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Throughout history, political movements and societies that appease antisemitism eventually decay.
Antisemitism corrodes moral judgment, distorts truth, and undermines the very democratic values its enablers claim to champion. Societies that normalize hatred of Jews never stop there. They fail because they abandon clarity for ideology and principle for power.
Today, the Democratic Party risks following this same pattern.
The Party of Roosevelt faces a consequential choice that will shape its moral credibility and political future. The question is simple: Will Democrats confront antisemitism and anti-Zionist extremism within their ranks, or continue to excuse, elevate, and normalize it?
Will Democrats choose the path of ethical emptiness leading to political irrelevance? The path that treats Israel as uniquely evil, indulges obsessive anti-Zionists while insisting it has nothing to do with antisemitism, and punishes leaders who refuse to comply?
In 2024, Kamala Harris’s decision to elevate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz over Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro exemplified this leadership failure.
Shapiro is among the most popular Democratic governors in the country. He is a pragmatic executive with broad appeal and proven ability to win as a Democrat in a swing state. His recent book provides insights into his vetting process as a potential Vice President.
He refused to yield to Harris team demands that he retract his condemnations of Hamas-supporting protestors following the October 7 massacre. He was also asked whether he had ever been an agent for the State of Israel, a blatantly absurd question for an American public servant of his stature. Despite his reputation as a skilled political leader, his responses disqualified him to Harris and her advisers.
Instead of selecting Shapiro, Harris chose Walz and lost overwhelmingly.
Since the 2024 election, Walz has struggled to maintain credibility within his own governorship and will not seek reelection. Harris elevated a weaker, less qualified leader to avoid offending the party’s anti-Israel activist wing. This was both bad politics and moral ineptitude.
Harris’ VP choice serves as a cautionary tale: when parties sideline their strongest leaders to appease ideological extremists, they lose.
The Democrats with Trembling Knees
Unfortunately, the Democratic party refuses to learn from past mistakes.
Scott Wiener, a prominent progressive and co-Chair of the California Legislative Jewish Caucus vying to succeed Nancy Pelosi, recently capitulated to far-left pressure by publicly labeling Israel’s self-defense actions in Gaza a “genocide.” This was not conviction; it was political survival.
Menachem Begin once declared, “I am not a Jew with trembling knees.” He understood that Jewish dignity and moral clarity require courage to stand firm even when inconvenient.
Wiener’s decision represents the opposite instinct, the posture of a Jew with trembling knees, someone willing to distort reality and abandon truth to appease an ideological mob. That a Democratic candidate feels compelled to adopt extremist language to survive a primary should alarm anyone concerned about the party’s future.
In Los Angeles, mayoral candidate Nithya Raman operates within the ideological ecosystem shaped by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). The DSA platform explicitly rejects Zionism, embraces the BDS movement, and frames Israel as a colonial enterprise. Increasingly, the DSA backs candidates in major cities who align with these positions and seek to advance them through public office, signaling a broader effort to translate ideological commitments into political power.
In New York, Zohran Mamdani, also part of the DSA, has embraced an agenda that systematically strips antisemitism protections from Jews and weakens pro-Israel measures. Under the guise of “anti-Zionism,” his movement seeks to remove Jews from protected minority lists, unless they renounce their connection to Israel.
These views are increasingly normalized under the banner of justice and human rights, even when they depart from core principles those terms uphold. The rhetoric does not advance genuine human rights but promotes rigid ideological agendas while presenting them in moral language that discourages scrutiny or debate.
This dynamic misleads the public and elevates narratives driven more by ideology than commitment to truth, pluralism, or democratic values.
An Alternative Path
The alternative path is one of credibility and seriousness, focused on issues that matter to most Americans. It is the path of leaders who refuse to surrender truth to extremists, who understand that defending liberal values means rejecting antisemitism in all forms, including when rebranded as “anti-Zionism.”
For a healthy American democracy, the United States needs two competent political parties capable of disagreeing vigorously while sharing commitment to fundamental ideals.
America’s strength has always rested on its founding liberal values and democratic alliances. A Democratic Party that cannot recognize this risks losing elections and its claim to moral leadership.
The choice before Democrats is clear: Will they follow leaders who distort Israel, normalize antisemitism, and lose races? Or will they elevate those who defend truth, reject extremism, and focus on real challenges facing Americans?
History suggests that parties, and nations, that choose wrongly fail to survive.
Originally published by the NY Post.
I think she picked Walz over Shapiro, because Walz was less of an anti-Semite than Shapiro.
Just something unseemly about a wannabe Kapo.
Kamala Harris avoided Shapiro because he is Jewish and an entity. Walz is a non-entity and would not stand out as accomplished compared with the silly Harris. Harris also worked with Walz to bail out revolutionaries in Minnesota.
The MFF (Minnesota Freedom Fund)
The irony was that the fund wasn’t tapped for bailing out rioting assholes, because they were being released anyway as policy.
