GOP presidential candidate and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie insisted on Sunday that antisemitism in the United States is not on the rise, arguing that it has been there all along.<\/p>\n
Christie, appearing on NBC\u2019s \u2018Meet the Press,\u2019 responded to the controversy surrounding X owner Elon Musk and antisemitism espoused on TikTok and by American college professors since Hamas terrorists launched their October 7 attack against civilians, killing about 1,200 people and dragging some 240 more into Gaza as hostages.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018I think that what we\u2019re seeing in this country, Kristen, and with Iran, with the incredible unmasking of antisemitism, I don\u2019t want to say it\u2019s a rise. I think it\u2019s been there,\u2019 Christie told host Kristen Welker. \u2018And I think what we\u2019re seeing now, due to what\u2019s happening in Israel at the moment, is that unmasking of that, we\u2019re seeing it all over college campuses.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018We\u2019re seeing it on social media sites like X and TikTok and other social media sites. And it is horrific,\u2019 he said. \u2018I think the president, United States needs to be much stronger than he\u2019s been in speaking out against antisemitism in this country. This is an outrageous, outrageous type of hate that\u2019s being expressed. And we need to be speaking out against it no matter who does it, whether it\u2019s Elon Musk, whether it\u2019s professors on our college campuses or students that they are misleading or whether it\u2019s individuals who are speaking out in an antisemitic way on the streets of our cities. This is unacceptable. And the president has not been strong enough in this view and in this point.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
Musk was accused of endorsing a post on X in which another user appeared to have espoused the antisemitic trope of claiming Jewish people hate White people.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Musk later issued a clarification, claiming he was only addressing left-wing organizations, not Jews in general, and said that anyone advocating for the genocide of any group of people on X would be suspended from the platform.<\/p>\n
Christie, the first Republican presidential candidate to visit Israel since the war began, called on the Israeli and United States governments to work on a deal to bring hostages home.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018I would support a deal that \u2013 that was fair and equitable and one that gets these people home now,\u2019 Christie said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018I absolutely do think Israel is following international law,\u2019 Christie added, rejecting allegations from the United Nations human rights chief who accused Israel of war crimes in Gaza.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018Unlike a lot of other people who are expressing opinions about this, I was there and spoke to the leaders in Israel, spoke to the president of Israel. I spoke to members of the Israeli Defense Forces. I was 600 yards from the Gaza border. I went everywhere in Israel to see what\u2019s going on. And they are doing everything they can to avoid civilian casualties,\u2019 Christie told Welker.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018The problem is that Hamas is forcing these civilians to stay in places where Israel is warning them out of dropping thousands of leaflets, sending hundreds of thousands of text messages to warn people away from areas before they\u2019re attacked,\u2019 he said. \u2018It is Hamas that\u2019s doing this. And let us not forget, for those who are advocating for a ceasefire, there was a ceasefire on October 6 and it was Hamas that broke it on October 7.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n\n
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