Ten Times President Obama Engaged in Direct Anti-Semitism

Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Alexadria Ocasio-Cortez are known worldwide for their hatred of Jews and Israel. But they were not the first to usher in anti-semitism in the Democrat Party.

Before them, Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama led the charge against the Jewish people and the State of Israel.

Below is a listing of ten times Obama was directly engaged in antisemitism as President.

1) In 2008, Jimmy Carter met with the leader of terror group Hamas, a move condemned by Condoleezza Rice, who then was secretary of state. Obama declined to condemn the meeting because "he's a private citizen. It's not my place to discuss who he shouldn't meet with." This is a remarkably calm reaction to Carter's blatant Logan Act violation, a crime the Obama administration would later deem so serious it was used to justify investigating and surveilling the Trump campaign. Obama reversed course a few days later, after it became obvious that refusing to condemn the meeting was damaging his campaign.

2) In May, 2011, Obama called for Israel's return to pre-1967 borders. According to CNN, "In a major speech, Obama became the first president to formally endorse the policy." Said Obama, "We believe the borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognized borders are established for both states." He continued, "The full and phased withdrawal of Israeli military forces should be coordinated with the assumption of Palestinian security responsibility in a sovereign, non-militarized state. And the duration of this transition period must be agreed, and the effectiveness of security arrangements must be demonstrated."

JEWISH REBUTTAL: A statement from Netanyahu's office rejected what it called a withdrawal to the 1967 borders, calling them "indefensible" and noting it would leave major Israeli population centers in Palestinian territory.

Political opponents also criticized Obama, with possible Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney saying the president had "thrown Israel under the bus". Continued Romney, "He has disrespected Israel and undermined its ability to negotiate peace. He has also violated a first principle of American foreign policy, which is to stand firm by our friends."

3) Obama denied Jewish ties to the land of Israel in his 2009 Cairo speech, saying Israel was created only because people felt guilty about the Holocaust.

JEWISH REBUTTAL: Click here for Jewish ties to Israel.

4) Obama's July 31, 2015 phone call, organized by the anti-Israel group J Street and other progressive Jewish groups, could be summed up in one sentence: Please help, because those rich people are helping warmongering Jews fight this incredible Iran deal because they don't like me and they want to start a war just like they did in Iraq.

In the 20-minute phone call Obama said over and over those opponents of the Iran deal come from the same "array of forces that got us into the Iraq war," he said a "bunch of billionaires who happily finance super PACs" are "putting the squeeze on members of Congress."

JEWISH REBUTTAL: What the president left out was that the prime minister at the time Ariel Sharon strongly urged Bush not to invade. Obama also forgot to mention that his vice president Joe Biden, both of his secretaries of state Kerry and Clinton, and his biggest ally in the Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid all supported the invasion of Iraq in Congress and now support his flawed Iran deal.

5) During an August 2015 speech at American University, Obama again tried to scapegoat the Jews, saying:

"So this deal is not just the best choice among alternatives, this is the strongest nonproliferation agreement ever negotiated, and because this is such a strong deal, every nation in the world that has commented publicly, with the exception of the Israeli government, has expressed support."

JEWISH REBUTTAL: Yes, Israel opposed the deal. So did Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, UAE, Bangladesh and most of the other Sunni Muslim States vehemently opposed the deal because of their fears that Shia Iran would use nukes to attack them. But Obama wanted to scapegoat the Jews, and the media was quiet.

6) Obama sent one of his closest advisers, Valarie Jarrett, to be the keynote speaker at a conference for the Muslim Brotherhood-associated ISNA. Topics at the meeting included Jews "have control of the world" and the Holocaust as punishment of Jews for being "serially disobedient to Allah."

7) Radical Islamists attacked the kosher supermarket Hyper-Cacher (French for Super Kosher) in Paris on a Friday afternoon. The attack happened just before the Jewish Sabbath when they knew it would be crowded with Jews. Obama first insisted it was a random act and not an anti-Semitic act. And when the world leaders came together to march in Paris as a protest against the Charlie Hebdo shooting and the anti-Semitic Hyper-Cacher attack Obama was conspicuous in his absence.

8) In 2015, Obama's State Department condemned Israel for allowing people to build houses on land on the western side of the Jordan River.

JEWISH REBUTTAL: The property was legally purchased in 2009 by Dr. Irving and Cherna Moskowitz from a US Presbyterian Church. There were no complaints when the Presbyterian Church owned it. Team Obama wasn't objecting to the fact that houses were being built on that land back then. If the homes were intended for Christian or Muslim families, there would have been no issue. As it is was with so many other cases during the Obama administration, the objection was based on the fact that Jews were going to live in those buildings.

9) The Iran Nuclear Deal (called the JCPOA), which was championed by the Obama Administration and signed in 2015, had many negative features connected to the safety and security of the Jewish people. First, it lifted economic sanctions on Iran, which was detrimental to the security of the Middle East. Additionally, it undermined Israel-United States relations. Third, the sanctions relief resulted in between $29 billion and $150 billion of Iran's frozen assets becoming available for them to spend. There is no evidence that these monies were not funneled to increase Iran's military capacity or to finance proxy groups in the region such as Hezbollah in Lebanon and Houthi rebels in Yemen.

A CNN/ORC poll conducted in mid-August 2015 showed that 52% of American registered voters believe Congress should reject the JCPOA while a poll by Pew Research Center in September showed that only 21% of its respondents supported the deal while the rest either opposed it or offered no opinion.

10) Obama's personal, campaign, administration associations include notorious anti-semites -- among them Rev. Al Sharpton, former Sen. John Kerry, former Sen. Chuck Hagel, Gen. Merrill McPeak, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Robert Malley, and Rashid Khalidi.


Related Links:
• Book: The Anti-Semite: A Trawl Through Barack Obama's Anti-Semitism

• Jewish voters furious at Democrats' defense of Rep. Ilhan Omar

• Obama's Unsuccessful Foreign Policy Comes from the Non-Interventionist School

• Statistics on Religion-Based Hate Crimes in the U.S.

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