On January 6th, Fox News conducted an interview with Senator John Kennedy (R-Louisiana), the backdrop of which was the January 1st terror attack in New Orleans whereby an Islamic terrorist, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, drove a pickup truck into a crowd on Bourbon St. killing fifteen and injuring nearly forty others.
The interviewers were keen to discuss confirmation hearings for Trump’s appointment for head of Homeland Security, South Dakota Governor, Kristi Noam.
The focus of the conversation quickly shifted, however, to safety concerns surrounding the upcoming Super Bowl, which is set to take place at the Superdome on February 9th.
Kennedy reassured viewers, “We are going to be ready for the Super Bowl … I will be there and feel safe,” he said, adding, “I will ask [Trump] and Homeland Security to send us a bunch of folks to help out.”
The Fox News hosts then played a 25-second clip of Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry, whose comments also focused on the importance of “protecting the homeland as we prepare for Super Bowl in the city of New Orleans.”
With the safety of the Super Bowl theme well established, Kennedy then stated that “the biggest threat to American domestic security is … these radical Islamic terrorists who believe that if you don’t believe what they believe, you should be killed, and that includes Jews and Americans in that number.”
He went on to say that “leadership was lacking [on January 1st in New Orleans] and we’ve got a Super Bowl coming. But the state is going to be more involved, and the Federal Government will be more involved.”
So, did you catch the odd part?
It most certainly jumped out at me. If not to you, please allow me to explain.
I’ve been a fan of the NFL ever since I was a kid. As such, I can confidently state that there is nothing especially, or even remotely, Jewish about the Super Bowl, at all. It’s not even known for having an extraordinarily high number of Jews in attendance, no more so than events surrounding the World Series or the Stanley Cup.
What is known about the Super Bowl is that it’s an eminently American phenomenon. Period.
So, why then, in a conversation laser focused on the safety of attending the Super Bowl, did Sen. Kennedy feel compelled to mention, not only Americans as potential targets of Islamic terror, but also Jews very specifically?
My sense is that he did it for the same reason that then-candidate Donald Trump, while on the campaign trail in August, felt compelled to make another gratuitous and equally absurd claim regarding the Jews, namely, that “there has never been a more dangerous time since the Holocaust if you happen to be Jewish in America.”
If Kennedy’s comments were made five years ago, I may not have noticed anything strange. Not now.
Over the past year or so, I’ve noticed what looks like a concerted, if not coordinated, effort among media personalities and politicians to seize every conceivable opportunity to paint the so-called Jews – more boldly now than ever – as the world’s premier victim class, as if they and the Zionist state of Israel are eminently blameless in every way, while also simultaneously hyping fear-porn-style the risk of Islamic terror.
Of course, neither Jewish victimhood narratives nor warnings about so-called “radical Islam” are anything new, but ever since the commencement of Israel’s blatant genocide operation in Gaza, both of these storylines seem to be more and more prevalent.
In other words, it very much looks to me as if a propaganda driven diversionary campaign is underway, and it doesn’t take a genius to figure who the authors are. The not-so-subtle message goes something like this:
Pay no attention to the tens-of-thousands of Palestinians in Gaza who, since October 2023, have been slaughtered by Israel Defense Forces, more than half of whom are women and children, rather, focus all of your attention on Islamic bad behavior. (more...)
Islamic Terror: Christianity’s greatest nemesis?
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