Don’t look for Democrat leaders to support Israel anymore

It wasn’t that long ago that support for Israel, by many Democratic party leaders, was a given. And why not, since their large constituency of Jewish backers tended to vote for them? No longer is that true.

Former U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is one such example.  Not wanting to be out of step with the new direction his party is taking, Buttigieg has done a complete reversal of where he once stood on the issue. Although previously referring to Israel as a “friend who, during difficult times needs support,” in his 2019 bid for the U.S. presidency, today, that friendship has gone sour.

That’s because the Democratic party has chosen to no longer be aligned with the Jewish state – a position which became increasingly unpopular after the October 7th massacre. 

As Squad members, the progressive wing of the party, doubled down on their already anti-Israel sentiments, it wasn’t long before others began to see just how disadvantageous it was to side with Israel. That meant that their own personal leanings, guided by their conscience, had to be sacrificed on the altar of conforming to political loyalties.

Pete Buttigieg has gone that route – becoming the latest willing participant, ready to sell out what he once thought, for the grand prize of possibly winning the coveted role of the U.S. presidency in the 2028 elections.  Whatever it takes to sit in the world’s most powerful seat, will be the small price to pay if that’s what’s demanded.

But that new hardline approach says plenty. Because anyone who is able to turn their back, abandoning America’s greatest ally and supporter is someone who is capable of just about anything. When an individual can go from good to evil at the speed of a NASCAR frontrunner, that’s when you realize that the person standing before you is truly an empty vessel.

When heartfelt ideals and long-held convictions are placed on the chopping block, solely on the basis of political expediency, with no regret or remorse, that’s when a candidate’s integrity must be called into question. While people can respect shifting positions, due to justified factors, which no longer make them tenable to support, they will not see it that way when politics is the transparent reason. After all, what has changed when it comes to Israel? October 7th represents the 20-year Hamas doomsday project, aspiring to wield the final death blow to the Jewish Homeland, brutally striking it by surprise. Even before Israel had a chance to hit back, the knives came out by the anti-Zionist ratpack of the Democratic party. 

Once defensive operations got underway, it became a little easier to join that off-key chorus by condemning any military retaliation, in an attempt to remove the right for one country to protect its citizenry. On the contrary, such actions were labeled excessive force, viewing them as war crimes, deserving of harsh punishment.

At the same time, Hamas’s unrelenting public relations campaign, aided by the legacy media, did its best to manipulate the public into believing that theirs was a struggle against an oppressor, who colonized stolen Palestinian land. It was a well-packaged presentation which neatly fit into the Woke narrative of today’s youth.

The timing was impeccable, because it seamlessly lined up with the subversive campus resistance which popped up organically and spread throughout the globe, adding a few more nails to the Israeli coffin.

Topping things off was the presidential landslide of Donald J. Trump, just a year after the tragic events of October 7th, causing Democrats to adopt whatever strategy would work going forward. That was discovered to be Democratic Socialism, championed by New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani who was successful in his bid to represent the Democrat party in the upcoming November elections.

Given his history as a virulent opponent of Israel, no one was too surprised when he refused to condemn the chants for a global intifada – a movement which has taken on a life of its own.  Even a couple of days ago, that sleeping giant rose up in great force as an army of thousands stormed the New York borough of Manhattan, calling for “global intifada.”

These anti-Israel demonstrators are literally calling for a violent series of physical attacks on Jews, throughout the world, who have become the targets of evil, necessitating a battle cry against them. So who is leading that charge? 

It’s fair to say that the vast majority would be those who identify themselves as Democratic voters. Of course, there are also far-right fringe conservatives who, along with these anti-Israel Democrats have one thing in common. 

Both groups are against shipping weapons to Israel and in favor of an arms embargo, which would seriously impact Israel’s chances of being victorious in a war everyone should want her to win.

What both groups fail to realize is that a defeated Israel is a win for terrorism and the Islamization of an unsuspecting world, which naively thinks that they are not the next target in this war to bring each human being under submission to an extreme religious ideology. 

It’s almost beyond belief that anyone would think that bloodthirsty, savage terrorists will stop their intifada, the moment that every Jew has been annihilated. That is only where it begins, but certainly not where it ends. Even after every woman is covered from head to toe, becoming invisible behind their burqas, the power struggle will never end, because its appetite for unbridled control is insatiable. 

It is with this agenda that the Democratic party has decided to throw in their lot, abandoning a lifelong constituency of loyal Jews who must now internalize that they have become the dreaded enemy. 

For those like Pete Buttigieg and others who will need to recalculate their navigational route, if they aspire to gain prominence in the party, it will be at the cost of turning their back upon Jews. But somehow, that doesn’t seem to be a price too high to pay.

Democratic Rep. Valerie Foushee, of North Carolina, has decided that, although she took money in the past from AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobby, “she will no longer accept donations for the 2026 elections.”

Foushee figured out that it wasn’t worth it.  In her case, the well-known Beatles song, “Money Can’t Buy Me Love,” is more appropriately entitled, “Money Can’t Buy Me Political Safety.”