Holding Moral Clarity Hostage

A letter to Kamala…

If you look at the comments on your posts about Gaza, you’ll see that your antisemitic placating isn’t working. You’re not gaining the Hamas sympathizers’ vote and you’re certainly not gaining the Jewish vote – you have less Jewish support than any Democratic presidential candidate in nearly 40 years. Which makes sense, as you have done very little to protect us.

I’ve been an avid supporter of yours, but over the past year, my fervor has wavered. You don’t seem to celebrate with us when we are victorious over terrorism, and you validate people chanting death threats against us, saying you understand their passion, and there are good points being made. There’s a time in office that one should seriously reflect on themselves and their actions to see who they’re hurting. ‘Cause right now, you’re either trying to fool us, or you’re successfully fooling yourself.

You haven’t given this country a vision to free itself from antisemitism. You have done nothing to effectively condemn the Islamic regime that wants to exterminate all Jews – which would include your husband. You’ve offered little comfort or solutions for the hostages still being held in Gaza, the Nova survivors, and the bereaved families. You only demand of us, while you demand nothing of the Iranian regime, the attackers and abusers in every war against Israel.

You’re for the people? No. Your actions reveal that the fall of democracy could happen on your watch, as well.

Democracy is not a charity. Democracy is not a tool to be used to keep the peace with terrorists. And yet that is what you expect of Israel.

The repeated attacks on Israel are driven by not just a barbaric and insatiable lust for power and control in the Middle East, but by a deep, seething hatred for Jews. And yet you don’t admit to this malevolent motivation, only ever calling for a ceasefire, as though it will all go back to normal once you are able to plausibly deny this Jew-hatred by pushing it under your cloak of invisibility.

You want Israel to endure brutality and hate for the sake of your denial and political expediency.

You say you believe in compassion, in humanity, in justice. But where is it? I don’t see it in you. Not for me.

You have insufficient empathy when it comes to Jewish women. You have treated us carelessly. And you twist what should be justice for the Israeli and Jewish people into a chess game where you’d prefer we all be at an impasse, than anyone – especially Israel – saying checkmate. You don’t want us to win.

You don’t want the victims and survivors of this hate to win – you only want our cooperation.

If you’re reading this – what would be the odds – you’re probably wondering why I’m not more upset at Trump, why I don’t direct my anger toward him, who is clearly more villainous than you. I guess you have set a bad example. You’ve taught me to attack the good guy – just like you’ve verbally attacked Israel for the past year, instead of Hamas, who are utter depraved monsters.

I’ve had to suffer through cutting ties with supposed friends who falsely believe that Israel is a colonized state, an apartheid state, and that it’s committing genocide against the Palestinian people. In large part because neither you nor Biden have stated outright that these are, in no uncertain terms, lies and propaganda. Or that what the anti-Jews and pro-terrorist protesters on campus are doing with their signs and chants like ‘globalize the intifada’ and ‘from the river to the sea, palestine will be free’ and ‘hitler didn’t finish the job’ is despicable. You have not even tried to explain to them the hate crimes they are not just inciting, but committing.

You have abandoned the Jewish people entirely, and especially the Jewish students on campus. Who the fck cares about free tuition when Jewish students are being harassed, attacked, and blockaded from even going to class? For the past year, you and Biden have allowed segregation on campus – all the ones who hate Jews on one side, and the Jews on the other. And you, as presidential candidate, have made no promises to rectify this. You have not even given us the courtesy of stating the specifics of what fight we are up against, not just in the Middle East, but here, in America, for all to understand. I don’t know whether it’s because you lack the courage, or the aptitude, to call those protests and encampments what they really are.

Is it that hard to state the truth? As someone whose book was titled, The Truths We Hold, how is it now something you can so blatantly ignore?

So – if that’s who you are, demanding more of the victims, while demanding nothing of the abusers – are you really the good guy? If you would narrow the war to this scenario, how would you justify yourself?

