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December 17, 2024

How Barack Obama Turned the Democrats against Israel

The triumph of hypocrisy.

Examining popular opinion, the voting records of legislators, and the actions of the party leadership, Joshua Muravchik analyzes the Democratic party’s declining support for the Jewish state. Muravchik traces the current rift to the presidency of Barack Obama, who famously declared that he wanted to put “daylight” between the U.S. and Israel in order to restore “credibility with the Arab states.” He managed to reduce that credibility, while eroding relations with Israel. And that’s not all:

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