The latest antisemitic pogrom to plague America’s streets was a unilateral and unprompted act of aggression against Jews at a Los Angeles synagogue, but you wouldn’t know it if you read Democratic hand-wringing over the barbarism, let alone the media outlets pretending there were very fine people on both sides.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass lambasted the “violence in the Pico-Robertson neighborhood” as
“abhorrent,” but she didn’t name or blame the perpetrators, keffiyeh-clad pro-Palestinian rioters who had specifically targeted the Adas Torah synagogue to protest Israel. CBS News reported that “fights [broke] out during dueling protests in Pico-Robertson” after pro-Palestinian protesters “were promptly met by pro-Israel demonstrators.” ABC News called these supposed demonstrators “counterprotesters.”
But were these “pro-Israel” demonstrators equal agitators who met merely peaceful protesters promoting the Palestinian cause? In reality, these “counterprotesters” were Jewish congregants who escaped the synagogue after this masked mob attempted to block the building’s entrances and assault a bunch of unarmed Jews with bear mace. Actual counterprotesters eventually did descend on the scene, but only after the Los Angeles Police Department ceded control of the synagogue to the pro-Palestinian faction, stopping the actual Jewish congregants from being able to return to their own house of worship.
Anti-Israeli protesters could have driven 15 minutes away from the Adas Torah to protest the government in front of the Israeli Embassy, and better yet, actual proponents of the Palestinian cause could have driven five minutes to the Egyptian Embassy to challenge Cairo’s cretinous refusal to grant refuge to Palestinians who want to escape the tyranny of Hamas. But this pogrom — not a protest, but a violent pogrom — was an attack on Jews, and that’s why it was at an apolitical synagogue that just so happens to be down the street from the Museum of Tolerance and in one of the city’s most visibly Jewish neighborhoods.
The scourge of antisemitism is worsening at an increasingly accelerated rate. According to data compiled by the Anti-Defamation League, antisemitic hate crimes and incidents had already nearly doubled from 2020 to 2022, followed by a 361% uptick in the immediate aftermath of Oct. 7, 2023. From Hamas harems constructing encampments on the nation’s college campuses to the outright violent assault of Jews from Staten Island to Chicago, we seem to suffer a brand-new Charlottesville-style protest or riot against Jews every single week, and still, President Joe Biden cannot be bothered to send anything other than a single tweet in response.
Recall that Biden launched his last bid for the presidency specifically citing the Charlottesville rally. The video announcing his candidacy showed the neo-Nazis of 2017 as Biden described “their crazed faces illuminated by torches” and chants of “the same antisemitic bile heard across Europe in the ’30s.” Biden claimed former President Donald Trump’s response to the rally “assigned a moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it.”
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Today, Biden isn’t assigning a moral equivalence like the media may be doing, but almost worse, he’s granting cover to the perpetrators of the violence by refusing to acknowledge their existence. At this point, a keffiyeh cloth is as much a part of the uniform of the contemporary brownshirt as a tiki torch, but Biden has yet to cut an ad blasting the pink-haired pinkos attacking Jews with Palestine Liberation Organization flags as primary antagonists in his battle for the soul for this country.
The scourge of antisemitism never disappeared under Trump’s presidency, but by the numbers, it has dramatically worsened under Biden’s, and at the very least, the press used to pretend to care about violence against Jews when Trump was president. Today, the facade has fallen, as the media decry violence on both sides when only one brings bear mace to a synagogue.