If Jews are persecuted, it’s Israel’s fault

We’ve all heard the convoluted claim that if a woman’s clothes are too provocative, she was asking to be raped.

That twisted thinking is not much different from the recent comment made by Socialist Colorado congressional candidate Melat Kiros who “blamed Israel’s activity in the Middle East for inspiring attacks on Jewish people in other countries.”

Ethiopian-born Kiros, was lucky enough to be the baby of a man chosen to immigrate to America through the Diversity Visa Lottery, established in 1990. Growing up in Colorado, 29-year-old Kiros seems to have received the best Woke education that was on offer. 

That might explain why, although becoming a lawyer, with a promising career ahead of her as a securities regulation attorney, at a well-established N.Y. firm, she, instead, pivoted to activism. After refusing to take down her post, criticizing her own firm, along with others who opposed pro-Palestinian demonstrations, she was fired. 

Rather than learn the hard lesson that personal political viewpoints are not always appreciated in the workplace, Kiros resorted to becoming a barista to make a dent in her massive unpaid student loans. 

With the fire still inside of her, she spent the last year running for Congress. That really paid off, because she managed to successfully unseat the incumbent Representative Diana DeGette in the Democratic primary race for Colorado’s 1st Congressional District.

Her edge over the more experienced DeGette seems to have been her very radical views, emphasizing the need to oust old Democratic party leaders as well as her stand against Israel. 

As she put it, “When it comes to folks who have been in Congress for decades … they have become so disconnected from what it is like to be an ordinary person who doesn’t have that kind of power, and what it means to operate in this economy today. We hear politicians say over and over that we need bold leadership, progress and change. We’ve heard this for years. Decades. But they never deliver.”

Endorsed by Bernie Sanders, it seems to have ironically escaped Kiros that the 84-year-old Senator has, himself, been in politics for over 50 years.

Clever enough to tap into the highly charged antisemitic atmosphere, already pervasive in a fast-turning Woke Colorado, Kiros was the right candidate at the right time. 

Putting daylight between her and DeGette, who didn’t realize that supporting military aid to Israel was no longer popular, Kiros assured voters she would not do the same, citing that “offensive weapons for Israel could be used on Palestinians.” 

It’s apparent that Kiros believes the brutal massacre of innocent Israelis, including babies, children and the elderly should go undefended. And while that’s troubling enough, it is her contention that Diaspora Jews, who are the victims of antisemitism, suffer attacks due to actions taken by Israel.

Kiros is emblematic of today’s American democratic socialist constituency, whose loathing has been extended to the local Jewish population due to their deep hatred of Israel. 

As someone whose Woke philosophy embraces the concept of an oppressor class, Kiros views Israel as the big bad overlord, victimizing Gazans. Of course, no one has asked her to provide any factual information to back up her personally-held opinions.

And why should she? It’s so much easier to just throw out the unfounded charge of a Palestinian genocide, perpetrated by Israel, along with her intent to end it, a goal she stated, among many, in her victory speech.

True to form, as a cowardly politician, when asked her opinion on the life sentence given to Mohamed Sabry Soliman, the perpetrator of last year’s Boulder, CO firebomb attack, injuring 12 and killing one woman, during a solidarity walk for hostages still being held by Hamas, her pathetic comment was, “I don’t know what was in the heart of the perpetrator.”

Obviously, this is so much greater than Kiros’ contempt for the Jewish homeland. Incapable of calling out a deadly antisemitic attack, that took place in Boulder, she refuses to acknowledge that this was an attempt to hurt and kill local Jews who were exercising their freedom of speech by protesting the hostages held by terrorists.

Unwilling to own up to her blatant Jew hatred, Kiros probably takes the same position, as Soliman, reasoning that his attack targeted “Zionists,” rather than Israelis or Jews, despite his sworn affidavit, given to the FBI, stating that “he wanted to kill all Zionist people and wished they were all dead.” But isn’t that really code for all Jews?

According to Times of Israel, Kiros claims that calling for Israel’s destruction is not antisemitic. How would she then define the murder of 7 million Jews in order to accomplish such a goal – not to mention another 3 million Arabs, Christians and other minorities who call Israel home.

And once accomplished, what about America’s Jews? Let’s not forget that “Kiros campaigned with streamer/influencer Hasan Piker, who has said that America deserved 9/11, ultra-Orthodox Jews are inbreds, and anyone who ever had a positive feeling for Israel should not even be able to be a dog catcher.”  

One has to wonder if Kiros would be more tolerant of Jews who remain silent in the face of savage and barbaric attacks upon those who share their ethnicity, albeit thousands of miles away? 

Probably not, because even the most vocal critics of Israel are castigated if they, themselves are Jewish. Just look at the recent verbal and physical attack on California Senator Scott Weiner, who was forced to leave San Francisco’s Dolores Park when mercilessly accosted at a Trans March by demonstrators who hurled expletives at him over the issue of Gaza.  

Goading him to shout, “Free Palestine,” they would not let up, as they repeatedly screamed how much they hated him. It didn’t matter that Weiner had accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza.   

His sin was not failing to be critical of Israel but sharing that ethnicity, something that even his harshest words can never erase. 

If that can happen to him, what will happen to an American Jew who is supportive of Israel?Clearly, such a person would be in danger by the likes of Melat Kiros, and those who think like her, because, to them, their support of the Jewish homeland will be seen as a justification for being attacked and something they probably deserved!