Erin Burnett of CNN interviewed Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson yesterday (April 24, 2024) on the Columbia University campus in New York City.
She asked him the following question: How is Free Palestine anti-Semitic? The tone of her question gave me the distinct impression that she didn't believe it was.
Is she ignorant or biased?
Free Palestine (From the River to the Sea) calls for the elimination of the State of Israel. Such State of Israel represents the right of the Jewish people to have a state of their own, just as other people around the world have theirs.
The Palestinian Arabs in Gaza and the West Bank have been offered a state of their own multiple time in the last 100 years and each time they rejected it? Why? Because they do not accept the existence of a Jewish state or Jewish people in that part of the world where Jews have been for thousands of years.
Now, impressionable young American college students are taking up the cause of a people (Hamas is the government of Gaza) who don't believe in democracy, don't believe in women's rights, don't believe in gay rights, don't believe in freedom of speech and don't believe in the right of protest.
These young college students don't distinguish between Israelis and American Jews. They demand freedom of speech and assembly to denounce Israel while at the same time denying basic freedoms for Jewish students through various forms of intimidation.
A Jew doesn't have to live in Israel, but without Israel, Jews in the diaspora would be in a much more precarious position. Remember the Holocaust. The Jews in Europe had no where to go to escape.
In 1939, the German liner St. Louis sailed from Hamburg with about 900 Jewish refugees. They were denied entry into Cuba, the United States and Canada. The ship and its passengers were forced to return to Europe. Israel would have welcomed them with open arms. Unfortunately, Israel didn't exist in 1939.
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