The Zionist’s Guide to the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election
Should Jewish and otherwise pro-Israel voters support the Republican nominee, former President Donald Trump; or the Democratic nominee, current Vice President Kamala Harris?
My fellow American Zionists, I ask you this:
“Why is this election different from all other elections?”
I promise, I risk paraphrasing Ma Nishtana for a good reason. This election is not like other elections — in many ways, but most especially for those of us who care about Israel and the Jewish people.
The 2024 US Presidential Election has divided the country down the middle. That by itself is perfectly normal. The degree of divisiveness may be less than desirable, but in a two-party system, it’s to be expected. Similarly, Zionist voters find ourselves divided, but that is nothing new. The difference is the reason why.
In many past elections, we might have been able to believe that no matter which lever we pulled, Israel would be supported. We could, perhaps, set aside our Zionism as a given, and vote solely according to our other core convictions.
Not this time.
We no longer have the luxury of past presidential races, where a baseline level of support for Israel — our greatest geopolitical ally bar none (eat your hearts out, Canada and U.K.) — was a given among both candidates and their parties. There are now U.S. Representatives on both sides of the aisle who proudly proclaim themselves opponents of aid to Israel. Both Democrats and Republicans have a growing antisemitic fringe — one that is becoming increasingly less fringe. And regardless of what happens in the current conflict, the mainstreaming of anti-Israel sentiment seems here to stay. Polls repeatedly show that support for Israel among voters under 30 is at record lows across both parties. Antisemitic hate crimes have skyrocketed in the year since the October 7th attacks. If things do not turn around, we may look back at 2024 as a particularly ugly turning point for the political wellbeing of Jewish-Americans and their allies.
I consider myself an American, first and foremost. This is my country. But I am a Jew, and when I cast my ballot, I will do so conscious of the effect my vote will have on the present and future of the world’s only Jewish state. Israel is in danger. Jews all over the world are under attack. There are less of us now than there were in 1939. Never forget.
Vote well. Vote wisely. We’ll all have to live with it. Or not.
— Alex Horn, Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Green Golem: The Zionist Literary Magazine
The following debate is between Marc Hennemann and Lena Renee Anzarut.
Marc Hennemann is a U.S. Air Force veteran with 21 years of service, including service in the First Gulf War in 1990-1991. In 2016, he was the Republican nominee for Congress in Washington state’s second congressional district. Marc is a Senior Advisory Editor for Green Golem. He is supporting former President Trump.
Lena Renee Anzarut is the pen-name of a Jewish academic currently pursuing her PhD in Anthropology, with a focus on Historical Archaeology. Her research addresses the ways that history reverberates throughout the present. Lena is the Head Poetry Editor for Green Golem: The Zionist Literary Magazine. She is supporting Vice President Harris.
Both Marc and Lena were given the opportunity to read each other’s main articles before publication and respond with short rebuttals. Lena will go first, and Marc will have the last word.
Position: Pro-Israel voters should support Kamala Harris, not Donald Trump
by Lena Renee Anzarut
Why should you vote for Kamala Harris? Will she support, or undermine, the safety, security, and wellbeing of Israel and of American Jews? I’m sure that you, like me, have asked these questions as the election looms on the horizon. In the political upheaval of the last year—as antisemitism in the US and around the world skyrockets, calls for intifada ring loud from college campuses across the country, and anti-Jewish prejudice is laid bare amongst “progressive” politicians and pundits—you may, like me, be feeling disillusioned, politically homeless even. This political homelessness is only exacerbated by antisemitism on the right, and the surge of conspiracy-fueled anti-Jewish bigotry at the highest levels of the GOP. The extremes of both sides of the political aisle have engaged in dangerous rhetoric, leaving us caught between a rock and a hard place, weighing our options. Putting regular partisan politics aside, it is therefore more important than ever to look closely at the words and actions of both party’s nominees, and determine who is offering genuine support and who is simply offering lip service in the name of winning votes. I believe a comparison between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump reveals Harris to be the former and Trump the latter. This is why you should cast your vote for Kamala Harris: her career, before and after October 7, attests to her long-standing support for Israel and solidarity with the American Jewish community.