Let’s say Israel is a rape victim, and Hamas the attacker – not so far from the truth. This perpetrator, Hamas, finds a woman on the street at night and rapes her. Only… he films it. Because he plans to kill her afterward. Somehow, though, the woman gets away with his phone as proof of what happened to her. Before she can reach the police station, though, she gets a text on his phone. A video of him holding an innocent child. He threatens her and says that if she reports him, he will kill the child.

As a previous Attorney General, what would you have the woman do? If she doesn’t report him, he could rape more women and hold more innocent children hostage like he’s holding her moral clarity hostage. Like insidious hate is holding your moral clarity hostage.

Judging by how you’ve treated Israel and the Jewish people, it seems you would have her not report what happened to her for the sake of the innocent child. Only, she is innocent, too.

And who’s to say he won’t find her home, won’t kill her in her sleep, or attack her again.

Just to make this even more complicated and ambiguous, now let’s say… the woman is a young girl, an innocent child.

What should this child do? Report and save her own life at the risk of another child being harmed, or risk Hamas being free under the presumption that he won’t just rape and kill the child whose life he’s threatening the young girl with in the video?

I think this is where you would find your moral clarity. If the girl were to not report what happened, she would be bringing no more good to the child that’s in the hands of the perpetrator than she would bring to herself. In fact, she would be denying her responsibility as a survivor of his abuse to come forward and report his crime so that he may be stopped.

But either way, the fault is not in her hands, but Hamas’s, the rapist. The child’s life is not in her hands – that is a fallacy – but in the person holding her captive, the one holding a knife to her throat in the video.

Israel is trying to put a stop to Hamas’ crimes, as well as Hezbollah’s, the Houthis’ and IRGC’s. For someone who believes in justice, you should recognize that this is not Israel’s fault. Israel has been put in an impossible situation, with no easy answer. It is not only their right, but their responsibility to defend themselves. They must stop all of these sadistic, ferocious terrorists from harming more people.

Right now, this is Israel’s fight – because you have abdicated your role in it. But if God forbid, Israel lost… it will be yours and there will be no one to help you.

They will come for you, like they have come for us. They will put you in an impossible situation of choosing whether to defend, to stand up, or to give in.

It seems they already have, and you seem to have already made your choice.

But when you give in to hate, to the abusers – you give up your humanity, you give up your morality, you give up your empathy, you give up your people.

You’re offering up the Jewish people to the Islamic Republic, only to spare your weak will that is not up for an honest fight. You’ve calculated that we’re not worth your effort.

How could someone like that be leader of the free world? What, because Trump is no better? Do you want me to vote for you because you are the lesser of two evils? Or do you want me to vote for you because I believe in you? Because I believe in your strength to lead, that you will hold the responsibility on your shoulders to defend us, and to care for us, to make the right choices? To help us, the Jewish people of America.

There is nothing free about your actions or statements. America is a free country because it was stolen – everything is free for a thief. Shouldn’t we learn from our egregious history? Do you want the Iranian regime and its proxies to steal more from the Israeli people? You are asking us to pay the price for your absence of fortitude and moral conscious.

I’m greatly disappointed in you. I’m writing to you, like a letter in a bottle, not because I believe this will find you and change your mind. But because I’ve lost all hope that it will… almost.

So, prove me wrong. Stand with us, fight for us, speak up for us, act for us, be the prosecutor on our behalf – enforce Title VI.

Help us eradicate the indoctrinated antisemitism in our society that seeps in through lies, conspiracy theories, and victim-blaming. Stop pinning us against the Palestinian people – recognize our own hurt. Recognize us, the Jewish people for who we are… survivors of extreme hate that has already led to one Holocaust and should be prevented at all costs from leading to another.

I can only speak for myself – but in doing that, I believe I speak for many.

You have more power, more of a voice in the world and yet you are using it to perpetuate hate in a disguise of wanting peace. As a candidate for the leader of the free world, you should know… peace is never free.

Israeli soldiers are paying for it with their own lives… what are you paying for it with? What is it costing you?

Oh, that’s right, my vote.

There’s still time, and I haven’t yet made up my mind. I’ve hated Trump from day one and I would never vote for him. I don’t hate you, Vice President Harris. But I see you.

Unfortunately, you still don’t see me.