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\n Rep. Becca Balint helped Sen. Bernie Sanders craft and lead efforts to cut US arms sales to Israel, wrote an op-ed calling Israel\u2019s war in Gaza a \u201cgenocide\u201d and has stood proudly with fellow progressives for two decades. But Balint was wincing last week as she stood on the steps of the Capitol, recounting the warning she gave her congressional staff.\n <\/p>

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\n \u201cI know at some point there will be a day of reckoning, because I still believe that Jews should have a homeland,\u201d the Vermont Democrat told CNN. \u201cThere will be people, I think some of my own supporters, who will turn on me, because I still believe in a two-state solution. I still do. I still believe that Israel should be safe and secure. I believe that the Palestinians have been so ill-treated for so long and deserve a safe and secure homeland. I do not believe Israel should be dismantled.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Balint described being \u201cshaken to my core\u201d watching the video of Scott Wiener, the California state senator running for retiring Rep. Nancy Pelosi\u2019s seat, recently being hounded out of a transgender rights event with angry shouts including, \u201cYou stopped being queer the moment you started supporting Israel, you piece of sh*t!\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n She described a familiar ache. Like the people who tell her that homophobia doesn\u2019t exist and then ask her what it means that she\u2019s a lesbian. Like the House Democratic colleague she wouldn\u2019t name who she says came to a bipartisan antisemitism taskforce meeting and said, \u201cI didn\u2019t really think there was any antisemitism anymore, because all the Jews are rich.\u201d Like the people who accuse Jewish politicians of having dual loyalty.\n <\/p>\n

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\n For many liberals, longtime policy priorities like universal healthcare or stopping climate change are now intertwined with opposing Israel. An ascendant faction of the left argues there\u2019s no such thing anymore as \u201cprogressive except for Palestine\u201d \u2014 a phrase that took off in the years following Hamas\u2019 October 7, 2023, attack and the ensuing war in Gaza \u2014 and sees opposition to Israel as a Democratic litmus test.\n <\/p>\n

\n The same day as the trans rights event in San Francisco, a woman stood behind Sen. Jon Ossoff in Savannah, Georgia, wearing a \u201cProtect Trans Kids\u201d T-shirt and a keffiyeh \u2014 the scarf associated with Palestinian identity \u2014 decorated with the rainbow colors of LGBTQ solidarity.\n <\/p>\n

\n Many progressive Jewish leaders, including those who are critical of the Israeli government, like Balint and Wiener, see some expressionsof sentiment around Israel as rationalizing antisemitism. They point to references to Jewish or Israeli interests nefariously controlling politics with money or suggesting that Jews aren\u2019t fully loyal to America or to Democratic values.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cWhen they were saying things like my \u2018Israeli masters\u2019 and my \u2018Zionist handlers,\u2019 that made really clear where these folks were coming from,\u201d Wiener told CNN. He said his phone was flooded messages of concern and solidarity from Jewish politicians from across the country, with a wide range of views on Israel, as well as some non-Jewish Democrats and other progressives.\n <\/p>\n

\n What the video of Wiener captured, a wide range of Jewish Democratic leaders tell CNN, is why it\u2019s become a conventional political conversation to wonder aloud whether a Jewish candidate should even try to run for president.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cA lot of progressive Jews have felt like we\u2019ve been pushed out of progressive spaces,\u201d added Wiener, who now refers to Israel as having committed genocide in Gaza after previously refusing to do so. \u201cAnd that\u2019s not just me: I hear that all the time, very lefty Jews who are put to a litmus test that you have to call for Israel\u2019s destruction, or you are not actually LGBTQ and you\u2019re not welcome here.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

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\n Mark Levine, the New York City comptroller, won his office last year in the same election as Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has said that \u201cthe struggle for Palestinian liberation was at the core of my politics and continues to be.\u201d Mamdani is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, which has called for \u201cthe end of Israel\u2019s colonization and occupation of all Arab lands.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThere are certainly folks on the left who are exuberant right now and feel very much included in the DSA momentum, but I think it\u2019s fair to say that many, and probably a majority, of Jewish Democrats are feeling pretty isolated right now,\u201d Levine said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Levine lives in the district where Darializa Avila Chevalier toppled Rep. Adriano Espaillat by centering her campaign on opposing Israel\u2019s control of Gaza and the West Bank and linking it to gentrification in New York. She blamed both situations on \u201cfolks who are coming in, claiming the land and buying it up and kicking the people who are living there out.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Days before the victories of Avila Chevalier and two other candidates Mamdani backed, the mayor gave a speech calling the American Israel Public Affairs Committee \u201cmonsters\u201d who \u201cmove millions in dark money to accomplish a single goal, to preserve their power, so that they can turn us against one another.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Espaillat, who had AIPAC\u2019s support, became one of three House Democrats in eight days to lose primaries.\n <\/p>\n

