If you want to understand what is going on in the Democrat Party – specifically in the growing (maybe grown is the more appropriate word) status and relevance of its anti-Israel/anti-Semitic stance, which has become a mainstay position of so may of its officeholders and leaders…
… you cannot to better than Jonathan Tobin’s article for jns.com, titled ” El-Sayed, the Democrats, AIPAC and the war on American Jews”.
Here are its first two paragraphs:
It would be difficult to underestimate the impact of Dr. Abdul El-Sayed on American politics. His victory in the Michigan Senate Democratic primary over Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) has inspired endless commentary and analysis about the sources of his personal appeal, the shortcomings of his opponent, the state of the electorate and the failures of pollsters to come even close to predicting the results. And it won’t be until we see how he fares against his Republican opponent, former Rep. Mike Rogers, in the general election, that we will have a better idea of how most Americans—and not just Democratic primary voters—feel about his beliefs.
But there should be no mistaking one thing: Democrats have given a person whose most important issue was demonizing Jewish participation in American politics a narrow plurality. By rallying around him and unifying behind his candidacy, as the defeated party establishment has already done, they are normalizing a hateful position against a segment of citizenry. They are declaring that politics driven by traditional tropes of antisemitism and money is not merely debatable, but a stand they can all get behind if it means winning a majority in the U.S. Senate.
The sad reality is that, for today’s Democrat party, Israel hatred and Jew hatred is no problem at all. It has been reduced to nothing more than a potentially useful campaign issue.
Midterm elections will take place just a few months from now. When you vote, one thing you should consider – maybe the single most important thing you should consider – is whether this is or is not OK with you.
Think about it.
