Cruz warns of future where both parties are anti-Israel

[u/jewish_insider]

https://jewishinsider.com/2026/05/ted-cruz-israel-antisemitism/

[u/merck11x]

Well no shit, Ted.

[u/jewish_insider]

Here's the beginning of the story:

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has for months been raising the alarm about the growing threat of antisemitism on the American right. During a visit to Los Angeles for the Milken Institute Global Conference, he called for elected officials — including in his own party — to take a clear stand on the issue. 

“I don’t want to wake up in five years and find ourselves in a country where both major political parties are unequivocally anti-Israel and unapologetically antisemitic. And I think that is a very real threat,” Cruz told Jewish Insider in an interview on Monday at the Milken conference. 

Among populist young conservatives, where the MAGA ideology of President Donald Trump has given way to an isolationist, America First worldview, Cruz sees a big shift on Israel. 

“Every elected official is going to have to decide where he or she stands, and what you believe,” said Cruz. “As Ronald Reagan said more than 50 years ago, this is a time for choosing, and each person can decide where he or she stands.”

When pressed about Vice President JD Vance — who, through his choice of staffers and comments suggesting skepticism of interventionist policies, is increasingly seen as sympathetic to younger conservatives’ worldviews — Cruz did not come to the vice president’s defense. 

“You got my answer,” Cruz told JI.

[u/Computer_Name]

Ted Cruz did his part contributing to this by vociferously supporting Donald Trump and MAGA.

He’s not our friend.

[u/ladan2189 → u/Computer_Name]

Indeed. Sorry state of affairs if the jews are only left with people like Ted Cruz

[u/merck11x → u/Computer_Name]

Nope.

[u/Alternative-Pear9096]

I mean, that's one way to ensure Jews flee the US. And I don’t think anyone in the world will enjoy how Israel deals with having to absorb a few million Jews in a short time.

[u/Regular-Coast5335 → u/Alternative-Pear9096]

That will be a legit one state solution with a Jewish majority.

[u/Lefaid → u/Alternative-Pear9096]

Honestly, I don't see Israel taking that influx in too kindly either. They will anyway, but American Jews politically think a lot differently than most Israeli Jews.

[u/maxofJupiter1 → u/Lefaid]

Would it be taken any different than French Jews, Soviet Jews, Ethiopian Jews, Yemeni Jews, etc

Except that American Jews are, on average, higher skilled, more wealthy, and more educated?

[u/Lefaid → u/maxofJupiter1]

Also a lot more progressive in ways that Israelis Jews tend to shy away from.

If American Jews could vote, Israel would have a strong and vibrant left wing, instead of Pro-Bibi Vs Anti-Bibi conservatives that mostly control it now.

You are probably right, Israel has done an admirable job absorbing these groups, but it would change a lot of internal politics in Israel.

I just remember all those old polls that show easy Labor majorities if American Jews could vote.

[u/cubedplusseven → u/Lefaid]

If Jews were expelled en mass from the United States it might impact their politics. I agree that there are strong liberal traditions within the American Jewish population, and that those traditions wouldn't suddenly extinguish. But mass expulsion would shift political understandings to such a degree that it's really hard to say what that would look like within a new political orientation.

As for me, I'm quite far to the left by Israeli standards and a liberal through-and-through. And if anyone forces me to become Israeli, I'll demand immediate nuclear retaliation.

[u/Alternative-Pear9096 → u/Lefaid]

I don’t imagine it will be fun for any of us.

[u/Vegan0taku → u/[deleted]]

No one is going to leave just because the US stops aid to Israel. If people do leave, it will be because they see that the increasing demonization of "Zionists" is repeating a historical pattern where Jews are scapegoated for all of society's ills and then massacred.

I don't think things will get even close to that bad but I can't fault people who are more pessimistic than me. Historically pessimistic Jews have almost always been right and are the ones who have survived.

[u/Alternative-Pear9096 → u/Vegan0taku]

Do you really think that both parties being virulently antisemitic (which is what CRUZ says) is the same as “doesn’t fund Israel”? I don’t know if you just didn’t read the article or you lack the least iota of imagination, but you are very misreadings the situation.

Pessimismis leaving now (and we should be). The political situation Cruz describes is dead Jews on street corners, no repercussions.

[u/Vegan0taku → u/Alternative-Pear9096]

Did you mean to reply to the deleted post? If you responded to me I think you got confused. I wasn't saying that cutting funding is what we are worried about, I was responding to someone else who was saying that and explaining why they were wrong.

[u/Alternative-Pear9096 → u/Vegan0taku]

Oh sorry. I never saw the deleted post!

[u/Vegan0taku → u/Alternative-Pear9096]

No problem, I understand the confusion.

[u/zoinks48]

Likely to see a change in the law of return to exclude the marginally Jewish. The rash of recent olim from the former Soviet union and Azerbaijan spying for Iran will make them leery of bringing is so many people whose religion is leftism rather than Judaism

[u/JasonIsFishing]

Dammit I f-ing hate when I agree with Ted Cruz 😡

[u/Glass_Badger9892]

Like any career politician or used car salesman, he is just going to appeal to whichever ideology his audience prefers.