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Cookie Schwaeber-Issan | August 5, 2026

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OPINION

Welcoming Democrat Socialists is welcoming Jew-hatred

It’s one thing for Democrats to call their party a big tent, that welcomes a diversity of voices and ideas, differing from traditional policies. But by welcoming Democrat Socialists, the party of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton is embracing a new generation of individuals who hate Israel and the Jewish people.

For anyone who thinks that is an exaggeration, just examine the positions of candidates running under the Democratic Socialist banner.  

Zohran Mamdani: The New York City mayor has made no secret of identifying himself as anti-Zionist, accusing Israel of being an apartheid state. As someone who supports the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, he has pledged to make sure no Israeli products are sold in the city-run supermarkets he promised to set up. Calling for the arrest of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to face charges as a war criminal, Mamdani has, likewise, accused the IDF of genocide in Gaza.  

Abdul Al-Sayed: The man running for the U.S. Senate to represent Michigan, has describedIsrael as a rogue state that committed genocide. Scapegoating the Jewish state, “he also blames Israel and AIPAC for a wide array of domestic social problems, saying we should be using our tax dollars here to invest in health care here and education here, rather than sending it over there to buy bombs and tanks that get used to drive apartheid and genocide there.” 

Melat Kiros: The winner of the Colorado congressional primaries, in her victory speech, unashamedly said, “one of her goals is to end the genocide in Palestine. After calling Hamas’s devastating October 7, 2023, invasion of southern Israel inevitable, she also declined to refer to a deadly June 2025 firebombing in Boulder, targeting activists for Israeli hostages held in Gaza as an antisemitic attack. Her platform includes a complete arms embargo on Israel and the end of military subsidies to the Jewish state.” 

Claire Valdez: The New York State Assembly and Congressional primary winner has advocated for a complete U.S. arms embargo, cutting all military aid to Israel, while accusing the country of “genocide and apartheid.” 

Darializa Chevalier:  The N.Y. congressional primary winner attended a rally that celebrated the October 7 massacre just a day after the brutal attack took place, “posting online that ‘Israel doesn’t exist.’ She also backed Palestinian terrorist Rasmea Odeh. 

Aber Kawas: Winner of the New York State Senate primary race, launched the campaign "Not On Our Dime, with the intent “to tax any New York-based organization that gives money to Israel or Israeli charities. She has accused Israel of state violence against Palestinians and committing war crimes. Claiming that genocide has been perpetrated in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, Kawas has refused to address the horrors of October 7, instead, saying that “egregious horrors” were committed by Israel. 

Oliver Larkin: The Florida congressional candidate, challenging Jared Moskowitz, agreeswith Mamdani “that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be arrested during his upcoming trip to the U.S. Larkin has used the term genocide to describe what is taking place in Gaza and “supports the Block the Bombs Act, which restricts the flow of offensive weapons to Israel.” 

Brad Lander: The Democratic party nominee for New York's 10th congressional district, himself a Jew, has been critical of “the scale of Israel's military response in Gaza, arguing that the war has gone too far, calling for a cease-fire and a cutoff of offensive military aid.” 

Bernie Sanders: Probably the most well-known Democratic Socialist, also a Jew, has no problem being a leading critic of his own ancestral homeland, sharply condemning Israel's military campaign in Gaza, he argues that the response to Hamas exceeded self-defense and amounted to “severe violations of international law and humanitarian standards.” 

While the above is not an exhaustive list, it is a compilation of the more well-known Democrat Socialists, all of whom share one central thing in common – a strong condemnation of Israel, accompanied by the libelous accusations of genocide and other war crimes.

Whether intended or not, their harsh and vicious claims against Israel have had a clear causal effect upon the harming of Jews, who neither live in Israel nor have ties to the Jewish state.  

One such undeniable connection would be the recent stabbing of a New York Jewish man, just a couple of days after the City’s mayor called for the arrest of the Israeli Prime Minister, when he is expected to arrive for the annual United Nations General Assembly meeting. 

The constant documenting of daily attacks against Jews, throughout the world, along with their vilification and the attempt to exclude them from certain elements of society, most recently including entrance into a Montreal park, testifies to the ever-growing anti-Jewish sentiment that we are seeing against ordinary Jewish people.

Is the leadership of the Democratic party so oblivious to this fallout, that they don’t realize that their new “big tent” members are responsible for alienating a large part of the Jewish population, who made up a significant portion of the party’s loyal membership? 

How are American Jews supposed to react to these socialist candidates whose virulent anti-Israel positions end up fomenting deep hatred, resentment and disparagement of their Jewish friends and family? Would you stay in a political party that has nothing but contempt for your people?

Perhaps, the most important question to ask is whether or not the Jewish vote is of any importance to Democrats, at this point? Because the fact that it is being devalued and disregarded seems to indicate that these new candidates are fine if they lose Jewish supporters.

It’s possible that, for them, their anti-Israel principles take priority over the win they hope to secure. And that would make sense, because it’s looking more and more as if Jews are simply not their kind of people.  So why court them?

Sadly, the pressure that is being applied to the old guard of Democrats, to cut all Jews loose, is a strategy that is increasingly being adopted, knowing that they cannot afford to alienate the dynamic force that is winning elections in their party’s name.

What they don’t realize is that their other extreme socialist positions will, at some point in the not-too-distant future, have to be disavowed by them, for being too radical. But when that happens, you can be sure they, too, will be cut loose from the party.