Barack Obama’s proposed resolution singles out several ethnic groups threatened by ISIS.
But the proposal said nothing about Jews.
Four Jews were killed at a Kosher market by Amedy Coulibaly, an Islamist who coordinated with the Charlie Hebdo killers and who professed to be a member of ISIS.
Barack Obama called the Jewish victims a random group of “folks.”
The four hostages killed by the Jewish supermarket siege in Paris – Left to right: Yoav Hattab, 21, François-Michel Saada, 60, Yohan Cohen, 22, and Philippe Braham, 40.
Now the administration has omitted Jews from its list of ISIS targets.
CNN reported:
Bipartisan criticism of President Barack Obama’s proposed authorization of force against ISIS mostly has to do with the use of U.S. troops and limits on the commander-in-chief. But one Republican lawmaker noticed something else that he calls quite troubling – omission of the word “Jews.”
Freshman Lee Zeldin is the only Republican Jewish member of Congress, and says it immediately leapt off the page that the President’s proposed resolution specifically singles out several ethnic groups threatened by ISIS: Iraqi Christians, Yezidis and Turkmens, but says nothing about Jews.
“I see an understanding, a recognition in the resolution with regards to ISIS attacks on Muslims, on Christians and others, and I didn’t see a reference to Jews,” Zeldin told CNN in an interview. “And one of the efforts I’ve been involved in is trying to raise awareness for the rising tide of anti-semitism.”
The New York Republican questioned whether the White House deliberately left out Jews as an ethnic group that ISIS has threatened.
“I think that when the White House is drafting a resolution for the authorization of force, that every single word, every phrase in there is done deliberately — it has to be,” said Zeldin.
“Jews should have been included by the White House,” he said.