Indeed, the very first resolution Harris co-sponsored in the Senate was a bipartisan resolution objecting to the UN Security Council Resolution 2334 (which unilaterally criminalized all Israeli settlement in disputed territories) and the Obama administration’s decision not to veto it. Her co-sponsored resolution held firm that “a peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict must come through direct, bilateral negotiations without preconditions for a sustainable two-state solution” and that “the United Nations is not the appropriate venue and should not be a forum used for seeking unilateral action, recognition, or dictating parameters”, thereby reaffirming the US government’s historic policy of pushing back against anti-Israel bias in the UN. Speaking to the resolution, Harris stated in a 2017 AIPAC conference speech that she “believe[s] that when any organization delegitimizes Israel, we must stand up and speak out for Israel to be treated equally”, she “stand[s] with Israel because of our shared values, which are so fundamental to the founding of both our nations”, and she “believe[s] the bonds between the United States and Israel are unbreakable.” She further reiterated her dedication to ensuring bipartisan support for Israel’s fundamental right to security and self-defense and her commitment to a two-state solution negotiated within the region rather than imposed from without.
Throughout her career, Kamala Harris has also staunchly fought against antisemitism. As San Francisco District Attorney, she created a hate crimes unit that prosecuted perpetrators of anti-Jewish violence, and she remained committed to combating antisemitism as California attorney general. During her time in the Senate, she co-sponsored bipartisan resolutions condemning ethnic, religious and racial hate crimes, the 2018 Tree of Life Synagogue shooting and the 2019 shooting at the Chabad of Poway. As Vice President, she played a pivotal role—alongside the Second Gentlemen Douglas Emhoff, himself a member of and vocal advocate for the Jewish community— in the creation of the unprecedented National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism. She also worked to bolster funding for the security of Jewish institutions through Nonprofit Security Grants. Moreover, she has repeatedly spoken out in the wake of antisemitic incidents, and has been a vocal opponent of the BDS movement, stating in an interview that “The boycott, divestment and sanctions movement is based on the mistaken assumption that Israel is solely to blame for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict… [and] at a time when anti-Semitism is on the rise—especially in Europe—and the Middle East is growing increasingly unstable, I believe we should not isolate Israel, the only democracy in the region.” She again reiterated in this interview her support for an Israeli-Palestinian peace process predicated only on “bilateral negotiations that protect Israel’s identity, ensure security for all people, and include the recognition of Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state.”
Kamala Harris’s rhetoric, actions, and policy positions since October 7 have largely reflected her career-long support for Israel and American Jews. Alongside President Biden, she played a crucial part in the passing of the National Security Supplemental package that provided Israel with $15 billion in aid, calling members of congressional leadership amid delays. She also hosted an event in the White House to raise awareness about conflict-related sexual violence, in which she screened a portion of the “Screams before Silence” documentary and reiterated her commitment to bringing the hostages home, declaring that “We cannot look away and we will not be silent.” She has worked towards hammering out a ceasefire deal contingent on the release of the hostages and has met and spoken repeatedly with Israeli leadership, including Netanyahu, Benny Gantz, and Isaac Herzog. And she has spoken out in support of Israel’s right to exist and to defend itself in the wake of the atrocities of October 7. Prior to the DNC, for example, she released a statement confirming her opposition to an arms embargo and affirming that she “will always ensure Israel is able to defend itself against Iran and Iran-backed terrorist groups.” Again in her speech at the DNC, as anti-Israel protestors outside the convention castigated her as “Killer Kamala”, she restated that she “will always stand up for Israel’s right to defend itself” because “the people of Israel must never again face the horror that the terrorist organization Hamas caused on October 7, including unspeakable sexual violence and the massacre of young people at a music festival.” In response to anti-Israel protests in DC, she likewise issued strong condemnation, repudiating the “despicable acts by unpatriotic protestors and dangerous hate-fueled rhetoric” and abhorrent “Pro-Hamas graffiti and rhetoric”, and reaffirming that “Antisemitism, hate and violence of any kind have no place in our nation.”
