"Joe Biden's Plan To Fight Antisemitism: Gun Control, Hate Crime Prosecutions & New Domestic Terror Law"

Former Vice President Joe Biden told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on Thursday that he plans to "fight antisemitism" by enacting new gun control laws, aggressively prosecuting "hate crimes" and passing a "new federal domestic terrorism law."

The last federal domestic terrorism law the US passed was the civil liberties destroying so-called "PATRIOT Act," which Joe Biden voted for.

From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, "Joe Biden: My plan to fight antisemitism":

[BIDEN:] We have a serious problem with rising tides of white supremacy and antisemitism — both in America, on the political right and left, and around the world. It's not a new phenomenon, but it is the responsibility of leaders everywhere to work aggressively to combat this poison. Instead, we have a president who, in clear language and in code, encourages and emboldens it.

After Charlottesville, Donald Trump gave renewed license and safe harbor for hate to white supremacists, Neo-Nazis, and the KKK. There's a short line from those people marching with tiki torches in Charlottesville chanting "Jews will not replace us" to the shooter at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh saying Jews "were committing genocide to his people."

We need a comprehensive approach to battling antisemitism that takes seriously both the violence that accompanies it and the hateful and dangerous lies that undergird it. [...]

We must also address the extremist, white supremacist violence that has sparked so much bloodshed, especially with Trump fanning the flames of hatred and hollowing out resources we put in place during the Obama-Biden administration to address domestic extremism. I'll restore that funding and work to pass a federal domestic terrorism law. We can craft legislation that respects free speech and civil liberties, while making the same commitment as a nation to root out domestic terrorism as we have to stopping international terrorism. We must appoint leadership at the U.S. Department of Justice who will prioritize the prosecution of hate crimes — making clear that there is no place for such vitriol in this country.

And we must break the nexus between extremism and gun violence by enacting sensible gun control laws. As president, I'll make sure assault weapons and high capacity magazines are banned again, and we'll put in place a buy-back program to get as many of these weapons of war as possible off our streets.
Biden went on to praise Israel and insist the country must maintain its identity as a "Jewish state."