The Biden administration, as well as many Democrats, has faced criticism for its reaction to a rise in anti-Semitic actions.<\/p>\n
As groups commit hate crimes against Jewish Americans, Kamala Harris launched a new task force to battle\u2014Islamophobia.<\/p>\n
Now, her husband is facing controversy over a Hanukkah post he made recently. Despite deleting afterward, users online are calling him out.<\/p>\n
From Daily Wire:
\nVice President Kamala Harris\u2019 husband, Doug Emhoff, deleted a post on social media Monday night after facing mockery over getting the story of Hanukkah wrong.<\/p>\n\u201cIn the Hanukkah story, the Jewish people were forced into hiding,\u201d Emhoff claimed in the now-deleted post on X. \u201cNo one thought they would survive or that the few drops of oil they had would last. But they survived and the oil kept burning. During those eight days in hiding, they recited their prayers and continued their traditions.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Vice President Harris\u2019s husband, Doug Emhoff, deleted a post he made to X about Hanukkah. The Jewish man claimed that the holiday commemorates a time when Jews \u201cwere forced into hiding.\u201d And while in hiding, their \u201cfew drops of oil\u201d lasted for eight days \u201cin hiding.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is not the story behind the Jewish holiday. Hanukkah remembers a time when a group of Jewish warriors freed the Second Temple from the hands of Greek emperor Antiochus IV. The miracle of the event was that a small supply of oil for the menorah lasted eight days.<\/p>\n
Users online blasted Emhoff for not knowing the story of his own people\u2019s holiday. One commentator pointed out that Emhoff claimed the Jews were hiding, when in reality, they were fighting for their land\u2014something progressives strongly oppose today.<\/p>\n
Others mocked the vice president\u2019s husband. Another person asked why nobody \u201cin the East Wing\u201d was knowledgeable enough about the holiday to correct Emhoff.<\/p>\n
Critics were particularly brutal to Emhoff, a Jewish man, for not knowing the true story. Jewish children are told the story of Hanukkah at an early age. It is unusual for a grown man not to know it.<\/p>\n
To put it into context for non-Jews, this would be like a \u201cChristian\u201d saying Christmas is when Mary and Joseph gave birth to the angel Gabriel.<\/p>\n
Perhaps he was deliberately distorting the story to make a connection to the Holocaust\u2014where many Jews were in hiding. Or perhaps, he wanted to evoke a woke message through a sacred Jewish tradition.<\/p>\n
Regardless of why he did it, it\u2019s clear it did not go over well.<\/p>\n
Source:\u00a0Daily Wire<\/p>\n\n
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