OPINION:
Israel’s got their Hamas. Ignorant college kids have their anti-semitic pro-Palestinian mantras. Rashida Tlaib and Omar Ilhan have their anti-Jewish ethnic cleansing causes. But the White House? For this White House, the war’s on hate. And President Joe Biden has set his trusty-wusty VP Kamala Harris as commander-in-chief of this war.
What could possibly go wrong.
She started with an “X” video: “Every person,” she said, “has the right to live safe from violence, hate and bigotry [excepting MAGA people]. And for those reasons and so many more, President Joe Biden and I have a duty not only to keep the people of our nation safe [except for closing the border], but to condemn unequivocally [and in a way that is clear and forceful and devoid of word salad dressings] and forcefully [and again, unequivocally], all forms of hate [except against MAGA types].”
Every war needs a declaration.
As declarations go, this was a fine one. It made clear that people shouldn’t hate each other, and also laid the groundwork nicely for this White House to name itself leader of the war against hate. After all, Harris reminded, Biden signed an executive order against hate crimes when the Wuhan virus cast poor light on the Asians who made the Wuhan virus using money from Anthony Fauci. After all, Harris went on, Biden created a National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism. And just because this national strategy to counter antisemitism has been strangely ineffective at countering all the attacks on Jews and threats against Jews on college campuses in America doesn’t mean the national strategy isn’t effective. As Harris, if pressed to explain on that, might answer: ‘Effectiveness is in the eye of the beholder — have I told you how much I love Venn diagrams?’
Besides, she went on, hate is not love. In fact, it’s very un-love.
“And to make clear,” she said, “taking on hate is a national priority.”
It’s as high a national priority as climate change. In fact, climate change and hate go hand-in-hand. If climate change were not a problem, neither then would be hate. Hungry people hate; thirsty people hate; homeless people hate; and climate change, as we all know, means people go hungry and thirsty and homeless. Want to eradicate hunger and hate? Start bicycling more.
It’s very Venn.
“Today, we take another important step forward in our fight against hate,” Harris said. “For years, Muslims in America and those perceived to be Muslim have endured a disproportionate number of hate-fueled attacks [like the ‘Allahu Akbar’ screaming Fort Hood shooter, Nidal Hasan, who in 2009 shot and killed 13 and wounded more than 30, and was then wrongfully painted as a radical Islamic terrorist by the dastardly conservatives]. As a result of the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel … we have seen an uptick in anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab, anti-Semitic and Islamophobic incidents across America including the brutal attack of a Palestinian-American woman who is Muslim and the killing of her six-year-old son.”
The boy was allegedly killed and the mother allegedly stabbed by their lunatic landlord in Chicago. The Department of Justice is investigating.
But that’s hardly evidence of mass Islamophobia across America.
Jews face far greater danger than Muslims in this country right now.
“Cornell University student threatened to stab and rape Jewish students,” NBC News wrote.
“Cooper Union barricades Jewish students inside library as pro-Palestinian protesters bang on doors,” The New York Post wrote.
“Anti-Israel Harvard protesters gang up on Jewish student,” The Australian wrote.
The antisemitism violence — hate? — has risen to such extent lawsuits are in the works. Mark Ressler of Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP in New York City is poised to file a batch of suits on behalf of Jewish students from Harvard, Cornell, New York University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford and elsewhere, accusing administrators of allowing antisemitic violence and intimidation — hate? — to go forward on campus, in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits racial discrimination by entities receiving public funds.
“We’re going to show that the universities had notice of acts of hatred and bigotry towards Jewish students, that there was pervasive anti-Jewish bigotry on campus and that administrators and university bureaucrats acted with deliberate indifference, which is the legal term, with respect to campus antisemitism,” Ressler said, Business Insider wrote.
Good. Let the lawsuits fly.
Antisemitism has no business on college campuses in America — or anywhere, for that matter. Neither, it should be noted, any type of religious persecution or race-related discrimination.
But just as it’s not the Israelis who aggressed against the terrorists of Hamas, it’s not the Jews in America — or Americans of any faith, for that matter — who are on a widespread hunt for Muslims. Tell that to the cartoon figures running our executive branch right now.
“Today, I am proud to announce, the Biden-Harris administration will develop our nation’s first National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia … to protect Muslims and those perceived to be Muslim from hate, bigotry and violence and to address the concern that some government policies may discriminate against Muslims,” Harris said.
Establishing this program in a nation with First Amendment and court precedent protections guaranteeing the right to worship freely is repetitive and unnecessary, at best; discriminatory against other religions and emboldening of anti-Jewish and anti-Christian sentiment and policy, at worst. Pretending as if Muslims in America are in dire need of special protections for their faith is a false premise upon which to base political platforms and policies. And to do so during a time when the anti-Israel powers of the world are seeking any excuse to shut down the Jewish nation’s right to effectively defend itself against terrorists who struck first is irresponsibly dangerous. It suggests that all Muslims are just as victimized as Jews and those of other faiths, at the very time when Muslims have launched religious-based attacks against Jews.
It says that hate, in all its forms, is bad — which is true — but then suggests that hate is just as part and parcel of one side as another; that it’s an ingrained trait of all sides, equally. And that’s a lie.
Islamists hate Jews and want to wipe them off the face of the map. Radical Muslims want to destroy the Jewish state, destroy the West, including America, and implement a tyrannical form of Islam that squelches all freedoms, tolerates nothing, and kills all independence and individualism.
That’s the hate the Biden-Harris administration should be fighting.
But that would require truth, and tough choices, and acknowledgement of evils that could prove uncomfortable.
So instead, we get a drummed up war led by the cartoon-in-chief Harris. Hate is bad. And all the sheep bleet, baa-aaa-aad.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “Lockdown: The Socialist Plan To Take Away Your Freedom,” is available by clicking HERE or clicking HERE or CLICKING HERE.
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