The Most Persecuted, Religiously Targeted Group In America Was EXCLUDED From White House Hate Crimes Summit

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Orthodox Jews say they were excluded from White House hate-crimes summit

By Steven Nelson, NY Post, September 20, 2022:

WASHINGTON —

The Rev. Al Sharpton requested the summit after the May massacre of 10 black shoppers in Buffalo, and it brought together hundreds of activists and community leaders from minority groups. But Orthodox Jews, who suffer a large number of hate crimes, struggled to make the cut.

Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce CEO Duvi Honig told The Post he tried to RSVP, contacting three Biden staffers and even brandishing an endorsement from the New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy’s office to be honored as a Uniter — an award bestowed to 16 people at the event.

He didn’t hear back.

“The question is, is [Biden] punishing the Orthodox community for supporting [former President Donald] Trump? Regardless, my concern is as we’re going into the high holy holidays, would people read that Orthodox Jew attacks aren’t recognized by the White House? Because that encourages people to continue to be more aggressive” Honig said.

“The White House used hate. They used us, our blood — they used our DNA of Jews being persecuted and attacked daily as an excuse to make an event and didn’t include Orthodox Jews, who were the number one [target of] hate and antisemitism,” Honig said.
Some Orthodox Jewish leaders have criticized the Biden administration for not inviting them to the “United We Stand” summit about hate-crimes and antisemitism at the White House last week.
Some Orthodox Jewish leaders have criticized the Biden administration for not inviting them to the “United We Stand” summit about hate-crimes and antisemitism at the White House last week.
Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images

At least one Orthodox Jew was admitted to the hundreds-strong gathering — Nathan Diament of the Orthodox Union — but Honig said it wasn’t enough. “One person trickled in!” he said dismissively, adding that it would have been more appropriate to invite a New York-area member of the community, given the group’s center of population and epicenter of victimization.

Roughly 800 of about 2,700 antisemitic incidents in 2021 — or nearly one third of them — occurred in New Jersey or New York.

“They didn’t recognize any Orthodox Jew as a Uniter purposely, which stands out while then recogniz[ing] Islamic, Reform [Jews], [Christian leaders] and so on,” said Honig, whose group seeks to build economic bridges between communities. “Our community’s leaders from the various large communities of Orthodox sectors where daily attacks accrue were missing [from] the summit and not invited.”
Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce CEO Duvi Honig said that he tried to RSVP to the event but did not get a response from the White House.Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce CEO Duvi Honig said that he tried to RSVP to the event but did not get a response from the White House.LinkedIn / Duvi Honig

Honig said that he believes Reform Jews, who were better represented at the summit, are less likely to experience hate crimes because they don’t wear the conspicuous attire of many Orthodox Jews. “We were used and stepped on and spit out. There’s just no better way to say it than you’re making a wedding and you’re not inviting the bride and groom — you just wanted a party,” he said.

A group of four Orthodox Jewish journalists from Ami magazine led by reporter Jake Turx also were barred from the summit’s primary attraction: a speech by Biden in the nearly 3,000 square foot East Room.

Although the four journalists submitted electronic RSVPs, they were each told “spacing constraints” meant they couldn’t join a crowd of other reporters selected via a mysterious prescreening process, which the Biden press office recently eased after a press corps revolt.

The Orthodox reporters pleaded with staffers including press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre before the event — and were assisted in a valiant last-minute effort by a Jewish press staffer — but ultimately were left covering the event from the White House driveway rather than the indoor venue with Biden.

It’s unclear who assembled the guest list for the summit or the list of reporters allowed into it.

A White House official told The Post that there was a reporter allowed into the room from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, and that in addition to Orthodox Union leader Diament, several other non-Orthodox Jews participated in the summit. The union’s vice president, Moshe Hauer, was invited but wasn’t able to attend.
Four Orthodox Jewish journalists from Ami magazine were not allowed into Biden’s speech in the East Room due to “spacing constraints.”

Joseph Borgen, a New Yorker attacked last year while wearing a yarmulke, was included in a “survivors” panel at the summit.

During his remarks, Biden said he decided to run for president after hearing the “antisemitic bile” of white supremacists during 2017 racial clashes in Charlottesville, and said that there’s a “through line” of deeply ingrained prejudice in US society.

“Unfortunately, such hate-fueled violence and threats are not new to America,” Biden said. “There is a through-line of hate from massacres of Indigenous people, to the original sin of slavery, the terror of the Klan, to anti-immigration violence against the Irish, Italians, Chinese, Mexicans, and so many others laced throughout our history.

“There is a through-line of violence against religious groups: antisemitic, anti-Catholic, anti-Mormon, anti-Muslim, anti-Hindu, anti-Sikh.”

Antisemitic hate crime victim Joseph Borgen was invited to speak on a panel at the summit.

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