US President Joe Biden meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York, September 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Joe Biden's several decades in political office have proved him consistent in his depraved indifference toward the suffering of oppressed people around the globe as he offers full-throated support for colonizing forces. His recent declaration of his political alignment as a zionist comes as no surprise to anyone.
The recent proclamation by Joe Biden that he is a Zionist, should come as no surprise to anyone who has watched the increasingly, ghoulish-looking president over the years. Although this is not his first time announcing his allegiance to Zionism, the context in which he proudly wears his colonial white supremacist mantle, is particularly startling. While the world and significant portions of his own electorate, loudly condemn Zionism and the ethnic cleansing that the Zionist regime is carrying out in Gaza, Biden doubles down on his allegiance to it. But we should not be surprised.
The only reason that Joe Biden is president today, with the significant support of African Americans, is because he wasn’t Trump. The Black community had seen enough of the inept, inarticulate, far-right, Trump, who openly expressed his allegiance with white supremacists. So they voted for Biden, replacing one bumbling, inarticulate right-leaning president with another. Joe Biden’s history as a Senator is riddled with actions and statements that many consider to be racist. He openly declared that mandatory school busing to achieve racial integration in many parts of the country was “the most racist concept you can come up with.” He, along with his racist senate colleague, Jesse Helms, attempted to use all of their power in the Senate to prevent federal funds from being used for further school integration. Zionist Joe quipped, regarding the actions in the Senate, “What it says is, ‘In order for your child with curly black hair, brown eyes, and dark skin to be able to learn anything, he needs to sit next to my blond-haired, blue-eyed son’ That’s racist!”
It stands to reason that Biden would therefore have little, to no, empathy or concern for Palestinian children getting their limps blown off and being killed indiscriminately, given his antipathy towards Black children attempting to get a fair shot at an education on par with their white counterparts. The segregation that Biden supported was akin to an apartheid system in America. Although the occupation of Palestine is qualitatively different than the apartheid here, the overall dehumanization of people of color is the same.
The European settler project that is Israel, has long been dominated by a Biden-like character in Benjamin Netanyahu. He too has a way with words for those he despises. He once claimed that Palestinians “want to pile up as many civilian dead as they can. They use telegenically dead Palestinians for their cause. They want the more dead, the better.”
This callous statement implying that Palestinians are trying to find the most appealing like dead children, killed by Israel, to sway public opinion, is only matched by the barbarity of the actual murders of said children. Statements like this would make any other politician an international pariah, but not so for Netanyahu. Biden, the Zionist, embraces and hugs him like an old friend. Two European settler colonies, both founded on genocide are naturally headed by men (or women in the future) who can say anything, no matter how disgusting and still maintain international respect and enjoy long political careers. So it stands to reason that these two men would have common ground on issues of colonialism and its effects on the colonized. They are two peas in a violent, colonial pod.
Zionist Joe was dedicated to establishing a mass incarceration system that disproportionately penalized and incarcerated African Americans. Joe “if you don’t vote for me then you ain’t Black” Biden was a central figure in passing the 1994 crime bill. He supported legislation mandating mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug offenses, support for the death penalty, and the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine. It makes sense, in assessing the harsh impact of these laws on poor Black communities and the Black jail population that exploded because of it, that Zionist Joe would support a regime that imprisons Palestinian men, women and children, in Israeli jails where they are frequently held with no charges or legal protections. He likely believes that imprisoned children in Israeli jails are “ violent thugs”. The dead Palestinian children, in Biden’s mind, were probably failed by their parents and grew up to be sociopaths, just as he likened the Black children in the so-called inner city. It all makes perfect sense to a Zionist like Joe, that the colonized and enslaved do not deserve legal protections from mass arrests, state-sponsored violence, mass incarceration, torture, including children, all due to the supposed pathologies in their homes, as opposed to the effects of colonization and enslavement. He is indeed a Zionist.
Of all of the ideologies in the world to identify with, Joe Biden openly declares that he is a Zionist. It all makes sense of course because Zionism is a colonial enterprise of European character. It is with much certainty that Joe could never identify himself with the sufferings of the Palestinians, the histories of resistance by, not only Palestinians, but also the Mau Mau and the Algerians. Genocide Joe can’t empathize with the thousands of displaced people of Diego Garcia who were removed from their island home to create a military launching site for the Americans. He cannot relate to the people of this hemisphere’s first true democracy, the people of Haiti. Zionist Joe he once quipped, “If Haiti just quietly sunk into the Caribbean, or rose up 300 feet, it wouldn’t matter a whole lot in terms of our interests.” Spoken like a true Zionist. Just he wouldn’t mind if Haiti sunk into the ocean, the Zionist regime in Israel is actively bombing Palestine into the Stone Age.
Many African Americans voted for him under the mistaken notion that he wasn’t racist because he was Obama’s running mate. This analysis was overly simplistic of course, but perhaps understandable. And he played it for all it was worth. But still, one wonders how he stomached eight years of being vice president to Barack Obama. Although Obama was clearly an imperialist, as one must be in order to be the face of the hegemonic American empire, he likely wasn’t a Zionist like Joe. But, with Obama, one can never be too sure. Many Black people will likely make the same calculation, as they did in the last election, with Kamala Harris. But, in supporting this televised ethnic cleansing that is being perpetrated by Israel against the captive population of Gaza, she has basically shown that she is a Zionist too.
The Zionist project is an inherently racist project. Many of the greatest African American leaders, from Malcolm X to Kwame Toure to the leadership of the Black Panther Party to world figures like Nelson Mandela, have understood this reality and have supported the liberation of Palestine from the Zionist regime. The fake allegiance to a “two-state solution”, a farce that the Israeli regime only paid lip service to, is laid bare by the reality the world is witnessing now. Although it should have been clear when Israel continually stole Palestinian lands, allowed Israeli settlers to take the homes of Palestinians and move into them, along with the constant murders, humiliations, arrests, starving and maiming of Palestinian people in the West Bank and in Gaza, since 1947, that they were not committed to anything less a total theft of Palestinian land, it is absolutely clear now. All of these provocations laid the groundwork for the mass slaughter of the Palestinians by Israel that the world witnesses today. The European settlers have had a historical penchant for wiping out populations of indigenous people and replacing them with the Europeans that they import onto the stolen lands. The theft, mass slaughters, stealing of children and other atrocities of all settler projects, follow the same playbook. They all invade and steal land and resources, and when the indigenous fight back, they all claim to be the victims. They then use their supposed victimhood to commit further atrocities against the indigenous people. This is what happened in North America to the various native First Peoples, in occupied Azania (South Africa), and of course in Palestine.
Biden was right of course when he said that you don’t have to be a Jew to be a Zionist. In fact, many Jews worldwide are not Zionists and oppose the Zionist project in Palestine. But Biden and Netanyahu have simply pulled the mask off of the illusion of America being an “honest broker” in “peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine. When the president openly admits that he is a Zionist, all pretenses are exposed. The Zionist American president, along with the Zionist prime minister in Israel, are partners in genocide and war crimes and they both should be prosecuted as such.
Biden has been a supporter of racial segregation, mass incarceration and now of genocide. History should remember him as such. And so should the voters in America.
Bryan K. Bullock is an attorney at law.
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