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

JNS Jonathan Tobin: Dan Goldman, and the decline and fall of liberal Jewish Democrats
The end of the political career of Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) is filled with irony. He was a child of immense privilege who may wind up best remembered for being a victim of discrimination. He was also a man whose rapid rise in public life was fueled by rabid partisanship and the weaponization of the law against political opponents. But his career came to an abrupt end earlier this week, when he was brought down by an even more extreme faction of his party that had decided he wasn’t sufficiently ideologically pure to suit the current political fashion of delegitimizing Jewish identity on the left.

FREE PRESS Melat Kiros Called October 7 ‘Inevitable’ and May Be Heading to Congress The 29-year-old political novice is the latest DSA candidate to topple an incumbent Democrat. She refused to call an attack on Jews ‘antisemitic’ and plans to hold the party hostage in the House…In May, she justified October 7 as the “inevitable consequence of apartheid, of occupation, decades of occupation” while appearing on Piker’s livestream. Last week, a local TV news reporter asked Kiros if that same logic applied to the United States on 9/11. She replied that the 9/11 terrorist attacks were “inevitable in the sense that we destabilized a lot of the Middle East.”

TIMES OF ISRAEL American pro-Israel activists may have just had their worst week ever One party is voting for the loudest critics of Israel; the other is cutting a generous deal with Jerusalem’s top adversary; after years of bipartisan support, a new era is dawning