Antisemitism
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“My administration will continue to fight antisemitism and Islamophobia,” said U.S. President Joe Biden.
President Gustavo Petro likened the IDF to Nazis.
FBI director Christopher Wray told Jewish communal leaders that his agency is “working to confirm if there is any validity to the call.”
Air Canada has grounded an employee for his bigoted social-media postings.
The Bethlehem Branch of P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas’s faction uploaded a video praising the Gaza terror group’s slaughter of Israeli civilians.
“It is an unambiguous global call to arms,” said Robert Greenway of the Heritage Foundation. “It will be heeded. There will be blood.”
“This is not an act of freedom of expression. We are in the realm of an offense, of anti-Semitism, of anti-Zionism, and an attack on a religious community and peaceful people.”
The U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism had said in June, when the White House invited CAIR to advise its antisemitism strategy, that CAIR should be judged going forward. It recently blamed Israel for the Hamas attacks.
The Sydney rally came a day after the Democratic Socialists of America held a similar “pro-Palestine” rally in New York City’s Times Square.
The Biden administration’s decision to invite the Council on American-Islamic Relations to be part of the strategy was like inviting “some butchers to National Vegetarian Day,” Gil Troy told JNS in May.
Most members of “The Squad” in Congress belong to the organization.
After passing a spray-painted swastika 14 years ago, the Jewish Canadian dedicated himself to removing bigoted symbols.