As nativist anti-Semitism colonizes the right, are American Jews now politically homeless?
Anti-Semitism and America — words that for so long seemed uneasy neighbors, are now firm friends. The old news is that the left is a lost cause.
A plurality of Democratic voters say they are more sympathetic to the Palestinians than to the Jews of Israel.
The energy of the party has transferred to the Democratic Socialists of America, and now New York City, with the second-largest Jewish population of any city in the world, has elected Zohran Mamdani, a DSA(Democratic Socialists of America) mayor, endorsed by virtually every elected Democratic figure, despite his openly expressed contempt for Israel. With the slowly dawning recognition that the Democratic Party is increasingly inhospitable to Jews, many American Jews have begun to take a fresh look at the Republican Party. But in a shocking new development, there, too, old-fashioned anti-Semitism has reared its ugly head in the form of former Fox News host and very popular podcaster Tucker Carlson’s embrace of Nick Fuentes, a viral anti-Semite.
The bigotry that has erupted on the right raises what was once an unthinkable question. What happens when the anti-Semites come out of the woodwork of the right?
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