Antisemitism Has Taken Hold in the Democratic Party.
There has always been antisemitism on the fringes of both the Republican and the Democratic parties. It has remained limited to individuals or small groups of hateful individuals operating on the extreme fringe at the grassroots. It has not been systemic within the major parties or the government since the early twentieth century, when President Franklin Roosevelt led the last truly antisemitic administration in this nation.
Lately, however, antisemitism has become an integral part of the politics and policies of the rising radical left within the Democratic Party. Antisemitic tropes now issue regularly from Democrat members of Congress. Institutional antisemitism has empowered grassroots antisemitism in ways America has not experienced in almost 100 years.
The numbers reveal a rising tide that cannot be dismissed as coincidence or isolated extremism. According to the Anti-Defamation League, the United States recorded 9,354 antisemitic incidents in 2024, the highest total since tracking began in 1979 and a 5 percent increase from the prior year. The FBI reported 1,938 single-bias anti-Jewish hate crimes that same year, up 5.8 percent from 2023 and the highest figure since data collection started in 1991. These crimes represented nearly 70 percent of all religion-based hate crimes despite Jews comprising roughly 2 percent of the population. Physical assaults reached 178. In 2025 the ADL still documented 6,274 incidents, and three Jewish people were murdered in antisemitic attacks—the first such murders since 2019.
Various terrorist attacks on Jewish events and facilities underscore the danger. In 2025 a gunman killed two Jewish employees outside an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. That same year an Egyptian national attacked a “Run for Their Lives” gathering in Boulder, Colorado, with a flamethrower and Molotov cocktails while yelling “Free Palestine,” killing one person and injuring more than a dozen. An arsonist hurled Molotov cocktails at the residence of Jewish Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro while his family slept inside. In March 2026 a man rammed a vehicle into Temple Israel synagogue and preschool in West Bloomfield, Michigan, then opened fire, injuring a security officer; the attacker drew inspiration from Hezbollah. In January 2026 another vehicle ramming targeted the Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters in Brooklyn, and arson struck Beth Israel Congregation in Jackson, Mississippi, damaging Torah scrolls. These incidents form part of a pattern of shootings, firebombing, stabbings, and vehicle attacks on synagogues, community centers, and public Jewish events.
All these incidents are the consequences of the rhetorical fuel provided by powerful Democrat leaders – including members of Congress. Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib of the Squad have invoked classic antisemitic tropes, including suggestions that Jewish money through AIPAC controls congressional policy and implications of dual loyalty. They opposed a House resolution condemning the global rise of antisemitism, claiming it would stifle criticism of Israel. Such statements from sitting Democrats do not remain confined to the fringe; they signal permission to the broader coalition.
Institutional tolerance has produced concrete grassroots consequences. In June 2026, Congressman Dan Goldman, a pro-Israel Democrat, stopped at Poetica Coffee in Brooklyn with his seven-year-old daughter to use the restroom and purchased a coffee. After the visit the shop owner posted on social media that staff would have turned Goldman away had they recognized him, issued a refund of $9.82, and declared they do not serve “genocide enablers.” The Department of Justice opened a civil rights investigation into the incident.
Another revealing case involves Graham Platner, the Democratic nominee for the United States Senate in Maine. Platner won his primary despite having worn a Nazi Totenkopf tattoo on his chest for most of his adult life, and despite accusations of antisemitism tied to his characterizations of AIPAC influence. Senator Bernie Sanders endorsed him. Other prominent Democrats, including Elizabeth Warren, Chuck Schumer, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and additional members of the Squad, have continued to support or decline to repudiate his candidacy. Defending and supporting an individual with Nazi fascinations is a backhanded form of antisemitism.
Antisemitic actions on college campuses since October 2023 have revealed a toxic mix of student activism and faculty complicity that turned many universities into hostile environments for Jewish students.
At Columbia University, student organizers established “Gaza Solidarity Encampments” that featured building occupations, exclusionary tactics, and chants invoking the destruction of Israel alongside harassment of Jewish peers. At UCLA, protesters created what became known as a “Jew Exclusion Zone” on Royce Quad, physically barring Jewish and Israeli students from parts of campus unless they denounced Israel. Masked students displayed swastikas, graffitied “F**k Jews” and “Jews, the new Nazis,” chanted “Itbah El Yahud” (slaughter the Jews) and “death to Jews,” and violently attacked counterprotesters while ripping down hostage posters.
Faculty members amplified the problem. Professors participated in or publicly defended these encampments and protests, incorporated antisemitic framing into class content, and pressured administrators to tolerate or accommodate violations rather than enforce conduct codes. Congressional reports documented faculty ignoring protections for Jewish students and legitimizing harassment.
During a 2024 teach-in, Ibrahim Aoude, Professor at the University of Hawaii, stated that then-U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken acted “as a Jew, not as an American Secretary of State” and specifically “a Zionist Jew.” Sami Hermez, Assistant Professor and Director of the Liberal Arts Program at Northwestern University in Qatar, has shared or endorsed content referring to “Jews [as] disgusting liars.” He spreads conspiracy theories about Jews controlling Europe.
These developments are not random. The radical left’s dominance within significant segments of the Democratic Party has transformed what once existed only at the margins into tolerated or defended behavior. When elected officials traffic in ancient prejudices, when primary challenges punish pro-Israel Democrats, when candidates with Nazi tattoos and conspiracy rhetoric receive establishment backing, and when businesses feel empowered to deny service on the basis of support for Israel, antisemitism ceases to be fringe. It becomes a feature of the culture – at least the radical left-wing Democrat culture.
