FUTURE OF JEWISH
The Left is doing Israel a favor by abandoning it.
Bob Goldberg
April 23, 2026

…Israel did not fall into disfavor because it chose the wrong prime minister. It has been attacked under Left, Center, Right, and national unity governments alike. That was true during the intifadas, true in the wars with Hezbollah, and true in repeated rounds with Hamas. It was true almost immediately after October 7th. What we are seeing now from Democrats is not moral clarity; it is an old hostility to Jewish power in a new idiom. The shift has been underway for years, as Islamists and leftists — aided by anti-Zionist Jews who furnished both vocabulary and absolution — used academia, the media, the United Nations, and the nonprofit world to move hatred of a Jewish state from the fringes into the mainstream, and from the mainstream into the core of the Democratic Party. So when Democrats call for distance, conditionality, or even the weakening of the strategic alliance, they insist they are doing so to help Israel embrace strategies to advance people through diplomacy. READ MORE