Nearly every major Democrat official stands with Mahmoud Khalil: a leader in a Columbia University hate group that committed vandalism and assaults in support of Hamas, and which had expressed its support for murdering Jews.
That now includes not only Sen. Chuck Schumer but the Jewish Democratic Council of America which styles itself Jewish Dems. The message was delivered by Halie Soifer, the head of the JDCA, who also served as a foreign policy advisor to Kamala Harris.
First, Soifer complained that calling Sen. Chuck Schumer (who also came out for Mahmoud Khalil and Hamas) a ‘Palestinian’ “is antisemitic, racist, Islamophobic, and bigoted all at the same time.”
(One would think that claiming it’s both antisemitic and Islamophobic at the same time would be contradictory?)
This was followed by Soifer and the JDCA launching into the same tired “due process” defense of Khalil.
“While Khalil fomented anti-Israel, antisemitic, and potentially pro-Hamas sentiment in the protests he organized on Columbia’s campus,” Soifer admits. “While we can vehemently disagree with one’s speech, that doesn’t mean it isn’t protected speech under the Constitution.”
She then claimed that Trump is “weaponizing antisemitism to potentially deny constitutionally protected speech. The use of antisemitism as an excuse to deny free speech is not good for our community, security, or democracy.”
The only people who talk about “weaponizing antisemitism” are antisemites and their political allies.
That now includes Soifer and Jewish Dems.
The masks are now off. All the way off.
Haile Soifer concludes with the usual smug lecture. “It may be pro-Palestinian protestors who are targeted and denied their rights today, but we don’t know who will be next. If we support the selective denial of protected speech and rights of others, even those with whom we strongly disagree, we fall into a dangerous trap that will only come at our own peril.”
The problem with that is Jews already lost their protected speech and rights at Columbia U and other universities while JDCA and Sen. Schumer either stood by or reassured the college administrators privately that they had nothing to worry about.
This isn’t about protecting everyone’s rights. It’s about choosing the killers of Jews over Jews.
