The Democrat Party Has Become Anti-Jewish … Period

It is not a matter of nuance. The modern Democrat Party has become hostile to Israel – and Jews in general. Its most successful leaders, candidates and influencers have tapped into grassroots antisemitism as a source of political power.

For generations, Democrats have treated American Jews the way a bartender treated a customer who always picks up the tab. They saw Jewish loyalty as a lifetime contract. That contract is now being shredded in public — and anyone still pretending otherwise is either asleep or part of the problem.

Jewish Americans have voted Democratic by landslide margins since Franklin Roosevelt. That habit has been weakening, however. Trump improved his Jewish share in 2024 compared with 2020. Orthodox communities have moved further to the right. Party identification among Jews has slipped.

The latest midterm polls still show a Democratic majority, and party operatives wave those numbers like a get-out-of-jail card. They miss the point. A coalition that once delivered 70-plus percent now lives on residual habit, older voters, and the stubborn fiction that yesterday’s party still exists. The exodus of Jews from the Democrat Party is not a rounding error. It is a verdict.

Providence offered the latest eviction notice. Mayor Brett Smiley converted to Judaism while in office, spoke against antisemitism, chaired an advisory council for the Combat Antisemitism Movement, and opposed a municipal anti-Israel divestment scheme. His reward was a Democratic primary loss to David Morales, an anti-Israel Bernie Sanders-backed democratic socialist who treated Smiley’s Israel trip and antisemitism work as character defects. Campaign signs were defaced with Hitler mustaches and devil horns. Protesters appeared at the mayor’s house chanting that he had killed babies. In a deep-blue city, the party preferred the candidate who treated Jewish safety as an inconvenient sideshow. The writing on the wall could not be clearer.

The party’s Israel problem is no longer a fringe tantrum. In July, 103 House Democrats voted to strip all aid to Israel. That is not the Squad doing performance art. That is nearly half the caucus, including members who once treated AIPAC checks as political oxygen. New York primaries produced a new crop of House nominees whose campaigns treated insufficient hostility to Israel as a firing offense. Zohran Mamdani’s city hall is the brand. The candidates he boosted made Gaza the litmus test and won. A party that once argued over how firmly to stand with Israel now argues over how loudly to denounce it.

Culture followed politics with the usual lag and the usual hypocrisy. The Metropolitan Museum planned to honor John Galliano at the Met Gala, a designer convicted in France of antisemitic hate speech, the man who told bar patrons their families should have been gassed and announced that he loved Hitler. Only after Jewish leaders raised hell did the exhibition collapse.

The tell was not the cancelation. The tell was the fact that they thought the honor was justified. The antisemitism cannot be erased by the cancellation. Elite institutions do not accidentally schedule Holocaust Remembrance Day adjacent to a celebration of a man who revels in Nazi romanticism and Holocaust nostalgia.

Campuses remain the finishing school. Encampments receded after administrators finally remembered they had rules. But the campus culture did not. Large numbers of Jewish students still hide symbols of their faith, avoid certain classrooms, suffer harassment and report being told they must personally answer for a foreign government.

When nearly half of surveyed non-Jewish students report witnessing anti-Jewish behavior, the problem is not a handful of idiots with bullhorns. It is a cultural climate endorsed by school administrations by lack of opposition.

The growing antisemitism on the left has resulted in a dramatic increase in violence against Jews and Jewish institutions. Synagogues have been rammed, firebombed, vandalized, and invaded during services. In August a man stormed Central Synagogue in Manhattan, smashed ritual objects, struck a congregant, and spat racial slurs at a guard. Other attacks have mixed “Free Palestine” with knives, trucks, and Molotov cocktails. The ADL still records assault numbers near all-time highs even after anti-Israel campus protests were curtailed. Left-wing perpetrators are no longer a theoretical category. They are found in police charging documents.

Antisemitism does not arrive in one costume. Political left-wingers now dress in keffiyeh chic. Conspiracy talk about Jewish money and media sits comfortably beside “Zionist occupier” rhetoric that treats every synagogue as a foreign outpost. Holocaust inversion — Israel as the new Nazis — is the new campus liturgy. Dual-loyalty smears are recycled as foreign-policy sophistication. The Democrat party’s rising stars embrace these tropes as a matter of doctrine.

Hasan Piker supplies the soundtrack for the young. He has said he would vote for Hamas over Israel, shrugged at October 7 atrocities, and built a following large enough that Democratic candidates pose with him for turnout. Ritchie Torres called him a poster child for post-October 7 antisemitism. Gavin Newsom, sniffing 2028, said he would appear on Piker’s stream anyway. Influence is measured by who needs the audience more than the audience needs them. Piker does not need the Democratic Party. Parts of the party have decided they need him.

Newsom’s larger project is to call the socialist takeover healthy. He says the party should be in the “addition, not subtraction” business. He finds DSA positions on health care and energy “pretty aligned” with the mainstream. Translation: the energy is on the left, primaries are low-turnout, and a presidential hopeful would rather ride the wave than explain why a Jewish mayor got primaried for noticing Jew-hatred. Democrat candidates now treat Jewish issues as fair game and Israel as a colonial stain.

Some Democrats object. John Fetterman calls the new wing outrageous. As a result, he is booted out of the Democrat’s ‘big tent”. Tom Suozzi and a cluster of House moderates issued a “we are capitalist, not socialist” letter. James Carville talks schism. A handful of Democrats even voted with Republicans to condemn socialism and the DSA.

Jewish Americans are not required to remain in a coalition that treats their safety as negotiable and their ancestral state as a moral contaminant. Voting Democratic in 2026 is not a vote for the memory of Scoop Jackson or the ghost of Hubert Humphrey. It is a vote for the leadership that platforms the Pikers, the Mamdanis, and the Moraleses, shrugs at campus intimidation, and calculates that Jewish loyalty is cheaper than confronting the increasingly radical base.

Jews who vote for today’s Democrats and supporting the party hellbent on their destruction … period.

So, there ‘tis.