Republican National Convention Expected to Address Antisemitism on College Campuses
“DEPORT PRO-HAMAS RADICALS AND MAKE OUR COLLEGE CAMPUSES SAFE AND PATRIOTIC AGAIN.”
I’m guessing this issue will not be addressed at the Democrat convention in August.
The Times of Israel reports:
GOP platform pledges to stand with Israel, deport ‘pro-Hamas radicals’ from US
The 2024 Republican Party platform pledges to fight antisemitism and to keep Israel safe. It promises to fight anti-Christian bias as well as “gender insanity.”
And it vows, in all-caps, to “DEPORT PRO-HAMAS RADICALS AND MAKE OUR COLLEGE CAMPUSES SAFE AND PATRIOTIC AGAIN.”
Parties traditionally publish platforms in election years ahead of their national conventions, as a statement of its values and a wish list of policies should their candidate win the White House.
The Republican platform, posted Monday and subject to a vote at next week’s convention in Milwaukee, is heavily influenced by the priorities and language of the nominee, former United States president Donald Trump — down to the capitalization style he’s favored in his social media posts. It also repeatedly attacks the Biden administration.
While quarrels over platforms have sometimes made waves among party insiders, they are largely symbolic, non-binding documents that have little practical implication.
The debate regarding language surrounding Israel in the Democratic Party’s document could be more intense, given the progressive wing’s increasingly hostile approach to the Israeli government. But with US President Joe Biden still in control of the party, those pushing for more critical rhetoric on Israel will likely be sidelined for at least one more election. Moreover, parley over the platform has largely been sidelined as the party focuses on deciding whether or not to stick with Biden as its nominee following his disastrous debate performance last month.
The 16-page GOP document, titled “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” is the Republicans’ first platform since Trump’s election victory in 2016. It includes proposals that would reverse domestic policies long embraced by Jewish Americans, including by enervating church-state separations and massively cracking down on immigration. Notably, it says that abortion should be left up to the states and promises to protect birth control and fertility treatments, which have been targeted by some Republicans.
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Funny how the excerpt doesn’t mention the real elephant in the room: the economy. And what does “enervating church-state separations” mean to the author? Separation of church and state is nowhere in the US constitution.
I guess the answer is whether or not you consider the Bill of Rights to be a part of the U.S. Constitution:
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
the church and state already cuddle up together
and the church is socialist in nature ( sans the debatable pro life agenda they take)
Before you post something like that again, I would invite you to go to a church service some time. Parts of the church in America are woke, and make huge mistakes. But there are many, many churches and individual Christians and Catholics who are not ‘cuddled up’ together with the ‘state’ (i.e. the Federal Government).
The church is an imperfect people in an imperfect world, but a lot of us see the Federal Government as a heinous organization that seeks only power and control, instead of protecting freedom and liberty. In fact, without the church, we would very little, if any liberty in the country at all (and that applies to many Jews as well).
You know the DNC won’t be addressing this , so I’m glad to see this huge issue is getting talked about ; as a Jew and a parent and an American.