When U.S. President Joe Biden arrives at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday to honor 6 million Jews killed eight decades ago, his message will be as much about the present as the past.
Biden will speak to the existential threats faced by Jewish people seven months to the day since the Palestinian militant group Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, killing 1,200 by Israeli tallies, in what Biden has called the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust.
Speaking at the Capitol, in a keynote address for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's annual National Commemoration of the Days of Remembrance, Biden will aim to cool an increasingly divided and divisive U.S. debate about Jewish security, Zionism, free speech and support for Israel, in the country with the largest Jewish population after Israel.
Here are the top political news stories for today.
Speaker Mike Johnson, addressing today's Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony at the US Capitol, compares US college campuses to Nazi Germany. He says if you close your eyes, "you can hear screams coming from the gas chambers." He says this is why Congress just passed $24 Billion for Israel
@T4riffCraneConstitution2yrs2Y
This is Israel literally buying our representatives, in order to pass legislation that uses civil rights law to block criticism of Israel, as defined by a foreign entity that is also controlled by Israel.
@StorkWillSocialist2yrs2Y
There's a major ramping-up of official propaganda tied with the campus protests, "Holocaust Remembrance Day," and the apparently imminent Rafah invasion. Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL issues what sounds like a War Cry: "We are not the Jews of trembling knees... we will fight!"
@YouthfulCurGreen2yrs2Y
This guy's face alone increases antisemitism 250%. Imagine being such a vile, loathsome people that you have to pass special laws preventing others from speaking honestly about you.
Trump is making his big play for Jewish voters by arguing that the Democratic Party under Biden is "full-blown anti-Israel" and "anti-Semitic," after Biden spent the past seven months giving Israel unprecedented, unconditional military support and just signed another $24 billion
There wouldn't be a war if Netanyahu not rejected Trump's "peace treaty" he negotiated with Abbas. Also, Hamas would likely not be in power today had Netanyahu not funded them.
Curious Hamas holds hostages for 7-months while "they" and their homeland gets turned into dust. Most with one brain cell would release them.
FALSE:
Trump claims he made peace in the Middle East with Abraham Accords. That’s False.
In 2020, Israel and several Arab countries signed the Abraham Accords.
The accords, signed during the Trump administration, normalized diplomatic relations among the countries, but the countries were not engaged in military conflict.
Experts said the accords did not yield broad peace in the Middle East.
@R3f0rmRalphGreen2yrs2Y
On the day after Holocaust Remembrance Day, apartheid Israel has launched Holocaust Reenactment Day
@BallotZoeWorking Family2yrs2Y
"We are not the Jews of trembling knees...we will fight!"
Clearly people who think nothing of raining bombs down on (literally) trembling/shell-shocked non-jewish children are prepared to "fight," if that's what they call that. The rest of the sane world calls it a war crime.
Killing women and children from afar sounds pretty cowardly to me.
@ISIDEWITH2yrs2Y
What are your thoughts on the balance between free speech and the condemnation of hate speech in the context of antisemitism?
@9M7B9KF 2yrs2Y
I think it should be appointed about the holocaust in context but other than that I don't think it's worth mentioning antisemitism
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