Kamala lied about her involvement, but was too stupid to remove it from her own site.
(Press ran it’s usual cover)
Shapiro is a career politician totally without morals or scruples. Like Zelenskyy, he plays the Jew card when it suits. In the past, he helped cover up the brutal murder of Ellen Greenberg committed by the son of a political associate.
The very same party that founded the KKK
Interesting. I saw a sign this morning with a bar graph showing the biggest threats to western civilization. At the low end was Russia. At the high end (that far and away eclipsed everyone else on that bar graph) was white liberal women with liberal arts degrees! They’re the man hating anti-American feminazi types.
Yes, the Karenazis. They make the Suffragettes seem reasonable.
The Blue Stockings have been succeeded by the Blue Hairs.
Good one!
Yes, it used to be “drop that demon whiskey, ManBearPig!” Now it’s “your continued breathing is persecuting me ManBearPig!”
The question Democrats have to answer first is what to do without the Jews. The Jews provide a lot of funding for the Democrats. Are they willing to walk away from these donors.
More importantly, are these Jewish donors willing to walk away from the Democrats?
My guess is no on both counts. I would say that most Jews would continue to donate to Democrats and would vote for Hitler if the democrats nominated him.
Jews care about three things. Abortion on demand at taxpayers’ expense without any restrictions, opening the borders to everyone because a girl wrote a poem 140 years ago, and buying off the poor to avoid riots.
You forgot that they own Hollywood, all the banks and secretly run the world.
DERP.
Adam, I feel it is not only the anti-Israel Democrats radicalizing the party more the anti-Israel so called Jino’s who use Judaism to show you see we too who are Jews feel Israel and especially Bibi are everything the left says it is. As Churchill said, hoping feeding the crock will eat them last, what a wake up call they will get one day.
God how the Politically Correct Peace Loving Morally Superior Ones just cannot stand it when Jews refuse to line up and die quietly.
“Antisemitism corrodes moral judgment, distorts truth, and undermines the very democratic values its enablers claim to champion. Societies that normalize hatred of Jews never stop there. They fail because they abandon clarity for ideology and principle for power.”
Making the Jew the center of moral judgment and truth is just as wrong as antisemitism, exempting Jews from criticism and privileging them above others.
We are and will always be a religious country. It is not whether we will be religious, but which religion. We are now, I believe, at the end of the religion of secular humanistic atheistic “tolerance.” It was this formerly Christian nation that welcomed the Jews and gave them refuge and invited them to become one of us. No nation is perfect, but this one has far surpassed all others in its treatment of Jews.
We should restore faithful Christianity to the lodestar of moral clarity and truth.
The moment for the Democrats to decide whom they will serve is now. If they oppose the Jews and traditional values of America, there is simply no hope or them. They should be purged from the landscape of America. The Democrats have been put in office because the sheep that support their immorality are voting for them. In the process they are making statements and slowly turning against America.
The time has come to expose and isolate them. AOC and the foreign hags that are obstructing our government. Have you noticed that for the past few decades the Dems have totally ruined congressional and senatorial decorum? I notice that since women (especially foreign-born women) and black liberal congressmen have upended these hearings with their bitching and moaning. They are rude and constantly interrupt the proceedings., Every time it is a Dems turn to speak, I turn down the volume, so I can’t hear their pre-scripted tirades.
Their response to the attack on Iran will reveal their loyalties. Either they are for or against us. It is that simple.
The leftard demoCRAPS on the WRONG side of every issue!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Did Jimmy Carter ever admit that his misguided, one-sided “Human Rights” campaign (idiotically targeting our friends and allies like the Shah, but never our enemies)–pressuring the Shah to abdicate, and helping Khomeini to return from exile in Paris (instead of blowing his plane out of the air on his return to Tehran, as should have been done), was a catastrophe whose lethal danger continues to threaten us, Israel, the region and the whole world, and the Iranian people themselves to this day? I’ve never heard that he ever did.
Yes, the Shah was a “strongman,” once hailed as “The Policeman of the Gulf” for keeping the Gulf and region safe because he was a friend of ours and not a threat to us or our other allies.
But his “human rights” violations don’t begin to compare with those of the ayatollahs who replaced him with Carter’s blessing.
When a reporter once asked the Shah why he didn’t rule his people with the gentle hand of, say, the King of Sweden, he famously replied, “When my people are as civilized and gentle as the Swedes, I will!”
His son, the exiled Crown Prince, would be the ideal “caretaker,” “transitional” constitutional monarch to serve as Iran’s new, at least titular, head of state: Westernized, moderately “secular,” pro-U.S., and with an authentic ancestral bloodline, the Iranian people, after suffering 47 years under the ayatollahs, should welcome him home with parades, cheers, and dancing in the streets…if they know what’s good for them and their country.