President Obama Criticized for Silence Following Death of U.S. Citizen in Palestinian Terrorist Attack while he made a big deal of "clock boy" Yet, liberal Jews continue to support him.

President Obama Criticized for Silence Following Death of U.S. Citizen in Palestinian Terrorist Attack

President Barack Obama was criticized by supporters of Israel Sunday for three days of silence following the slaying of an American student by a Palestinian gunman on Thursday.

While the State Department — albeit one day after the attack — and the U.S. ambassador to Israel condemned the attack, a petition was started on the White House website calling on President Obama to “publicly acknowledge the senseless killing of Ezra Schwartz,” the Massachusetts Jewish teenager gunned down while spending a year in Israel before starting college next fall.

“We respectfully request that President Obama publicly acknowledge the senseless killing of Ezra Schwartz, condemn the attack and rebuke the Palestinian Authority for claiming that the third victim of this attack, an Israeli Arab, was killed by Israeli forces, when not a single shot was fired by Israeli military or law enforcement and the terrorist was taken into custody unharmed,” the petition read in part.

The pro-Israel organization Stand With Us asked if Schwartz’s family would be invited to the White House given that a Palestinian-American teenager injured after being beaten by an Israeli policeman received such an invitation.

It posted this graphic on social media:

Source: Facebook/StandWithUs

At his Friday briefing, a day after the Massachusetts teen was killed, State Department Spokesman John Kirby acknowledged the student was “murdered in a terrorist attack on Thursday while in Israel to pursue his studies,” noting that five U.S. citizens were also wounded in the attacks.

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