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Haley: ‘Antisemitism is not hard to define if you’re serious about stopping it’

The presidential candidate slammed the White House strategy to combat antisemitism.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks at an emergency General Assembly meeting in United Nations headquarters in New York City to vote on Jerusalem's situation on Dec. 21, 2017. Credit: Amir Levy/Flash90.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks at an emergency General Assembly meeting in United Nations headquarters in New York City to vote on Jerusalem’s situation on Dec. 21, 2017. Credit: Amir Levy/Flash90.

“Joe Biden is pandering to the radical left and siding with Israel’s enemies,” Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley tweeted on May 26. “It’s shameful.”

The former South Carolina governor and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations shared a New York Post article about Jewish groups being “extremely disturbed” by the White House strategy to combat antisemitism, which the Biden administration announced on May 25, the eve of Shavuot.

“Antisemitism is not hard to define if you’re serious about stopping it,” Haley posted.

Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida and a presidential candidate, did not comment on Twitter about the White House strategy. Nor did presidential candidates Tim Scott, a South Carolina senator, and Vivek Ramaswamy, an entrepreneur.

Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi “directed and urged others to attack U.S. and Israeli interests and to kill Americans and Jews in the U.S. and abroad,” the Justice Department said.
One caller, who invoked Tucker Carlson, told Rep. Jared Moskowitz, a Florida Democrat, that “you’re the Hitler.”
“There will be ups and downs, but the potential for success is great,” wrote Yechiel Leiter, the Israeli envoy in Washington.
“I don’t want to quit. I’m not a quitter,” Steve Cohen said. “But these districts were drawn to beat me. They were drawn to defeat me.”
Federal prosecutors allege Elias Rodriguez carried out a premeditated terrorist attack motivated by “political, ideological, national and religious bias, contempt and hatred.”
“We shouldn’t host the relatives of people who attack our country,” said Sen. Tom Cotton.