\n New York Rep. Dan Goldman was soundly defeated by Brad Lander, who is also Jewish, after facing criticism about his support of Israel, refusal to refer to the war in Gaza as a genocide and his opposition to Mamdani. And Colorado Rep. Diana DeGette, a progressive 15-term incumbent, lost to Melat Kiros, a democratic socialist who called for generational change. Kiros also noted she was fired from a law firm for refusing to take down a letter she wrote after the October 7 attacks opposing the existence of Israel, but argued that this should not be conflated with antisemitism.\n <\/p>\n

\n Days before his primary, Goldman was banned from a coffee shop whose owners accused him of being a \u201cgenocide enabler\u201d who gets his money from AIPAC.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe experience of being a Jewish Democrat is to feel like \u2026 no matter what the topic \u2014 it can be affordable housing \u2014 it\u2019s just a matter of time before someone links it to Israel,\u201d Levine said. \u201cWhat is the list of litmus test issues? As far as I know, at this point, it is exclusively a list of questions on Israel. We\u2019re progressives. We\u2019re absolutely willing to criticize the actions of the current government of Israel. And we are. But we\u2019re feeling excluded from many spaces right now, and it\u2019s hard to conclude it\u2019s not because we\u2019re Jewish.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Michigan state Rep. Noah Arbit invoked the 2024 protest vote effort against then-President and candidateJoe Biden over the war in Gaza. Arbit said the party was on the brink of seeing a \u201cmirror image of the Uncommitted movement \u2014 it is exactly the same situation.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI don\u2019t see this as a right or left issue,\u201d he said. \u201cI see this as the unmasking of American antisemitism under the guise of criticism of Israel.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Arbit had his bar mitzvah at and represents the West Bloomfield synagogue that was attacked in March in apparent retaliation for Israeli strikes in Lebanon. He described a deep alienation that goes beyond the statehouse.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cAfter I leave office, I\u2019m not sure I\u2019ll ever call myself a Democrat again,\u201d Arbit said. \u201cI don\u2019t know how Jews can feel like you can align yourself with any political movement when the grassroots are so hostile to who you are and your community.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

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\n Nowhere is the Democratic fracture more in play than in Michigan, a state with significant Jewish and Arab populations with an upcoming primary for an open Senate seat that\u2019s a must-win for Democrats.\n <\/p>\n

\n Abdul El-Sayed, a former county health director, is drawing heavily from Bernie Sanders-style politics, including supporting \u201cMedicare for All,\u201d but also centering his campaign on attacking AIPAC and criticizing Israel, which has helped him capture the left.\n <\/p>\n

\n AIPAC\u2019s allied super PAC has committed at least $20 million so to boosting Rep. Haley Stevens against El-Sayed, according to AdImpact, in what became a head-to-head race this weekend after state Sen. Mallory McMorrow ended her campaign.\n <\/p>\n

\n El-Sayed, who is Egyptian American and a Muslim, links how people view Israel to how they will deliver on other progressive priorities and called it a \u201cmoral Rorschach test.\u201d\n <\/p>

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\n \u201cIf you can\u2019t speak to the absolute worst thing that people can do to other people, it\u2019s hard to take seriously when you say that you\u2019re going to stand in the cut and be a protector for the people in your own communities,\u201d he told CNN.\n<\/p>\n

\n That argument gives Amanda Berman, the founder and CEO of Zioness, a group with the tagline \u201cUnabashedly Progressive. Unapologetically Zionist,\u201d what she said is a \u201cphysical, visceral reaction: I experience it as antisemitism.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe idea that my liberation movement is a threat to your health insurance or food security in America \u2014 those ideas are as old as \u2018The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,\u2019\u201d Berman said, citing the 20th century antisemitic book purporting to reveal a conspiracy of Jews running the world. The book was published first in Russia, eventually used by the Nazis as inspiration and is invoked in antisemitic rhetoric today.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cWould you tell me how bombing tens of thousands of children is a liberation movement? That\u2019s an interesting use of the word \u2018liberation,\u2019\u201d El-Sayed said when told of that response.\n <\/p>\n

