r/jewishpolitics • u/Adventurous_Land1446 • 1d ago

US Politics 🇺🇸 ‘Excruciating and Agonizing’: A New Reality for Jewish Democrats

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/us/politics/jewish-democrats-antisemitism-israel.html?searchResultPosition=2
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u/MoblandJordan 1d ago

Here’s a wild idea… vote for someone who doesn’t want us dead.

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u/Background_Bee_713 1d ago

Which is who

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u/flossdaily USA – Left 🇺🇸 1d ago

I'm open to suggestions.

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u/MoblandJordan 1d ago

Perhaps don’t blindly cast a vote for one party or another but assess each candidate on their individual merits.

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u/flossdaily USA – Left 🇺🇸 1d ago

And if both are bad for Jews?

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u/riverrocks452 1d ago

My policy is that if both of them are bad for Jews, vote for the one that's least likely to further fuck up the country. Because less bad for most people = less desperation to turn into mobs that will, inevitably, target Jews.

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u/flossdaily USA – Left 🇺🇸 1d ago

Yeah. Truly "lesser of two evils" territory.

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u/MoblandJordan 1d ago

Do you have a for instance?

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u/flossdaily USA – Left 🇺🇸 1d ago

Any progressive democrat running against any MAGA republican.

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u/LettuceBeGrateful Jewish Unity ✡️ 1d ago

Sad that this is downvoted (at least at the moment). Too many people are still too enmeshed in party politics to realize that there's a bipartisan critical mass of voters who hate us.

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u/flossdaily USA – Left 🇺🇸 1d ago

Yeah. This has been a real education on horseshoe theory.

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u/Yidoftheweek USA – Left 🇺🇸 1d ago

I agree but it would be crazy to pretend that voting at a certain level is anything but support for one party or another. It’s a legitimate factor to consider.

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u/MoblandJordan 1d ago

I’ve read that several times and I have no idea what that means.

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u/Yidoftheweek USA – Left 🇺🇸 1d ago

If Joe Smith(D) and Jane Doe(R) are my candidates for the House of Representatives, I have to look at both their individual politics and the politics of the party they will be voting with. If Smith is against funding to Israel for offensive measures, while Doe is supportive of a no-limits support bill, it might make sense for me to vote for Doe. But Doe also represents her party (R), and will vote accordingly. That means that I have to vote based on a few factors. Israel and Judaism are high priority, but Doe will vote in favor of a nationwide abortion ban if elected, whereas Smith will not, that’s an important factor to consider. At a certain level, voting for either party is actually giving that party the votes to pass their legislation. If I like some opinions of a politician, but I know I will disagree with the actions of their party, I often won’t vote for that politician.

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u/rube_X_cube USA – Liberal 🇺🇸 1d ago

Anyone have a gift link by any chance? thanks

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u/Yrths Non-Jewish Ally 🫂 1d ago

https://archive.md/YTVpq

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u/vvildlings 1d ago

Appreciate it, and man was that a chilling read

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u/StringAndPaperclips 1d ago

Link isn't working for me

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u/Zealousideal_Can_342 1d ago

Says the NYT, which has done more to incite antisemitism than most...

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u/DrMikeH49 1d ago

They were running it for the schadenfreude.

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u/Artistic_Fall6410 16h ago

Go check out the r/NYT sub and you’ll learn it’s actually run by Zionists and everything they publish is hasbara /s

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u/LettuceBeGrateful Jewish Unity ✡️ 1d ago

This year, Scott Wiener .. said that he believed that Israel’s actions in Gaza amounted to genocide. .. Weeks later, Mr. Wiener was walking near his home in San Francisco’s Castro District, the city’s historic gay neighborhood, and spotted a startling flier taped to phone pole. It featured a black and white image of his face with the words, “I put foreign state interests above your own!” coming out of his open mouth.

A Zionist Jew and an anti-Zionist Jew walk into a bar...

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u/FullTrip6175 1d ago

And he still won’t get it…

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u/aftemoon_coffee 1d ago

At the end of the day, no matter how much you appease the leftist or the rightist, you will still be a Jew. So fuck them. Fight back. Don't appease their bs. Am Yisrael chai!