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HARRIS: Shows Respect for Claims That Israel Pursues “Ethnic Genocide”
During a 2021 appearance at George Mason University, VP Harris nodded when a student asserted that U.S. funding for Israel’s anti-missile defense system, the Iron Dome, “hurts my heart because it’s an ethnic genocide.” Harris then assured the student that “your voice, your perspective, your experience, your truth, should not be suppressed.”
HARRIS: “Strategy to Counter Islamophobia” after Hamas Massacre
At daybreak on October 7, 2023, the Gaza-based Islamic terror group Hamas — explicitly dedicated to the mass murder of Jews and the destruction of Israel — carried out a massive, multi-front, surprise attack against the Jewish state. The terrorists fired at least 5,000 rockets into southern and central Israel while a host of armed Hamas fighters simultaneously infiltrated the Israeli border in dozens of separate locations by land, sea, and air (with paragliders). The attack had been planned in conjunction with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Iran-sponsored terrorist groups Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. All told, the official Israeli casualty toll was more than 1,200 dead (including at least 32 Americans) and 4,500 injured. The Hamas barbarians also took more than 250 Israelis hostage, including dozens who were American citizens, and moved them to the Gaza Strip, where some would be murdered in cold blood while others would be raped or otherwise violated while being held as bargaining chips for future negotiations with Israel. These horrific Hamas attacks prompted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to declare, also on October 7, that Israel was officially “at war” with Hamas.
On November 1, 2023 — after a poll commissioned by the Arab American Institute showed that President Biden’s support among Arab Americans had dropped to 17% since he had voiced support for Israel’s retaliatory war on Hamas — VP Harris announced the unveiling of the Biden-Harris administration’s new “National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia.” “For years,” she said, “Muslims in America … have endured a disproportionate number of hate-fueled attacks. As a result of the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, we have seen an uptick in anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab, antisemitic and Islamophobic incidents across America …”
Harris also said that the newly announced Strategy would “protect Muslims and those perceived to be Muslim from hate, bigotry and violence. And to address the concern that some government policies may discriminate against Muslims.”
HARRIS: Scolding Israel for Creating a “Humanitarian Catastrophe” in Gaza
While speaking at a March 3, 2024 commemoration ceremony for the historically significant Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, Harris scolded Israel for its post-October 7 military actions in Gaza:
“I must address the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. What we are seeing every day in Gaza is devastating. We have seen reports of families eating leaves or animal feed, women giving birth to malnourished babies with little or no medical care, and children dying from malnutrition and dehydration.
“As I have said many times, too many innocent Palestinians have been killed…. Our hearts break for … all the innocent people in Gaza who are suffering from what is clearly a humanitarian catastrophe. People in Gaza are starving. The conditions are inhumane…. And the Israeli government must do more to significantly increase the flow of aid. No excuses. They must open new border crossings. They must not impose any unnecessary restrictions on the delivery of aid. They must ensure humanitarian personnel, sites, and convoys are not targeted. And they must work to restore basic services and promote order in Gaza so more food, water, and fuel can reach those in need.”
HARRIS: Lamenting the “Pain” & “Suffering” of Gazans
On March 10, 2024, Harris issued the following statement on the ramifications of Israel’s military operations against Hamas in Gaza: “What we are seeing every day in Gaza is devastating…. President Biden and I will continue to work to ease the suffering in Gaza and support the right of the Palestinian people to dignity, freedom, and self-determination.”
HARRIS: Disrespects Netanyahu
On July 24, 2024, Harris joined many congressional Democrats in skipping Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to a joint session of Congress, choosing instead to deliver a speech at the national convention of the historically black sorority Zeta Phi Beta in Indianapolis.
