Opinion

Last week, a large group of students vandalized their own school trying to attack a Jewish teacher who attended a rally for Israel. Some public officials like New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York State Attorney General Tish James condemned the rampage as clearly anti-Semitic. Others, while saying the incident was “unacceptable,” maintained that the students involved were simply “14- and 15-year-olds doing what 14- and 15-year-olds do,” and that we need to understand what caused the mayhem.

Anyone who has followed Joe Biden’s half-century in politics knows that he is a political weathervane – he will blow in the direction the winds take him. Every social issue, from criminal justice to gay marriage and abortion, Joe Biden has taken every side of. He was fiscally conservative in the 1990s and then became the highest tax and spend President in the last 100 years. So, it makes sense that in the shifting winds of the Democrats’ stance on the relationship with Israel, the weathervane is flying every possible way.

There is anti-Semitism on the political left, Sen. Chuck Schumer admitted in a 45-minute speech on the Senate floor that outlined historical context, the war with Hamas, and examples of recent incidents in this county. He described the rise in anti-Semitism since October 7 as a “five-alarm fire.”

There are no words remaining in the English language to describe the vile slugs of humanity that continue to expose their own villainy in public. This holiday weekend, Israel-hating protesters blocked the Thanksgiving Day Parade, blocked the Manhattan Bridge for hours, and praised terrorists en masse.

I will never forget Simchas Torah – October 7, 2023.

Since October 7, anti-Semitism has skyrocketed across the United States. Nowhere has this been felt more than on college campuses across the country. Once considered bastions of tolerance, these institutions are now rife with calls for the destruction of the State of Israel, a “globalized Intifada,” and students proudly chanting “death to the Zionists.”