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<\/a>A season of bipartisan betrayal on antisemitism<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\nJonathan S. Tobin<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n If the history of the last century taught us anything, it\u2019s that there is one issue that can bring extremists from both the left and the right together: the Jews and the State of Israel. The question that Americans should be pondering right now, however, is not so much the way Jew-hatred has surged on the margins of society since the Hamas-led Palestinian Arab attacks on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Rather, it is the way that animus\u2014not just for the Jewish state, but also for its American supporters and Jews in general\u2014has gone mainstream.<\/span><\/p>\n What seems to be the end of the post-Oct. 7 war might have signaled an ebbing of the tide of antisemitism. But it hasn\u2019t. In fact, the weeks since the ceasefire in Gaza have demonstrated that the surge of antisemitism is not only going strong but has firmly established itself within both major political parties in a virtually unprecedented way.<\/span><\/p>\n Among Democrats, that was made clear by the way that their leadership has not only failed to stop or isolate Zohran Mamdani, an openly antisemitic candidate running for mayor of New York City. Perhaps even more shocking is the way mainstream institutions on the right and leading Republicans have not only declined to disassociate themselves from former\u00a0Fox News<\/em>\u00a0host and current political commentator Tucker Carlson but have now rallied to his defense. They also seem ready to defend the platforming of the anti-Jewish rhetoric of Nick Fuentes, a neo-Nazi hate-monger whom Carlson had on his podcast.<\/span><\/p>\n In both cases, what we are witnessing is a betrayal not merely of American Jewry and the pro-Israel community, but of basic American values of decency. What makes it worse is that there appear to be few people of stature or power in either party who seem interested in confronting these despicable men. That makes it a near-certainty that this problem is only going to grow worse in both parties.<\/span><\/p>\n For most of the past two years, this was most obvious on the political left as Democrats like former President Joe Biden and his vice president, Kamala Harris, kowtowed to their party\u2019s intersectional left-wing that hates Israel. Congressional Democrats succumbed to the same pressure, with a majority of them supporting cutting off necessary aid to Israel in the middle of its war against Hamas. What\u2019s more, the nation witnessed the spectacle of mobs of \u201cprogressives\u201d taking over college campuses and targeting Jewish students for intimidation and violence while chanting for Israel\u2019s destruction and Jewish genocide (\u201cFrom the river to the sea\u201d), and terrorism against Jews around the world (\u201cglobalize the intifada\u201d).<\/span><\/p>\n But it took Zohran Mamdani\u2014a heretofore obscure New York state assemblyman who identified as a Democratic Socialist\u2014to make clear just how strong the pull of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish sentiment was within his party.<\/span><\/p>\n The loadstone of the 34-year-old Mamdani\u2019s career has been his ideological commitment to Israel\u2019s destruction, starting from his student days as founder of a chapter of the antisemitic Students for Justice in Palestine at Bowdoin College in Maine. As late as 2023, he was stating that Israel was somehow the\u00a0explanation<\/a>\u00a0for the alleged oppression of minorities by the New York City Police Department, a classic antisemitic trope in which Jews are always the reason for all the ills of the world. And it continues to this day, when, during the recent mayoral candidate debates, he recycled Hamas propaganda, including blood libels about Israel committing \u201cgenocide\u201d in Gaza.<\/span><\/p>\n Yet rather than seek to stop him, with few exceptions, mainstream Democrats have rallied around him, believing that the Jew-hatred he has spread is as popular with young voters as the Socialist patent nostrums about bringing them cheaper housing and groceries, in addition to free bus rides.<\/span><\/p>\n . The icing on the cake was provided this week by William Kristol, the Never Trump former Republican strategist and publisher who has since joined the Democratic Party. In a statement that made it quite clear that he has largely abandoned most of the positions and principles he stood for most of his life, he told an interviewer that he\u00a0supported<\/a>\u00a0Mamdani.<\/span><\/p>\n Perhaps it\u2019s not so surprising that he would say such a thing. He went from treating Obama\u2019s appeasement of Iran as an \u201cemergency\u201d and a mortal threat to Israel that needed to be stopped at all costs to\u00a0supporting it<\/a>\u00a0because Trump was on the other side of the issue.<\/span><\/p>\n For someone who was not only among the country\u2019s most prominent Jewish conservatives but also a key player in the pro-Israel community, to now regard those alarmed by the prospect of an antisemitic mayor of New York as experiencing \u201chysteria\u201d is something of a betrayal to those who once admired him. When Kristol explains that any concerns about his stands are less important than the boost it would give his party nationally, it shows not only the depths of his cynical partisanship but how politically savvy players on the left\u2014even turncoats like the former\u00a0Weekly Standard<\/em>\u00a0publisher\u2014have simply acclimated themselves to the fashionable Jew-hatred that has taken root there.