Biden envoy at pro-Israel rally: Those chanting ‘glory to the martyrs’ are inciting hatred

Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief

US antisemitism envoy Deborah Lipstadt addresses a pro-Israel rally in Washington on November 14, 2023. (Screen capture/Youtube)
US antisemitism envoy Deborah Lipstadt addresses a pro-Israel rally in Washington on November 14, 2023. (Screen capture/Youtube)

The Biden administration’s antisemitism envoy Deborah Lipstadt addresses the pro-Israel rally in Washington.

“As a representative from President Biden and Vice President Harris and the United States government, I can tell you without hesitation, regardless of party or political persuasion at the White House or in the Congress at home, and abroad. This government stands shoulder to shoulder against Jew hatred,” she says to cheers.

“Today in America we give antisemitism no sanction, no foothold, no tolerance, not on campus, not in our schools, not in our neighborhoods, not in our streets or the streets of our cities. Not in our government. Nowhere. not now, not ever,” Lipstadt declares.

“When protesters chant ‘Peace and glory to the martyrs,’ that incites more hatred, more deaths.”

“It is a danger to the values and underpinning of the stability and decency of any society anywhere in the world. Hate is not a zero-sum game, hate and violence directed at any member of our society because of who they are is un-American and wrong.

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