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Fox News Digital looks back at the former president as violent cases of anti-Semitism took place nationwide this year. Joe BidenA tendency to equate anti-Semitism with Islamophobia.
The former president correctly condemned hatred directed at Jews in the wake of the Israeli massacre and subsequent war in Gaza on October 7, 2023, but Biden was sure to draw almost always equal anti-Muslim sentiment.
“In recent years, too much hatred has given too much oxygen, promoted racism, the rise of anti-Semitism, and the Islamophobia in America,” Biden said it broke out in a primetime speech from the White House a few days after the war. He added:
Biden added at his October 2023 Human Rights Campaign event: Anti-Semitismislamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, they are all connected. Groups with hatred towards one group open the door for unanswered leaving and more hatred towards more groups.
The case of anti-Semitism surged to new highs last year, with the Anti-Formation League (ADL) being discovered in a new report. 9,354 anti-Semitism incidents in 2024, Since we began tracking such data in 1979, it has increased by 5% since 2023, with an astonishing increase of 926%.

Former President Joe Biden will speak at a press conference on his final day of office. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, file)
The war in Israel initially incited the flames of anti-Semitism on campus in the form of protests, threatening graffiti and threatening students who reported that they felt it was an “open season for Jews on our campus.” The protest was elevated to the point that Jewish students from some schools, including Columbia University, were warned to leave campus for their own safety.
Agitators and student protesters flooded university campuses nationwide last year to protest the war. Cases of anti-Semitism And Jewish students have publicly stated that they don’t feel safe on some campuses.
Protestors Columbia University Campus In New York City, for example, they took over the school’s Hamilton Hall building, but schools such as UCLA, Harvard and Yale worked to clear the camps of the Spiral students, which demanded protesters sell the elite schools entirely from Israel.
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Anti-Israel protesters linked their weapons to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Steeble Blanc)
When the protest reached a fever pitch last year, Biden once again equated anti-Semitism with Islamophobia, although it was clear that Jews were a target group targeting harassment and violence.
“There should be no US location on campus for the threat of anti-Semitism or violence against Jewish students. There should be no place for hate speech or violence of any kind, whether it be anti-Semitism, Islamophobia or discrimination against Palestinian Americans.
“It’s simply wrong. There’s no place for racism in America.”
Biden faced criticism from conservatives and other critics, rather than simply condemning anti-Semitism, as American Jews faced anti-Semitism protests and cases.
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“When the university campus wasn’t trapped in Islamophobia, Joe Biden felt the need to spend a lot of his time on speeches condemning Islamophobia and “discrimination against Arab Americans” just like anti-Semitism. He can never do it. Invoke anti-Semitism“Radio host Eric Ericson commented on X as the campus protested against Israel in May 2024.

Anti-Israel protesters will meet on May 3, 2024 outside the New York University campus in New York City. (RashidUmarAbbasi on Fox News Digital)
“Biden repeats both sides,” veteran James Hutton wrote last year about Biden’s previous comments. “Only Jewish students are being violated. Biden knows that, but he really wants a vote in Michigan.”
“Biden cannot simply condemn anti-Semitism. Yet another vagueness. This administration is embarrassing,” R-La. Kelly Romm, assistant communications director for speaker Mike Johnson, wrote in X last year.
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Family and friends gather outside the congregation after the funeral of Salamilgrim, a staff member of the Israeli Embassy who was killed outside the Washington Jewish Museum in Overland Park, Kansas, on May 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
this year, Trump administration Last month, shootings left a Jewish couple who died on the streets of Washington, D.C. outside the Jewish museum last month, and anti-Semitism and attacks on American Jews, who have highlighted the terrorist attacks, an Egyptian citizen whose Egyptian citizens were identified as having been identified last Sunday. Mohamed Sabrie Soliman They reportedly cast Molotov cocktails on those taking part in a solidarity event for Israeli hostages who have been taken prisoner in Hamas.

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Soliman’s charging document stated, “They moved to Boulder, Colorado, and threw two cocktails in their vehicle with Molotov cocktails. They threw two cocktails to individuals attending Israeli rally.
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Democrat Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro – Keystone’s third Jewish governor – faced his own example of anti-Semitism when the suspect set fire to the governor’s residence while he slept on the first night of crossing.

President Donald Trump’s administration has taken steps to crack down on US anti-Semitism (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Meanwhile, President Donald Trump I signed an executive order On “additional measures to combat anti-Semitism” in January as his administration began repression of anti-Semitism. Last year, federal law enforcement officials arrested an individual allegedly linked to widespread anti-Israeli protests, but the White House threatened to allow violent anti-Israeli protests and end federal funding for universities that are investigating the immigration status of those accused of carrying out major campus protests or anti-Semitic attacks.