Following Israel’s elected National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s brief 13-minute visit to the Temple Mount the Biden administration lost no time in excoriating Israel, together with much of the Arab press and some European countries, demanding that the status quo not be violated. According to the agreement in which Israel gave custody to the Moslem Waqf in 1967 Jews and Christians have a right to visit the Plaza, rights that were denied while the area was illegally occupied by Jordan from 1948 to 1967. The Biden administration seems to have no problems with gross violations of the status quo by the Palestinians, including illegally excavating the Temple Mount to destroy priceless Jewish historical artefacts, or using the Plaza for riots and to attack Jewish worshippers at the Western Wall. The Biden administration wants to apply apartheid to the Jews’ holiest site. It makes no such demands from any other country, and coming on top of resuming funding the Palestinians’ pay-for-slay scheme, in which families of terrorists are paid in proportion to the number of Jews that are slaughtered in attacks. The Biden administration should stop fuelling anti-Semitism while hypocritically claiming to be Israel’s friend.