NEW ZIONIST TIMES
Antisemitism won a mandate. Now what?
Bob Goldberg
November 4, 2026

Antisemitism was on the ballot last night, and antisemitism won. Voters, they will explain, were thinking about gas prices. No doubt many were. But elections are not merely sums of preferences. They are permission slips. They tell a political class what may now be said aloud, what may now be done, and what no longer carries a price. Last night’s permission slip was unusually legible. Michigan elected to the Senate a man who greeted victory by pledging no American money for “apartheid” and “genocide,” to chants of “Free Palestine.” No one in the hall required a footnote to identify the country. In New York, candidates who deny the legitimacy of a Jewish state glided into Congress under the patronage of Zohran Mamdani. Providence voted to divest from Israel. And lest anyone imagine this is a malady of the left alone, the vice president surveyed the wreckage the next morning and concluded that voters want to “change our relationship to Israel.” READ MORE