More recently, in response to the murder of six Israeli and Israeli-American hostages in Rafah, including Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Harris once again underscored her support for Israel and the hostages still held captive, stating that “the threat Hamas poses to the people of Israel—and American citizens in Israel—must be eliminated and Hamas cannot control Gaza”, and that she “will never waver in [her] commitment to free the Americans and all those held hostage” in the strip. One needs only to compare her statement to the tweet issued by former president Donald Trump in the wake of the tragedy to see the difference between her genuine support and his superficial lip service. Epitomizing the latter, Trump’s statement began by briefly acknowledging Hersh’s death only to immediate weaponize it to attack his political opponents, suggesting that he was murdered “due to a complete lack of American Strength and Leadership […] because Comrade Kamala Harris and Crooked Joe Biden are poor Leaders.” This is just one example of Trump’s tendency to use the current war in a self-aggrandizing effort to garner votes. He has repeatedly denigrated Jewish democratic voters, suggesting that they’re “being very disloyal” and showing “either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty” repeatedly invoking antisemitic dual loyalty tropes, and suggesting that they “should have their head examined” and “should be spoken to.” He has also agreed in an interview that Doug Emhoff is a “crappy Jew” and “a horrible Jew”, and has referred to Josh Shapiro as the “highly overrated Jewish Governor” in response to his endorsement of Kamala Harris.
Despite his purported support for Israel, however, Trump has made a series of comments betraying his ambivalence. In October of last year, amidst cross-fire between Israel and Hezbollah to the north, Trump seemingly complimented Hezbollah, saying “You know, Hezbollah is very smart […] They’re all very smart.” More recently, Trump has blamed Israel for the global spike in antisemitism: when asked how he would deal with the surge in Jew hatred he reportedly replied “Well, that’s because you fought back. And I think Israel made a very big mistake.” Even his own former national security advisor, John Bolton, has said that “Trump’s support for Israel in the first term is not guaranteed in the second term, because Trump’s positions are made on the basis of what’s good for Donald Trump, not on some coherent theory of national security.” Trump has also repeatedly trafficked in antisemitic rhetoric. He has emboldened, rather than condemned, the most extreme antisemitic elements of his party: from infamously declaring that there were “very fine people on both sides” of the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, to refusing to condemn the antisemitic Proud Boys and instead telling them to “stand back and stand by”, to dining with infamous antisemites Nick Fuentes and Kanye West at Mar-a-Lago, to invoking George Soros as a “globalist” puppet master and boogeyman, to allegedly privately expressing admiration for Hitler. I would argue that Trump is at best complicit in and at worst culpable for the surge in antisemitism on the right.
Given all this information—the records that Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have in their support (or lack thereof) for Israel and American Jews—I hope that you will join me in casting your vote for Kamala Harris in November. For Democratic and Republican voters alike, I believe she is the best hope for future peace and stability in Israel and for the safety and wellbeing of the American Jewish community at large.
Position: Pro-Israel voters should support Donald Trump, not Kamala Harris
by Marc Hennemann
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”
Sonnets from the Portuguese 43
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Do we voters who love Israel also love Donald Trump? Some of us do, of course. Some of us don’t. The issue in 2024 isn’t whether we should love him. The issue is whether we should vote for him. Current forecasts indicate the 2024 presidential election will be among the closest in living memory, particularly in the electoral college. With our concentration in certain swing states, notably Pennsylvania, we pro-Israel voters have the potential to decide the election. So, what should we do? There are two ways we can decide how we’re going to cast our votes in November: either we like or dislike Donald Trump OR we like or dislike his policies. I like both Trump and his policies, so let’s talk about you instead.
If you dislike Trump as an individual, there’s not a lot I can say, except this: Donald Trump is a fairly typical loud-mouth New Yorker. He doesn’t always think, he just says. Those of you who grew up in or around New York City know the type. You also know you don’t pay attention to what they say. You pay attention to what they do. Bearing that in mind, as Governor Alfred E. Smith (another loud-mouth New Yorker, albeit a Democrat) used to say, “Let’s look at the record.” The Trump record and, unburdened by what has been, the Biden/Harris record. How both Trump and Biden/Harris have managed U.S./Israeli relations will run through this election like the warp and woof of a fine carpet. Let’s examine both sides, one at a time.
