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On Monday, The New York Times allowed a prime columnist to stain its pages with clearly pretend tales of Israelis utilizing canine rape to abuse Palestinian prisoners.
That similar day, masked Islamists marched by Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn, assaulting Jewish youngsters.
Jewish liberals, ask yourselves: Where are your friends?
For many years, most American Jews have been dedicated readers of the Times and dependable Democratic voters.
In the late nineteenth century, Jews have been half of Tammany Hall’s immigrant coalition.
Jewish labor teams lined up behind Franklin D. Roosevelt for the New Deal, and marched in each civil rights motion since.
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They voted blue no matter who.
And all they have to show for his or her slavish devotion is a single Fetterman.
What a mistake.
It wasn’t simply people: Jewish organizations, too, have spent a century aligned with the Democratic Party.
Even now Daniel Rosen, president of the American Jewish Congress, makes sure to notice on his X bio that he was a board appointee of Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
This week, he went out of his strategy to forcefully condemn Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-Va.) for agreeing with a radio host that House minority chief Hakeem Jeffries ought to “get your cotton picking hands off Virginia.”
Rosen’s on the workforce.
But the place’s the relaxation of the squad when he wants them?
Where are Obama and Biden to sentence Jew-hatred?
Where’s Jeffries to thank Rosen for his help, and offer his own?
They’re completely nowhere.
“What was said about Hakeem Jeffries was sickening, racist, and completely unacceptable,” Rosen tweeted — despite the fact that Kiggans herself didn’t converse the objectionable phrases. “Hate has no place in our politics.”
Except it does: Hate very a lot has a place in our politics, and that place is essentially within the Democratic Party.
See: Graham Platner, the Democrat operating for US Senate from Maine whereas sporting a (now-covered) Nazi tattoo.
The Anti-Defamation League, which sticks its fingers in its collective ears reasonably than condemn anybody on the left for antisemitism, can handle nothing however a limp response to Platner’s rise — calling information of his totenkopf ink “troubling,” however giving him an absurdly giant benefit of the doubt and asserting the candidate didn’t know of the tattoo’s “hateful association.”
The ADL provided a equally tepid not-quite-condemnation of Mayor Zohran Mamdani for his silence after Monday’s pogrom on the streets of Brooklyn.
“Where is Mayor Mamdani?” the group pleaded in a tweet. “Jewish New Yorkers deserve a mayor who will stand up for them without hesitation.”
Well, they don’t have one. Now what, ADL?
Meanwhile, the ADL is fulsomely expounding on the drunken tirade of William Paul, GOP Sen Rand Paul’s grownup son, who spewed Jew hatred at (non-Jew) Rep. Mike Lawler in a bar this week.
The youthful Paul is disgusting, and silly, however he’s additionally not a public determine or operating for workplace with a Nazi tattoo on his chest.
We’ve additionally realized that the Times, which has already provided three separate clarifying statements about the dog-rape column and is dealing with a libel lawsuit from the State of Israel over it, refused an early probability to report the findings of the Civil Commission on Oct. 7 Crimes by Hamas in opposition to Women and Children.
The commission’s report, the consequence of a multi-year investigation, discovered horrific abuses of Israelis by Palestinians.
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It reviewed over 10,000 pictures and hundreds of hours of video, and talked to over 400 witnesses; the Times took the phrase of simply a handful of questionable sources.
Where is the outcry from liberal Jews, saying they’ll by no means learn that slop again?
Or from their absent friends, saying they gained’t enable vicious lies like that to be unfold?
This just isn’t a both-sides situation.
Only one half of our political divide is standing in silence.
On the proper this week, non-Jewish influencers, podcasters and politicians have been pushing back on the lies and the violence concentrating on Jews.
CNN commentator Scott Jennings known as the Times piece “a journalistic atrocity that I actually feel stupid reading out loud” and mentioned everybody concerned must be fired.
Radio host Buck Sexton, after studying the Civil Commission’s report: “Given the demonic realities of Oct. 7, Israel acted with considerable restraint in its Gaza campaign, and should be commended for it.”
Harmeet Dhillon of the US Department of Justice tweeted video from the Brooklyn riot and promised to “collect evidence and analyze potential charges.”
Protesters march following a rally exterior Park East Synagogue in New York, NY on Tuesday, May 5, 2026. Yoav Ginsburg for NY Post
And sure, there are antisemites nominally on the political proper, Tucker Carlson infamously amongst them.
But so many non-Jews in the conservative world — President Donald Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz, commentator Victor Davis Hanson and a host of others — have lined up in opposition to Carlson’s foul ideas that his affect on that aspect of the aisle is sinking like a stone.
That’s simply a tiny pattern of voices on the proper talking up for Jews, frequently and sometimes.
Who on the left is doing the similar?
This week’s silence must be humiliating.
It must be clarifying.
It ought to, finally, wake up these Jews on the left who care in any respect about self-preservation — or that of their kids.
It’s long previous time to depart this one-sided alliance behind.
Karol Markowicz is the host of the “Karol Markowicz Show” and “Normally” podcasts.
