Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday sharply criticized the Biden administration’s policies toward Israel, calling them “disgraceful” and criticizing the Biden administration’s pro-Israeli policies in a confrontation with former President Donald J. Trump on behalf of evangelical voters. I tried to emphasize my qualities.
At the Summit of Christians United for Israel, an annual gathering of conservatives with ties to the Israeli right, held in Washington, Mr. DeSantis never wavered in Israel’s claim to Jerusalem, leading to a biased boycott of Israel. vowed to firmly oppose against Jews.
The event was supposed to be attended by three Republican presidential candidates, including DeSantis, but here’s what happened. President Biden invited Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday He was sent by Israel to the White House and was scheduled to meet Israeli President Isaac Herzog in Washington later this week.
“As a person, you are free to have any opinion,” DeSantis told the audience. “But if you concoct a movement to focus all your anger on the world’s only Jewish state to the exclusion of all else, that’s anti-Semitism,” he added.
DeSantis never mentioned the progressive Democrats who said they would boycott Herzog’s speech at Wednesday’s joint session of Congress. But with many conservatives trying to portray Democrats who criticize Israel as anti-Zionists and even anti-Semites, he emphasized his strong support for Israel in his speech and attacked White House policy. used for
That moment uncomfortable for both parties.
Anti-Semitism is on the rise in recent years. Democratic presidential front-runner Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been invited by House Republicans to testify before the Capitol on censorship.He recently learned that the Covid-19 virus is designed with a margin Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese, provoking accusations of anti-Semitism and racism.
And the top Democrat in the House is hastily dismissing comments from Washington Democrat Rep. Pramila Jayapal, who described Israel as a “racist state” at a progressive conference last weekend.
in a statement on Sunday, Jayapal, who heads the parliamentary progressive delegation, asked for clarification on his remarks. “I don’t think the idea of an Israeli state is racist,” she said. “However, I believe that Prime Minister Netanyahu’s far-right government has a discriminatory and blatantly racist policy, and that there are extreme racists in the current administration’s leadership who are promoting that policy. .”
DeSantis, to thunderous applause and a standing ovation on Monday, rejected a two-state solution that would establish an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel. And he denounced his efforts, which he claimed he “used the economy and business to impose a radical leftist policy” on Israeli policy.
“They are surrounded by terrorism,” DeSantis said of the Israelis. “Nevertheless, when they act to defend their own people, they are sitting in easy seats criticizing Israel solely for its bravery in defending its own people.”