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BIDEN/HARRIS
Have the policies of the Biden/Harris administration helped or harmed Israel? Let’s look at the record.
In January 2016, President Obama announced the implementation of the Iran nuclear deal. He also lifted non-nuclear sanctions against Iran, freeing up billions of dollars which Iran promptly sent to terrorist organizations not only throughout the Middle East but throughout the world. Then-Vice-President Biden supported Obama’s actions.
In May 2018, President Trump withdrew the United States from participation in the Iran nuclear deal and reimposed sanctions. Iran went back to trying to produce nuclear weapons, but they quickly ran out of money as the sanctions took hold. Then came Biden/Harris.
When President Biden took office, he said he would maintain sanctions against Iran. Technically he did, but with so many waivers he might as well not have.
Now Iran is within weeks, possibly days, of being able to produce its own nuclear weapons. As Bibi said in his speech to the UN in 2012,
“I ask, given this record of Iranian aggression without nuclear weapons, just imagine Iranian aggression with nuclear weapons. Who among you would feel safe in the Middle East? Who would be safe in Europe? Who would be safe in America? Who would be safe anywhere?”
Does Vice-President Harris support the Biden policy? As she said on The View on October 8th, when asked if she would have done anything differently during the past four years,
“There is not a thing that comes to mind.”
Do you feel safe?
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What about the other elephant in the room… the Middle East? President Biden expressed the official U.S. government position eleven days after the brutal Hamas attack by saying, “Israel, you are not alone. The United States stands with you.”
That’s the official U.S. government position. What about the unofficial position? Let’s look at the record.
-Biden/Harris has tried to negatively influence Israeli defense policy. According to Vice-President Harris, “Israel has a right to defend itself, and how it does so matters…” (source: motherjones.com, 9/11/24). In other words, the U.S. will only support Israeli defense policy if it approves of that policy. Not only that, but she is supporting the “Israeli genocide” narrative spouted by the terrorist supporters in our cities and on our campuses.
-Biden/Harris had criticized the number of Hamas-caused casualties in Gaza:
“I also expressed with the prime minister my serious concern about the scale of human suffering in Gaza, including the death of far too many innocent civilians. And I made clear my serious concern about the dire humanitarian situation there, with over 2 million people facing high levels of food insecurity and half a million people facing catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity… We cannot allow ourselves to become numb to the suffering. And I will not be silent.” (source: official White House transcript of remarks made by Vice-President Harris following her meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu, 7/25/24).
-Biden/Harris want to reward Hamas savages by making them part of an independent nation which would also control sovereign Israeli territory in Judea and Samaria:
“And ultimately, I remain committed to a path forward that can lead to a two-state solution. And I know right now it is hard to conceive of that prospect, but a two-state solution is the only path that ensures Israel remains a secure, Jewish, and democratic state and one that ensures Palestinians can finally realize the freedom, security, and prosperity that they rightly deserve.” (source: ibid).
Of course, that was after Vice-President Harris deliberately snubbed Prime Minister Netanyahu by refusing to attend the Prime Minister’s address to the Congress so she could attend a Zeta Phi Beta sorority event in Indianapolis instead.
President Biden spoke at the Democratic National Convention and said, “Those protesters out in the street, they have a point.”
Vice-President Harris did not disavow the comment.
In a public radio interview in September, Democratic vice-presidential nominee Governor Tim Walz said the pro-Hamas demonstrators were protesting for “all the right reasons.”
Vice-President Harris did not disavow the comment.
And so, the pro-Hamas wing of the Democratic Party criticizes Israel, praises the protesters, boycotts the Israeli Prime Minister. They offer up only mild criticism when pro-Hamas protesters bully and threaten Jewish students at our universities and trash their campuses. They say nothing as thousands of terrorist supporters march in our cities. They (and, by extension, their nominees for president and vice-president) don’t support Israel in its hour of danger.
Harris and Walz don’t accuse Israel of genocide, but their supporters do. Harris and Walz don’t compare Israelis to Nazis and Prime Minister Netanyahu to Hitler, but their supporters do. Harris and Walz don’t demonstrate in our streets, disrupt our universities, and wear keffiyehs, but their supporters do.
