Michael Goodwin: Dems destructive agenda has turned them into a Jew-hating cult

The rise of the Socialist left in New York is a bad omen for obvious reasons.The radical agenda is uniformly anti-police, pro-criminal, favors wildly expanded government powers over private property and demands punishing taxes on businesses and high-income families to fund its redistribution schemes.If that were all, it would still be a destructive and dangerous movement.

But the post-election analysis from last week’s New York primary races finds another driving force among the winning candidates.Namely, the hatred of all things Israel, and those who dare support the Jewish state.It hardly needs to be said that the pied piper of this sickening eruption is Mayor Mamdani.He started it and continues to fan the flames of antisemitism.

And now New Yorkers have made the added mistake of electing a cadre of clones.As Jay Jacobs, the state leader of the beleaguered Democratic Party’s state leader, told The Post, the pro-Palesinian, anti-Israel furor “was a more important issue” in luring voters to races that otherwise had very low turnouts.Overall, only abut 17% of registered Dems voted in the districts where the Socialist candidates beatprevailed over other Dems, some of them incumbents.The Anti-Defamation League effectively reached the same conclusion, saying in a statement that the winners in the three hotly contested congressional primary winnersies rode to victory on a “movement built on antisemitic rhetoric.”It said that as Mamdani walked through an election night victory party of the Democratic Socialists of America, some people chanted “from the river to the sea,” part of a coded Palestinian message calling for the elimination of Israel.“We’re witnessing candidates succeed not in spite of demonizing rhetoric against the Jewish community and the Jewish state, but because of it,” the organization added.It also made a larger point by noting that, “When leaders cheer slogans that dehumanize Jews, it does not stay at a victory party.

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