Dems now the chief antisemites, close the surrogacy loopholes and other commentary

“If I’d told you in 2015 that the focal point of antisemitic sentiment in the U.S.in 2026 would be inside the Democratic Party, you would have thought I was insane,” posits John Podhoretz at The Free Press.

Back then, it was the right attacking Jewish conservatives, unleashing a variety of antisemitic attacks.Yet President Trump “became the most pro-Israel president in American history,” and “in the real world of politics, policy, and protests, outside of the realm of X posts,” all “the roiling turmoil on Jewish issues has come from the left.” Why? Trump has a “fingertip feel for what the people who love him want to hear from him,” and “Republicans overall remain overwhelmingly supportive of Israel and sympathetic to Jewish concerns,” so “the philosemitic, pro-Israel path of Trump II is the result of a dynamic interplay between the president and his base” — his real base, not the cranks now “talking about starting a third party.”US law lets rich Chinese nationals “mail-order American babies for a vial of semen and a lot of cash,” thunders the Federalist’s Nathanael Blake.

Video-game mogul Xu Bo has 100 children born through American surrogates; his ilk, are spending up to $200,000 per child to forge “an unstoppable family dynasty,” The Wall Street Journal reports.Team Trump must “treat this as the human trafficking and national security threat that it is, and shut it down.

We put export controls on all sorts of things; we should add American infants to the list.Making America Great Again means not selling American babies.”Amnesty International “once presented itself as the conscience of the free world” and a “champion of dissidents and those who stood up to authoritarian power,” recalls Jo Bartosch at Spiked, but now “resembles the very forces it was created to oppose.” It has embraced the logic of “trans tyranny,” claiming that people who believe “sex-based rights are worth defending” are act...