Recent polling, conducted by the venerable Harris organization for Harvard University, reveals a stark and troubling fault line across American public opinion.
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In the Israel-Hamas conflict, more than seven in 10 Americans with Israel, with the strongest backing coming from older citizens and Republican voters. Yet among Democrats, support for Hamas reaches a disturbing 36 percent. For young adults aged 18 to 24, 54% actually side with Hamas over Israel.
This is not a minor disagreement. It represents a serious national emergency.
Nearly four in 10 Democrats aligning with a terrorist group against the Middle East’s only thriving democracy signals something rotten at the core of today’s progressive movement. The hatred directed at Israel serves as a stand-in for broader resentment toward the values that built American strength: self-reliance, innovation, Western heritage, and the right of a free people to defend themselves.
That these free people are generally white, and fighting to preserve a first-world nation built by pioneers, further enrages leftists.
The evidence of this is overwhelming.
Since the horrors of October 7, 2023, antisemitic incidents have exploded across the United States. The Anti-Defamation League recorded a record 9,354 incidents in 2024, up from the already shocking total the year before. A majority of these involved anti-Israel or anti-Zionist elements, many tied directly to rallies organized by groups like Students for Justice in Palestine and the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
Campus incidents alone jumped 84 percent, turning universities into hostile environments for Jewish students.
American Jews themselves feel the shift.
The American Jewish Committee’s 2024 report shows growing numbers now view the extreme political left as a major source of antisemitic threat. Many liberal Jews expressed shock at the vitriol from progressive circles. They hear rhetoric that excuses or even celebrates violence against Jews while downplaying their trauma.
Large majorities reported changing daily routines out of fear. Once-safe spaces in activist and academic communities now feel alien and threatening.
Academic research confirms the pattern.
A 2025 study published in Political Research Quarterly found that old-style racial prejudice lingers more on the far right. However, the kinds of attitudes Jews experience as antisemitic—denying Israel’s right to exist, applying double standards to the Jewish State, or framing it as a colonial oppressor—are far more common on the political left. Especially among far-left and strongly anti-Israel voices.
Of course, left-wing ideologies dominate most post-secondary campuses, fueling exclusion, intimidation, and disruption.
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Democrat leaders have been disturbingly slow to confront this cancer within their own ranks. After October 7, President Joe Biden tried to hold a moderately Zionist line, but many in his party’s progressive wing quickly pivoted to blaming Israel or offering equivocal statements. Groups aligned with influential progressive coalitions minimized Jewish suffering and amplified narratives that blurred into classic antisemitic tropes.
2025 brought gruesome attacks, including a firebombing in Boulder and the murder of Israeli embassy workers. Progressive Democrats condemned the violence but refused to challenge the underlying pro-Palestinian activism and ideological currents that fed the hatred. Rhetoric framing Israeli self-defense as oppression continued unchecked, prioritizing blue coalition maintenance over moral clarity.
This reluctance is a transparent political calculation. Democrats fear alienating young voters, activist groups, and key segments of their base. Cracking down too hard risks primary challenges and lost turnout from the far left. The result is hesitation and half-measures that allow the problem to fester.
In contrast, U.S. House Republicans have acted with urgency and resolve.
Through aggressive hearings, they held university leaders accountable for failing Jewish students and pushed to tie federal funding to real protections. They advanced the Antisemitism Awareness Act to provide clearer tools against harassment while safeguarding free speech, and launched broad investigations into campus failures.
President Donald J. Trump moved decisively upon returning to office.
His Executive Order 14188 expanded earlier efforts, directing every federal agency to combat antisemitism with full force. That includes prosecutions, visa revocations for radical activists, and reviews of university compliance. These steps treat the crisis as the national priority it truly is.
The deeper truth is painful but clear.
This left-driven surge in hostility toward Israel reflects contempt for key qualities which the Jewish State embodies. These are essential to traditional Americana. Think about steadfast patriotism, globalist opposition, Western exceptionalism, spectacular prosperity, and the success of first-world pioneers surrounded by primitive tribes.
Surface level anti-Israel leftism stems from a far deeper rejection of American greatness and the traditions that made this country triumph. When nearly four in 10 Democrats choose terrorists over a steadfast ally, and when young people are indoctrinated into these views on campus, the republic faces a genuine internal threat.
America cannot afford to indulge this ideological cancer. That would betray everything that makes this country worth defending.
Needless to say, this midterm season, please do not vote blue no matter who.
Dr. Joseph Ford Cotto is the creator, host, and producer of News Sight, delivering sharp insights on the key events that shape our lives. He publishes Dr. Cotto’s Digest, sharing how business and the economy really impact us all. During the 2024 presidential race, he developed the Five-Point Forecast, which accurately predicted Donald Trump’s national victory and correctly called every swing state. Cotto holds a doctorate in business administration and is a Lean Six Sigma Certified Black Belt.
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