The Outrage Gap

 “In a final resolution,” declared Mahmoud Abbas, “we would not see the presence of a single Israeli—civilian or soldier—on our lands.” Imagine if Netanyahu said that about Arabs. 

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More about: Anti-Semitism, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Arabs, Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian Authority, Palestinians

The Democratic Party Is Losing Its Grip on Jews

Since the 1930s, Jews have been one of America’s most solidly Democratic ethnic groups. Although, true to form, a majority again voted for Kamala Harris, something clearly has shifted. John Podhoretz writes:

Over the course of the past thirteen months, Jews in America have been harassed, threatened, seen their ancestral homeland derided as a settler-colonial genocidal state. They have seen Jewish kids mistreated on college campuses. And they have seen the Biden administration kowtow to Muslim populations hostile to Jews and the Jewish state in Michigan. They have heard the criticisms of Israel’s efforts to defend itself, and have noted the silence from the administration when it came to anti-Semitic assaults and the refusal of college presidents to condemn the treatment of Jews and Jewish topics under their ambit.

And Jews have acted.

The initial evidence from last night’s election is that there has been a significant shift in the Jewish vote from previous elections, a delta of anywhere from 10 to 40 percent overall.

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More about: 2024 Election, American Jewry, Anti-Semitism, Democrats, U.S. Politics