Progressive activists met Saturday in Chicago to discuss their plans to march on the Democratic National Convention in August. While they were meeting, Hatem Abudayyeh, national chairman for the U.S. Palestinian Community Network, announced that Iran had just launched its attack on Israel.
The crowd cheered.
So much for the idea that the protests taking place all across America are antiwar. These people cheer drones and missiles directed at Israel, chant “Death to America,” and never blame Tehran or Hamas for anything. In Chicago this weekend, the progressive organizations meeting under the banner of Palestinian liberation made clear that Joe Biden is their enemy and they plan to bring the fight to him. Their website puts it this way:
“On August 19th and 22nd, 2024, we will march on the Democratic National Convention in Chicago first and foremost to demand an end to the genocide in Gaza, stand in solidarity with Palestine, and call for an end to US aid to Israel, and bring the people’s agenda to within sight and sound of the Democratic Party leadership.”
Notwithstanding their alleged goals—say, cutting off American aid to Israel—these people are less about changing policy than spreading chaos. They don’t even try to appeal to the hearts and minds of their fellow Americans. Instead, they choose the most obnoxious way to push their message: menacing Jewish students on college campuses, interrupting congressional hearings, targeting a Christmas tree lighting. On Monday protesters stopped traffic on the Golden Gate bridge, blocked an entrance to Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, and shut down roads to blockade the San Antonio headquarters of energy giant Valero.
To these people, President Biden is “Genocide Joe.” The irony is that although Mr. Biden’s initial response to the Hamas butcheries of Oct. 7 was firm and unambiguous, he has been sliding away from his own words ever since and moving closer to what the protesters want.
The Biden administration today opposes Israel’s strategy to defeat Hamas, in particular the Israel Defense Forces plan to go into Rafah to wipe out the remaining Hamas fighters. At the United Nations, the U.S. didn’t veto a Security Council resolution that called for an immediate cease-fire without demanding Hamas first release the hostages. The next day President Biden himself said of protesters who disrupted a speech he was giving in Raleigh, N.C., “They have a point.”
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Author: Ruth King
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