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Now Is the Time For All Jewish Dems To Demand Respect By Their Party

#1318 April 19,, 2026

A majority of Democratic U.S. Senators voting this week to bar arms’ sales to Israel doesn’t just disrespect Jewish Dems, that Party’s taken-for-granted super-loyal ethnic constituency.  It endangers our Jewish people’s homeland and disrespects all of us Jews.  Jewish Dems, don’t switch to the GOP.  Stand up in your Party against this unjust policy, regaining respect for Israel, yourselves and us all.

Now Is the Time For All Jewish Dems To Demand Respect By Their Party

Dear Jewish Democrats:

Let me ask you this: Is there any ethnic constituency that has shown its loyalty to America’s Democratic Party more steadfastly than you Jewish Dems? 

For openers, reflect on this:  An Israpundit article, 2/12/25, Meshugena Jews, pointed out:

“Despite rhetoric and a track record that would suggest a strong preference for Israel over the Palestinian cause, President-elect Donald Trump lost the Jewish vote by a larger margin than he lost the Muslim vote.”  [emphasis added]

But now reflect on this, which happened this week. World Israel News, Thursday, 4/16/26, Majority of Democrats Vote To Block Arms Sales to Israel:

“A majority of Democratic senators in Congress voted in favor of measures aimed at blocking U.S. weapons sales to Israel, marking a significant shift in what had long been considered solid bipartisan support for the Jewish state.

… “The votes underscore a broader shift within the Democratic Party, where support for Israel — once a largely bipartisan consensus — appears to be eroding among lawmakers.

… “Republicans, however, strongly opposed the measures. Sen. Jim Risch, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, warned that blocking arms sales would have serious geopolitical consequences.” [emphasis added]

Jewish Democrats, don’t bask in satisfaction from this as an ad personam attack on two leaders, Trump and Bibi, whom you along with your Party disdain if not despise. A majority of your Party’s Senators voting this week to block U.S. arms sales to Israel in the very midst of coordinated U.S.-Israeli military action against Iran building nuclear bombs (to which it’s close), blocking access to a key international waterway, and fostering terrorism aimed especially against your fellow Jews is an ad personam attack all right – against You. It says your Party, to which you’ve been super-loyal, doesn’t think you’ll stand up with your own people against a foe openly seeking to destroy it, or doesn’t give a damn if you do.

Ok, I’m not calmly non-partisan on this.  Back when I learned that President Obama hadn’t just abstained on his way out the door on UNSC 2334, declaring historic Jerusalem and Judea-Samaria of all places “Palestinian territory occupied since 1967” (Bibi: My Story, pp. 577-578; Friedman, One Jewish State, p. 78, “the greatest betrayal by a U.S. President (Obama) in history”), but had fomented it, I took an oath henceforth I wouldn’t vote for a Democrat for Dog-Catcher. 

Some years ago I was present, ok still under the cocktail hour’s influence, at a ZOA gala in New York when three improbable things happened.  The conservative ZOA presented an award to the liberal Professor Dershowitz; Dershowitz showed up to accept it; and he introduced as his brightest law student ever the evening’s main speaker, Senator Cruz.  But it’s what Dershowitz himself said that has stuck with me – that it’s critical that U.S. Congressional support for Israel be bipartisan.  I don’t think Dershowitz envisioned that one party’s senators would vote to withhold arms from Israel while Israel was the only country in the world fighting alongside the United States against a fanatic state admittedly weeks away from The Bomb, but here we are.

I don’t ask you Jewish Democrats to abandon the Dems for the GOP (we differ on a host of issues, from U.S. Borders to the Electoral College to Voter ID).  What you need to do is stand up in your Party for the security of our Jewish people’s homeland of Israel, which any other political party’s ethnic constituency would themselves do for their people’s homeland, thereby regaining respect by your Party not just for You.  I’d personally derive relief and satisfaction from your achievement of this no-arms-for-Israel policy’s reversal.  I’d call my voting precinct’s Democratic Party committeeman, “Who’d you say you’re running for Dog-Catcher?”