\n Not opposing Israel, El-Sayed said, is proof of being captive to corporate dominance and afraid of AIPAC. El-Sayed recently told Semafor that Stevens \u201cis a suit with a large AIPAC bank account, that\u2019s it. I hope maybe they find some way to teach her how to string together two coherent sentences.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Asked whether he believed that support of Israel could not be about money, El-Sayed told CNN, \u201cNot if you\u2019re a Democrat and you believe in human rights.\u201d Asked whether one could be a Zionist and a progressive, he said, \u201cEvery definition of a Jewish state ends up in some articulation of illiberal values, every single one.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n He declined when pressed by CNN\u2019s Kasie Hunt to answer whether he believed Israel has a right to exist.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe question of Israel\u2019s existence is not a question,\u201d he told Hunt. \u201cI\u2019m not going to play this gotcha game about whether or not it has a right to exist. The question, ultimately, is about whether or not we want a politics that dignifies equal rights.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Stevens\u2019 campaign pointed to a Monday appearance on MS NOW in which she criticized President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for not bringing the region closer to \u201clong-term peace.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThere is a difference between me and Abdul,\u201d she said. \u201cI believe in a two-state solution. I want to see the people of Palestine and in Gaza live peacefully, side by side, with the people of Israel. He cannot qualify Israel\u2019s right to exist.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Asked by CNN whether he believes one can be a progressive and believe in a Jewish state as a Jewish homeland, Rep. Greg Casar of Texas, chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, gave a straightforward \u201cyes.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cIf we want to promote safety for all people and fight antisemitism here at home, it actually does no favors to any of that to then say questioning the continued military funding is antisemitic or is trying to take down the nation,\u201d he added. \u201cProgressives have to, and have been, speaking out strongly against antisemitism. And we have a responsibility to speak out against human rights violations and war crimes no matter who commits them.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Casar noted that in May\u2019s runoff elections in Texas, he endorsed the more moderate Johnny Garcia in a House primary over another candidate, Maureen Galindo, because Galindo said she wanted to turn an immigration detention center into \u201ca prison for American Zionists and former ICE officers for human trafficking.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

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\n Kiros, who defeated incumbentDeGette in last month\u2019s Colorado primaries, declined to call antisemitic the firebombing of protesters in Boulder who were calling on Hamas to release Israeli hostages. That led Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, who won the gubernatorial nomination that same evening, to say in a local TV interview, \u201cIf someone isn\u2019t going to acknowledge that, I am concerned about that.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cYou hear it a lot in the context of Black Lives Matter. Now we\u2019re talking Jewish lives matter,\u201d said Weiser, who is Jewish and whose mother was born in a Nazi concentration camp.\n <\/p>\n

\n Balint, the Vermont Democratic congresswoman, acknowledged her attempts to force a bigger discussion about antisemitism have failed, despite her faith in Casar to guide fellow progressives.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cPeople are very afraid to create a space within Congress to have a safe conversation about these things, because our colleagues leak and our colleagues go on Twitter, and so I think there has been a real fear that convening people to really talk through these issues is going make it worse,\u201d Balint told CNN. \u201cBut I know that these things don\u2019t go away.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

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\n Republicans including former Vice President Mike Pence and Ted Cruz have warned of the rise of antisemitism on the right, with the Texas senator saying at the conservative Faith and Freedom Coalition conference in June it is \u201cspreading like a cancer\u201d and is \u201can existential threat.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Trump hasn\u2019t just hosted White nationalist Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago; he\u2019s for years blurred the lines on American Jews and support for Israeli actions, fromcalling Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, the highest-ranking Jewish official in Washington, \u201ca Palestinian,\u201d tojust last week in a CNBC interview saying, \u201cHow a Jewish person can vote for a Democrat is beyond me \u2014 I\u2019ve been the best president in the history of Israel.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n That just adds to the feeling of political homelessness for pro-Israel Democrats, just two years after CNN exit polls showed Kamala Harris winning 78% of Jewish voters over Trump even as she lost the election. CNN polling this March found 72% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents said they saw the question of \u201chow supportive of Israel the US should be\u201d as a divide that\u2019s causing problems in the Democratic Party.\n <\/p>\n

\n Harris did forcefully move against more pro-Palestinian politics in 2024 \u2014 with her team excluding the Uncommitted movement from speaking at the party convention in Chicago. Part of why, her old aides now say, was trying to find a balance between losing support in Arab American centers like Dearborn, Michigan, and losing support among Jewish voters in that state and other battlegrounds like Pennsylvania and Georgia.\n <\/p>\n

\n Harris may run again in 2028. Party insiders and outsiders speculate that as many as four Jewish candidates could also enter the White House field: former Chicago Mayor and White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, Ossoff (who has brushed off talk of a possible bid), Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro.\n <\/p>\n

\n Emanuel, whose middle name is literally Israel, is following up anApril call to end US military aid to Israel with a speech in Tel Aviv on Wednesday calling for a larger rethinking of the US-Israel relationship. He likes to say that \u201cthe Democratic Party doesn\u2019t have an antisemitism problem \u2014 America has an antisemitism problem.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n But as he flirts with a 2028 run, Emanuel said he\u2019s not the one who needs to look in the mirror when the conversation comes upabout whether a Jewish person could run.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cMy faith is not your issue. It\u2019s a fact that Americans have lost faith in America. That\u2019s the issue and that\u2019s what we should work on,\u201d he told CNN, \u201cand if my faith is an issue to you, that\u2019s something you have to work on, not me.\u201d\n <\/p>

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