Biden Says Anti-Israeli Protesters ‘Have a Point’ at DNC

President Joe Biden said the quiet part out loud last evening at the Democratic National Convention when he went off script and said, “Those protesters out in the streets, they have a point.”

“Those protesters” are accusing Israel of genocide, calling for an end to U.S. aid to Israel, and holding signs and chanting “From the river to the sea” —  which means the establishment of a Palestinian state from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, i.e., the destruction of the state of Israel. (WATCH: The Spectator P.M. Podcast Ep. 70: 1968 or 2024? Democrats Hope History Doesn’t Repeat Itself)

“Those protesters” carried large Palestinian flags and some tore down barriers, breaching the security perimeter. “Those protesters,” like the Biden administration, want a ceasefire in Gaza.

For months, the Biden administration has been pressuring Israel to negotiate a ceasefire instead of continuing offensive operations that were launched in response to the horrific Oct. 7 terror attacks by Hamas. Israel has since come under attack from Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists, but Biden warned Israel against responding to those attacks with a ground invasion of Lebanon. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) has accused the Biden administration of withholding “crucial aid” to Israel in a political effort to placate anti-Israeli Democrats.

Anti-Israel Bent at DNC Is No Accident

Back in October 2023, the left-wing magazine, Nation, wrote that Biden’s then pro-Israel stance was hurting his chances at reelection. Several months later, Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) accused Israel of waging war against the “entire Palestinian people,” placed the blame squarely on the Israeli government, and warned Biden against being “complicit in the horror that is taking place now.” Other Democratic senators accused Israel of human rights violations in Gaza.

It is no accident, as the Marxists say, that the political pressure on the Biden administration is all in one direction: against Israel. The anti-Israeli propaganda machine has managed to transform Hamas’ aggression into Israeli genocide. The aggressor is now considered the victim. It is a tactic that unfortunately has worked in the past. Who controls the narrative controls reality. The Biden administration has accepted the narrative and the possible political consequences this November in, for example, Michigan, so it pressures Israel. (READ MORE: Treatment of Biden at Convention Exposes the Anti-Democrats)

It makes one wonder whether this sort of political calculation had anything to do with Kamala Harris’ decision against naming Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Jew, as her running mate. Harris and Shapiro deny this, but politics not only makes strange bedfellows, sometimes it also determines who won’t be invited into the political bedroom. Harris has been urged to distance herself from Biden’s alleged pro-Israel policy by calling for “an immediate halt to the horrific Israeli bombing of Gaza’s schools, apartment buildings and refugee camps,” citing a YouGov poll which showed “over a third of voters in three swing states say they are more likely to vote for the Democratic nominee if they pledge to withhold weapons to Israel.”

Democrats Want Harris to Break Away from Biden

Aljazeera notes that several Palestinian supporters indicated that “they will not vote for Harris unless she agrees to an arms embargo against Israel.” In The Hill, columnists warn Harris that she must do more than even Biden has to pressure Israel to stop the war because the “nonstop flow of armaments from the U.S. to Israel has turned off a significant number of Democratic voters — especially young people, progressives, Arab Americans and Muslims.” They cited Dearborn, Michigan, a city of 110,000 residents which has a higher concentration of Muslims than any other in the U.S., whose mayor, Abdullah Hammoud, is hoping that Harris will differentiate herself from President Biden on the path to Gaza, and polls that allegedly show that “Americans favor a cutoff of military aid to Israel while the war in Gaza continues.” (READ MORE: America Must Be Ready for the Next Round of Riots)

Israel is faced with Hamas terrorists to its west, Hezbollah terrorists to its north, and behind them Iran, which may soon have nuclear weapons. All of these forces, like many of the protesters in the streets outside the Democratic National Convention, want the state of Israel to disappear (“from the river to the sea”). What did Biden mean when he said “Those protesters have a point?”

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