NO DELUSIONS, NO DESPAIR
The Democrats’ betrayal of the Jews
Benjamin Kerstein
June 26, 2026

..,The victories of a series of antisemitic candidates in New York this week mark a turning point, as nearly everyone has acknowledged. For non-Jewish Democrats, it means that radical outsiders have more or less conquered the party. For Jews, the implications are much more ominous: It is now clear that antisemitism is a powerful, motivating, systemic, and institutionalized force in the Democratic Party. Defined by cruelty and violence, genocidal in ideology and rhetoric, and determined to destroy Israel and ghettoize American Jews, the new Democratic Party leaves liberal and progressive Jews—that is to say, the vast majority of the community—not only without a political home but under existential threat. READ MORE