The bottom line is this: the modern home of antisemitism is the Democrat Party.

That’s not to say that being a Democrat makes you an antisemite. Hardly. 7 in 10 Jews are Democrats, and many non-Jewish Democrats are anything but antisemites.

But let’s face facts: the home of antisemites in America is the Democrat Party. While 80% of Republicans and nearly 70% of Independents support Israel, only 45% of Democrats do.

Americans' sympathies overall lie with Israel in this conflict, but Democrats are split

By a 61%-30% margin, respondents said their sympathies lie more with Israelis than Palestinians, but that's driven by Republicans (79%) and independents (67%), who overwhelmingly support…

— Dumisani Washington (@DumisaniTemsgen) December 1, 2023

It’s pretty hard to ignore these dramatic differences.

Most of the Republicans I see who are critical of supporting Israel do so because they lean toward isolationism, disdaining support for Ukraine as well as Israel. Most of the Democrats who are viciously attacking Israel are big supporters of Ukraine and the Palestinians. The people ripping down posters of Jewish hostages are, in many cases, sporting Ukraine flags on their bios.

The difference is clear: as the young Turks of the Democrat Party move up the political ladder, the Democrat Party is becoming more and more hostile to Jews.

38% of Americans say Israel’s military response to Hamas has been too much. This is up from 26% in the week following the October attack. 17% say the response has been too little, a decline from 27%, and 38% think the attack has been appropriate. This is down from 44% previously.

Americans, though, are more likely to sympathize with the Israelis (61%) than the Palestinians (30%). While Republicans (79%) and independents (67%) are more likely to express greater sympathy toward Israel, Democrats divide. 45% say they have greater sympathy for Israelis, and the same proportion (45%) say their sympathies are more with the Palestinians.

This is a huge problem for both the Democrat Party and for the Jewish progressives–and over 50% of Jews call themselves liberals, which is double the general population.

For the foreseeable future, those Jews will become increasingly homeless politically. Chances are that many will drift toward the Republicans and stick with the Democrat Party until it becomes untenable.

It will become untenable.

I’ve seen it here in Minnesota, where a Leftist Jewish State Senator is getting pummeled politically in his own party because he defends Israel’s right to exist. He is clearly bewildered by his “allies” turning on him, although he shouldn’t be. When Ilhan Omar was making her rise to prominence here, she ran against a long-time incumbent progressive State Rep who was Jewish, and her message to her fellow Somalis was, “Don’t vote for the old Jewish lady.”

All this was swept under the rug as a multicultural misunderstanding, but the fact is that younger Democrats are antisemitic. They see Jews as White oppressors, settler colonialists, and, ultimately, enemies. No amount of ideological convergence matters in an environment that puts identity over ideology, and Leftist Jews are finding themselves frozen out by people they have supported their entire political lives.

Liberals have supported identity politics because they automatically embrace anybody they consider “powerless,” and they define powerless by race, gender, sexual orientation, and any other “identity” they see as oppressed.

But these so-called powerless see things differently: like Mao, they see power stemming from the ability and willingness to commit violence in the service of their goals, which is why Antifa rallies inevitably devolve into violent confrontations. This is also why the Leftists support Hamas’ terrorist attacks.

Liberal Jews are in a pickle. The Democrat Party has been their political home for generations, and ideologically, they would be disgusted to hang out with Republicans. But they are a tiny minority in the country and highly concentrated in areas where, frankly, Democrats generally don’t need their votes but only their money. Democrats can discount any discontent among Jews if it buys them progressive votes and boots on the ground. Except for Florida, Jews tend to live in states that vote overwhelmingly Democrat anyway.

As has so often proven to be the case, Jews depend on the goodwill and sense of fairness of others, and when that evaporates, they find themselves alone. Republicans are sticking with Israel because it is the right thing to do. That is true of most Independents and a minority of Democrats–an important but weakening fraction of the Democrat Party.

But soon, Jews will have to make a choice–stick with the antisemites for ideological reasons or ally with the classical Liberals in the Republican Party, whose ideological commitments to Western values are stronger than their ideological differences with liberal Jews.

A massive influx of Jewish votes into the Republican Party will have few, if any, electoral consequences. A few more percent of the vote in New York City or Los Angeles will not change any elections, and Republicans in Florida are doing just fine.

But to my Jewish friends, I say this: we are your friends, and the Democrats are not. We believe in fairness, decency, and tolerance, no matter what the top Democrats have told you. You are welcome in our party. Not so much among the new Democrat Party.