Both mainstream Jewish groups and their allies in the Biden administration are determined to avoid taking on left-wing Jew-haters and the ideas that drive them.
“My expectation and hope is that this will be closing down sooner than later, but Israel has a right to defend itself when you have thousands of rockets flying into your territory,” said the president.
Threats against Hamas and its allies, as well as pressure on Netanyahu, clearly played a decisive role. A likely revival of a terrorist state, however, will create new dilemmas for the alliance.
“Hezbollah’s goal is the destruction of Israel and the Jews, and we should not be offering a safe haven for them to hide in Germany and finance their armed struggle in Lebanon against Israel from our territory,” senior AfD MP Beatrix von Storch, said in a statement.
“The lack of boundaries, combined with the growing success of this platform, makes it an ideal virtual home for hate speech and extremist content,” it concluded.
“No human can be truly respected without caring for their basic needs, the most elementary of which is food,” said Israeli President Isaac Herzog, who launched the initiative in 2017.