{"id":2239352,"date":"2024-05-07T15:47:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T19:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-democrat-partys-antisemitism-went-mainstream-with-barack-obama\/"},"modified":"2024-05-07T15:50:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T19:50:37","slug":"the-democrat-partys-antisemitism-went-mainstream-with-barack-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-democrat-partys-antisemitism-went-mainstream-with-barack-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"The Democrat Party Embraced Antisemitism During Barack Obama&#8217;s Era"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fthe-democrat-partys-antisemitism-went-mainstream-with-barack-obama%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=2239352&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 summary of the text highlights former President Barack Obama&#8217;s silence on anti-Israel movements \u2064in\u2062 U.S. colleges,\u200c specifically at Columbia University, his alma mater. It\u2064 delves into allegations of Obama&#8217;s past associations with antisemitism, including his connections to figures like Louis Farrakhan and Jeremiah\u200c Wright. The text \u2062contrasts Obama&#8217;s history with\u2064 the Democrat Party&#8217;s response to current \u2062pro-Hamas sentiments on college campuses.  <\/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>For a man who has never been shy about sharing his sanctimonious opinions, former President Barack Obama has been noticeably quiet about anti-Israel anarchists\u2019 takeover of U.S. college campuses.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Columbia University \u2014 Obama\u2019s alma mater \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/commencement.columbia.edu\/content\/announcements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a> it will not host its university-wide commencement ceremony for this year\u2019s graduating class. That appears a response to the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/04\/30\/smash-the-state-backed-higher-education-racket\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pro-Hamas demonstrations<\/a> that have engulfed the school for weeks. The announcement came days after the university (finally) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/news\/columbia-university-protests-raid-nypd-arrests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">permitted<\/a> law enforcement to arrest participants unlawfully occupying a school building. <\/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__b89e9-799370697\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-5200e63c88d338d5b5ab172fac285ea1 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-5200e63c88d338d5b5ab172fac285ea1\"><\/div>\n<p>One would imagine the erection of illegal encampments and harassment of Jewish students at Columbia and other American universities would prompt outcry from any former president. Donald Trump, for example, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/01\/us\/politics\/trump-rally-campus-protests.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">repeatedly<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-slams-anti-israel-protests-disgrace-all-bidens-fault-ahead-manhattan-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">condemned<\/a> these demonstrators and their anti-Israeli sentiments. But for Obama, the task is seemingly too difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Since the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/news\/local\/columbia-commencement-canceled-protests\/5387344\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">launch<\/a> of the Columbia encampments last month, Obama has issued a smattering of posts on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/barackobama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">X<\/a>, none of which address leftists\u2019 takeover of campuses throughout the country. While the former president <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BarackObama\/status\/1782515071614107995\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wished<\/a> Jews a happy Passover on April 22, he couldn\u2019t be bothered to condemn the antisemitic behavior on display at his alma mater or any of America\u2019s post-secondary institutions. <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Obama\u2019s Checkered Past<\/h2>\n<p>It goes without saying that if the aforementioned demonstrators were \u201cMAGA Republicans\u201d protesting an Islamic country and harassing Muslim students, legacy media \u201cjournalists\u201d would be relentlessly spamming the phone lines and emails of every GOP official in the country asking for condemnation. They will never hold Democrats to the same standard, and their refusal to call out Obama for ignoring the leftist occupation of universities shows it. <\/p>\n<p>While the media\u2019s inaction isn\u2019t surprising, neither is Obama\u2019s silence. Obama\u2019s decision to remain mum on the issue is representative of his behavior and the individuals encompassing him throughout his life. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-a6796643b1be368595de411666005894 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-a6796643b1be368595de411666005894\"><\/div>\n<p>Allegations of Obama indulging antisemitism have existed long before he became president. Last year, for example, Tablet Magazine\u2019s David Samuels published a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/sections\/arts-letters\/articles\/david-garrow-interview-obama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lengthy expose<\/a> based on a question-and-answer interview with David Garrow, a longtime civil rights historian who authored a biography on Obama in 2017 titled <em>Rising Star<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>In his book, Garrow documented an argument between Obama and his longtime Chicago girlfriend, Sheila Miyoshi Jager. It allegedly started because the future president <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/08\/04\/did-obama-refuse-to-condemn-antisemitism-and-black-nationalism-resurfaced-biography-says-yes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">refused<\/a> to condemn antisemitism and black nationalism. <\/p>\n<p>The dispute occurred after the two reportedly visited \u201can exhibit at Chicago\u2019s Spertus Institute about the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann,\u201d a Nazi who played a major role in organizing the Holocaust. It was during this time, according to Samuels, that Chicago politics was engulfed in controversy after Steve Cokely, a black mayoral aide, \u201caccused Jewish doctors in Chicago of infecting Black babies with AIDS as part of a genocidal plot against African Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Jager\u2019s recollection, what set off the quarrel that precipitated the end of the couple\u2019s relationship was Obama\u2019s stubborn refusal, after seeing the exhibit, and in the swirl of this Cokely affair, to condemn Black racism,\u201d Samuels wrote. \u201cWhile acknowledging that Obama\u2019s embrace of a Black identity had created some degree of distance between the couple, she insisted that what upset her that day was Obama\u2019s inability to condemn Cokely\u2019s comments.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-b87a82386b60f4bef4187b7ad0c7eba6 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-b87a82386b60f4bef4187b7ad0c7eba6\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt was not Obama\u2019s Blackness that bothered her, but that he would not condemn antisemitism,\u201d Samuels added.<\/p>\n<p>Even if one were to dismiss Jager\u2019s allegations and accept <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/08\/04\/did-obama-refuse-to-condemn-antisemitism-and-black-nationalism-resurfaced-biography-says-yes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Obama\u2019s version<\/a> of the argument, it still doesn\u2019t explain the prominent antisemitic figures the Illinois Democrat surrounded himself with before his presidency.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, a photo surfaced <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/photo-of-obama-louis-farrakhan-to-be-released\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">showing<\/a> Obama and well-known antisemite Louis Farrakhan smiling together during a 2005 Congressional Black Caucus meeting. Farrakhan \u2014 who heads Nation of Islam, a black supremacist group \u2014 has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/now-it-can-be-seen-long-lost-obama-and-farrakhan-picture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claimed<\/a> that Judaism is a \u201cgutter religion,\u201d whites are a \u201crace of devils,\u201d and Adolf Hitler \u201cwas a very great man.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/now-it-can-be-seen-long-lost-obama-and-farrakhan-picture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">National Review<\/a>, Farrakhan endorsed Obama during the 2008 Democrat presidential primary and later claimed he met with Obama before he launched his campaign. Conveniently, the picture was suppressed until after Obama\u2019s two terms.<\/p>\n<p>Obama\u2019s associations with antisemites goes back further, to his days as a community organizer in Chicago. The former president was a known associate of Jeremiah Wright, a \u201creverend\u201d of Chicago\u2019s Trinity United Church of Christ who has issued numerous<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2008\/04\/obamas_chickens_come_home_to_r.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> racist and vile remarks<\/a> through the years. Wright is also Obama\u2019s former pastor. Wright <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/POLITICS\/04\/29\/wright.bio\/\">married <\/a>the Obamas and baptized their children.<\/p>\n<p>One of Wright\u2019s most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hollywood-hamas-and-the-hypocritical-battles-over-free-speech\/\" title=\"Hollywood, Hamas, and the double standards of free speech\">egregious statements<\/a> came less than a week after the al Qaeda terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. The \u201cpastor\u201d claimed America brought such atrocities on itself because of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-red-wave-of-conservative-women-elected-to-congress\/\" title=\"The Red Wave of Conservative Women Elected to Congress\">foreign policy<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye,\u201d Wright <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-campaign-spot\/obamas-pastor-after-911-americas-chickens-are-coming-home-roost-jim-geraghty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>. \u201cWe have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America\u2019s chickens are coming home to roost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Obama <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Blotter\/DemocraticDebate\/story?id=4443788&#038;page=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">brushed<\/a> aside his affiliation with Wright during his 2008 campaign, saying, \u201cI don\u2019t think my church is actually particularly controversial.