<\/span><\/p>\n The Jewish establishment was slow in realizing that so-called progressives indoctrinated in the toxic ideas of critical race theory, intersectionality and settler-colonialism that had conquered academia and most other sectors of American life was the engine of 21st-century Jew-hatred. For too long, they had focused on the antisemitism that existed on the far right, which didn\u2019t have the clout or influence of their counterparts on the left.<\/span><\/p>\n It is the sort of thing that has enabled conservatives to argue in recent years that while the left has become a sinkhole of antisemitic Israel-bashing, the political right\u2014led by President Donald Trump\u2014is a bastion of pro-Israel sentiment.<\/span><\/p>\n But it\u2019s time to acknowledge that this dismissal of right-wing antisemitism is no longer valid. And the person who made this necessary is Carlson.<\/span><\/p>\n Since he was fired from\u00a0Fox News<\/em>\u00a0in April 2023, Carlson has allowed his hatred for Israel and its supporters to be open and unfiltered. Still, it wasn\u2019t until he hosted Holocaust denier and antisemite Daryl Cooper on his podcast that removed any doubt about his views. Even after he publicly opposed Trump\u2019s pro-Israel and anti-Iran policies, he continued to be a member of the presidential family\u2019s inner circle. And leading conservatives, including the late Charlie Kirk, Megyn Kelly and Matt Walsh,\u00a0refused\u00a0<\/a>to disassociate themselves from him.<\/span><\/p>\n The fact that he received a\u00a0prominent speaking slot<\/a>\u00a0at Kirk\u2019s memorial service on Sept. 21, where he employed a crude antisemitic trope centered on the deicide myth, also demonstrated that he remained a mainstream player in conservative and Republican circles.<\/span><\/p>\n He reached a new low this week when he\u00a0welcomed<\/a>\u00a0neo-Nazi Holocaust denier and vicious Jew-hater Nick Fuentes onto his podcast. That raised the question as to whether Carlson was going to be able to mainstream antisemitism on the political right in much the same way that woke progressives have done to the left.<\/span><\/p>\n We didn\u2019t have long to find out the answer to that question. And it came from a surprising source\u2014the Heritage Foundation Washington think tank that has been one of the intellectual hubs of conservative thought and activism. In a\u00a0video<\/a>\u00a0posted on X, Kevin Roberts, a historian and president of Heritage, made it clear that not only was he refusing to distance himself and his organization from Carlson, but that he was doubling down on this stand.<\/span><\/p>\n In a brief speech, Roberts denounced those who have criticized Carlson\u2019s platforming of antisemitism and his vicious attacks on Israel and Christian Zionists, whom the podcaster described as heretics who had a \u201cbrain virus.\u201d Roberts said Heritage didn\u2019t believe in \u201ccanceling our own people or policing the consciences of Christians\u201d and depicted those appalled by Carlson as a \u201cvenomous coalition\u201d who engage in \u201cslander\u201d that \u201cserves someone else\u2019s agenda.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Roberts said Heritage supported cooperation with Israel when it served U.S. interests\u2014something no one disputes. But the Heritage president seemed to echo some of the dark rhetoric of the far left and far right when he spoke of those who \u201creflexively support\u201d the Jewish state as \u201cloud\u201d sinister, globalist\u201d forces who are somehow harming America, and that must be resisted.<\/span><\/p>\n He made clear that he would stick with Carlson, no matter what he did, and his only interest was in attacking the left. He said that he \u201cdisagreed with and even abhorred things that Fuentes had said,\u201d but wouldn\u2019t cancel him either. He treated his hatred of Jews as merely an idea that should be debated.<\/span><\/p>\n He did some damage control on that aspect of his statement a day later by\u00a0detailing<\/a>\u00a0on X his profound disagreement with Fuentes\u2019s vile bigotry. Still, he stopped short of drawing the obvious conclusion that those who normalize and seek to mainstream neo-Nazi beliefs need to be held responsible for doing that.<\/span><\/p>\n The point being, it doesn\u2019t matter if you are appalled by Fuentes if you treat those who promote him and treat him as legitimate as allies, and smear those who oppose such abhorrent behavior as somehow unpatriotic or guilty of dual loyalty.<\/span><\/p>\n This is a startling turnabout for an organization with not only an honorable record of support for Israel but whose\u00a0\u201cEsther Project\u201d<\/a>\u00a0to combat antisemitism has served as a blueprint for the Trump administration\u2019s efforts to root out left-wing ideologies that are enabling Jew-hatred on college campuses. Roberts\u2019 seeming neutrality about his friend\u2019s prejudiced behavior directly contradicts what his organization has been trying to do in academia.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s especially discouraging since the real \u201cglobalist\u201d forces in the international community are the ones whose arguments are echoed by Carlson and Fuentes, in which they promote blood libels against Israel, and seek to isolate and destroy it. Supporters of the Jewish state are Heritage\u2019s natural allies and are to be found among its staff and donors because they support the same vision of national conservatism\u2014both in the United States and Israel\u2014 that Roberts has championed.