islam has in store for them.
somehistory says
A little OT:
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/10/muslim-congressional-candidate-feels-extremely-joe-kaufman/
“Muslim Congressional Candidate Feels ‘Extremely Blessed’ to Visit Terror-Linked Mosques
Barbara Sharief has troubling Islamic credentials — and a good shot at a Congressional seat”
gravenimage says
Thanks for that link, Somehistory.
somehistory says
There once was ;a phrase said in the courts of law; “The Truth, The Whole Truth and nothing but The Truth.”
A criminal who is guilty of a charge and is tried, does not want The Truth to be told; they would rather “their truth” be the only one heard, the only one believed.
The liar’s “voice” and the “liars *truth* are biased in favor of mozlums and islam.
They never appreciate just how *free* they really are….to express their evil lies as they accuse the country in which they live, which is also an accusation of the citizens of the country, of being murderers. They use and abuse the freedoms, and if it had been as bad as they claim, they would be locked up or sent to sea with instructions not to return.
They are causing many of us to wish they could be sent to sea in a leaky boat and ordered not to return. Even if they were born here.
harris should join them in that boat. They don’t deserve to speak freely or to live freely…”like” “and what-not.”
Infidel says
W/ these Marxists, there’s ‘your truth’ and ‘my truth’, and for history, they think that history is whatever they think happened, rather than what actually happened. I once had a long argument on this w/ my ex and some of her friends
No wonder the VP’s office has had to clean up after her. Not just that, where the Dems were accusing Trump of following an ‘America alone’ policy and alienating our European allies, it was Biden who caused France to recall their envoy from DC. That’s some diplomatic achievement
somehistory says
I’ve always thought the “my truth” was really an ignorant way to think. One cannot decide what is true…because they wish it to be.
And history may be hidden, but like truth, it can’t be changed just because someone doesn’t like what has happened.
Eventually, the truth comes to the light and the things hidden are revealed (Jesus).
James Lincoln says
somehistory,
You are obviously correct – there is only one truth.
One’s goal should be to get as close to the truth as possible…
gravenimage says
Agreed–we should always strive to uncover objective truth as much as we are able.
Walter Sieruk says
The one and only negative thing about Joe Biden resigning is that he would be replaced by that rude, obnoxiously abrasive, narcissistic, self-serving sinister and insidious Marxist, Kamala Harris, as President.
If Harris actually becomes the next President of the United States the result of that total catastrophic for America.
So much so that the damage and harm would be so severe that it would most probably be irreversible. As Abraham Lincoln had said “You can’t unscramble eggs.”
tgusa says
“You can’t unscramble eggs.”
No you cant. For all Biden Harris voters out there… just as the modern day version of the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty states,
All the King’s horses and all the King’s men couldn’t put Humpty together again.
gravenimage says
Yes–Harris actually worse than Biden–especially vis-a-vis Israel.
Walter Sieruk says
With Biden things in the United States of America is very bad. With Harris in the White House as President, things in the USA would not go from “bad to worse” but skip the word “worse’ and go from “Bad to the very worst possible . Harris would be complete catastrophe for America and a total disaster for the American people.
The only “good” thing that can be said about Joe Biden is that when compared to Kamala Harris he is the lesser of the two evils. Nevertheless, the lesser of two evils is still evil.
Walter Sieruk says
What an insidious despicable subversive Communist villain, Kamala Harris ,truly ,is.
Furthermore, it may also be truthfully said that VP Harris is the actural epitome ,embodiment and personification of guileful and cunning Marxist movement in America.
Infidel says
The way Que Mala fastracked her way to the top was as Willie Brown’s concubine. ‘Heels-up’ is a good name for her, as is the factual statement that the only black DNA she has is Willie Brown’s ?
gravenimage says
Infidel, I am *no* fan of Kamala Harris, but she is half Jamaican. Afro-Jamaicans are actually black, although this is only half of her heritage..
And Harris and Brown did date briefly in the mid 1990s, but that relationship ended in 1995. It was not a secret. He had been separated from his wife for well over a decade at the time, so it is a bit odd to consider her to have been his “concubine”.
tgusa says
Kam strongly agreed with the student before she strongly disagreed. No wonder dementia Joe selected her as his VP. I’m sure Joe strongly agreed with Kams strong agreement and then the Sun began to set and he strongly disagreed with his previous strong agreement. Confused yet?
If you want to know where this stumbling gang stands on any particular issue listen to what they say and then wait a bit and they will change whats left of their minds. Remember, as they will say, they are speeging twoof to powwur.
somehistory says
Glenn Beck pointed out that everything they accused Mr. Trump of doing, they are doing. All the way to dictator.
OLD GUY says
Kamala Harris, god this women is dumb. Islam committs Ethnic genocide on a daily basis but idiots like Kamala don’t see the murder and rapes by muslim/islamic men and women as anything but normal islam. Nothing to be seen here, common everyday occurrences.
We have DUMB and DUMBER in the White House..
gravenimage says
Kamala Harris Praises Student Who Accused Israel of ‘Ethnic Genocide’
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Disgusting calumny–but no real surprise here. Harris is worse than Biden on Israel, and this is saying a great deal.