It was predictable from the start. After a month or two of tough talk supporting Israel in its war to take out Hamas once and for all, President Joe Biden let out his inner Democrat, urging “restraint” in invading Gaza, eventually calling for a ceasefire and even building a port to transport supplies to the territory, despite it inevitably being used by Hamas.
In addition, Democrat Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, himself a Jew and a self-proclaimed “Shomer Yisrael” (Hebrew for “guardian of Israel”), took to the Senate floor last month to seemingly morally equate the atrocities of Hamas, its terrorism against Israelis, or its using their people as human shields in order to continue that terrorism, with the actions of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is doing all he can to protect his people, as the leader of any country would and should.
And, of course, Biden’s United Nations Ambassador, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, abstained from a vote that resulted in the U.N. Security Council approving of an immediate ceasefire between Israel, the country trying to survive while being surrounded by enemies, and Hamas, the Iranian-backed terror group that would love nothing more than a second Holocaust.
In what seems like a cynical ploy to win the state of Michigan, which has a large Arab population, in a presidential election year, the Democrat Party is blatantly doing its best to throw Israel to its foes and force it to lose the war.
Coincidentally, I began writing this essay five years to the day that then-President Donald Trump, the most pro-Israel president of my lifetime and probably in American history, recognized the Golan Heights, land won by Israel after being attacked by its neighbors during the 1967 Six Day War, as Israel’s sovereign territory.
Through his policies of choking Iran to the point where the theocratic dictatorship may have collapsed, promoting the Abraham Accords, defunding the terror-supporting Palestinian Authority (PA) and the terror-linked United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), and, most importantly, recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s rightful capitol and moving the U.S. embassy there, Trump was, and will be again, the most pro-Israel, pro-Jewish president in American history.
Trump also fought anti-Semitism domestically, most notably through his 2019 Executive Order, which broadened the interpretation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, making it easier for Jews who have been harassed or discriminated against to file lawsuits.
While being interviewed on Dr. Sebastian Gorka’s radio show a few weeks ago, Trump stated that he believes the Democrat Party hates Israel, and that “any Jewish person that votes for Democrats hates their religion. They hate everything about Israel, and they should be ashamed of themselves because Israel will be destroyed.”
For all the whining from Democrats who are either in denial, just lying, or just Never-Trumpers trying to stay somehow relevant, how is he wrong?
Schumer claims that Trump is “making highly partisan and hateful rants” and that making Israel a “partisan issue only hurts Israel and the US-Israeli relationship.” Except Trump is correct, and it’s Schumer’s party’s fault entirely.
The fact that Hamas applauded the Biden administration’s abstention at the U.N. Security Council should be proof enough of who the Democrat Party supports. The left lies about everything else—that gender doesn’t exist, that a fetus is a choice, that Trump colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election from their candidate who just happened to be awful—why would it have any compunction about covering up its anti-Semitism?
Trump is 100% correct, and my liberal Democrat Jewish coreligionists should join us in realizing this. Whatever the reasons, at least 75% of American Jews who had historically voted Democrat no longer apply. If we can be honest with ourselves, those haven’t applied for decades, but it has become much more obvious as of late, and it will only get worse.
The Jewish holiday of Passover, which commemorates the Israelites’ Exodus from Egypt, will be celebrated later this month. During the Passover Seder, we recite a portion of the Passover Haggadah entitled “Vehi She’amda,” which literally translates as “what keeps us surviving.” It reads as such:
And this (God’s blessings and the Torah) is what kept our fathers and what keeps us surviving. For, not only one arose and tried to destroy us, rather in every generation they try to destroy us, and God saves us from their hands.
Today, that statement clearly applies to the vile Islamists who attempted a second Holocaust six months ago and would love nothing more than for the Holocaust to repeat itself. And, sadly, as much as they may deny it, one political party in the country that has historically been the most pro-Jewish in world history tacitly supports them, if not outright.
It’s way past time for my coreligionists to make an exodus of our own from the Democrat Party, once and for all. Make them regret their support of the mortal enemies of the Jewish people in November by casting your vote for President Trump and the GOP: the president and the party that supports you, your homeland, and your right to survive.
Jeremy Frankel is a freelance writer who has worked with many media publications, including Newsmax, the Bongino Report, the Daily Wire, American Greatness, and Townhall. Follow him on X, Truth Social, GETTR and CenterClip.