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Among the members of the American Islamo-leftist alliance, New York Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani is widely viewed as a rising star and likely the next mayor of America’s largest city. But his ascent should alarm anyone who still believes in the foundational principles of the Democratic Party and the health of America’s political system. Mamdani reflects the slippery slope direction the party is headed for, if it doesn’t change course very soon. Mamdani is a self-described Democratic Socialist who supports turning New York’s grocery stores into government-run institutions, eliminating fares on public transit, defunding the police, and implementing permanent rent freezes. His economic agenda bears more resemblance to failed communist regimes than any credible American policy tradition. In addition to these myopic policies, his moral standing is dubious. Mamdani refuses to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state, has declined to condemn slogans like “globalize the intifada,” which calls for religious motivated violence against Western European countries and America, and regularly aligns himself with radical voices that celebrate antisemitic incitement and terror.
This combination of ideological extremism and moral confusion is now a commonplace within the Democratic Party. Once the party of working-class pragmatists and Cold War liberals, the Democrats are now increasingly defined by radical activists and elected officials who view America and its allies not as forces for good, but as sources of global injustice. The party’s language of equity and anti-colonialism has become a cover for what is, at its core, a dangerous and deeply illiberal worldview hostile to economic freedom and basic moral clarity.
An extreme ideology can overlook its lack of popular appeal. As evidenced by recent polling, the Democratic Party’s radical left shift is not popular with most of the American voters. A Quinnipiac poll from July 10‑14 found just 19% of registered voters approve of Congressional Democrats, the lowest in Quinnipiac history, which began in 2009. Views on the Party are hardly better, a CNN survey shows just 28% of Americans view the Democratic Party favorably, the lowest since 1992. Across multiple outlets, Democratic popularity is the lowest in decades, demonstrating a self-inflicted wound by party leadership.
Whether they recognize it or not, the Democratic Party is continuing to undergo the Israel test, as laid out by Professor George Gilder in his 2009 book by the same name. Per Gilder, Israel embodies the triumph of democracy, decency, creativity, and grit. Historically, countries who have endorsed Israel and the expansive worldview it represents have thrived, while those who didn’t remained mired in poverty and violence. The reason? Perspective on Israel is more than just a foreign policy issue; rather, it reflects an ethos. Abandoning Israel is like abandoning democracy.
As the Democratic Party has increasingly become hostile to Israel, it has simultaneously radicalized on domestic policy. The Democratic Party is increasingly failing the “Israel Test” because their ideology is fundamentally at odds with the values that made America and their own party historically strong.
After years of ideological indoctrination by foreign powers, Democrats are increasingly viewing Israel not as a trusted ally but as an oppressor, colonizer, and occupier that threatens minority communities rather than standing with them. Democratic voters’ views on Israel now mirror the stance of their elected leaders. According to a recent Gallup poll, only 33% of Democrats view Israel favorably, a stunning drop from 63% just three years ago. Meanwhile, 45% view the Palestinian territories favorably. This inversion of moral judgment is not the result of careful analysis or principled foreign policy debate. It’s the result of ideological capture. It’s based on a blunt worldview that instinctively sides with those who claim to be oppressed, regardless of nuance, truth or values.
National figures like Senator Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez routinely embrace this radical realignment. After President Trump provided critical support to Israel during its June 2025 war with Iran, Sanders introduced the “No War Against Iran Act” and AOC called for Trump’s impeachment. Their actions were not based on any unlawful activity, but apparently because aiding Israel, in their view, constituted significant wrongdoings. In today’s left, if a policy is associated with Israel, it must be dogmatically rejected out of hand, regardless of merit.
Historically, the Democratic Party has been a steadfast supporter of Israel—from President Truman becoming the first world leader to recognize the new state to President Obama’s support of the Iron Dome. Today, however, a growing vocal far-left faction of the Democratic Party, threatens that status quo. They embrace the Palestinians’ narrative of eternal victimhood and promote the antisemitic idea that all of Israel’s success is born of its original sin and therefore must be dismantled. The radical left never misses an opportunity to snub the Jews and vilify the Jewish state. True to The Israel Test’s thesis, this attitude has not been relegated to criticism of Israel, but rather has evolved into a politics of victimhood, a self-loathing of America.
Dogmatic viewpoints reduce complex issues to slogans, demand ideological purity and punish dissent. The party of Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson was built on the idea that democracy is worth defending and that American power is a force for good. Today, too many Democratic leaders eschew that legacy.
As the Democratic Party indulges fringe ideologies and abandons its historic commitments, it sends dangerous signals to America’s adversaries like China, Russia and Iran that our country is too demoralized to lead. It creates openings for foreign influence campaigns, social media manipulation and ideological subversion.
The Democrats are at a tipping point. They can double down on radicalism and watch their approval sink further or they can develop a clear agenda that passes the Israel Test. They can adopt a moral and rational view on internal affairs and foreign policy. They can embrace, rather than abandon, the liberal democratic values that once grounded the party.
The Democratic Party now faces an important test. Where will it stand when it comes to continuing America’s longstanding, bipartisan support for Israel? Will it banish the far-left voices spewing hatred of the Jewish State? Or will these voices eventually become the party’s mainstream? The answer will determine not only the party’s cohesiveness, but its viability in American politics.
This article was first published by the Jerusalem Post.
madmammi jihadeez should not be in USA GOVT.
The Democrats founded the KKK and Lynched countless Blacks and tried to keep the newly freed slaves from being able to carry a Gun and that makes Jessie Jackson a Uncle Tom
As terrible as lynching is, the number isn’t “countless.”
Tuskegee Institute: Recorded 3,446 Black victims of lynching between 1882 and 1968.
