Gavin Newsom bets antisemitism is the Democratic Partys future

Gavin Newsom endorsed the lie Tuesday that Israel is an “apartheid” state — a damning sign of where the Democratic Party is headed, and how far it’s already sunk.At an event promoting his new book, the California governor said Israel’s critics are “appropriately” calling it an “apartheid” state — i.e., a knockoff of South Africa’s old segregationist regime.This is a lie — one so egregious that many deem it a form of antisemitism.Apartheid South Africa denied blacks the vote and forced them to endure separate hospitals, separate schools, and even separate bathrooms.Arabs, 20% of Israel’s population, vote and serve in the government and even the military; there is no segregation whatsoever between Jews and Arabs.Israelis and Palestinians clash in the West Bank, but that’s a conflict over boundaries.Newsom’s “apartheid” smear is a “blood libel” that has spurred antisemitic mobs to target Jews and Jewish institutions, often with deadly results — including in his own California.The gov once claimed a presidential candidate should be a “repairer of the breach,” yet he’s instead widening divisions — and adding to the pressure on Jews, one of the country’s most vulnerable minorities.At the same event, Newsom said he’d consider ending US military support for Israel — even as Iranian missiles flew through Israeli skies, aiming to kill civilians across the Jewish state.Subscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter! Please provide a valid email.

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Days before, Newsom repeated a claim that the United States and Israel had bombed a school in Iran — without waiting for the facts.We have no idea if Newsom truly shares Jew-hate implied by his “apartheid” comment; he has a long, long record of mouthing whatever sentiments he thinks serve his political needs.After the Oct.7 attacks, he vis...