<\/span><\/p>\n Roberts\u2019s profession of loyalty to Carlson came in the same week as a\u00a0troubling response<\/a>\u00a0of Vice President JD Vance to questions from an Israel-hating student at a Turning Point USA event at the University of Mississippi. When given an opportunity to slap down anti-Israel conspiracy theories, he let them go unanswered. He responded with what could only be described as an equivocal statement about the U.S.-Israel relationship in which he boasted of pressuring Jerusalem during the recent ceasefire negotiations and professed his Christian faith.<\/span><\/p>\n While Trump and Vance have strong pro-Israel records, Vance\u2019s answer was little different from the way Harris\u00a0responded<\/a>\u00a0to smears of Israel from left-wing activists when campaigning last year, when she was primarily interested in signaling her sympathy for them. Like her, Vance seemed to be signaling that he, too, was more concerned with demonstrating his solidarity with extremists on his end of the spectrum than in distancing himself from them. When you consider that Vance is the likely frontrunner to succeed Trump, it calls into question whether Trump\u2019s historic pro-Israel policies will be maintained if he wins in 2028.<\/span><\/p>\n Taken together, all these events present an ugly picture of the current state of political debate in the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n There is no doubt that most of those who are supporting the U.S.-Israel alliance and fighting antisemitism can be found among Republicans and on the political right, while all the energy and most of the young stars in the Democratic Party are to be found among its anti-Israel and antisemitic left-wing. And unlike the crickets to be heard among most prominent Democrats about Mamdani, the pushback against Heritage and Carlson from prominent Republicans like\u00a0Sen. Ted Cruz\u00a0<\/a>(R-Texas) and U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee is a sign that the conservative base of the GOP is still firmly pro-Israel and ready to fight Jew-hatred wherever it is to be found.<\/span><\/p>\n But what we heard from the Heritage Foundation and Vance this week indicates that the antisemites have not only gotten a foothold within the conservative mainstream. Some of the most important players in it would prefer to embrace them rather than to drive them back to the fever swamps where they belong.<\/span><\/p>\n This is a sobering revelation for those who have long taken comfort from the way that the two major American political parties had more or less exchanged identities in the last half-century when it came to Israel and opposition to antisemitism. This shouldn\u2019t diminish the effort to call the political left to account for its role in normalizing hatred for Israel. But it is a discouraging reminder that the same battle must now also be fought on the political right.<\/span><\/p>\n Zawarto\u015b\u0107 publikowanych artyku\u0142\u00f3w i materia\u0142\u00f3w nie reprezentuje pogl\u0105d\u00f3w ani opinii Reunion’68,<\/em> A season of bipartisan betrayal on antisemitism Jonathan S. Tobin As Democrats embraced Zohran Mamdani, the Heritage Foundation stood by Tucker Carlson and his platforming of Jew-hatred. There\u2019s a crisis on both sides of the aisle. 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\nAs Democrats embraced Zohran Mamdani, the Heritage Foundation stood by Tucker Carlson and his platforming of Jew-hatred. There\u2019s a crisis on both sides of the aisle.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
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Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, speaks during a news conference with members of the House Freedom Caucus outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., n Sept. 12, 2023. Photo by Drew Angerer\/Getty Images.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\nThe intersectional antisemitic left<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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Bill Kristol speaking at the Art Museum at Arizona State University in Tempe, Ariz., March 3, 2017. Credit: Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\nFrom Never Trump to pro-Mamdani<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Heritage embraces Tucker<\/strong><\/h4>\n
JD Vance mimics Kamala Harris<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Both battles must be fought<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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Jonathan S. Tobin<\/strong> is editor-in-chief of the Jewish News Syndicate, a senior contributor for The Federalist, a columnist for Newsweek and a contributor to many other publications. He covers the American political scene, foreign policy, the U.S.-Israel relationship, Middle East diplomacy, the Jewish world and the arts. He hosts the JNS \u201cThink Twice\u201d podcast, both the weekly video program and the \u201cJonathan Tobin Daily\u201d program, which are available on all major audio platforms and YouTube. Previously, he was executive editor, then senior online editor and chief political blogger, for Commentary magazine. Before that, he was editor-in-chief of The Jewish Exponent in Philadelphia and editor of the Connecticut Jewish Ledger. He has won more than 60 awards for commentary, art criticism and other writing. He appears regularly on television, commenting on politics and foreign policy. Born in New York City, he studied history at Columbia University.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
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