HARRIS: Blaming Israel for Palestinian Civilian Deaths
In a brief exchange with reporters on August 10, 2024, Harris was asked to comment on an Israeli airstrike earlier that day, which had been aimed at terrorists in a Hamas command-and-control center situated inside a mosque in a Gaza school compound. The placement of that Hamas facility was consistent with Hamas’ longstanding pattern of placing fighters and weaponry within or under mosques, schools, hospitals, and other civilian buildings — so that Israeli military strikes that may damage or destroy such places will cause maximum civilian casualties, which in turn can be fraudulently exploited as evidence of Israel’s alleged barbarism. According to the Hamas-controlled health authorities in Gaza, “more than 80” Gazans were killed in the August 10 airstrike. Unquestioningly accepting those figures, which made no distinction between civilian and terrorist deaths, Harris lamented that “there are far too many civilians who have been killed” in Gaza. “I mean, Israel has a right to go after the terrorists that are Hamas,” she explained. “But as I have said many, many times, they also have, I believe, an important responsibility to avoid civilian casualties.”
HARRIS: Secret Meeting with Anti-Semitic Mayor of Dearborn
In August 2024, VP Harris, in an effort to win the support of Muslim and Arab voters, met secretly with Abdullah Hammoud, the anti-Semitic mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, a Detroit suburb with an Arab population larger than that of any other city in America. Hammoud had a long history of contempt for Israel and the Jewish people. For example, on October 7, 2023 – immediately after the deadly Hamas attacks against the Jewish state – he posted on X: “Israel’s decades of illegal military occupation and imprisonment of Gaza make peace impossible and tragic violence inevitable. Israel has trapped millions of Palestinians in Gaza in what is recognized by the international community as the world’s largest open-air prison.” He also called for “the end of a racist apartheid system that criminalizes Palestinian existence” and seeks to “‘erase’ Palestinians entirely.”
HARRIS & BIDEN: Restored Funding for Palestinians
On April 7, 2021, the Biden-Harris administration announced that in an effort to “restore credible engagement” by the Palestinians in their stalled peace talks with Israel, the U.S. would supply the Palestinians with $235 million in aid, thereby restoring part of the assistance that had been cut by former President Trump.
HARRIS & BIDEN: Restored U.S. Aid to the Palestinian Authority
On March 23, 2018, then-President Trump signed into law the Taylor Force Act, which stopped American economic aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) as a means of pressuring the PA to stop paying stipends, through its Palestinian Authority Martyr’s Fund, to the families of terrorists killed during the commission of their atrocities. In 2018 as well, the U.S. terminated its $300 million in aid to the United Nations Relief & Works Agency (UNRWA), in an effort to pressure the agency to stop using books replete with anti-Semitic passages in its Palestinian schools.
In 2021-2022, the Biden-Harris administration gave at least $417 million to UNRWA – even though the anti-Semitic texts used in its schools remained unchanged. Biden also renewed hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to the Palestinian Authority, even though its terrorist subsidy program remained fully and defiantly in force. According to Biden-Harris, this renewed financial assistance to the PA did not violate the Taylor Force Act because it was of a “humanitarian” nature. But as Islam scholar Robert Spencer pointed out:
“[T]his is absurd; there was no exception made in the Taylor Force Act for ‘humanitarian’ aid. Besides, money is fungible. If you give the PA $300 million in ‘humanitarian aid,’ that will simply free up other sums it possesses to spend on such things as anti-Israel propaganda and, especially, on the Pay-For-Slay program that rewards past, and incentivizes future, acts of terrorism.”
HARRIS & BIDEN: Massive Spending on Palestinians
On October 11, 2023, the Washington Free Beacon reported: “Between 2021 to 2024, the Biden administration is slated to spend ‘over $500 million in programming to support the Palestinian people,’ including those in Gaza…. Other programs allowed the administration to spend ‘up to $250 million over five years to advance peaceful co-existence between Israelis and Palestinians to enable a sustainable two-state solution.’”
HARRIS & BIDEN: Making U.S. Aid to Israel “Conditional”?
Regarding the Democrats’ increasing calls to condition U.S. aid to Israel on the Jewish state’s willingness to scale back its military operations in Gaza, President Biden said on November 24, 2023: “I think that’s a worthwhile thought. But … [w]e have to take this a piece at a time.”
