Philly Hate
An anti-Semitic mob protested in front of a Jewish restaurant in Philadelphia last night. The mob chanted anti-Semitic slogans and vandalized the restaurant's windows with pro-Palestinian slogans. According to press reports, no one was arrested.
The restaurant was targeted because its owner, Michael Solomonov, is a well-known Jewish chef. He recently donated $100,000 to United Hatzalah, an emergency medical group in Israel. In 2003, Michael's younger brother, David, was killed by Hezbollah snipers on Yom Kippur.
Every day of every week of every month, the left would normally denounce this demonstration as a hate crime. If hateful bigots gathered outside of any other minority-owned business, chanting anti-black, anti-Hispanic or anti-gay slogans, the left would be furious and there would be mass arrests.
But so far, all we've gotten from local politicians are just words. Words are cheap. They mean nothing.
This is raw anti-Semitism of the worst kind. It's exactly what we saw on the streets of Berlin in 1930s Germany.
And if it happened to any other group, the country would be in for a day of reckoning. The Philadelphia police chief would have been fired by now for failing to protect this group or that group. But American Jews are being thrown under the bus.
This is the same thing we're seeing on university campuses. Jews are afraid to go to class. The last time an ethnic group was afraid to go to school, we called out the 101st Airborne Division to escort students to their classrooms!
Progressive Hypocrites
Rep. Pramila Jayapal, chairwoman of the House Progressive Caucus, went on CNN for what she presumably thought would be a friendly interview. But host Dana Bash stumped her with what should have been an easy question.
Asked to respond to the reports of Hamas using rape as a weapon, Jayapal stumbled into "whataboutism" and complaints about the Israeli government, saying, "I think we have to be balanced about bringing in the outrages against Palestinians."
Bash pushed back. "I was just asking about the women, and you turned it back to Israel. I'm asking you about Hamas. . . You don't see Israeli soldiers raping Palestinian women," she said to the congresswoman.
Jayapal answered, "I don't want this to be the hierarchies of oppressions."
Well, "hierarchies of oppression" is what the left is all about!
Jayapal's response is disgusting but very revealing. The #MeToo movement insisted that all women must be believed. But apparently not if you're an Israeli or Jewish woman.
It is unconscionable that any member of Congress would try to downplay the rape of Jewish women and girls. Those suggesting there is no proof of the mass rapes of Israeli women are ignoring the dead bodies. Forensic experts examined them and determined that they were raped in every way imaginable before and, in some cases, after they were killed.
Every leader of a feminist group who has not condemned Hamas should be shamed into resigning. Any female progressive politician who refuses to condemn Hamas should be called out for the blatant hypocrites they are.
Feminism is nothing but a political weapon for them if they won't condemn the rapes of Israeli women and girls. Do they think it is okay to rape women and girls because the Israeli government did something they didn't like?
Sadly, this is more evidence of the festering anti-Semitism on the progressive left.
And why aren't more congressional Republicans speaking out on this issue, challenging women to rethink their loyalty to a movement that plays games with rape?
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