Why Was the White House Reluctant to Call Paris Attack Anti-Semitic?
President Obama has called the deli attack anti-Semitic in the past.
on February 10, 2015 in Washington, DC.
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Even when giving interviews to new media organizations, presidents must choose their words carefully.
Critics have pounced on a remark President Obama made during an interview with Vox's Matthew Yglesias regarding the January terrorist attack in Paris, France, in which Obama characterized the killing of four people in a kosher supermarket a random occurrence rather than an act of anti-semitism.