Jews are being attacked on the streets, while dining in restaurants and while on the way to synagogue. Synagogues are being vandalized and fire bombed. Jews are afraid to wear signs of their religion and some are removing mezuzahs from their homes out of fear.
President Biden was silent for days until public pressure forced him to take what he thought to be appropriate “action” — a mere two-sentence tweet, probably written by a staffer. Out of his mouth came only silence. Hardly what a real president would do.
Over at the Justice Department the attorney general was also silent. The U.S. has a veritable army of investigators, lawyers and prosecutors, yet there has been no announcement of a Justice Deparment task force against anti-Semitism.
The U.S. attorneys have not been directed to make prosecuting crimes against Jews a priority. The office of Ambassador against anti-Semitism is vacant. Biden’s nominee to be the assistant attorney general for civil rights is a bigot. Truly a sorry response.
Both Jews and non-Jews alike must demand that the Biden adminIstration use the full force and power of the U.S. government against these vicious anti-Semites.
Right now Biden gets a failing grade as he is failing all citizens of the USA. Civil rights means nothing in the USA if the government fails to protect the group that has had the largest number of hate crimes directed at them.
Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg
Edison, New Jersey
