Biden’s Pogroms

Over the weekend, I saw several references to pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian demonstrators clashing in Los Angeles. I thought to myself, “What else is new?” But as I looked into it, I realized that even I had fallen for the media’s lie.

What happened in Los Angeles was not at all what the media described.

It was not just a disagreement over the war in Gaza any more than what happened on university campuses was “mostly peaceful protests” between two opposing sides of a foreign war. Jews were hunted down and beaten up on university campuses!

Several days ago, an anti-Semitic mob got on a New York City subway car and demanded that any Jews identify themselves. More recently, a Jewish family was beaten by Hamas sympathizers at an elementary school graduation ceremony.

Now, in Los Angeles, we just witnessed an American version of what for centuries in Europe was called a “pogrom.”

A mob of anti-Semitic haters marched into a Jewish neighborhood, looking for Jews to beat up. They vandalized property as they marched. Then, they surrounded a synagogue and threatened and physically attacked Jews going into their house of worship. A Jewish woman was beaten to the ground.

Pogroms often ended in the killing of Jews. Late last year, a Jewish man participating in a pro-Israel demonstration was killed when a Muslim college professor smashed his skull with a megaphone.

Imagine the media narrative if an angry mob of Christians marched through a Jewish neighborhood, started attacking any Jew they found, and stopped Jews from entering their local synagogue. I know it’s impossible to imagine because Christians are prohibited from doing such a thing and Evangelicals know that anti-Semitism is a sin.

But would any media outlet in America downplay such an event as “Christians and Jews demonstrated this weekend over Israeli foreign policy”?

Imagine any mob marching to a gay bar in New York’s Greenwich Village, beating up homosexuals, and trashing a gay bar. Would any media outlet in America refer to such an event as, “Pro-gay and anti-gay demonstrators marched in Greenwich Village this weekend”?

If anything remotely like that actually happened, there would have been a lot more from the White House than just a social media post. The president would be on nationwide TV. His campaign would be saying for days, “This is the hate that has been unleashed by semi-fascists and Christian nationalists threatening our democracy.”

Every conservative influencer must be saying, “The progressive left has empowered anti-Semitic bigots and extremists on our college campuses and across America.”

By not charging the pro-Hamas rioters at Columbia University, Alvin Bragg has unleashed them. By falsely accusing Israel of committing war crimes in Gaza, Joe Biden has unleashed them.