Listening to the Blues lately. Here is John Lee Hooker, son of Detroit.

The MAGA movement and its Republican representatives in Congress are attempting – working overtime in fact – and in plain sight to weaponize antisemitism to discredit opposition to Israel’s occupation and policy of genocide in Gaza as well as to divide the anti-MAGA movement ahead of the elections. That should be resisted. So should the spike in incidents and expressions of antisemitism that date back, at least, to Trump’s election in 2016.

President Biden in a televised evening address should speak to the country (and world) on the crisis and famine in Gaza. Among other things, he should say it is intolerable, insist on a permanent ceasefire and appeal to the global community to provide humanitarian assistance and the wherewithal to rebuild Gaza into a habitable place to live, work, and worship. This is as much a moral as a political imperative.