'Biden’s antisemitism strategy will not work, because it leaves out the most powerful tools for empowering Jewish communities to discourage hate.'
of antisemitism, which says that singling out Israel is potentially discriminatory, but also fails to say anything positive about Israel.
The fact is that Israel’s success has, over several decades, given American Jews greater pride and confidence. Not one of the strategy’s vaunted “100 new actions” does anything to strengthen the U.S.-Israel relationship. Instead the document merely claims that the Biden administration “has an unshakable commitment to the State of Israel’s right to exist,” while tactitly accepting that denying Israel’s right to exist is not antisemitic.
The Biden strategy treats guns like they are the problem: one of its so-called “new actions” to protect Jews is actually an old executive action on “Reducing Gun Violence and Making Our Communities Safer.” Moreover, that action addresses what to doa mass shooting, rather than how to defend communities — or how to improve criminal justice in the big, Democrat-run cities where Jews live so that violent felons are off the street.
The way to fight this form of antisemitism is to encourage the public practice of the Jewish faith. There are vague hints in the strategy at encouraging employers to “acknowledge Jewish holidays” and other important days, but the Biden plan includes the new “International Holocaust Remembrance Day,” not the. There is nothing in the plan about broader expressions of faith.
And there, really, is the core weakness of the strategy. The U.S. has been one of the most tolerant societies toward Jews partly because it has also been so religious, despite — or, as Alexis de Tocqueville noted,— it does not have a state religion. But religious observance has fallen in the U.S. in recent years, as antisemitism has risen. The Biden strategy fails to address that crisis of faith, of which antisemitism is just one symptom.on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m.
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