JD Vance
The rumored visit was reported as intending to ally Israel’s concerns about America’s commitment following the president’s Mideast tour.
The vice president also met with the director of the Bavarian Memorial Foundation and with officials at the former concentration camp.
The American leader will visit France and Germany.
The Israeli prime minister called the meeting with the U.S. vice president and national security advisor “excellent and warm.”
The vice president-elect said that Trump will enable “the Israelis to knock out the last couple of battalions of Hamas and their leadership.”
The Republican vice-presidential nominee spoke at a rally co-organized by Christian and Jewish groups marking one year since Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attacks.
“It is up to Israel what they think they need to do to keep their country safe,” Sen. J.D. Vance said. “We should support our allies wherever they are when they’re fighting the bad guys.”
“We are experiencing a growing awareness of the presence of hate-based political behaviors, where antisemitism is allowed to flourish,” Steven Windmueller, a professor emeritus at HUC, told JNS.
The event’s co-host, Jacob Helberg, said to attendees that “the security and survival of the world’s only Jewish homeland is on the ballot.”
The Republican nominee for the White House also claimed that Kamala Harris snubbed Josh Shapiro because he is Jewish.
While Europeans are troubled by J.D. Vance’s Ukraine stance, he has expressed traditional conservative Republican support for Israel.
“As vice president, J.D. will continue to fight for our constitution, stand with our troops, and will do everything he can to help me make America great again,” the former president wrote.
