Thursday, July 30, 2020

The Democrats Declare a Jew Ban

Though claiming to be "Pro-Israel," Obama - and then Democrats generally - relentlessly demonized Israel's center-right Likud party and its popular leader, Bibi Netanyahu.

Their narrative is now the norm among Democrats across the spectrum: the establishment's anti-Israelism is deniable as "Anti-Netanyahu" or "Anti-Likud" while the progressives' antisemitism is sanitized as "Intersectionality" or "Anti-Zionism." As for actual policy shocks, their 2015 Iran Deal strengthened, enriched, and normalized the Islamic Republic over Israel's fearful pleas.

Outgoing Secretary of State Kerry announced that when Democrats were back in power they would punish Israel for its stubborn refusal to be bullied into suicidal positions "For the sake of peace." Biden's platform delivers on that threat.

The platform proudly reaffirms the Iran Deal and the MOU. It equates America's liberal, democratic ally Israel with corrupt, anti-American, terrorist PA. It equates Jewish homeownership in disputed areas not with Arab homeownership in those same areas, but with Arab terror-effectively casting a Jew simply residing in a place deemed off-limits as justification for murder.

Democrats thus deny Jewish history, selectively apply law to discriminate against Jews, endorse ethnic cleansing of Jews, and champion the principle of judenrein-a geographic area off-limit to Jews.

In obscene, almost cinematic irony, the Democrats released this platform the very same week they trumpeted their "NOBAN Act" - the House's vote against a Trump immigration policy they call the "Muslim Ban." Consider: against a backdrop of Democrats raging about a purported "Muslim Ban" that does not ban Muslims from entering or living in any part of any country, the Democrats proudly pronounce their commitment to outlawing Jews from living in Judea - a certifiable Jew Ban.

Employing anodyne platitudes - call it the banality of evil - Democrats have articulated a brutally antisemitic program treating Jews and Israel as pariahs, uniquely worthy of discriminatory treatment.

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