Vice-President Harris doesn’t disavow those comments and activities.
That’s the Harris/Walz record.
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TRUMP
What did Donald Trump do for Israel? Again: let’s look at the record.
-He moved the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Israel’s eternal capital, Jerusalem.
-He helped negotiate the Abraham Accords, achieving recognition for Israel from Arab and Muslim states including Bahrain, Morocco, the United Arab Emirates, and Sudan. Such an achievement would have been all but unimaginable just a couple decades ago.
-He directed the U.S. military to take part in the destruction of the ISIS Caliphate in Iraq and Syria.
-He ordered the successful assassination of Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani, a terrorist leader and commander of the Quds Force, an Iranian state terrorist organization.
-He helped in the negotiations concerning a tentative peace agreement between Saudi Arabia and Israel, which were put on hold after the vicious attack by Hamas on October 7th 2023.
-He doesn’t fully believe a two-state solution, which would give the savages of Hamas and Hezbollah (and, by extension, Iran) control over sovereign Jewish territory in Judea and Samaria, is viable:
Former U.S. President Donald Trump told TIME magazine in a wide-ranging interview published this week that he was no longer sure a two-state solution is viable. “Most people thought it was going to be a two-state solution. I’m not sure a two-state solution anymore is gonna work,” the former president said. “There was a time when I thought two states could work. Now I think two states is going to be very, very tough. I think it’s going to be much tougher to get. I also think you have fewer people that liked the idea. You had a lot of people that liked the idea four years ago. Today, you have far fewer people that like that idea,” he added. (source: Jewish News Service, 5/2/24)
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How to sum it all up? Once again: let’s look at the record.
Although Harris/Walz claim to be on the side of Israel, the pro-Hamas wing of the Democratic Party makes this truly impossible to believe. Harris/Walz would rather curry favor with Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar than fully support Israel. The Hamas wing of the Democratic Party certainly exercised some influence in her selection of a running mate. Though there were undoubtedly multiple reasons for Harris’s highly questionable selection of Tim Walz, the snubbing of Governor Josh Shapiro was notable. It may well be as her campaign claimed to Politico: she passed up the Jewish governor of a crucial, election-defining swing state simply because she “clicked” better with someone else. But Shapiro’s time in the national spotlight of the veepstakes included a storm of criticism from the left flank of his party for his past and present support of Israel’s right to exist. Back in May, he called for the disbandment of the pro-Hamas encampment at the University of Pennsylvania in May, and called for the protection of Jewish students. The fury of the anti-Zionist progressives followed him all summer, right up until V.P. selection in August, earning him bad press everywhere from the Council on American-Islamic Relations to the Philadelphia Inquirer. Can we really imagine that Harris — already vulnerable on this issue and desperate to appease the Squad and their supporters — did not see Shapiro’s Jewish identity and proud pro-Israel stance as a vulnerability? As a reason not to “click”? Shapiro himself does not think so — or at least, he does not say so publicly. But he has a political future to protect. The rest of us can draw our own conclusions.
When Prime Minister Netanyahu addressed Congress, Vice President Harris not only declined to preside over the Senate, she did not even attend. Instead, she attended a sorority dinner. In that address, the Prime Minister made it clear why Trump is the best choice for Israel:
“I… want to thank President Trump for all the things he did for Israel. From recognizing Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights to confronting Iran’s aggression to recognizing Jerusalem as our capital and moving the American embassy there.”
Donald Trump is clearly on the side of Israel. He committed American armed forces on behalf of Israel. His administration never wavered in his support for Israel at the international level. Through strength, he promoted genuine peace between Israel and several of its Arab neighbors.
When you cast your vote this November, you might do well to recall the words of Prime Minister Menachem Begin to then-Senator Joe Biden:
“Don’t threaten us with cutting off your aid. It will not work. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history. Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country. We paid for it. We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles. We will defend them. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid… Don’t threaten us with slashing aid. Do you think that because the US lends us money it is entitled to impose on us what we must do? We are grateful for the assistance we have received, but we are not to be threatened. I am a proud Jew. Three thousand years of culture are behind me, and you will not frighten me with threats.”
