Dan Schnur is the U.S. Politics Editor for the Jewish Journal. He teaches courses in politics, communications, and leadership at UC Berkeley, USC and Pepperdine. He hosts the monthly webinar “The Dan Schnur Political Report" for the Los Angeles World Affairs Council & Town Hall. Follow Dan's work at www.danschnurpolitics.com
The central issue is not whether Jewish voters should support Democrats or Republicans. It is whether either party can demonstrate that Jewish security, Jewish identity and Jewish self-determination are compatible with its broader political agenda.
Let’s consider how Netanyahu and Eisenkot would govern differently given their many similarities on international and security matters.
The fact that he thinks such a once-radical message will be accepted by the American people speaks volumes as to the challenges that the winner of next week’s Israeli elections will face in the court of American public opinion.
10,000 frontline Houthi militia could determine the outcome of this month’s election and indirectly select the Jewish state’s next leader.
Raman repeated her previously-stated opinion that the Israeli military’s efforts to protect its country’s people from terrorist attack constituted genocide. Bass said that it did not.
If Bibi is unable to persuade enough Israelis to his side on the Haredi or West Bank settlements, he is the unparalleled master at rallying his country to stand together against their enemies.
In between his songs, he proclaimed, “Free Palestine,” which is fine, asserted that opposing Israeli military actions is not antisemitic, which is accurate, and accused Israel of apartheid and genocide, which is offensive, untrue and hateful.
Bibi-ism has been the nation’s dominant philosophy for a generation. That may be about to change.
Ironically and tellingly, the biggest obstacle that both Vance and El-Sayed face is their refusal to separate themselves from even more noxious denigrators of the Jewish state and the Jewish people.
While it’s indisputable that younger and progressive voters are driving the party away from its historic support for Israel, the old-guard Zionist Democrats have made it clear that they will not surrender without a fight.
