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Will Jewish Democrats Support Biden?
Increasingly, the strongest and most steadfast support for Israel and for Jewish interests in the U.S. is coming from the right.
With the recent high-profile primary defeat of Rep. Elliot Engel (D-NY), departs yet another strong Jewish voice in U.S. Congressional leadership and friend to Israel.
Though many Jewish people in the U.S. remain registered Democrats, support for the Israeli state, and support for the long-standing alliance between the U.S. and Israel, is dwindling on the left.
Today’s progressive Democratic Party has little sympathy for the world’s only Jewish state. Efforts like “Boycott, Divest, Sanction (BDS)”, which is aimed only at Israel, and attempts to legislate U.S. support for BDS have come from the left. Anti-Semitism deeply hurt the Women’s March.
The recent surge of Black Lives Matter, a political movement with strong anti-Zionist views, has further shifted the balance. This is leaving many Jewish Democrats wondering where they fit into today’s Democratic Party.
The last few weeks have even seen a resurgence and reemergence of Nation of Islam preacher Louise Farrakhan, whose anti-Semitic views are well-known in and out of the Jewish community. Farrakhan rising to new prominence among young progressive Democrats is something that is beginning to trouble…