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Washington-April 25, 2019 marked an ordinary moment in American Jewish history: it was the first time that a presidential candidate framed his resolution to combat anti-Semitism.

The candidate Joe Biden.

At first, Biden did not seem anxious to run for president in 2020. But that was replaced when the neo -Nazis marched through Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, shouting slogans that Biden’s father taught him represented the worst of human nature.

Worse, Trump can unequivocally condemn the protesters and the fatal rally, saying that among them were “very lovely people. “

Biden has placed the coverage of the Jews in the center of his announcement of the Crusade. He described the protesters as “degraviating the fangs of racism, turning a song with the same anti -Semitic bile that is heard in Europe in the 1930s”, and then lifted Trump’s reaction, and then raised Trump’s reaction to the homicide of Heather Heyer, the counterprotester killed in Charlottesville.

“That was when we listened to the words of the president of the United States who surprised the global and surprised that of this nation,” Biden said in the video. Then he cited the line of “very lovely people. “

Centering his campaign on concerns for Jewish safety may have been unprecedented for a candidate, but was not unusual for Biden, said William Daroff, the CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. In his 50 years of public service, Biden repeatedly brought up the lessons about standing with Jews that his father imparted to him in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

“It’s old school,” Daroff said, adding that Biden demonstrated “the old-school recognition that other Jewish people want friends and they want allies, and that the opposite combat of anti-Semitism is something that will have to be done both one and both days and with both bones in your body.

In office, Biden took a number of moves to combat anti-Semitism before and after Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, replacing the landscape of Jews in the United States and around the world. -Semitism.

But when he leaves his duties, his inheritance in the is mixed: as he leaves, the documented antiseemic incidents are in old degrees: component of a global increase. And now the guy who said Biden said that anti -Semitism and authoritarianism occupy the White House after him.

“Anti -Semitism, hateful and broader extremism and democracy have been in the center of everything that has done for 4 years,” said Amy Spitalnick, CEO of the Jewish Council of Public Affairs, an organization that resolutely followed Biden’s methods to combat the extremism. “Perhaps the public verbal exchange will have to reflect the way in which the issues of hate, extremism and democracy have direct daily effects on the global genuine on people. “

Almost as soon as the position assumed, Biden commissioned the National Security Department for the creation of a strategy to track national terrorists, adding right -wing extremists, reversing Trump’s policies to minimize threats.

But many members of the Jewish network were not entirely comfortable with the initial Biden technique to incorporate combined measures against hatred in a single section, and there were judicial cases on shocking moments during a white house summit in September 2022 that Various fans, with a speaker who added the occasion in “Church. “

High-level anti-Semitic incidents have higher in the following months, with the artist known as Ye erupting in a series of anti-Semitic comments, followed by Trump having dinner with him and a Holocaust denier. Elon Musk, who has paid fees from his acquisition of Twitter, also allowed extremists to return to the platform.

At the end of the same year, Biden seemed to have won the message that anti -Semitism is an exclusive phenomenon. He commissioned Doug Emhoff, the second largest Jewish gentleman, to preside over a workforce to expand a strategy to combat anti -Semitism, which deployed in May 2023, only 4 months before the massacres of October 7, and the wave of domestic workers.

Sheila Katz, the CEO of the National Council of Jewish Women, said the timing was fortuitous: The systems the strategy put in place made the government immediately responsive to the crisis.

“Having this in position before October 7 so that government agencies begin with a plan instead of zero,” Katz said. “When I met throughout other Jewish leaders of the Ministry of Education or the Ministry of Justice or the Ministry of Internal Security, we had a road map that was already joined through the departments that we could draw and say:` `Where be you

An example of the strategy deployed after October 7. Cases of anti -Semitism in schools and universities, and has closed some of them, with agreements destined to prevent painful repetitions.

In many ways, this does not seem to be enough. The control organisms and forces of the order have informed of an increasing number of anti -Semitic incidents, and the surveys have shown an increase in Jewish considerations about anti -Semitism. The House of Representatives gave the impression of being leading the way in the fight against Anti -Semitism, with audiences that led to primary adjustments on some campus, adding the dismissal of Harvard presidents and the University of Pennsylvania.

The Democrats and Biden were hindered in the component due to the key portions of the progressive base, from academics to teams of leftist activists, concentrated a giant component of their power in the protest of the war in Gaza and the help of Biden for that. These manifestations and movements included exhibitions that many Jewish teams called anti -Semitic.

Jews across the country said they were alienated by the left, a fissure that also distanced some from Democrats and Biden.

“What has happened since then in American politics has made many of our Jewish brothers have to consult the Democratic party,” said Nikki Fried, Jewish president of the Democratic Party of the State of Florida. In October.

“I listen a lot about the team,” he said, referring to a small of progressive democrats who critically criticize Israel. “I listen a lot about Kamala Harris’ policies, you know, what Joe Biden has done or has not done. “

Jewish Democrats were worried, and at a White House Jewish American Heritage Month event in May, peppered top Biden staffers with the concerns they were hearing from around the country.

The White House did not seem to be aware of the degree to which the campus disturbances had interrupted the Jewish scholars and their families. I would remember later that Vice President Kamala Harris was surprised through the revelation that the Jews were staggering from the anti -Semitism of the campus. , Biden gave a speech that denounced the anti -Semitism of the campus, while taking care of maintaining the principles of loose discourse.

Antisemitism became a campaign issue, with Trump and his supporters viewing it as a way to recruit Jewish voters who had long supported Democrats. The Republican Jewish Coalition unveiled an ad focusing on how unhappy “bubbies” were with Biden’s handling of campus antisemitism. A large majority of Jews ended up voting for Harris, but there appears to have been a bit of movement toward Trump among Jewish voters.

Kenneth Marcus, a senior civil rights official in the administrations of George W. Bush and Trump, praised Biden for his rhetorical commitment to combat opposite to anti -Semitism, who, according to him, unprecedented. But he said the strategy has not failed. Marcus said Biden could not institute policies that would involve anti -semitism.

“There were times over the last four years, especially in the immediate aftermath of Oct. 7, when it appeared that Biden officials were at the cusp of taking some significant action, and yet it never really panned out,” Marcus said.

In a few weeks beyond power, Biden has commissioned 37 of the 40 federal death prisoners. Among the 3 still faced with the death penalty, is the shooter who massacred 11 faithful Jews in Pittsburgh in 2018, the worst anti -Semitic act in American history, in components on a theory of the conspiracy resolved through Trump.

Biden’s reasoning was blunt, the White House said. “He believes that America must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level,” it said, “except in cases of terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder – which is why today’s actions apply to all but those cases.”

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