The Democratic Party has turned on Israel

Published April 27, 2026 5:00am ET



The Democratic Party has become an anti- Israel party. The Left’s turn against the Jewish state has taken decades — it began in the 1960s — but former President Barack Obama put it into high gear, and it has accelerated under his militant heirs.

The Senate recently rejected a measure sponsored by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to block military aid to Israel. Forty of 47 Democratic senators voted for the bill, which sought to end assistance to a longtime U.S. ally not only while it was engaged in a war against enemies of the West, but while it was fighting alongside the United States against Iran, a shared antagonist.

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