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American Jews have been betrayed by the Democratic party they helped create
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Batya Ungar-Sargon is the author of “The Jews and the Left” (Broadside Books), out June 2.
On May 14, 2026, a flag bearing a star of David and two swastikas flew over a dorm at NYU — one of the most left-wing universities in one of the most left-wing towns in America.
On March 12, 2026, a Muslim man drove a truck full of explosives into a synagogue in Michigan with the intent of blowing up 140 Jewish-American preschoolers in the name of the Palestinian cause, according to prosecutors. His homicidal anti-Jewish racism was explained away by leftists at The New York Times and NPR.
On May 21, 2025, a man named Elias Rodriguez allegedly murdered two innocents because he thought they were Jews. “Free, free Palestine!” he chanted while the police arrested him, in the exact tune and cadence bellowed on college campuses every day. “I did it for Gaza.”
These are just three recent examples of a uniquely left-wing form of anti-Jewish hate and violence that has all but replaced right-wing antisemitism in America — up to appropriating the swastika itself. It’s an entire culture that suffuses the left, justifying and carrying out acts of political violence against Jews, and it stems from the top.
The Democrats are now set to elect a man with what resembles a Nazi tattoo, hastily covered up after 20 years of proudly showing it off, as their senator from Maine. They campaign eagerly with sociopaths who declare they would vote for Hamas over Israel and call Jews inbred. The word Zionist, which describes the vast majority of Jews worldwide, is now a slur on the left.
And it’s a complete reversal of where anti-Jewish sentiment has traditionally sprung from.
For most of American history, where........