The attack on Jewish institutions and people today is reminiscent of the early 1930s in Germany. It was then top down hatred of Jewish DNA, their religious beliefs, their wealth and business dealings, their very presence. They were accused of international conspiracies. They were violently attack by politically motivated mobs – property destroyed and people murdered. The enemy was a political party that embraced antisemitism. Sound familiar?
The Democratic Party now confronts a choice it cannot evade through platitudes about “criticism of policy.” The data, the attacks on synagogues and Jewish gatherings, the congressional rhetoric, and the defense of compromised candidates all point in one direction. Antisemitism is gaining ground in America – and the Democratic Party is the prime mover.
So, there ‘tis.
Larry has difficulty with the difference of Israel the country and the Jewish religion.
He has a nice list of antisemitic events and direct ties to the Democratic Party.
Therefore his story is off base and innacurate.
Calling a Jew like Goldman antisemitism is ridiculous. But they do. Others call him pro Israel.
Apparently my doppelganger, Drunk Danger penned that piece on his not-so-smart phone. Try…..
Larry has difficulty with the difference of Israel the country and the Jewish religion.
He has a nice list of antisemitic events, most without direct ties to the Democratic Party.
Therefore his story is off base and innacurate.
Calling a Jew like Goldman antisemitism is ridiculous. But they do. Others call him pro Israel. Seems like this guy swings all ways.
Frank Danger … You have come down with Mike f malady. I never said Goldman was antisemitic. Reading comprehension is not your strong suit. i suppose that is why you rebuttal are so off track and ridiculous. If you do your research, you will discover that the radical left in the Democratic Party is anti-Israel AND antigenic by their own words. Their provocative language — and the use of ancient stereotypes — motivate the attacks on Jews. Of course, most Democrats are not antisemitic, but it is growing on the party’s left.
Are you a woke “they” person now or just uber defensive and thin-skinned?
Shall we discuss your reading comprehension skills? Try re-reading. Never called you out, twas a generic they.
In reality, I think “they” is his opponent iin this race.
Since you are so far off base, guess you’re my rebuttals are seriously spot on! Ha ha.
Yes, many, not all, liberals don’t like Israel’s actions. The fucking missiles still fly in Gaza, they pushed us into Iran and then backdoored us in Lebanon. I don’t know any liberal antisemitics. I am sure they exist but not in my circles.
Just as I knew folks experiencing the camps who were racist. Takes all kinds.
Based on the recent outcome, I agree the progressives have made inroads, good call, but it’s not an age thing, it’s a moderates not getting it thing against your not listening, not compromising and bullying thing. Mamdani made a mistake on Goldman imo. Poor use of his “honeymoon” and Knicks unification period.
Larry, I suppose your dementia caused you to post something about the democrats being antigenic, but I doubt that you can point to any examples of that (in their own words, as you say). Yes, we are anti-Israel, as should anyone who actually follows current events. Israel’s attacks on the Palestinians in Gaza have been nothing short of disgusting, their failure to create a Palestinian state (per their 1993 agreement) more than troubling, and netanyahoo’s brainwashing of our weak minded president to attack Iran is of great concern to those of us who think the US should be respected by the world (in the age of trump, we are not). Given the fact that we give the failed nation of Israel billions every year makes it all the more upsetting for those of us that understand what is going on. You are definitely not in that category, and do everything you can to draw attention away from the daily atrocities that are standard fare in the current regime-this makes you white trash in my book….
Mike: one aspect missed is that our $3.5B in defense to Israel each year is not accounted for in the US DOD defense budget. Smoke and mirrors to get our missiles into the middle east but budget it as foreign aid.
We do this a lot to pad the bill.
Then we plop emergency funds on top for any war, $10’s of billions tracked as foreign aid.
If you can’t count it, it’s not there, eh?
Dunger someone should watch the money. The democrats will steal it.
All-ass: my name is Danger. Have some class Alice.
Yes, we all should always watch the money.
Larry, Although there has been a rise in anti-Jewish attacks recently, much of this can be attributed to trump’s messaging, who has taken the norms of decency from his speeches, in order to appeal to his base with inflamed rhetoric on virtually all issues. Because he speaks in raw, vulgar terms, the base believes he is a ‘straight shooter’ rather than just constantly lying in a manner to appeal to his ‘people’. You combine this with the the predominantly Jewish state of Israel, which has acted in bad faith to its Muslim residents during most of its history, most recently by destroying the Gaza area and then by tricking our feeble president into his misguided attacks of Iran, and you have the recipe for anti-Jewish attacks by those who cannot differentiate between the state of Israel and followers of the Jewish religion. The obvious answer to this problem is for our government to use it’s influence on Israel to get it to embrace the democratic norms that the US stood for (until the age of trump) and uphold their promise to establish a Palestinian state rather than continue to illegally populate the West Bank and wage war on its neighbors. Many of our government leaders are finally realizing that Israel is definitely not one of the ‘good guys’ in this matter and even trump has threatened to close the spigot providing billions to their economy (if he were to do that, it would be a trump action I would support, but he is likely too weak to do the right thing and follow through on this). So, as per usual Larry, you are being disingenuous to blame democrats for an issue as complex as the anti-semitism we are seeing-but what else can we expect from trash such as yourself?
Mike f as in faggot I can’t wait to see what you and Dunger accuse Trump of doing.
Jimdung the racist adds sexism to his list of subhuman attributes. Think he calls his wife a cunt? Like he can get a relationship with a real woman. This guy acts like a miserable little shrew of a man. So twisted as to feel the world has done him wrong. If it’s to be, it’s up to me shithead ; words to live by. Quit blaming everyone else for your problems.
In America, we honor the rights of free thought and free speech. Except for assholes like you who think otherwise. Feel free to attack the issues, but fuck off on your personal, petty, peeves. You just belittle yourself, if that’s even possible.