Vice President Kamala Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff, said Wednesday that he is “in pain right now” over increasing antisemitism in the United States of America but will carry on speaking against it and other shapes of bigotry and despise for “as long as I have this microphone.”
Doug Emhoff, who is also Jewish, said, “There is an epidemic of hate facing our country. We’re seeing a rapid rise in antisemitic rhetoric and acts. Let me be clear: Words matter. People are no longer saying the quiet parts out loud. They are literally screaming them.”
He said that such behavior is very threatening and should not be accepted.
Emhoff said that they could not standardize that. They all had the compulsion to oppose those awful acts. They must all, all of them, not stay silent.
Emhoff opened up in his opening comments about growing up in a “typical Jewish family.” He was born in the New York City borough of Brooklyn and was brought up in New Jersey. He said his great-grandparents had got away from persecution in what is now Poland, and he regained reading their names on a ship’s clear during a visit to Ellis Island, once it was an immigrant processing center.
He said, “It’s our identity. It’s my identity, and I’m in pain right now. We’re all in pain right now.”
Emhoff said he became a lawyer to hold up for others and stand against inequality. He was a successful entertainment lawyer in California when his wife was chosen as vice president.
Emhoff said this anti-Jewish behavior are unfurled by old tropes, misinformation, and lie. He called them vicious and said there are no either-or both sides to the matter.
He said, “Everyone, all of us, must be against this, must be against antisemitism.”
Many White House and other members took part in the roundtable after a hike in anti-Jewish vitriol unfurled by well-known public personalities.
Former President of the United States, Donald Trump, lately hosted Nick Fuentes, a Holocaust-refusing white supremacist, at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida. The well-known Rapper Ye, who is also known as Kanye West, showed his love for Adolf Hitler in an interview. Besides, Kyrie Irving, a Basketball player, appeared to aid an antisemitic film on social media. Neo-Nazi trolls are yelling to come back to Twitter as new CEO Elon Musk allows “amnesty” to terminated accounts.
Deborah Lipstadt, President Joe Biden’s well-known representative, said, “Antisemitism is Jew-hatred; they hate Jews because they’re Jews.”
Emhoff and other administration officers said that Biden has guarded increasing funding from Congress to strengthen safety at synagogues and other houses of worship, outfitted leaders like Lipstadt to concentrate on hate crime, signed legislation to cope Anti-Asian hate crime, and recently anchored a summit against hate-fueled violence.
Emhoff said As long as he had that microphone, He was going to open up against hate, bigotry, and lies. He won’t remain quiet. He was proud to be Jewish. He was proud to live without any constraint as a Jew, and he was not fearful of living openly as a Jew, and he was not fearful. They refused to be afraid.
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