Equal Justice Initiative (EJI): Found 4,084 Black victims of racial terror lynching in Southern states between 1877 and 1950, plus others outside the South.
Less than the number of Jews murdered on a busy day in just Auschwitz alone.
The Democratic Party is extremist through and through. This will spread. The problem will never go away completely and won’t even change a little unless there is three generation moratorium on ALL immigration. Anyone who can be forced out, must be. If this is accomplished, the majority can rebuild itself, pull its women from the clutches of leftist extremist men and real Americans can reassert dominance.
The 1965 Immigration Reform Act, those who spent decades foisting it on America and those who prevent its reversal have a lot to answer for.
Despite President Trump’s valiant efforts – which Globalist Communists aka
the Democrats despise – the Left retains a powerful grip on the media – on
entertainment – on propaganda in schools K through University – on
corporate advertising – on social protests – on the Courts. It has lost its hold
on federal power and imposition of tyranny in America – for now – but it’s
about to usher in an Islamist-Communist to the mayoralty of America’s most
powerful city.
The goal of oppression over the American people is a global one – in cahoots
with what is happening in Europe through Islamization and denial of basic
freedoms. There is no way the Democrats are “at a tipping point” in America
right now and compelled to make a decision over whether to align with Israel
again. That alignment will never happen. Destroying the Jewish state is part of
of their global plan to destroy Western civilization for their cashless, digitally
controlled, surveillance suppressing one-world government of unelected
Technocrats.
The Left will never cease seeking power as they claw their way – in America –
back to the top. Israel-hating Zohran Mamdani is a perfect example of it.
Demoncrats were the party of SLAVE OWNERS, NEVER the party of working class, only the idle, power hungry, dependent on tax payer /slave $$ to survive.
In 1970 there was a book by Daniel Schorr warning “Don’t Get Sick In America”, warning of sub par care and a health crisis. But it wasn’t based in religion.
Now we have an anti Jew bias in UK Hospitals. Apparently there are also some Palestinian nurses in Australia singling out Jewish patients based on articles published online. Search on the phrase ‘Muslim nurses singling out Jewish patients’ and you will get plenty of results, including the NY Post, J-Post and Algemeiner.
With MamiDami set to become the Mayor of NY how long before Jewish Patients in NYC become targets. How does one stop the Medical Jihad? Open up Jewish run hospitals and refuse to hire Muslims….period. That’s for starters. Hire armed IDF cops to police the hospitals
According to theJC.com two Australian Muslim nurses have been arrested and charged. But for the most part Muslim groups have closed ranks around these two nursing vermin. Anyone surprised?
It’s really very simple. Muslims cannot exist in Western societies. There is something seriously wrong with them. Deport the ones currently residing in Europe and America and prevent any immigration….forever.
Take a cue from the film Event Horizon…….”libera te tutemet ex inferis,” meaning “save yourself from hell.”
In other words, do not go to a hospital where the nurses are Muslim. Ignore the warning at your own peril
Democrats cannot face themselves any longer without having to see that they have traded any genuine moral currency for the acquisition of power.
Their supposed advocacy for victims is but another cover for their antisemitic, racist. pedophilic, misandrist, anti-woman hatred toward those they wish to permanently govern.
Under cloak of darkness aligning with Islam, their former wooing of the Jews in America simply aided and abetted their goals of using Jewish money and contacts for influence peddling and to gain prominence throughout our country. It worked and the systematic brainwashing of our liberal Jews furthered their false sense of belonging and acceptance.
Fast forward and liberal Jews in America now find themselves sheep with a target on their backs unless they pivot to embrace of the very annihilative rhetoric against our Jewish nation, Israel, by Namdani.
Sadly, the coming fusion of the Islamic dictates and the Democrats will in the not so distant future aggregate enough internal power so that any remaining deference to liberal Jews will be irrevocably subsumed into their combined hatred and rejection of all Jews.
Sorry liberal Jews, you have chosen an allegience with evil against everything good and each of you traveling this road needs to wake up and see you are facilitating the monstrous vilification of our people and in the end it will not save you.
Neither Islam nor the Left will ever stop. Ever.
To ask the question is to answer it
Zohran Mamdani is on record of saying “ I hate Africans .” This might be reflection of real spirit of Islam toward black people, two Christians who are also authors revealed in the book about the prophet and founder of Islam, Muhammad, the person who all Muslims greatly admire and view and a perfect example for them to emulate was man that “He personally owned two ‘black slave…he endorsed sex slavery as a gift from Allah.. In the every next page of that same book I also informs the reader that “Islam had enslaved more people than any other culture.” [1]
Likewise , a scholar on Islam who is an Arab woman and speakers and reads Arabic and uses to live in one the those countries on the Middle East had exposes in her book that the prophet of Islam ,Muhammad referred to Blacks as “ ‘raisin heads’ several time in the hadith [1:663:9:256]”Her book also reveals that “Throughout the hadith blacks are also referred to as abeds, which means ‘black in Arabic and is also synonymous with the word “slave’ and filth.” In fact ,Arab Muslims have enslaved blacks for 1,400 years and the Black slave trade is still thriving in Sudan and Mauritania.” Further in her same book the author reveals that “Most interesting, though, is the even though black slavery by Muslims began long ago , almost no descends of those slaves are alive today in the Muslim world. Why is there no black culture in the Middle East ? Most slaves were either killed or died from being worked to death.” [2]
[1] JESUS AND THE JIHADIS by Craig A. Evens and Jeremiah J Johnson , pages 125,125.
[2] THEY MUST BE STOPPED by Brigitte Gabriel , pages 82, 183.
“Will these voices become the party’s mainstream?” What do you mean become? The Democratic Party has been an anti-American, pro-Communist and anti-Semitic party for most of this century.