There Is A Reason For The So-Called Silence

Americans Jews, marketing professional Donny Deutsch, Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, and hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, have vigorously complained and decried what all 3 describe as the “ anti-Semitic silence” reaction to Hamas’s brutal and savage October 7th attack on innocent Israeli citizens. All 3 are correct there is a different reaction by most Americans than by many American Jews. And all 3 are wrong at the same time, the different reaction is not anti-Semitism and there is no silence about the horrific Hamas violence, however, there is a moralistic reason for the different reaction that Deutsch, Greenblatt, and Ackman are complaining about.

All right-thinking Americans were horrified at Hamas’s cruel October 7th attack but Deutsch, Greenblatt, and Ackman are right there is a missing element in right-thinking Americans’ reaction. Deutsch, Greenblatt, and Ackman have wrongly described the missing element as the presence of anti-Semitism, but it can’t be anti-Semitism because the missing element is missing based on logic and not missing based on prejudice, discrimination, or racism. No right-thinking American, not even the Americans who are protesting for an immediate Israeli cease-fire, have condoned or voiced support for Hamas’s October 7th attack. On the contrary, most Americans supported President Joe Biden’s immediate embrace of Israel…