2026 as seen by JTA

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Lots on Mamdami and Israel losing support on the left and right. ‘  And concern about JD Vance, as seen below:

Seismic shifts on the right

Republicans could have seized upon the rise of Mamdani as an effort to appeal to worried Jews ahead of the midterms as the pro-Isael, anti-antisemitism party. Instead, the GOP now seems unsure what it thinks about Jews at all.

While President Donald Trump says he remains resolutely pro-Israel, and many establishment Jewish groups continue their eagerness to work with him, his second-in-command JD Vance has opened the door to a rising tide of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish sentiment on the party’s hyper-nationalist wing. At Turning Point USA’s annual convention, Vance declined to join the critics of conservative antisemitism, and instead encouraged the party to widen its tent.

Meanwhile, conservative thought leaders such as the Heritage Foundation and Turning Point USA, which have wielded power to vet and promote GOP candidates, have opened doors to outright conspiratorial talking points about Jewish and Israeli power, via figures such as open antisemite Nick Fuentes and podcaster Tucker Carlson, who has offered him a friendly platform.

Already some Republican candidates, driven by “America First” ideology and their disdain for U.S. aid to Israel, are taking explicitly anti-Israel platforms. Florida gubernatorial hopeful James Fishback, for example, has pledged to refuse donations from AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobby, and praised Heritage for its defense of the Carlson-Fuentes interview. “Why is it that when we’re critical of Israel, it feels like a fourth branch comes out to almost criminalize our speech?” the Gen Z hedge-fund manager has said.

And in the Ohio gubernatorial race, the biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy — who as a 2024 presidential candidate was one of the first major figures of his party to suggest cutting aid to Israel — appears to be the likely GOP nominee. He will likely face a Jewish Democratic candidate, former state health official Dr. Amy Acton.

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  1. Joe Webb
    Joe Webb says:

    Wall Street Journal ‘s owner, gentile Murdoch, more jewish than Netanyahu, and also owner of Fox Jews , has just dumped Trump. This is doubtless because of the threatening midterm elections which are all but certain to go Democratic.

    When Trump starts a war with Iran, for Israel of curse, the Dems will sweep the election. Marjorie Taylor Green, Tom Massie, and Rand Paul, to this non-expert, could be the core of a GOP reformation. If it does not happen now, it will not happen until after the 2028 general election

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  2. Crier de Paon
    Crier de Paon says:

    Hello, latest snippets from the UK JEWISH CHRONICLE January 2, from “KNOW” your enemy:
    (1) “Zionism is an integral part of [the faith of] Judaism…the inseparable fusion of the people, the religion and the land…Zionism is the ultimate decolonisation movement…. Britain’s betrayal of the Mandate…launched the century-old war of extermination against the Jewish homeland. [Young Jews] need to be taught pride in the State of Israel as the ultimate moral project” – Melanie Phillips
    (2) “The newly formed USSR had dismantled state-sponsored antisemitism and granted Jews full civil rights. [But] the regime sought nothing less than the eradication of Jewish religious life…the Yevsektsia…orchestrated show trials against Jewish schools, closed synagogues, persecuted rabbis and ridiculed traditional belief….Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak created a clandestine Jewish educational network that would last until the Soviet Union itself collapsed…a hidden army that spread across Russia…. Mossad began covert operations in the USSR in the 1950s… This underground network [sent] to the West [a] vanguard of Chabad’s global outreach….we have often looked to those who risked imprisonment, torture, and death in the Soviet gulag for the sake of the Torah.” – Rabbi David Eliezrie

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