By: Doc Fischer
With much fanfare, the Biden administration recently unveiled a plan that supposedly aims to counter anti-Semitism in America. Several “mainstream” American Jewish organizations fell over each other, racing to be first to distribute their press statements praising the Biden paper. I differ.
I live in various worlds, including those of the secular legal profession, opinion journalism, and academia. I also know the American Jewish organizational universe from the inside. Among the many Jewish organizations, each has its own publicists, and they all race to get their press out before “the competition” does. Their dream: Maybe, if they are fast enough and say the words coveted by the leftist mainstream media, their organization’s name will be cited and their leader quoted, wistfully in the New York Times.
So they all rushed out their praise and waited with bated breath for the next day’s newspapers: Would they be quoted?
In truth, the document on confronting anti-Semitism is a sham, and the first insult came in its timing. The day it was published, traditional Jews hurriedly were absorbed in their last-minute preparations to observe the biblical holy festival of Shavuot, which began that evening. American Jewish mainstream organizations exposed their own inadequacies by their prioritizing praising Biden’s 60-page document that they barely had read when Jewish priorities instead demanded they focus on welcoming that evening’s Shavuot festival.
https://spectator.org/joe-bidens-sop-to-the-jews/