President Joe Biden hosted a Chanukah reception at the White House on Monday night, vowing to continue to stand with Israel in its war with Hamas while saying that a “surge of antisemitism” around the globe “is sickening.”
Nearly 800 guests filled the East Room to almost overflowing. The crowd included Holocaust survivors, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and around two dozen members of Congress. Also present were Jewish community leaders and second gentleman Doug Emhoff, who was among those who lit a menorah partially made from the original timbers of the White House.
The president told the crowd, “You don’t have to be a Jew to be a Zionist.” He said that while he doesn’t always agree with Israel’s leaders and governmental policies, “Were there no Israel, there would not be a Jew in the world who is safe.”
“We continue to provide military assistance until they get rid of Hamas but we have to be careful,” Biden said of U.S. support for the war. He added: “The whole world, public opinion can shift overnight. We can’t let that happen.”
The Biden administration in May announced what it called the first-ever national strategy to counter antisemitism. Still, antisemitism has only intensified.
Biden said of hostages being held by Hamas, which U.S. authorities have been working for months to help free, “We’re not going to stop until we get every one of them home.” The crowd also cheered when he talked of his administration’s efforts to increase humanitarian aid flowing to civilians in Gaza caught in the fighting.
(AP)
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He speaks out of both sides of his mouth, as well as the top, bottom, and back. He says he backs Israel and then he tells Israel it must wrap it up by the end of the year, that it must not make people move, that it must not reoccupy the area, that it must not hit hospitals and UN facilities even if they are terrorist bases, and that it must then turn everything over to Fatah. Also that it must not remove Hizballah, and that it must pretend the Lebanese army can keep Hizballah in check.
President Biden deserves a tremendous amount of credit for doing what he believes is right and for helping Eretz Yisrael despite the vociferous condemnations by many of his supporters in the Democratic party who say that they will no longer vote for him and despite the Jewish Republicans who never supported him and will never say thank you .
Kamala’s trief husband Doug is the example of the antithesis of Chanukah. Our fight against assimilation, intermarriage, copying the ways of the goyim; Doug proudly fits the bill.
There goes Samar’s support
I meant Satmar
He’s right, but didn’t say it right. not that you don’t have to be a jew to be a zionist, rather you CAN’T be a jew to be a zionist, they are two diametric opposites.
That’s why anything besides for zionist interests, he’s one of the most dangerous creatures on earth in regards to Jews.
He has the audacity to speak about Chanukah?!
The whole fight of the Chashmona’im was fighting sicko liberals like biden and his misyavnim (“jewish”) cronies.
I am a Zionist Gee!! So am I, a Zionist!!! I guess great minds think alike.
חנוכה שמח
יום-העצמאות שמח
יום-ירושלים שמח
But what does his party think? Will the Democrats expel the Progressive/WOKE/pro-Hamas caucus (the way the Republican expelled white supremists)? What will the Democratic platform says? Is the Democratic support for Israel limited to one old man who polls poorly and supported by his party as the least bad alternative to Trump?
Wow, Israel makes Jews all over the world SAFER?
Somebody must either be blind as to what’s going on outside or be undergoing cognitive decline, like really badly.
Coffee Addict, the Satmar Rov said that just as a yid must not be a zionist, a goy MUST be one, and any goy who is not a zionist is an antisemite.
Milhouse:
That’s a myth. Not only did he never say that, he also wrote exactly the opposite: that it’s a big mitzva to tell gentiles that the Zionist State is Zionist, not Jewish, and that the Zionist State does not represent Jews.
I guess this president just cut himself off from all G-d fearing jews worldwide.
All our big Tzaddikim shlita and ztzal have told us to keep far away from this Torah-hating Chareidi-hating group of people called zionists. Maybe if we have to be don Biden lkaf zchus we can say that he mistook them for Klal Yisroel. Hashem should save us very soon from them and bring us a yeshua, A frillechen Chanuka!
@Milhouse,
and you being one is really a reliable source?
What’s next R Amram Blau was really the Prime Minister… Or the Satmar Rav …?
What rubbish are you going to crank out next….?
It’s amazing how twisted people can get!!!
You twist the story so much that it is actually starting to snap!!!
@HaKatan and anyone else with some sort of cognitive reliable functionality,
the real (unedited version) by any newspapers or commentor blogs) of a story with the Satmar Rav is written in a book by R’ Boruch (I remember??) Stern, in which he was there at the time:
I don’t remember the exact people involved, you can see the story for yourself, but the main part is what I remember:
When a president (?) in his primaries seeking votes to get himself elected, visited the Satmar Rav, he stated that he would help the Satmar Rav with his fight against zionism and the State of israel specifically.
The Satmar Rav sat there smiling and didn’t answer much.
When the man left, he turned around to his Talmidim/Chassidim and (in his typical humour) commented –
“וואס פארשטייט ער צו ציונות, ער וויל נאר מיר זאל’ן קלייבן” (what does he understand to zionism, he just wants us to vote (for him)).
No “demanding” from gentiles to be zionists.
What he did explicitly say/write many times in Vayoel Moshe/Drashos/Seuda Shlishis drashos etc etc etc, was that zionism is the biggest kefirah ever to exist, and the worst faced by Klal Yisrael, which is and will be the source of all tzaros, tumah and nisyonus in the world until Moshiach comes.
And today we see how right he was:
1) The main players (and one of the main “headquarters”) of the lgb*** is zionists in (especially) Tel Aviv.
2) The people behind the gezeras Chinuch all over the world are zionists (like yedidus toronto ym’sh etc).
It was mainly zionists who invented, created and developed some of the biggest pitfalls in the nisyonus surrounding technology.
3) Biden, one of the filthiest creatures on this planet to exist, himself said he’s a zionist.
And the list goes on and on….
@SensibleMan,
No, if you investigate this man and understand what he stands for, it makes a very lot of sense as to him describing himself as a zionist. It clarifies a lot….