“Muslims… have endured a disproportionate number of hate-fueled attacks.”
"What is [Biden's] level of concern right now about a potential rise of antisemitism?"
KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: "Muslims and those perceived to be Muslim have endured a disproportionate number of hate-fueled attacks" pic.twitter.com/q1WYkpbKmn
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 23, 2023
For a week or so after the Hamas atrocities, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre had to briefly mouth some pieties about opposing the mass murder of Jews.
But it didn’t take long for all of that to fall away.
Q What is his level of concern right now about the potential rise of antisemitism in light of everything that’s going on in Israel?
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: So, a couple of things. Look, we have not seen any credible threats. I know there’s been always questions about credible threats. And so, just want to make sure that that’s out there.
But, look, Muslim and those perceived to be Muslim have endured a disproportionate number of hate-fueled attacks. And certainly President Biden understands that many of our Muslim, Arab — Arab — Arab Americans and Palestinian American loved ones and neighbors are worried about the hate being directed at their communities. And that is something you heard the President speak to in his — in his address just last — last Thursday.
Karine Jean-Pierre denied that there were credible threats against Jews and pivoted to the threat faced by Muslims and ‘Palestinian Americans’.
This is the least surprising thing ever if you remember her history.
New White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre once urged Democrats to skip a meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, claiming it was “severely racist.”
In the piece, she blasted the conference as “severely racist” saying it has “become known for trafficking in anti-Muslim and anti-Arab rhetoric while lifting up Islamophobic voices and attitudes.”
“You cannot call yourself a progressive while continuing to associate yourself with an organization like AIPAC that has often been the antithesis of what it means to be progressive,” she added, while also taking a shot at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The official word is that she misspoke. But where’s the misspeaking? Was she unable to tell apart Jews and Muslims?
No, she delivered a polished answer about the threat faced by Muslims which was clearly prepped from her briefing book, but dismissed antisemitism as a non-issue.
When asked specifically about campus support for murdering Jews, Jean-Pierre pivots to the strange new respect for freedom of speech that has suddenly popped up in university discourse before delivering a fumbling attempt to be against antisemitism.
Q Thank you. I know John Kirby addressed the protests on college campuses, and I appreciate that the President respects First Amendment rights to protest, but does the President view anti-Israel protests and sentiment on college campuses as antisemitism?
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: So, look, I’m not going to get into what’s happening across the country in — at different universities. I’m not going to get into the specifics.
As the Admiral said, the First Amendment right — right? — that’s what something — a peaceful protest is really part of — part of our democracy, being able for folks to — to be able to express their feelings.
I’m not going to get into any, you know, specifics on that. The President has been very clear in wanting to make sure that Jewish Americans, wanting to make sure that Arab Americans, Muslims are protected here. That is what he believes in — that we — they have the right to live their lives and to feel protection and to feel like they’re able to be part of a community. The President has been very, very clear on denouncing any type of violence.
And so, as it relates to peaceful protesting, people have the right to do that. But we’re just not going to get into blow by blows of what’s going on across the country.
Q Well, not —
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: The President has been very clear —
Q Not to get —
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: — very clear —
Q — into blow by blow, but the President himself said “silence is complicity.” So, if there’s antisemitic letters being sent by students or protests, sentiment at protests —
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Of course — of course, the President doesn’t — is — is against antisemitism. Of course. This is a president that you have heard me say is parti- — wants to protect communities, whether it’s the Jewish community, the Arab American pre- — community, the Palestinian community. This is someone who is going to speak out against antisemitism. Of course.
But you’re asking me — you’re — you were kind of conflating the two. You were asking me about pro- — protests, and you were asking me about this question.
Q I think if you talked to a lot of the protesters, you’ll hear antisemitic —
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: I hear you.
Q — comments. That they accuse —
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: And we’re going to always denounce —
Q — Israel of genocide.
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: We’re always going to denounce antisemitism. But at the same time, people have the right to peacefully protest.
But we, in this administration, are going to always denounce antisemitism, any form of hate — any form of hate. Whether it’s against the Jewish community — right? — antisemitism, against the Muslim community, Arab American community, or the Palestin- — we are going to denounce any form of hate that comes towards those communities.
