Too
often, hatred against Jews is disregarded as an almost archaic form of racism.
The horrific massacre shooting at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue is a
tragic reminder that anti-Semitism is alive and well in the United States.
As
someone whose life was touched by the nation of Israel, the Tree of Life
shooting, which cut eleven innocent lives short, tears at my heart. As a little
girl growing up in Southern Lebanon, I was often taught that we would only have
peace in the Middle East when all the Jews were killed and driven into the sea.
I’ll never forget what I learned when I visited an Israeli hospital as a young
girl, worried sick over injuries sustained by my mother when a mortar shell
launched by Islamic terrorists hit our bomb shelter. As I looked around the
hospital, I witnessed Jewish doctors actually treating terrorists that probably
would’ve cut their throats had they not needed their help. The Israeli
physicians and nurses treated everyone according to their injuries, not their
religion. Had my mother been a Jew in an Arab hospital, she would’ve been
thrown out to die, rather than saved. It was in this moment that I realized how
appalling anti-Semitism can be. Right then and there, I realized that to hate
anyone for their religious beliefs or their origin of birth is truly barbaric.
The
same hatred which led Hitler to commit unthinkable genocide against innocent
Jews still persists throughout the world and, tragically, here in the United
States. Remarkably, despite being responsible for the most hate crimes,
anti-Semitism seems to be one of the only forms of hatred and bigotry that is
still tolerated by the mainstream media. It’s almost as if this hatred is seen
as an ancient myth and in the most egregious circumstances, the mainstream
press is actually propagating it.
Whether
it’s CNN pundits repeating Hamas talking points when covering the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, or Nation of Islam’s favorite politician Keith
Ellison getting a free pass on his anti-Semitism, or even anti-Semites like
Linda Sarsour being held up as a virtuous symbol of diversity, the mainstream
media simply does not view Jews as victims the way they do other groups.
Not
surprisingly, soon after the deadliest anti-Semitic shooting in American
history, the media blames, you guessed it, President Trump - arguably the most
pro-Israel President in American history, who moved the U.S Embassy to
Jerusalem despite media backlash, who also happens to have Jewish grandchildren
born to a Jewish son-in-law working in his administration. Just when you think
the media can’t go any lower both morally and intellectually, they manage to
top themselves.
Not
only is President Trump the most pro-Israel President in history, but the evil
shooter who committed the massacre was vehemently anti-trump. In fact, the
shooter once tweeted,
“There is no #MAGA, as long as there is a k*** infestation.” An anti-Semitic
shooter would only harbor such hatred toward President Trump because in
addition to his heroic embassy move, President Trump cut off aid to terrorists
of the Palestinian Authority, and has fought to dismantle the Obama administration’s
Israeli death sentence - the disastrous Iran deal. Unlike our former "apologist-in-Chief,"
President Trump never hosted Islamic front groups at his doorstep, or referred
to anti-Semitic attacks as “random” like Obama did.
President
Trump never appeared
onstage with Louis Farrakhan like Bill Clinton recently did, nor did he have an
anti-Semite with terrorist ties like Linda Sarsour introduce him at a rally
like Senator Kirsten Gillibrand recently did. Why? Because this President
doesn’t aid and abet anti-Semitism the way the Democrat party does. Anti-Semitism
shouldn’t have to be a right or left issue; it should be a human issue.
Unfortunately,
even things such as this have become politicized. The civilized world must band
together in solidarity to ensure that people of all faiths can live in peace
and harmony and that Jews are never persecuted and victimized by barbaric,
murderous ideologies ever again. To allow anti-semitism to continue to exist
unchecked in the 21st century destroys a piece of everyone’s humanity. There is
simply no room for such hatred in the world.
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