The White House issued a brutal response Monday to what it said was the \u2018inappropriate\u2019 nickname President Biden has been given by critics of his support for Israel amid its war with Hamas terrorists.<\/p>\n
Dubbed \u2018Genocide Joe,\u2019 Biden has increasingly become the target of far-left protests across the country, including by some in his own party accusing him of supporting an effort to wipe out Gaza and the Palestinian people.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018We\u2019re not worried about nicknames and bumper stickers. I mean, it\u2019s First Amendment free speech. The president\u2019s focused on \u2026 making sure that we can continue to support Israel as they fight a terrible terrorist group, Hamas,\u2019 National Security Council spokesman John Kirby initially told New York Post reporter Steven Nelson, who asked him for a response to the nickname during the White House press briefing.<\/p>\n
Kirby then shifted his response to blast those using the term \u2018genocide\u2019 in a context outside of referring to the express goal of Hamas: the complete eradication of Jews.<\/p>\n
\u2018People can say what they want on the sidewalk, and we respect that. That\u2019s what the First Amendment is about. But this word genocide is getting thrown around in a pretty inappropriate way by lots of different folks,\u2019 he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018What Hamas wants, make no mistake about it, is genocide. They want to wipe Israel off the map. They\u2019ve said so publicly on more than one occasion, in fact, just recently. And they\u2019ve said that they\u2019re not going to stop,\u2019 he said, adding that attacks like that of Oct. 7 would continue to happen \u2018again and again and again.\u2019<\/p>\n
Kirby acknowledged that there had been \u2018too many\u2019 civilian deaths within Gaza as a result of military action, but that Israel was \u2018not trying to wipe the Palestinian people off the map.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018Israel\u2019s trying to defend itself against a genocidal terrorist threat. So if we\u2019re going to start using that word, fine, let\u2019s use it appropriately,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n
Kirby\u2019s comments come just over a week after tens of thousands of anti-Israel protesters descended on the White House, demanding a cease-fire in the war but refusing to denounce Hamas for its civilian-targeted brutality.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018Genocide Joe needs to halt his actions immediately and realize that he\u2019s going to face massive opposition from Democrat voters next election,\u2019 one protester told Fox News at the demonstration.<\/p>\n
Earlier this month, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., a member of the far-left \u2018Squad,\u2019 accused Biden of \u2018complicity\u2019 in the deaths of Palestinian children via his support for Israel.<\/p>\n
\u2018Your silence is deafening. Your complicity is even worse,\u2019 Tlaib wrote in an Instagram post directed toward Biden. \u2018A whole generation of children is being wiped out in front of us.\u2019<\/p>\n\n
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