\u201d He also dismissed Wright\u2019s unhinged remarks, saying Wright is \u201can old uncle who says things I don\u2019t always agree with.\u201d Wright <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/id\/wbna31246353\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claimed<\/a> \u201cthem Jews\u201d were keeping him from seeing Obama during his time as president.<\/p>\n<p>His history with Farrakhan and Wright doesn\u2019t even include Obama\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/11\/14\/how-obama-and-bidens-america-last-ethos-demoted-the-u-s-from-world-leader-to-loser\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rabid anti-Israel foreign policy<\/a> as president or more recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/obama-says-both-sides-to-blame-for-israel-hamas-conflict-nobody-s-hands-are-clean\/ar-AA1jqLgD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">indulgence<\/a> of \u201cboth sides-ism\u201d regarding Hamas\u2019 Oct. 7 attack on Israel.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Obama\u2019s Legacy Comes to Fruition<\/h2>\n<p>Contrast Obama\u2019s embrace of antisemites like Wright and Farrakhan with the modern Democrat Party\u2019s response to the pro-Hamas anarchy infecting America\u2019s campuses.<\/p>\n<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.md\/bI269\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">some<\/a> Democrats have condemned the antisemitism spewed by these demonstrators, others, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/ilhan-omar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar<\/a>, have gone to great lengths to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-hamas-war\/article-799322\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">defend<\/a> the encampments and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/IlhanMN\/status\/1783588505974648836\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">coddle<\/a> their participants. Omar \u2014 whose daughter was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/ilhan-omar-daughter-appear-at-columbia-university-encampment-amid-nationwide-anti-israel-protests\/ar-AA1nFGch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">suspended<\/a> by Columbia for her role in the anti-Israel demonstrations on campus \u2014 has repeatedly accused Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/01\/31\/local-congresswoman-accidentally-spends-a-decade-being-an-antisemite\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">issued<\/a> numerous antisemitic statements. <\/p>\n<p>Many of these left-wing colleges have treated these demonstrators with kid gloves, waiting weeks before allowing law enforcement to break up the unlawful encampments. At the University of North Carolina, some professors are so committed to the leftist cause that they\u2019re withholding \u201cgrades from students until the school reinstate[s] individuals suspended for pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus,\u201d according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/05\/07\/unc-under-fire-after-professors-threaten-to-hold-grades-hostage-in-solidarity-with-hamas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report<\/a> by The Federalist\u2019s Tristan Justice. <\/p>\n<p>What media \u201canalysts\u201d will never acknowledge, however, is that unhinged anti-Israel and antisemitic figures like these were mainstreamed in the Democrat Party by Obama. <\/p>\n<p>Obama\u2019s embrace and tolerance of antisemites and corporate media\u2019s refusal to hold him accountable for it is responsible for the anti-Israel radicalism rampant throughout the modern left. By giving Obama a pass for his controversial behavior and prior associations with people like Wright and Farrakhan, Democrats \u2014 willingly or unwillingly \u2014 deemed it OK for anti-American radicals who harbor the worst sentiments about Jews to join the party\u2019s ranks.<\/p>\n<p>Coupled with Obama\u2019s pro-Iran foreign policy, this also altered Democrats\u2019 views on Israel. Having previously viewed U.S. support for Israel to be a positive development, today the Democrat Party now <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/04\/16\/the-world-is-paying-a-deadly-price-for-barack-obamas-foreign-policy-legacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">opposes<\/a> Israel\u2019s right to defend itself from Hamas and Iranian-backed attackers to appease their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gavin-newsoms-rebuke-of-democrat-antisemitism-is-all-politics-no-principles\/\" title=\"Gavin Newsom's criticism of Democrat antisemitism is purely political, lacking any genuine principles\">antisemitic wing<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Whether he believes it or not, Obama\u2019s silence on the pro-Hamas movement infecting America\u2019s campuses speaks volumes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1fa2e3805bbbbcc7367107192ab49988 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1fa2e3805bbbbcc7367107192ab49988\"><\/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>Former President Barack Obama, known for his outspoken views, remains notably silent on the anti-Israel movements dominating U.S. college campuses. 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