I ask you to consider those words of Prime Minister Begin, and the facts I’ve laid out for you and, if you love Israel as I do, to vote for Donald Trump on November 5th. Thank you and Shalom.
Rebuttal: Pro-Israel voters should support Kamala Harris, not Donald Trump
by Lena Renee Anzarut
In light of the arguments made for another Trump term, I think we should take another look at his record. While it is true that Trump’s administration moved the American embassy to Jerusalem and helped negotiate the Abraham Accords, the former president’s record has not been as unambiguously pro-Israel as he claims. In contrast to those who have painted Trump as the “most pro-Israel president in US history”, some of his actions have actually undermined or indeed directly endangered Israel’s security. For instance, his order to withdraw American troops from Northern Syria in 2019 left Israeli security experts concerned about the repercussions: not only did it abandon America’s Kurdish allies, but the decision left Israel more vulnerable to imminent threats from Syria, including from Iran and its terror proxies. In the words of former IDF military intelligence director Amos Yadlin, the move made it “easier for Iran”, “easier for Bashar al-Assad”, and “easier for Hezbollah.” Moreover, his administration’s complete lack of response to the 2019 Iran-backed attacks on Saudi Arabian oil refineries, and even their shooting down of an American drone, only served to embolden Iranian aggression. According to Netanyahu himself, “Iran’s brazenness in the region [was] increasing and even getting stronger in light of the absence of a response.” These decisions, paired with his ambivalent rhetoric, have resulted in Trump “developing a reputation within Israel’s security establishment as an unreliable ally.” In the words of Amiram Levin, former commander of the IDF Northern Command, “Israeli policy is based on the false assumption that Trump is the great friend. It is about time Israel understands that as long as Trump is in power, Israel has no one to rely on.”
But what about Harris and Walz? They have both made statements that might make pro-Israel voters understably nervous about where they stand. Tim Walz, for instance, did say during a radio interview that anti-Israel protestors were “speaking out for all the right reasons”. Given the number of anti-Israel agitators “speaking out” for reasons of hate, antisemitism, or sheer misinformation, that phrasing is absolutely troubling. But looking at the context of Walz’s words, it is clear that “the right reasons” he meant referred to those motivated by a desire to find peace and address the genuine humanitarian situation in Gaza. Indeed, Walz’s support for Israel’s security and future has been unequivocal. In the very same radio interview, he described the October 7th attacks as a “horrific act of violence” and maintained that the US would “always stand by” Israel’s right to defend itself. Moreover, he has also said that the “ability of Jewish people to self-determine themselves is foundational to everything […] and the failure to recognize the state of Israel is taking away that self-determination. So it is antisemitic, that is a statement that is fact.” Speaking on behalf of his state as governor, he even said: “Here in the state of Minnesota, we stand firmly with the state of Israel and the righteousness of the cause.” To paint Walz as a Hamas sympathizer thus flatly ignores reality. The anti-Israel allegations leveled against Vice President Harris are similarly weak. Yes, it is true that Harris missed Netanyahu’s address to Congress to attend a pre-scheduled campaign event at a sorority in Indiana (interestingly, Trump’s running mate Senator JD Vance also skipped the speech to attend a campaign event, but has received little scrutiny for the decision). It is also true that after Harris met with Netanyahu the next day, she expressed concern over the humanitarian situation in Gaza. At the same time however, she emphasized her long and continuing history of support for Israel, reiterated her “unwavering commitment” to its existence and security, rightly referred to Hamas as a “brutal terrorist organization”, and read the names of hostages, both those murdered and those still in captivity.
There certainly does exist a radical antisemitic contingent on the far left — just as there is on the far right. But Harris and Walz have made it clear that they will not capitulate to the demands of any of these hateful extremists. They support the rescue of our hostages. They support Jewish self-defense. And they support Jewish self-determination in our ancestral homeland. This is why I believe Harris is the right choice, and why I hope you will give her your vote on November 5th. In the words of her husband, Doug Emhoff, in January “maybe there will be a mezuzah on the White House, like there is on the vice president’s residence.” I hope you will join me in trying to make that happen.
