After the 9/11 attacks 25 years ago, many Israelis declared, "We are all Americans now." As I wrote at the time, they had it backward: Americans had become Israelis.We had experienced the horror of Islamic terrorism that they had endured for decades.Of course, that is only the beginning of our common cause with the Jewish people.
They are a wellspring of the values upon which our country was founded.That is why every American should be troubled by the hatred toward Israel and American Jews that has festered inside our country since 9/11 and has been driven to new heights by the radical socialist left.In New York, Democrat Mayor Zohran Mamdani has called the Jewish political advocacy group AIPAC "monsters." The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), now the ascendant force in the Democratic Party, has made anti-Zionism a litmus test for membership.
Hasan Piker, the streamer who has barnstormed for DSA candidates, recently said that "eventually someone’s going to come around and take action" against American Jews if they continue supporting Israel.MAMDANI’S ANTI-ISRAEL AGENDA COMES AT NEW YORK’S EXPENSEIndeed, it is already happening.FBI figures show anti-Jewish hate crimes have soared and now comprise 63% of all religion-based hate crimes, despite the fact Jews are about 2% of the U.S.
population.The radical left offers outrageous excuses.
In March, after a Hezbollah-inspired terrorist drove a truck loaded with gasoline and fireworks into a Michigan synagogue full of sleeping preschoolers, Abdul El-Sayed, the current Democratic nominee for U.S.Senate from Michigan, dismissed the attack by saying that "hurt people hurt people."Aftermath shown around the Children's Center at Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield, Mich.
An attacker rammed into the building on Thursday, March 12, 2026.(Temple Israel)American Christians face a moment of reckoning: Will we stand with our Jewish compatriots, just as they stood with us 25 years ago? Will we speak frankly in...