As it relates to protests — peaceful protests, people have the right to do that. But this is an administration, obviously, obviously, that’s going to be very forceful and very clear about denouncing antisemitism.
Very forceful and clear about denouncing antisemitism… by not denouncing it.
libertyORdeath says
So it’s free speech when you want to (illegally) embolden a murderous terrorist organization, but censorship for those who hope to keep the terrorist supporters out of their country?
And who has ever produced evidence of actual “Islamophobia” in the US or the West? Antisemitic attacks are easy to see every month or so, but theres never really been any anti-muslim attacks.
One kid killed for unknown reasons is NOT a pattern of irrational fear of muslims causing violent reactions. In fact, it’s quite the opposite.
So-called “Islamophobia” has only increased due to the MASSIVE increase in muslim illegals and fake refugees. Anti-Muslim sentiment increases due to the words and actions of muslims themselves, not some made-up irrational fear of an ideology or group of people.
Islamophobia might be the wprst name ever anyways because it’s kinda hard to convince people that opposing terrorism and islamic supremacism is some kind of irrational fear.
Everyone has seen the bodies, watched the terrorist attacks, and heard the cries of allahu akbar as a muslim decapitates a non-Muslim. It makes it pretty difficult to convince people that they’re just being irrational.
somehistory says
Truthfully stated.
OLD GUY says
Totally Agree well written.
CogitoErgoSum says
Those who wish to denounce hate should denounce the Quran. Islam is nothing if not pure hate directed towards all who do not wish to live as slaves of Allah.
somehistory says
biden and crew are very selective in their definitions of words such as “hate” and “Truth.”
Much like their mozlum friends and the mozlum definitions of words such as “peace” and “live and let live.”
If they only allow their own definition of the word, they can apply it whenever and however they wish.
somehistory says
The average person doesn’t want to talk bad about their friends; and gang members are loathe to tell the Truth about other gang members.
I like the definition one writer gave for someone mozlums would call an islam o phobe….It went something like, ‘one who knows more about islam than we are supposed to know.’
If we don’t like the idea of being murdered for our belief…or lack thereof…; and we don’t like the idea of being raped on the street, or our places of worship being blown to smithereens, or we dare to say we don’t like being overrun by people who are doing these things or their fellow-travelers who approve of the doing and then being subjected to threats of death, that makes us an ‘islam o phobe.’
And once they determine that we are an ‘islam o phobe.’ then our death by their hands is a given…one way or another, at one time or another and we are just supposed to keep quiet and take whatever they dish.
It’s so very telling that she can’t address the question asked without putting a lot of emphasis on the anti-mozlum stuff that isn’t happening.
Q: What is the president’s take on the rise in gas prices?
kjp: So, let me be clear, the president has been very clear, that we are …have been working…to address islamophobia…
Q: What does Mr. biden say about what’s happening with china and their threats to Tai…
kjp: so, I’ve answered that question, and we have been very clear, the president is against islamophobia, we are against anti-mozlum hatred, the anti-pales… rhetoric, and so, we uh…so,
There is no real concern for what is actually happening…at the border with terrorists coming across daily, nor with the rise in “rhetoric” on the streets and college campuses, and from university professors and members of Congress, against Israel and the Jews.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Once Biden is gone, KJP might move to Gaza & work in the same capacity for Hamas. Just stop saying so loudly that she’s a lesbian 😈
Bexarkat says
My question is, are the non-hate, non-attacks on Jews, which have grown exponentially since October 7th, caused by Muslims or those perceived to be Muslims?
Walter Sieruk says
The White House Secretary, Karine Jean -Pierre speaking forth those lying words that are nothing but balderdash. As in this example of which she speaks empty words about “Islamophobia.” She is saying nothing but half-truth and distortions of the truth. She have taken the place of Jen Psaki as a speaker of falsehoods and lies.
Furthermore, those people who have the information and knowledge the dangers of Islam’s violent and stealth jihad, don’t’ have “Islamophobia , they have a case of Islam –o -realism.
Walter Sieruk says
It’s wise of many Americans not to let the disinformation given by the officials of the Biden regime lead them astray.
James Lincoln says
In reality, it’s the muslims who have Judeophobia.
James Lincoln says
Raggedy Ann is as dumb as a rock.
At least Jen Psaki – although a Leftist – was intelligent…