Rebuttal: Pro-Israel voters should support Donald Trump, not Kamala Harris
by Marc Hennemann
So, Kamala Harris “offers genuine support,” and Donald Trump “is simply offering lip service?”
LET’S LOOK AT THE RECORD.
Kamala Harris co-sponsored a pro-Israel resolution in the Senate. Co-sponsoring a Senate resolution involves nothing more than signing your name to a piece of paper saying you’re a co-sponsor. Sixty-nine other senators (thirty-seven Republicans and thirty-two Democrats), also co-sponsored the resolution. Republican Senator Marco Rubio of Florida wrote it. Senator Rubio, along with all except two of the Republican co-sponsors remaining in the Senate today, supports Donald Trump. I guess that puts Kamala Harris in pretty good company.
She spoke in favor of Israel at the 2017 AIPAC Conference. Gee. What a surprise. A speaker at an AIPAC conference spoke in favor of Israel. Too bad she doesn’t speak in favor of Israel’s right to defend itself against radical Islamic terrorism (a term she has said should be “abolished”).
Kamala Harris may be an inconsistent voice in support of Israel, but where was her voice when Democrats in Congress opposed Israel, when they criticized (and continue to criticize) Israel’s actions in self-defense after October 7th? Where is her voice now in opposition to Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib (both Democrats) when they condemn “Israeli genocide” in Gaza? Where is her voice when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ayanna Pressley (both Democrats) call for a ceasefire and an arms embargo against Israel (dog whistles for “let Hamas and Hezbollah off the hook for October 7th)? Where is her voice when President Biden tells Israel not to strike at Iran’s oil facilities (thus denying them the oil income financing the terrorist attacks on Israel)? Where is her voice when the Biden/Harris administration threatens Israel with an arms embargo if they don’t allow additional “humanitarian assistance” into Gaza (“humanitarian assistance,” of course, meaning feeding the terrorists of Hamas) Oh, wait…here it is:
“The UN reports that no food has entered northern Gaza in nearly 2 weeks. Israel must urgently do more to facilitate the flow of aid to those in need. Civilians must be protected and must have access to food, water, and medicine. International humanitarian law must be respected.” (source: posting on X from the official account of Vice President Harris, 10/13/24).
Is she so afraid of the pro-Hamas wing of the Democratic Party (particularly in Michigan) that she remains silent so she might win the election? With friends like that…
Now, on to the second unjustified attack: is Donald Trump really just offering “lip service” to Israel? Is he secretly an antisemite?
Hardly.
LET’S LOOK AT THE RECORD
-Would an antisemite, just paying lip service, have moved the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem?
-Would an antisemite, just paying lip service, have brought about the Abraham Accords, establishing the basis for lasting peace between Israel and Bahrain, Morocco, the United Arab Emirates, and Sudan?
-Would an antisemite, just paying lip service, have directed the U.S. military to take part in the destruction of the ISIS Caliphate in Iraq and Syria?
-Would an antisemite, just paying lip service, have ordered the successful assassination of Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani, a terrorist leader and commander of the Quds Force, an Iranian state terrorist organization?
-Would an antisemite, just paying lip service, have gone to pray for the release of the hostages and an end to Hamas barbarism, at the gravesite of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendele Schneerson?
We all know the answer to all of those questions is “no.”
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Is Kamala Harris anti-Semitic? I’m sure she’s not. Would the pro-Hamas wing of the Democratic Party influence (to say the least) her actions as president? I think the answer to that is pretty obvious.
Don’t listen to the old, worn out tropes that Donald Trump is anti-Semitic. Donald Trump has supported Israel in both word and deed. Listen again to the words of Prime Minister Netanyahu when he addressed a joint session of the Congress of the United States (the one Vice-President Harris deliberately did not attend so she could go to a sorority dinner):
“I…want to thank President Trump for all the things he did for Israel. From recognizing Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights to confronting Iran’s aggression to recognizing Jerusalem as our capital and moving the American embassy there.”
In three weeks, we have a choice, you and I. We have a choice between one who supports Israel with his deeds and one who pays lip service with her words. My choice is going to be Donald Trump. I hope yours will be too.
Shalom.
Image by Hana Tzipora. Articles edited by Alex Horn and Corey Walker.
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