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While the former is doubtless hard for liberal Jews to absorb, with regard to Israel and the Jews, the latter are much worse.

(August 11, 2024 / JNS) Former President Donald Trump drives liberal Jews to distraction when he says that American Jews have to be crazy to vote for his Democratic opponent. They call him an antisemite. But he keeps on saying it.

Kamala Harris determined that Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro was simply too Jewish for the Democrats. Despite having far more political benefits, Harris went with radical Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her Vice Presidential pick. Given the Democrats’ track record of throwing unpopular candidates over the side of the highway if they poll badly enough, let’s see if Walz, unlike Joe Biden, can actually make it to election day.

With little time before the election, Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign organized visual and in-person gatherings based on affiliations to drum up support, such as Asian Americans for Harris, Republicans for Harris, and the humorous-sounding White Dudes for Harris. Last Friday, the Jewish Democratic Council of America ran an hour-long Zoom pep rally with some of the Vice President’s most visible Jewish supporters offering optimism and reassurance that their candidate supports Israel, stands against anti-Semitism, and can beat Donald Trump in her White house run.

The Democratic Party base has become overrun with socialist policy stemming from Marxist ideology. For a while, this was tempered by the Party bosses and elites, who pushed forward a steadily progressive agenda without tipping towards outright extremist communism. These same people, thinking that the time is ripe for truly embracing radicalism, have embraced as their chosen nominee the most leftwing radical presidential candidate in American presidential history.

When victory appears so close at hand, perhaps that’s why there are many Israelis who do not want hostage negotiations to succeed if it comes at the cost of keeping Hamas in power and giving in to its demands. Likewise, there is disregard for the opinions of Israel’s trade partners and political allies. Then there was this week’s storming of the Sde Teiman military detention facility in southern Israel, which holds many terrorists from Gaza.

The contrast between the pro-Hamas mob outside the Capitol building and the prime minister’s address illustrated the stakes involved in the debate about Israel.

 What Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in his address to a joint meeting of Congress was important. Both Americans and Israelis need to understand that the war in the Gaza Strip is just one front in a conflict with Iran that is, as he rightly said, a battle “between civilization and barbarism.”