Vile Anti-Semitism Splitting Democrats

Our friend Richard Pollock has a great post up on his substack exposing the pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel protesters who are bluntly warning President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris that they don’t trust either of them - and that neither should take their vote for granted.

As Mr. Pollock explained, the protesters organized a loud and boisterous anti-Israel demonstration outside the Capitol Building, where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was preparing to address a Joint Session of Congress for the fourth time.

After the rally, violence erupted. It included attacks on the Capitol Police, the tearing down of American flags, raising Palestinian flags, and setting fires.

Linda Sarsour, a Democrat activist and one of America’s most recognized anti-Semites said Palestinians should take credit for Harris’ decision to boycott Netanyahu’s address before the Joint Session of Congress. “It is the reason why Kamala Harris is not presiding over Benjamin Netanyahu’s war criminal speech in Congress. Today is because of you.”

The warning to Harris was blunt. And the protesters roared their approval.

Harris hasn’t publicly given any reasons why she decided to be absent on Wednesday. Her staff claimed it was because she had a previous campaign engagement in Indiana. But neither Harris nor the Presidential campaign staff explained why the Indiana engagement couldn’t have been rescheduled.  And, of course, the national press didn’t press the issue, observed Mr. Pollock.

Sarsour also bluntly called Biden a top American war criminal, which also must worry Democratic presidential campaign organizers.

“Don’t be surprised that a war criminal has been invited by a country that harbors our own war criminals,” she said. “And at the top of the list is President Joe Biden,” she declared to vigorous applause.

Sarsour was direct. She warned the Democratic Party might lose the Muslim and Far Left votes in November. “Let us be clear. Our votes are still to be earned.”

It was a direct warning to both Harris and to the Democratic Party that their election in November could be imperiled if they ignored anti-Israel voters. Similar warnings were issued earlier this year after voters in American Muslim enclaves voted to boycott then candidate Biden.

Now here’s where all the rhetoric gets interesting.

At the conclusion of the rally, one of the organizers only identified as “Mohammad” asked the crowd to join them in Chicago where protesters hope to disrupt the Democratic National Convention in August. Chicago police have been preparing for anti-Israel riots in the city for months.

“Mohammad’s threats to disrupt the Democrats’ Chicago convention may or may not have the kind of teeth in it that the violent riot at the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention had, but one thing is for sure, it has already knocked out one of the Democrats’ rising stars from consideration as Kamala Harris’ running mate.

Pennsylvania’s Democrat Governor, Josh Shapiro, is Jewish and a strong and public advocate for Israel and its alliance with the United States.

In December of 2023 Shapiro said, "Israel not only has a right, they have a responsibility to rid the region of Hamas and the terror that Hamas can perpetrate." This caused an uproar among the pro-Palestinian terror faction of the Democratic Party.

The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) issued a statement in April claiming that his words and actions have created much harm in Muslim, Arab and pro-Palestine communities.

"At a time when governors of California and New Jersey have underlined in public statements their support for a ceasefire in Gaza, Gov. Shapiro has failed to do that," the statement read.

"His attacks on academic freedom, intentionally depicting protests in a negative light, failure to care for and listen to Palestinian Pennsylvanians whose families are being massacred day in and out by Israeli government, and his behind-the-scenes antagonization of community organizations cannot be ignored and easily forgiven," it continued, reported the newarab.com.

And this is a big concern for Democrats, as KTSM.com noted, some question whether Shapiro’s staunch support of Israel throughout the Israel-Hamas war could turn off progressive voters, many of whom threatened to stay home when Biden was at the top of the ticket over the president’s pro-Israel stance.

Republicans are beginning to notice the influence anti-Semites have suddenly acquired in the Democratic Party.

Florida’s principled limited government constitutional conservative Governor Ron DeSantis said Wednesday that Democrats have to “virtue signal to the Hamas caucus” regarding Kamala Harris’ potential vice presidential pick, referencing talk that picking a Jewish running mate could fracture a diverse coalition of voters that has been torn over Israel’s war in Gaza.

“You have this governor in Pennsylvania,” DeSantis said in St. Petersburg, referring to potential Democratic vice-presidential candidate Gov. Josh Shapiro. “People are saying in the media and on the Left, ‘Well, she can’t pick him because he’s Jewish.” DeSantis continued: “If you have to virtue signal to the Hamas caucus to win an election, you should not win that election.”

Governor DeSantis is right: Democrats don’t want to incite the already volatile pro-Palestinian rioters to further violence in Chicago, so we predict Kamala Harris, and the Democrats, will bow to the anti-Semite and pro-terrorist wing of their Party and nix Gov. Josh Shapiro because he is Jewish, even though he is arguably their strongest candidate for Vice President.

• 2024 Election

• Kamala Harris campaign

• Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu

• Joint Session of Congress

• Israel Hamas war

• hostages

• Joe Biden presidency

• anti-semitism

• Palestinian protests

• statues vandalized

• Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Sharpiro

• Kamala Harris running mate

• Linda Sarsour