Yesterday’s Heather Cox Richardson email contains what I believe to be her worst take ever. Here’s a quote:
The roots of today’s protests lie in an investigation by the Republican-dominated House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Virginia Foxx (R-NC). The committee announced the investigation on December 7, two days after its members spent more than five hours grilling then-president of Harvard University Claudine Gay, then-president of University of Pennsylvania Liz Magill, and president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sally Kornbluth on how their universities were handling student protests against Israel over its military response to Hamas’s attack of October 7.
The actual roots of today’s protests are the fact that the United States of America, under the Biden administration, has sent billions of dollars worth of military hardware to the Israeli government since October 7 and the Israeli government is using that hardware to conduct a genocide against the Palestinian people, making US citizens complicit in a genocide that we would be intervening in if we were the heroic nation we pretend to be. Biden, specifically, has declared himself a Zionist and says he will back Israel no matter what they do. The students are typically asking for no more than that their universities divest of any connection to the nation of Israel.
The Democratic Party establishment and its minions (including Heather Cox Richardson) are trying to pretend that Joe Biden’s Zionism is not a direct threat to his election chances and are trying to convince us that Biden is good because of all the emergency supplies he is now sending to the people whose lives he helped to destroy. Not only are they blaming the Republicans, apparently, but they’re also blaming Russia, et al. Again, from Heather Cox Richardson:
Steven Lee Myers and Tiffany Hsu of the New York Times reported today that Russia, China, and Iran are amplifying the protests “to score geopolitical points abroad and stoke tensions within the United States,” as well as to “undermine President Biden’s reelection prospects.”
The fun thing about this ongoing trend of blaming Russia is that most of what Russia is pointing out or amplifying is true. The same thing happened during the 2016 election, with Russian propagandists merely posting videos of Hillary Clinton simply expressing herself (e.g., the famous “super predators” speech, or her talking about being a “Goldwater Girl”, or how much she loves Henry Kissinger). Somehow, just showing the world what the Democratic Party stands for is “misinformation”. Certainly, it is true that Russia is villainous, but if your position is so tenuous that simply repeating the truth undermines you, then perhaps you should choose a better position.