Zoe Strimpel is a British TV personality, author and commentator…
…who has just put out an absolutely superb article in London’s Sunday Telegraph, titled “Appeasing anti-Zionist bigots – that’s what cost Kamala the election”, which analyzes the extent to which Kamala Harris’s equivocation on Israel was responsible for Donald Trump’s decisive victory this week.
Here is how it begins:
It used to be that when Jews complained about anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, eyes rolled. We were boring on about a niche issue! Nobody cared!
Sometimes even I wondered if, nearly 80 years on from Hitler, we were exaggerating our own importance, the degree of enmity facing us, and its seriousness. I shouldn’t have. The year since October 7 has once again shown loud and clear that far from niche, we are so important that the intensity of beliefs about us – which have repeatedly redrawn the world – are doing so again.
American history has just been turned on its head because of the Jews. Trying – and ultimately failing – to appease the Muslim and progressive “voices” who demand an abandoned, traduced and fatally vulnerable Israel, led Kamala Harris to shun the popular, Jewish and pro-Israel governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro.
Grotesquely dubbed “Genocide Josh” by the loony Lefties to whom Harris gave such power, Shapiro was wildly popular, effective, and would have helped her clinch the deal in the all-important state. Shapiro’s appeal went far beyond the Jewish vote. In shunning him, she sent such a clear message to Jews throughout the country that the traditionally staunch Democratic bloc ended up voting Republican in greater numbers than they have since Reagan – for someone many of them started off abhorring.
Jews in and of themselves can’t swing an American vote for president, but the issues that swirl around them can. Tim Walz with his “ceasefire now” stance did little to soothe those who had spent the year looking aghast at the anti-Zionist rallies, campaigns, encampments, sit-ins and die-ins on their streets and the college campuses attended by their children – and wondering what on earth had happened to America.
Interesting start, wouldn’t you say? Ms. Strimpel’s analysis really does flesh out this analysis in a cogent way. I strongly urge you to use the link I’ve provided (here it is again) and read every word.
I will end with a special note to Kamala Harris, and/or Tim Walz, and/or Nancy Pelosi, and/or Barack and Michelle Obama, and/or their likeminded Democrat pals : I strongly urge you to read this article not once, but multiple times. Then, please, for the good of your party and the good of the country, please go away and stay away. Thank you.
