{"id":2227948,"date":"2024-04-23T09:05:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T13:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-says-there-are-very-fine-people-on-both-sides-of-the-oct-7-debate\/"},"modified":"2024-04-23T09:06:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T13:06:35","slug":"joe-biden-says-there-are-very-fine-people-on-both-sides-of-the-oct-7-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-says-there-are-very-fine-people-on-both-sides-of-the-oct-7-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden Acknowledges Good People on Both Sides of Oct. 7 Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjoe-biden-says-there-are-very-fine-people-on-both-sides-of-the-oct-7-debate%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2227948&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The\u200c summary discusses Joe Biden&#8217;s\u200d condemnation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/speaking-to-republican-jewish-leaders-desantis-points-to-his-record\/\" title=\"DeSantis highlights achievements to Republican Jewish Leaders.\">antisemitic protests<\/a> at Ivy League schools and his \u2062stance \u200bon the \u2062Palestinian\u200c situation. It highlights his approach to balancing perspectives, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, \u200cand\u200b the criticism he faces for his statements. Additionally, it points out the comparison made to Trump&#8217;s past \u2062comments and \u2064the complexity of\u2062 addressing antisemitism\u2064 in current political discourse.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>\u201cI condemn the antisemitic protests \u2026\u201d Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JenniferJJacobs\/status\/1782489572657492239\">told<\/a> reporters after days of anti-Jewish demonstrations at Columbia University and other Ivy League schools. \u201cI also condemn those who don\u2019t understand what\u2019s going on with the Palestinians\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Any morally clearheaded American already has a very good idea of what\u2019s going on. Biden is both-siding the actions of Kafiya-wearing terror cheerleaders on Columbia\u2019s Gaza Quad \u2014 who target American Jews who have absolutely no bearing on Israel\u2019s actions \u2014 with those who refuse to accept the blood libel of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/analysis\/op_eds\/2024\/01\/17\/the-blood-libel-at-the-hague\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">genocide<\/a>\u201d in Gaza. It is the kind of odious moral relativism one expects to hear from a \u201csquad\u201d member or clout-chasing far-right \u201cinfluencer,\u201d not the president. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-714045256\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-7e583de69fb1d7eb336bfc92fcbdd1ac fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-7e583de69fb1d7eb336bfc92fcbdd1ac\"><\/div>\n<p>Hamas, the governing authority in an autonomous Gaza \u2014 still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/analysis\/2024\/03\/22\/poll-hamas-remains-popular-among-palestinians\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">supported<\/a> widely by the Palestinian people \u2014 flooded over the border on Oct. 7, 2023, raping, murdering, and kidnapping more than a thousand men, women and children in Israel, including American citizens. Afterward, Hamas retreated and hid among civilians to generate as many Palestinian martyrs as possible. The Israelis retaliated against this nihilistic death cult, keeping the civilian-to-combatant casualty ratio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/misplaced-moral-outrage-on-civilian-casualties\/#:~:text=Likewise%2C%20Kemp%20praised%20the%20IDF,in%20general%20is%201%3A9%E2%80%94\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lower<\/a> than perhaps any other instance of modern urban warfare. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what\u2019s going on. But because a not-insignificant contingent on the contemporary left is now both antisemitic and anti-\u201ccolonialist,\u201d the president demanded Israel stop before the job was done. And he is willing to sell out a longtime ally and forsake the lives of American hostages to try to entice the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/04\/08\/joe-biden-is-now-chasing-the-death-to-america-voter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">votes<\/a> in Jew-hating enclaves like Dearborn, Yale, and The Washington Post newsroom. <\/p>\n<p>A number of people have pointed out the similarities between Biden\u2019s condemnations and Donald Trump\u2019s post-Charlottesville march \u201cvery fine people\u201d comment. It\u2019s a good gotcha. After all, Biden has risibly claimed that Trump\u2019s comments impelled him to run for president (for the third time.)<\/p>\n<p>There is, however, a key difference. Trump\u2019s garbled line was almost surely not aimed at tiki-torch neo-Nazis. Believe what you like about Trump\u2019s motivations, but he also later unequivocally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/2020\/02\/trump-has-condemned-white-supremacists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">condemned<\/a> the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-whitmer-media-caught-in-another-lie-anarchist-arrested-for-plot-to-kidnap-and-kill-whitmer-hates-president-trump-trump-is-a-tyrant-video\/\" title=\"Gov. Whitmer, Media Caught in Another Lie - Anarchist Arrested For Plot to Kidnap and Kill Whitmer Hates President Trump, 'Trump is a Tyrant' (VIDEO)\">white supremacists<\/a> on more than one occasion. Biden, on the other hand, can\u2019t even get himself to call out Brownshirts without throwing them a bone. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-11cf77d25eee1d2f0de2e2b1ed6bbbe8 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-11cf77d25eee1d2f0de2e2b1ed6bbbe8\"><\/div>\n<p>Also, incidentally, unlike the nuts in Virginia, these people will be working at our top law firms, in media organizations, and in the State Department. Oh, the president also wants you to pay their loans. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier, The Washington Post, like most outlets, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2024\/04\/21\/columbia-university-protest-biden-antisemitism\/#:~:text=On%20Sunday%2C%20President%20Biden%20condemned,against%20Jews%E2%80%9D%20in%20recent%20days.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claimed<\/a> that \u201cBiden denounces antisemitism on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-china-threat-is-real-and-upon-us\/\" title=\"The China Threat is Real and Upon Us\">college campuses<\/a> amid Yale, Columbia protests.\u201d While technically true, the framing ignores the president\u2019s equivocation. The denouncement was a <em>pro forma<\/em> White House Passover press release that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2024\/04\/21\/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-passover\/\">spent<\/a> as much space prattling on about a two-state solution as it did the \u201cprotests.\u201d For comparison, Biden\u2019s Ramadan press release <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2024\/03\/10\/statement-from-president-joseph-r-biden-on-the-occasion-of-ramadan\/#:~:text=Biden%20on%20the%20Occasion%20of%20Ramadan,-Home&#038;text=Tonight%E2%80%94as%20the%20new%20crescent,time%20for%20reflection%20and%20renewal.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">noted<\/a> the \u201cterrible suffering on the Palestinian people,\u201d repeated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/sections\/news\/articles\/how-gaza-health-ministry-fakes-casualty-numbers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fake Hamas causality numbers<\/a>, and condemned \u201cIslamophobia,\u201d but said nothing about the widespread outbreak of antisemitism. <\/p>\n<p>Then again, Democrats are increasingly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2023\/11\/14\/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-takes-action-to-address-alarming-rise-of-reported-antisemitic-and-islamophobic-events-at-schools-and-on-college-campuses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">incapable<\/a> of even <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/ap\/ap-politics\/ap-emhoff-will-discuss-antisemitism-and-gender-equity-during-annual-meeting-of-elites-in-switzerland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">talking about<\/a> antisemitism without diluting any condemnation with mention of \u201cIslamophobia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You might recall a few years back, a certain Democratic congresswoman was going on about \u201cBenjamin\u201d-grubbing rootless cosmopolitans hypnotizing the world for their evil. After a handful of Jewish Democrats complained about her rhetoric, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi  finally agreed to pass a resolution condemning Ilhan Omar (thoughts and prayers to her <a href=\"https:\/\/twitchy.com\/samj\/2024\/04\/22\/daily-beast-tries-making-ilhan-omars-daughter-the-victim-n2395383\">starving<\/a> daughter, by the way!). By the end of debate, of course, the resolution was teeming with platitudes and condemnations of a rainbow of thought crimes, with references to Alfred Dreyfus, Leo Frank, Henry Ford, and \u201canti-Muslim bigotry,\u201d but not Omar. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1eeadaabb3cea213ebab575b66159dd0 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1eeadaabb3cea213ebab575b66159dd0\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe all have a responsibility to speak out against anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, racism, and all forms of hatred and bigotry, especially as we see a spike in hate crimes in America,\u201d is how Sen. Kamala Harris <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2019\/03\/07\/bernie-sanders-kamala-harris-elizabeth-warren-defend-ilhan-omar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">whitewashed<\/a> the rising anti-Jewish pronouncements of her party. Which is to say, for years now, Democrats have <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/11\/20\/jonathan-chait-whitewashes-left-wing-antisemitism-to-protect-democrats\/\">been downplaying<\/a> antisemitism as it creeped into college campuses, Congress, the Women\u2019s March, Black Lives Matter, and now the mainstream. <\/p>\n<p>And now, here we are. We have a president who can\u2019t make a moral distinction between bigots and their targets. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-9747750a11d4e07162cde54e0ebd1989 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-9747750a11d4e07162cde54e0ebd1989\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following anti-Jewish protests at Ivy League schools, Joe Biden condemned the antisemitic demonstrations while expressing disapproval toward those misinterpreting the Palestinian situation. This attempt to present both perspectives may indicate a nuanced approach, implying a need for moral clarity among Americans to comprehend the complex situation effectively<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":831,"featured_media":2227949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Biden-1024x717.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2227948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Biden-1024x717.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2227948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2227949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2227948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2227948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2227948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}