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<\/a>Republicans are fighting a battle for their souls Democrats already lost<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\nJonathan S. Tobin<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n It turns out that there are some limits to the tolerance for antisemitism and hatred for Israel increasingly being demonstrated by the Democratic Party. When Maureen Galindo, a candidate in the race for the Democratic nomination for the 35th Congressional District in Texas, said that she planned on turning an ICE detention center into a prison for American Zionists, it was a bit\u00a0too much<\/a><\/span>\u00a0for most Democrats. Galindo posted on Instagram that \u201cif you are a Zionist,\u201d then \u201cyou are a danger to humanity and belong in prison.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Democratic House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said her comments \u201chad no place in American politics, and certainly not in the Democratic Party.\u201d Even left-wing congressional \u201cSquad\u201d ringleader Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) denounced Galindo for spewing \u201cbigoted garbage and antisemitism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n That was encouraging, as was the fact that Galindo ultimately lost her primary runoff to Deputy Sheriff Johnny Garcia, whom she\u00a0accused<\/u><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/u>of taking money from the pro-Israel AIPAC lobby. But it shouldn\u2019t lead anyone to think that Jew-hatred is off-limits for mainstream Democrats. As the 2026 midterm elections come into focus, it\u2019s clear that anti-Israel rhetoric is not merely commonplace among Democratic candidates. A willingness to demonize Israel and its supporters, discredit AIPAC as a malevolent influence on American politics and treat anti-Zionist smears that are indistinguishable from traditional antisemitism are no barrier to success or acceptance among Democrats. To the contrary, it is often a winning platform.<\/span><\/p>\n That\u2019s not merely a function of the support garnered by extremists like Galindo, or first- and second-generation \u201cSquad\u201d members like Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Summer Lee (D-Pa.), all of whom are openly anti-Zionist. Nor is it limited to the popularity of someone like New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, whose entire career has centered on his hatred for the State of Israel and the embrace of anti-Jewish tropes. The willingness of national Democrats to\u00a0tolerate<\/a><\/span>\u00a0the rise of antisemites who can help them win control of Congress, such as the Nazi-tattooed Maine Senate candidate\u00a0Graham Platner<\/a><\/span>\u00a0or Michigan\u2019s\u00a0Abdul El-Sayed<\/a><\/span>, speaks volumes about the party\u2019s shifting center of gravity.<\/span><\/p>\n Reports about Jewish Democratic officeholders feeling themselves to be under constant\u00a0attack<\/u><\/a><\/span>\u00a0from their own base are widespread. Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), whose pro-Israel views make him a throwback to a bygone era when such beliefs were normative among Democrats, complained in a\u00a0New York Times<\/i>\u00a0op-ed<\/a><\/span>: \u201cMy Party Has a Double Standard on Antisemitism.\u201d But Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), who has no shame in spreading libelous accusations about Israel committing \u201cgenocide\u201d in Gaza, seemed to speak for most members of his party when he used the same forum to\u00a0assert<\/a><\/span>\u00a0that they weren\u2019t anti-Israel enough.<\/span><\/p>\n With Democrats seemingly poised to make significant gains in November, that\u2019s a sobering thought for those who still hold onto memories of a bipartisan pro-Israel consensus that is clearly a vestige of the past.<\/span><\/p>\n But should we be equally worried about the future of the Republican Party with respect to Israel and the Jews?<\/span><\/p>\n That was the upshot of a\u00a0New York Times<\/i>\/Sienna College poll\u00a0published<\/a><\/span>\u00a0last week. Even if you discount the results because of the newspaper\u2019s unabashed anti-Israel bias\u2014highlighted by its recent publication of Nicholas Kristof\u2019s bizarre and unsubstantiated\u00a0blood libel<\/a><\/span>\u00a0about Israelis training dogs to rape Palestinian Arab prisoners\u2014the results raise important questions about the prospects for continued Republican support for Israel and opposition to antisemitism.