HARRIS & BIDEN: Lamenting the “Suffering” of Palestinians
On March 10, 2024, President Biden issued a statement to mark the beginning of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Among his remarks: “The war in Gaza has inflicted terrible suffering on the Palestinian people. More than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed, most of them civilians, including thousands of children. Some are family members of American Muslims, who are deeply grieving their lost loved ones today. Nearly two million Palestinians have been displaced by the war; many are in urgent need of food, water, medicine, and shelter.”
HARRIS & BIDEN: Abstained from Opposing a UN Ceasefire Resolution
On March 26, 2024, the Biden-Harris administration opted to abstain from voting against a United Nations Security Council resolution that demanded an “immediate” cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Because the U.S. possessed veto power as one of the five permanent members of the Security Council, Biden-Harris could have vetoed — i.e., blocked — the resolution with a single “no” vote. Instead, the administration abstained, thereby allowing the resolution to pass, 14-0.
In response to the outcome of the vote, Prime Minister Netanyahu temporarily canceled plans for an Israeli delegation to visit Washington. And Hamas — emboldened by the passage of the UN resolution — demanded that Israel “halt the aggression against our people in Gaza and provide relief and assistance to them, as well as the return of displaced persons to their homes, and the withdrawal of occupation forces from the sector.”
HARRIS & BIDEN: No Intel Support for Israel vs. Hezbollah
Between October 8, 2023 and September 24, 2024, the terrorist organization Hezbollah, which had compiled a vast arsenal of approximately 150,000 rockets and missiles, launched some 9,000 of its rockets into Israel — including 250 on September 23, 2024 alone. As the prospect of an Israeli ground invasion against Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon grew increasingly likely, the Biden-Harris administration declared emphatically that the U.S. military would not be providing any intelligence support for Israel if such an invasion were to materialize. As Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh put it in September 2024: “No. No support. When it comes to Lebanon, the U.S. military has no involvement in Israel’s operations.”
HARRIS & BIDEN: Opposed to Israeli Strikes Against Iranian Nuclear Sites
On October 2, 2024 — a day after Iran had fired more than 180 missiles at Israel — President Biden told reporters, “We’ll be discussing with the Israelis what they’re going to do, but all seven of us [G7 nations] agree that they have a right to respond but they should respond proportionally.” Asked whether he would support Israel striking Iranian nuclear sites, Biden replied: “The answer is no.”
HARRIS & BIDEN: Threatening to Withhold U.S. Military Aid from Israel
In October 2024, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Security Lloyd Austin, fulfilling the policy directives of Biden and Harris, sent a letter to Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer condemning the “increasingly dire humanitarian situation” that had resulted from the post-October 7, 2023 military incursion that Israel had launched against Hamas targets in Gaza. Demanding “urgent and sustained action by your government this month to reverse this trajectory,” the letter warned that if the Jewish state did not take “concrete measures” to address the Gaza situation within the next 30 days, the U.S. might cut off its military assistance to Israel.
BIDEN: “Immediate Ceasefire” in Gaza
On May 19, 2024, President Biden delivered a commencement address at Morehouse College, where he made the following remarks regarding the Israel-Hamas war: “What’s happening in Gaza and Israel is heartbreaking…. Innocent Palestinians caught in the middle of all this: men, women, and children killed or displaced [and] in desperate need of water, food, and medicine. It’s a humanitarian crisis in Gaza. That’s why I’ve called for an immediate ceasefire — an immediate ceasefire to stop the fighting — bring the hostages home. And I’ve been working on a deal as we speak, working around the clock to lead an international effort to get more aid into Gaza, rebuild Gaza.”
