David Harsanyi
The Federalist, Feb. 29, 2024
“Biden can afford to ignore the concerns of American Jews who care about this issue, because it won’t matter enough in states like New York, California, and Florida, where the outcomes are foretold. The chance that nominally pro-Israel Democrats would criticize the president is slim.”
The day of the Democratic Party’s Michigan primary, White House National Security Advisor John Kirby bragged that the Biden administration was changing its Israel-Gaza war policy to reflect the concerns of pro-Hamas activists in Michigan. The White House, Kirby explained, is “willing to adjust” how they were “approaching the conflict and the way we’re talking about the conflict” to “reflect” the “concerns” of Dearborn.
Imagine the president sending high-ranking White House officials to Borough Park in Brooklyn to hear out the perspective of Putin-boosters regarding the Ukraine war, then adjusting American policy and rhetoric to better embrace those outlooks. Granted, you’d have to stretch the imagination to its limits to picture Russian immigrants defending terror groups.
Although Joe Biden handily won Michigan with 80 percent of the primary vote, more than 100,000 Democrats voted “uncommitted” to protest the president’s allegedly pro-“genocide” position. This, despite Biden dispatching senior aides to Dearborn to bend the knee to “pro-Palestinian” leaders like Osama Siblani, who not only contends that the United States is “bought” by the “Zionist lobby”—a popular conspiracy theory among antisemites—but that “Hamas is not a terrorist organization.” The hundreds of families of Americans the group has murdered over the years likely disagree… [To read the full article, click here]