Ron DeSantis, a Republican candidate for president of the United States, recently spoke in a “Conversation” that was aired exclusively online of his “response to displays of antisemitism.” What follows are his words, verbatim:
I can tell you what we’ve done since I’ve been governor. You know, we’ve put in twelve million dollars for security of Jewish day schools, because we’re not going to let those schools be attacked. We beefed up Holocaust education standards; we have the strongest Holocaust education standards in the entire country. I gave the Florida Medal of Freedom to Ben Ferencz, the last surviving prosecutor at Nuremberg — he’s since passed away, but he was somebody that we looked up to and are proud that he was a Floridian. We’ve enacted universal school choice so that parents can send their kids to Jewish day schools and to other schools, which we think are important. I signed the first bill in America to go after antisemitism in our universities. I actually signed that in the American Embassy in Jerusalem in 2019, and we said, “Listen, we’re not going to let our universities become a hotbed of antisemitism. We’re going to treat that just like we treat racism.” And we led the way on that. Just recently I was in Israel for the 75th anniversary. I keynoted an event at the Museum of Tolerance, and I signed another piece of legislation to go after people that are commandeering property of others, including synagogues, to do things like show swastikas; so we’re going to hold them accountable. I said when I was running, we’d be the most pro-Israel state in America, I delivered on that, and we are the number one state for Jewish in-migration of any state in this country. So we’ve gotten all those policies right, and what I would say is: “There are people who are doing things like that; they are trying to divide by using that as a weapon against me. Those were not my supporters, because if they were my supporters, they would be on the side of every step I have taken.” There’s been nobody that’s been stronger on these issues, in any part of the country, than me. We’re proud of that.
And as president, we’re going to fight organizations like the United Nations when they target Israel. We’re going to fight against the BDS movement when they try to single out Israel as the world’s only Jewish State. We’re going to go after these third world countries that have become hotbeds of antisemitism. We’ve always stood strong; we’ll continue to stand strong; and that’s just the way it’s going to be. We’re proud in Florida, that there’s more orthodox Jews moving into my state, than is moving into any other state in the United States. They would not be doing that if they didn’t see policies that were very positive.
Now, one has to wonder, under what pretense of Christianity could any man support this Judenfreund, who, by the way, esteems Baptism about as highly as the Jews do?
Altlutheraner 