Rep. Virginia Foxx, the House Education and the Workforce Committee chair, has called for Education Secretary Miguel Cardona’s resignation because he wouldn’t condemn “from the river to the sea” and describe it as antisemitic.
Cardona made his comments to Jewish reporters.
“Three months after October 7 and the disgusting antisemitic demonstrations that followed, there is no excusing Secretary Cardona’s cowardly evasion of the antisemitic character of the phrase ‘from the river, to the sea,’” stated Foxx. “Unfortunately, this is just the latest example in a long record of abject failure.”
Cardona said “that calls for genocide are ‘not tolerable.”
He continued to shove his foot in his mouth (emphasis mine):
“If there are students who are feeling that statements by students are being referred to genocide, or they’re feeling unsafe on campus, it is a responsibility of a university leader to get involved,” Cardona told reporters at a Tuesday briefing. “This is an opportunity for leadership to bring people together to talk about it and to set clear lines on how you communicate while not making students feel threatened or unsafe on campus.”When pressed to say whether the “from the river, to the sea” phrase can be construed as an antisemitic call for genocide, Cardona declined to weigh in.“That’s why I say we investigate each case, and it’s difficult for me to make a statement here about that. If students are feeling unsafe with that, it’s the responsibility of leadership to act,” said Cardona. “I believe antisemitism can include anti-Zionist statements,” he said, and “we take that into account when looking at cases.”
This is not hard. “From the river to the sea” is one of the most well-known antisemitic phrases. Anti-Israel and anti-Jews dumbs leave out the last part, “Palestine will be free,” to try to make it non-genocidal.
We don’t fall for it, dumbs. It literally calls for the extermination of Israel and Jews.
Well, most of them don’t fall for it.
I can think of two cases where people wouldn’t be talking about genocide: explaining to someone that the phrase calls for wiping out Israel and Jews or dissing someone for using the phrase.
The rest of the time? Liquidation of Israel and Jews.
It’s easy to differentiate.
I cannot even with these people. WHY is it so hard to condemn antisemitic words and phrases? WHY is it so hard to acknowledge a phrase or word as antisemitic?
Foxx included Cardona’s mishaps as secretary as well:
His Department has so willfully exceeded its statutory authority in its spending spree that it has failed its two most recent audits. Now, millions of families and students may lose their chance at an opportunity to pursue postsecondary education because his Department couldn’t properly update the FAFSA even after Congress granted the Department an additional year. These failures are in large part due to his direction of Department resources to unconstitutional schemes rooted in a willful disdain for the Constitution and the rule of law.”This nation deserves much better than bungling and deliberate misuse of taxpayer dollars. And Jewish students deserve to know that their Education Secretary understands the hate they face and has the necessary courage and clarity to confront it. It is time for the Secretary to resign.”
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