Anti-Semitism Here?

For John, BLUF:  No group, no religion, no race, should live in terror, at least in these United States.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Originally published in The Jerusalem Post, this article, by Ms Caroline Glick, talks to the perception that the President is "Mainstreaming Jew hatred in America".

US President Barack Obama is mainstreaming anti-Semitism in America.

This week, apropos of seemingly nothing, in an interview with Mathew Yglesias from the Vox.com website, Obama was asked about terrorism. In his answer the president said the terrorism threat is overrated. And that was far from the most disturbing statement he made.

Moving from the general to the specific, Obama referred to the jihadists who committed last month’s massacres in Paris as “a bunch of violent vicious zealots,” who “randomly shot a bunch of folks in a deli in Paris.”

So, Mr Ahmedy Coulibaly, who shot up the Paris Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket, who called a French TV Station to tell them we wanted to kill Jews, was just some random guy, randomly killing people, who he thought were Jews.

The President is correct to say that this is not about Islam.  It isn't.  It is about a small group of people who have taken their understanding of God to an extreme and have decided to impose it on everyone else.  We are trying to outgrow these kinds of attitudes here in the US.

The President is correct to say we shouldn't be on our "high horse" about these folks.  Picking the Crusades and Inquisition was ahistorical.  He should have picked lynchings here in the US.  Horrid page in our history.  And no mention of how Barbery Pirates used to come to the Northern Atlantic and kidnap and enslave American fishermen.

Do I believe our President is trying to spread Anti-Semitism, either here or abroad?  No.  But, I am bothered by what I see as a lack of sensitivity on the part of the President with regard to the terrors Jews feel in France and across Europe, not to mention within Israel itself.

Hat tip to the Instapundit.

Regards  —  Cliff