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The weeping antisemite
Benjamin Kerstein
August 3, 2026

Antisemites, generally speaking, have a remarkable capacity for self-pity. Indeed, their entire worldview is based on it. Universally, they see themselves as hapless victims of Jews oppression, while their vicious invective and incitement are merely speaking truth to Jewish power. Anyone who points out that what they are saying and doing is evil is portrayed as a monstrous oppressor attempting to silence them in service of craven Jewish ends. We see this today perhaps more than at any time since Hitler proclaimed that the Jews had engineered all of Germany’s woes, but something has been added to it: the factor of sympathy, in particular, the profession of sympathy for the Palestinians as both sword and shield. Many if not most current antisemites claim to be compassionate, empathetic, progressive citizens who are simply lamenting Israel’s “genocide” of the Palestinian people and attempting to stop it. The fact that this is a blood libel is irrelevant to them. They proclaim themselves partisans of humanitarianism and human rights. Often explicitly and always implicitly, they claim that it is Israel and the Jews who are enemies of those principles and, as such, humankind. READ MORE

JEWS UNDER SIEGE
Jewish Politicians Campaign to be Eaten Last
Kenneth Levin
July 27, 2026

…Much of the Jew-hatred is, of course, cast in the guise of anti-Israel sentiment, and many American Jews choose to believe that the anti-Jewish animus so prevalent in today’s America, predominantly (though not exclusively) coming from the political Left and Islamist sources, is secondary to anti-Israel animus. But those who do so are willfully ignoring obvious counter-evidence. This includes, particularly, the far Left and progressivists’ wide adoption of CRT and DEI characterization of Jews as owing their success in America to their being exceptionally unfair beneficiaries of white privilege. It is a characterization derived from Soviet propaganda, where social dynamics are deemed zero-sum affairs and any success of one group is at the unfair expense of everyone else. READ MORE

FREE PRESS The Inside Story of How Democrats Lost the Working Class On Tuesday, I voted for Donald Trump. It felt like the biggest middle finger I’ve ever raised to the party I’d supported for most of my adult life. When he won, I was utterly euphoric.” These are the words of Evan Barker, writing for The Free Press on November 9, 2024. A lifelong Democratic operative from a working-class family in Kansas City, Missouri, she’d spent her career getting progressives elected. Then, as she put it, the Democratic Party “turned its back on me and my family.” At the time, Evan’s story captured a trend playing out across the country: The working class, once a cornerstone of the Democratic coalition, was drifting away from the party. Now, with the progressive wing ascendant and the midterms approaching, that shift has only become more consequential. But how exactly did it happen? And what do Democrats need to do to win back the voters they lost?