WALZ: Falsely Claims That Most Palestinians Do Not Support Hamas
On October 20, 2023, Gov. Walz wrote on social media: “The vast majority of Palestinians are not Hamas, and Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people.” But Walz’s claim was untrue. As the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies reported in March 2024:
“Palestinian support for Hamas in the West Bank and Gaza remains high, according to a Palestinian poll released on March 20. That support has increased since the Iran-backed terrorist group attacked Israel on October 7…. According to the poll, only seven percent of Gazans blamed Hamas for their suffering. Seventy-one percent of all Palestinians supported Hamas’s decision to attack Israel on October 7…. Fifty-nine percent of all Palestinians thought Hamas should rule Gaza, and 70 percent were satisfied with the role Hamas has played during the war…. Only 5 percent of Palestinians think Hamas’s massacre on October 7 constitutes a war crime.”
WALZ: Lamenting the “Humanitarian Crisis” in Gaza
In the spring of 2024, when university student protest groups began portraying Israel’s military response to the Hamas atrocities of October 7 as excessive, Gov. Walz, favoring a ceasefire, spoke out in support of the students. “This is a humanitarian crisis,” he said. “They [the protesters] have every right to be heard…. These folks are asking for a change in course, they’re asking for more pressure to be put on…. Palestinian civilians being caught in this … has got to end.”
WALZ: Scolding Israel for Its Response to Hamas
In early September 2024, WCMU News asked Gov. Walz, “How would a Harris-Walz administration handle the [Israel-Hamas] conflict, and would it break with the Biden administration in any way?” Walz replied:
“Well, I think first and foremost what we saw on October 7th was a horrific act of violence against the people of Israel. They have certainly … the right to defend themselves, and the United States will always stand by that, but we can’t allow what’s happened in Gaza to happen. The Palestinian people have every right to life and liberty themselves. We need to continue … to put the leverage on to make sure we move towards a two-state solution…. We need the Netanyahu government to start moving in that direction. But I think those folks who are speaking out loudly in Michigan are speaking out for all the right reasons. It’s a humanitarian crisis. It can’t stand the way it is.”
TRUMP: Israel’s Best Friend
Donald Trump has very demonstrably been a more loyal and stalwart friend to Israel and the Jewish people, than any other president in American history. Consider just a few salient facts:
TRUMP: Peace Agreement Between Israel & United Arab Emirates
In August 2020, the Trump administration brokered a landmark peace agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a deal that established a “full normalization of relations” between the two countries. UAE became only the third Arab country in the Middle East — after Egypt (1979) and Jordan (1994) — to recognize Israel since its founding in 1948. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed, released a joint statement saying that the “diplomatic breakthrough” had occurred at “the request of President Trump.”
TRUMP: Peace Agreement Between Israel & Bahrain
In September 2020, the Trump administration brokered a peace agreement between Israel and the Gulf state of Bahrain, a deal that would fully normalize diplomatic relations between the two states.
TRUMP: Peace Agreement Between Israel & Serbia/Kosovo
In September 2020, President Trump oversaw the signing of a peace agreement between Serbia and Kosovo, in which Kosovo agreed to formally recognize Israel’s right to exist, and Serbia agreed to move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. Prior to this, Kosovo, a mostly Muslim country, had steadfastly refused to recognize the legitimacy of Israel’s existence. And Serbia since 2009 had refused to recognize Kosovo as an independent state.
TRUMP: Nominated for Three Nobel Peace Prizes
For his role in brokering the aforementioned peace deals, known collectively as The Abraham Accords, President Trump was nominated for three Nobel Peace Prizes.
Australian law professor David Flint said of Trump:
TRUMP: Peace Agreement Between Israel & Sudan: On October 23, 2020, President Trump announced that Sudan had also agreed to normalize its diplomatic relations with Israel. “It’s peace in the Middle East without bloodshed,” said Trump. Netanyahu praised Trump for the vital role he was playing in the process: “We are expanding their circle of peace so rapidly with your leadership.”
TRUMP: Peace Agreement Between Israel & Morocco
In December 2020, the Trump administration facilitated yet another peace deal between Israel and a formerly hostile Arab League nation – this time, Morocco.