<\/span><\/p>\n Like every other poll about attitudes about President Donald Trump\u2019s support for Israel, the war with Iran and the Jewish state\u2019s conflict with Palestinian Arabs, the numbers show a stark partisan divide. Republicans back the president by huge margins, while Democrats are nearly unanimous in their contempt for Trump. The parties also differ on Israel, with the majority of Republicans backing the Jewish state, while even larger numbers of Democrats oppose it. But the main takeaway from the poll in the newspaper\u2019s own coverage was the\u00a0\u201cgenerational divide\u201d<\/a><\/span>\u00a0that it detected among Republicans with respect to Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n It wasn\u2019t just that 60% of those identifying as Republicans wanted to see Trump\u2019s successor seek a new approach to foreign policy. A majority of respondents aged 18 to 44 opposed the president\u2019s decision to go to war against Iran. Of that age group, 54% also thought Trump was \u201ctoo supportive\u201d of Israel. And nearly two-thirds of them opposed providing additional \u201cmilitary and economic support for Israel,\u201d though the slanted nature of the question (Israel only gets military aid, and almost all of that is spent in the United States) should be taken into consideration.<\/span><\/p>\n Among voters older than 45, the results are uniformly positive for Trump and for Israel. But just as ominous was the fact that 37% of Republicans of all ages said that they viewed antisemitic conspiracy theorist Tucker Carlson favorably, while only 29% viewed him unfavorably. That result may, at least in part, be a hangover from his time as a\u00a0Fox News<\/i>\u00a0host, when he was a pro-Trump tribune of conservatism, and managed to keep his anti-Israel and anti-Jewish biases under wraps. Still, it demonstrates that while the antisemitic far-right may remain a minority among Republicans, it is not marginal.<\/span><\/p>\n In the post-Trump era\u2014and January 2029 is only 32 months away\u2014the situation may get a lot worse as those young voters play a larger role. Vice President JD Vance, whose\u00a0public neutrality<\/a><\/span>\u00a0about Carlson\u2019s antisemitism ought to be disqualifying, is still in the poll position to succeed Trump. If that is how things play out\u2014and given U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio\u2019s increasingly dominant role in the administration, assumptions about Vance\u2019s 2028 prospects may be premature at best\u2014the notion of the GOP being a lockstep pro-Israel party may become as much a vestige of the past as similar assertions about the Democrats.<\/span><\/p>\n The\u00a0Times\u2019\u00a0<\/i>predictions about a future in which the mainstream of the Republican Party will, like Carlson, echo the anti-Israel and antisemitic rhetoric of the left are troubling. But for now, such a prospect is still more a matter of wishful thinking for its left-wing readers, who cheer the Democrats\u2019 embrace of Platner and El-Sayed, and lap up the newspaper\u2019s daily repetitions of the \u201cgenocide\u201d smear, as well as its disingenuous and utterly unpersuasive\u00a0justifications<\/a><\/span>\u00a0of its appalling canard about dogs being trained to rape people.<\/span><\/p>\n For the moment, the reality is that opposition to Trump\u2019s pro-Israel stands is political poison for Republicans tempted to try to achieve the\u00a0\u201cstrange new respect\u201d<\/a><\/span>\u00a0that the left is willing to give to conservatives who embrace the new antisemitism.<\/span><\/p>\n The starkest illustration of this occurred last week in Kentucky\u2019s 4th Congressional District when seven-term incumbent Rep. Thomas Massie was bested by a Trump-endorsed challenger by nearly 10 percentage points in the GOP primary. The extremist libertarian Massie spent the campaign\u00a0claiming<\/a><\/span>\u00a0that he was being targeted by \u201cZionist billionaires.\u201d While he was right that pro-Israel PACs poured record amounts into the campaign against him, he was able to counter those sums by raising massive sums of money from out-of-state sources who supported his willingness to engage in antisemitic slurs and Israel-bashing. He remained true to form even after losing, when he\u00a0said<\/u><\/a><\/span>\u00a0that he had difficulty locating his opponent to concede \u201cbecause it took a while to find Ed Gallrein in Tel Aviv.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The results made clear that whatever may happen in the future, even in a district where a popular incumbent was the standard-bearer for the anti-Israel cause, it is a formula for defeat. It\u2019s not only still Trump\u2019s party. It\u2019s also still a party where pro-Israel sentiments, along with support for efforts to oppose a genocidal Islamist regime like that of Iran, remain highly popular.