Since the Hamas attack on Israeli civilians on October 7, the Rupert Murdoch media empire, led by New York Post and Fox News, has made a distinction that continues to puzzle me. It is, for lack of more precise language, the supposed difference between “traditional Democrats” and “anti-Israel Democrats.”
The failure of liberal Democratic Rep. Summer Lee, who represents Pittsburgh's heavily Jewish Squirrel Hill district, to show up at a recent pro-Israel rally at the local Jewish Community Center has angered her Jewish constituents. The Washington Examiner's Salena Zito in the publication, confidently tells us that Lee's brazen challenge will present him with a “main challenge.” In addition, Zito sees what appears to be a “growing rift between far-left Democrats and mainstream Democrats,” and that could have huge electoral ramifications.
It is true that some establishment Republicans and their media mouthpieces may be trying to capitalize on this “crack” that is besetting the other national party. It can't hurt the Republicans, and I won't deny that, to rub salt in the other party's wounds, if it will bring more votes to the GOP. Also of note is the exaggerated support that the Murdoch media empire has given to the Israeli cause. Since the Murdoch family is a major funder of the Republican media, it can pay for Murdoch outlets to display the same exuberant enthusiasm as their backers.
But the media themselves have turned their ebullitions of Zionist fervor into a “traditional” litmus test. By that measure, two lifelong Democrats and Biden supporters, former Democratic New York City Council Speaker Andrew Stein and retired Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, both writing for the publication as passionate Zionists, they are truly conservative. National Reviewanother recipient of Murdoch's largesse, has just dutifully done so reported Pat Buchanan also as a critic of Israel. They say he is (of course) a petty isolationist.
However, viewed in a more reflective light, there appear to be certain problems with the distinction under consideration. My degree of enthusiasm for Israeli nationalism should not be the determining factor in judging who is a suitable member of the american right Although I personally stand with the Israelis, being an obsessive booster of Israel should not determine my suitability as American conservative. And it's completely ridiculous to elevate leftists to the status of conservatives because they become zealously and predictably right-wing on matters concerning Israel. Unfortunately, this has become standard practice in the conservative movement since the neocons and their sugar daddies took over this enterprise in the 1980s.
Finally, I'm totally at a loss as to what distinguishes the two supposed Democratic camps, other than their different attitudes toward Israel. That most Democratic Jews are pro-Israel is an interesting fact, but whether this indicates a very different orientation than the “far left” in the Democratic Party is certainly questionable. These “traditionalists” oppose late-term abortion, child sex transition, or Biden's open border policy, a movement that is bringing in terrorists this country? The putative traditionalists of the neoconservatives are as much to blame for the explosion of political awakening in the United States as the “far-left Democrats” with whom they recently broke the Israel-Hamas conflict.
I don't know why I should believe either that Dershowitz, Stein, or the Jewish Democrats of Pittsburgh will permanently break with their party because of the defection of the growing anti-Zionist faction among them. What seems more likely is that pro-Israel Democrats will rally behind sympathetic figures like Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla. ) and Joe Biden. Why would they do anything else? If Professor Dershowitz is reconsidering his intention to vote for Biden in next year's presidential race, I have yet to hear of that change of plan.
Finally, we might point out that there is an eastern liberal wing of the GOP that seems much more comfortable with “traditional Democrats” than with the populist right. These are the people big-business, big-city Republicans would like to build an alliance with, perhaps to boost Nikki Haley's presidential bid. The former governor of South Carolina is popular with The Wall Street Journal editorial board and Fox News, and also enjoys the goodwill of some regular Democratic donors, cross-party voters and at the moment the editors of The Washington Post. Like the Democrats who have been courting the Murdoch media, Haley has made a name for herself as an almost monomaniacal Zionist, but with easily adjustable social positions. It wouldn't be far-fetched to suggest that the frantic courting of “traditional Democrats” by the centrist but hawkish wing of the GOP is working toward a political alliance with the so-called “traditional Democrats.”
In any case, listening to the growing enthusiasm for the Israeli side and the irregular invective against its opposition coming from the Murdoch-owned media, I am reminded of the story told about the terrified applause that used to greet Comrade Stalin's speeches in the Soviet presidium. . No one present at these events wanted to be responsible for ending the ovations, lest they find themselves transported to a gulag.
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