Biden: There’s a great concern about the situation in Israel

US President Joe Biden says “there’s great concern about the situation in Israel” during a campaign fundraiser in Chevy Chase, Maryland last night.

Biden appears to have chosen to started off his remarks talking about Israel because he was speaking at the home of Susie Gelman, a prominent Democratic donor and former chair of the Israel Policy Forum board.

He does not elaborate on what concerned him about the situation in Israel. Instead, Biden went on to stress that he’s “an incredibly strong supporter of the State of Israel.”

As he often does in speeches to Jewish groups, Biden then talks about how he’s taken his children and grandchildren to see the Nazi concentration camps.

“I wanted them to see those beautiful homes along the fence line [of the camps] with the beautiful roofs and lovely homes. [Those people living there] pretend they didn’t know [what was happening in the concentration camps]. But they knew. And I wanted my kids to understand how that happened,” Biden says.

He then quickly cuts back to talk about Israel. “But the point I’m trying to make is: There’s been an unbreakable bond we’ve had with Israel. Our relationship is defined by a genuine friendship. It’s defined by a shared interest and shared democratic values,” he says in a possible reference to Washington’s concerns over the Israeli government’s effort to overhaul the judiciary.

At a second fundraiser later that night, Biden hailed his administration’s new strategy to combat antisemitism.

“The rise of antisemitism in America is out of whack, way out of whack,” Biden says.