<\/span><\/p>\n Indeed, as you look across the country at the results of Republican primaries, it\u2019s obvious that whatever divisions exist within the GOP, the constituency for Israel-bashing is not the path to victory as it often is among Democrats. Antisemitism may be the coin of the realm when it comes to extremist podcasters like Carlson, far-right conspiracy theorist Candace Owens or the neo-Nazi \u201cgroyper\u201d Nick Fuentes. But it has yet to make itself felt among Republican voters or officeholders. Indeed, once Massie is sent back to his off-the-grid cattle ranch to consume raw milk to his heart\u2019s content, the GOP House caucus will be uniformly pro-Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n There simply is no current Republican equivalent of Platner or El-Sayed\u2014or would-be members of the \u201cSquad\u201d\u2014among those likely to be representing the GOP this fall. Candidates who might fit that description, such as Florida gubernatorial candidate James Fishback or Dan Bilzerian, who is mounting a primary challenge to Rep. Randy Fine (R-Fla.), are way behind in the polls. Their conspiracy-mongering about Jews and Israel seems to have put them in the wrong party.<\/span><\/p>\n The situation is different among Democrats.<\/span><\/p>\n To take just one example of how Democratic primary voters are trending, the nominally pro-Israel Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.), whose anti-Trump credentials could not be better (he was one of the attorneys for the dubious effort to impeach the president in 2019), is seen as an almost-certain loser in his effort to hold his seat.<\/span><\/p>\n He is opposed by Brad Lander, the former Controller of New York City, whose tenure in that office was widely deemed a disaster. But Lander, who, like Goldman, is Jewish, is endorsed by Mamdani and is a rabid Israel-basher. He even\u00a0recited<\/a><\/span>\u00a0a Quranic verse in an appearance at a mosque that attacked Christianity while also repeating the familiar blood libels about Israel committing \u201cgenocide\u201d and \u201capartheid.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Yet according to the\u00a0latest polls<\/a><\/span>, Landers leads the incumbent in the deep-blue district with a significant Jewish population by an astonishing 57% to 23% margin.<\/span><\/p>\n Across the nation, similar results can be seen. Indeed, the antisemitic Platner is coasting to his party\u2019s Maine Senate nomination, because his lead in the polls scared Gov. Janet Mills (who had been recruited by the party establishment to oppose him) out of the race.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s possible to imagine a future in which younger GOP voters hold onto their antagonism for Israel and the Jews, as well as tolerance for antisemites, and wind up being the dominant force in a post-Trump party. Yet even Vance has to know that holding onto his friendship with Carlson will be a problem in the 2028 presidential primaries against an opponent who will be able to appeal to the GOP\u2019s evangelical pro-Israel base.<\/span><\/p>\n On the other side of the aisle, pro-Israel candidates face a base that has been marinating in the intersectional ideology that falsely identifies Jews and the Jewish state as \u201cwhite\u201d oppressors. And they will be operating in an environment in which liberal media, like the\u00a0Times<\/i>, will not only be legitimizing Jew-hatred but openly celebrating it.<\/span><\/p>\n The persistent appeal of people like Carlson and other Jew-haters for many on the right means that a battle for the soul of the Republican Party will be waged in the coming years, and the outcome is far from certain. But the awful truth is that the same battle has already played out among Democrats in recent years. And condemnations of outliers like Galindo notwithstanding, it has already been lost.<\/span><\/p>\n Zawarto\u015b\u0107 publikowanych artyku\u0142\u00f3w i materia\u0142\u00f3w nie reprezentuje pogl\u0105d\u00f3w ani opinii Reunion’68,<\/em> Republicans are fighting a battle for their souls Democrats already lost Jonathan S. Tobin While the future of the GOP as a pro-Israel party may be in doubt, right now, the Democrats are mainstreaming anti-Zionism and Jew-hatred. Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner speaks during a town hall about a Vision for a Healthy Society in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[33,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130913"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130937,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130913\/revisions\/130937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWhile the future of the GOP as a pro-Israel party may be in doubt, right now, the Democrats are mainstreaming anti-Zionism and Jew-hatred.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
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Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner speaks during a town hall about a Vision for a Healthy Society in Portland, Maine, on May 20, 2026. Photo by Joe Raedle\/Getty Images.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\nMainstreaming hate on the left<\/b><\/h4>\n
Trouble on the right<\/b><\/h4>\n
Anti-Israel is political poison for GOP voters<\/b><\/h4>\n
Democrats embrace anti-Zionists<\/b><\/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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