NEW YORK (VINnews) — In the wake of the spate of anti-Semitic attacks on Jews in the US, Aaron Keyak, President Joe Biden’s Jewish Engagement Director, tweeted that “It pains me to say this, but if you fear for your life or physical safety take off your kippah and hide your magen david. (Obviously, if you can, ask your rabbi first.).”
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It pains me to say this, but if you fear for your life or physical safety take off your kippah and hide your magen david. (Obviously, if you can, ask your rabbi first.) https://t.co/Dca2hpfY2s @shirahanau @BenjaminSales
— Aaron Keyak (@akeyak) May 21, 2021
Ironically, Keyak had previously expressed his fear for wearing a Kippah under President Trump and seemingly attributed that fear to the Trump administration. Keyak wrote in a tweet in October 2020 that “as a Jew in the US under Trump, I constantly have to look over my shoulder to see how people are looking at my yarmulke. ”
This you? pic.twitter.com/uHKV8C0SB6
— Jeremy Rovinsky (@RovinskyLaw) May 26, 2021
Keyak was exposed on his fears by Jeremy Rovinsky who questioned whether the same person who had expressed his fears under Trump was now stating the same under Biden.
Does anybody here think that this spineless weasel would have the guts to tell Muslim women to remove their burqa’s and hijabs? I’m pretty sure we all know the answer to that
Basically, your answer to anti semites, is apologize for being Jewish, I’m sorry that my kippah offends you, I’ll remove it. Shame on you. It seems the problem here is that you personally have an issue with a kippah. Shame on you!if Joe Biden would actually know what’s going on around him, which he doesn’t, he would have to fire this guy. What does he do as Jewish engagement director besides apologize for being Jewish?
Even Biden or even the dreaded AOC would have the chutzpah to tell us that.
This is the guy advocating for us in the Biden Administration?
He needs to be removed!
Seems like Aaron Keyak just wants to take his kipah off and is looking around for who or what to blame.
Hey, Keyak, why didn’t you at least recommend a baseball cap?
What a low life piece of garbage socialist liberal Democrat. Hitler YMSH didn’t know who was Jewish and who was not. When you’re sitting at a baseball game and you you see people wearing baseball caps you don’t know whether or not they’re part of our people or not, just because they’re wearing a baseball cap? This person is utterly insane.
I will never ever ever take religious advice from a self-hating Jew who is only Jew “ish.”
Aaron, will you tell a BLM person to get plastic surgery?
Is the United States turning into France?
He needs to be replaced
Hey Mr Biden 2024 or pence 2024 (you are confused). Anyhow, is this why charedi jews are for Biden? Maybe yiur kind of open orthdoxy MO jew? Is that charedi?
This idiot has such a Jew Face. I wonder if he would be so cavalier if someone beat the stuffing out of him because he looks like a fat Jew? Then someone could advise him, “If you are afraid of getting beaten don’t complain or seek justice, just stay home.”
Maybe we should all put on Arab headdresses and cloaks.
Idiot…
A few years ago i met a young French mother on a shabbas afternoon in ramat beit shemesh gimmel who described life in France and would have to hide her Jewish star for fear of being attacked. I was shocked to hear her description of jewish life there. But now i fear the days are quickly approaching in other countries such as America where the same norm will be commonplace outside of major jewish enclaves. ה’ ישמור.
Hey Aaron: What do you mean take off your yarmulke? Y don’t u take off your circumcision? If you can’t protect us, stay with the President in his basement. We will call u when it is safe to emerge.
Take the potch, hint from G-d, guy aheim, nu?
Why are you all pouncing on him? I told my son the same thing. I won’t be an idealist when it comes to safety. It seems to me that Aaron K is just giving a practical suggestion in these unfortunate times.