President Biden Sends Mixed Messages on Anti-Semitism & Hamas

Consider this portion of President Biden's remarks on Holocaust Remembrance Day:

By the time the war ended, 6 million Jews — one out of every three Jews in the entire world — were murdered.  

This ancient hatred of Jews didn’t begin with the Holocaust; it didn’t end with the Holocaust, either, or after — or even after our victory in World War Two.  This hatred continues to lie deep in the hearts of too many people in the world, and it requires our continued vigilance and outspokenness.    

That hatred was brought to life on October 7th in 2023.  On a sacred Jewish holiday, the terrorist group Hamas unleashed the deadliest day of the Jewish people since the Holocaust.  

Driven by ancient desire to wipeout the Jewish people off the face of the Earth, over 1,200 innocent people — babies, parents, grandparents — slaughtered in their kibbutz, massacred at a musical festival, brutally raped, mutilated, and sexually assaulted.  Thousands more carrying wounds, bullets, and shrapnel from the memory of that terrible day they endured.  Hundreds taken hostage, including survivors of the Shoah.  

Now, here we are, not 75 years later but just seven and a half months later, and people are already forgetting.  They’re already forgetting that Hamas unleashed this terror, that it was Hamas that brutalized Israelis, that it was Hamas who took and continues to hold hostages. I have not forgotten, nor have you, and we will not forget. 

Now consider President Biden's remarks to CNN's Erin Burnett the following day concerning his decision to withhold military aid from Israel and preventing it from going into Rafah and ending the evil of Hamas:

Civilians have been killed in Gaza as a consequence of those bombs and other ways in which they go after population centers.

And I made it clear that, if they go into Rafah—they haven’t gone into Rafah yet. If they go into Rafah, I’m not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with Rafah, to deal with the cities, to deal with that problem.

We’re going to continue to make sure Israel is secure, in terms of Iron Dome and their ability to respond to attacks like came out of the Middle East recently.

But it’s—it’s just wrong. We’re not going to supply the weapons and the artillery shells that have been used.

President Biden subsequently told Burnett, "We’re not walking away from Israel’s security. We’re walking away from Israel’s ability to wage war in those areas."

Unfortunately, President Biden is sending mixed messages when it comes to both anti-Semitism and Hamas. 

During his Holocaust Remembrance speech, President Biden said, "Never again, simply translated for me, means “never forget.” 

Well by preventing Israel's ability to wage war in those areas President Biden has forgotten that Hamas has vowed to carry out as many October 7ths attacks as it takes to wipe Israel out of existence and for anti-Semitism to triumph.

As long as President Biden ties Israel's hands behind its back then never again become not again.