Although attendees at the Democrat convention responded with appropriate empathy when they heard a speech from the parents of Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, the 23-year-old man who was at the October 7th Nova festival in Israel, the fact remains that the Harris-Biden administration and the Democrat party have been consistently hostile to Israel.
No one can begin to comprehend the anguish Hersh’s parents must feel. It’s been 326 days since Hamas kidnapped him, and his parents still do not know his whereabouts or status. How can another human being not empathize with their pain and sorrow and those of the other hostages still held by Hamas? How can one not admire the fortitude of Hersh’s parents?
At the convention, Hersh’s parents spoke of the precious lives of those brutally murdered and tortured and still in Hamas’s hands. Democrat delegates were shown weeping. Hersh’s parents said this was “not a political issue but rather a humanitarian issue,” and they were “deeply grateful” to Harris and Biden for meeting with them.
Image: DNC attendee when Hersh Goldberg-Polin’s parents spoke (cropped). YouTube screengrab.
They also added that “in an inflamed Middle East, we know the one thing that can most immediately release pressure and bring calm to the entire region is a deal that brings this diverse group of 109 hostages home and ends the suffering of the innocent civilians in Gaza” [emphasis mine]. I cannot escape the feeling that this attempt to be ecumenical fed into the Iranian/Hamas playbook and did nothing to shift the Democrat party’s growing anti-Israel animus.
The following information is factual. It highlights the Harris-Biden administration’s approach to Israel and Jews.
The facts highlight the ongoing anti-Semitism of the Democrat party, whether it emanates from Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Keith Ellison, or Barack Obama. It has been building for decades.
In fact, the Harris-Biden administration, by snubbing Netanyahu, “is giving the Ayatollahs of Iran and their proxies, particularly the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah, the confidence to challenge Israel by having its operatives set up tents on Israeli territory.”
The Democrat party platform’s support for Israel is simply vanishing:
There has been a steady erosion of support for the Jewish state, as phrase after phrase of support once proudly expressed has disappeared — no more ‘shared values and ‘common interests’ and praise for the ‘only democracy in the region’ — [instead] we have today’s bland statement of lukewarm support that is little different from that offered to any other country in the world.
Kamala Harris has denounced the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) attack on Hamas’s command-and-control center by citing civilian casualties, data that came the terrorist group Hamas!
The star of the Democratic Convention, Barack Obama, has long maintained cover for the Muslim Brotherhood. Obama
More recently, Biden had a choice to forcefully denounce the anti-Jewish hatred spewing from his political party. Instead, he chose to worry about Michigan Muslim voters while Jewish college students were being intimidated by pro-Hamas supporters.
Biden pressured Israel not to respond after Hezbollah terror rocket attacks killed twelve Druze children.
And, of course, Biden keeps handing over billions of dollars to Iran, courtesy of the American taxpayer.
Harris shows the same anti-Semitic predilection.
Kamala Harris’ animus is clear.
In addition, Harris’ national security adviser, and possible future secretary of state Philip Gordon wrote a book that was a “blueprint of the policies the Obama administration adopted, including blaming America and Israel, appeasing Iran and Islamists and making Muslims feel better about themselves.”
In essence, “[t]hese are the building blocks of the policies that led us to Oct. 7 and an Iranian war across the region.”
“Harris’s stance on Israel and its war conduct is already generating concerns in the Jewish political world, with the Republican Jewish Coalition painting the likely Democratic nominee as ‘far worse’ than Biden.
‘If you thought Joe Biden was bad on the issues of top concern to the Jewish community, Kamala Harris is far worse,’ Sam Markstein, the coalition’s national political director, told the Washington Free Beacon. ‘Kamala Harris owns the disastrous and failed policies of the Biden-Harris administration, which has overseen a shocking spike in antisemitism and an unprecedented degradation of the U.S.-Israel relationship.’
Moreover, the media barely expresses a critical tone toward Hamas and few take them to task for failing to be honest journalists. In fact, there are other voices from Gaza who despise Hamas.
Americans need to comprehend the mindset of Hamas and other Iranian proxies. Simply put:
So color me suspicious when distraught parents whose concern for their son and other kidnapped individuals are showcased at the DNC. Of course, those delegates who wept were genuine in their emotions. But the hypocrisy and outright antipathy and hostility for Israel and the Jewish people cannot be glossed over. The Democrat party owns this.
I would hate to think that Hersh’s parents were used as fodder to inadvertently support the Islamic Republic of Iran and its proxies. But the chants “death to Israel” and “death to America” and the Democrat party’s words and actions have my antennae vibrating too much to ignore this.
Eileen can be reached at middlemarch18@gmail.com.