Democrats: Not Anti-Semitic Enough?

 by John Hinderaker

I have been meaning to write about this story for a couple of days: “Scoop: Dems working on secret report found Gaza cost Harris votes.”

Top Democratic officials who worked on the party’s still-secret autopsy of the 2024 election concluded that Kamala Harris lost significant support because of the Biden administration’s approach to the war in Gaza, Axios has learned.

Why it matters: The Democratic National Committee’s research on what went wrong in 2024 has been under lock and key since party leaders decided last year to hide it from the public — a reflection of how explosively it could resonate within the party and beyond.

It is fun to speculate about why the Democrats prefer their post-mortem to be secret, but I doubt that it is for the reason suggested here.

Progressive and moderate Democrats are particularly divided over Israel, with the left more critical of that nation’s actions against Palestinians in Gaza and many questioning the U.S.’s unwavering support for Israel.
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Driving the news: DNC aides putting together the report on Harris’ loss to Donald Trump had a closed-door conversation with a pro-Palestinian group about the Israel-Gaza conflict.

Activists from the IMEU Policy Project told the DNC that the Biden-Harris administration’s support for Israel was a factor in the party’s losses because it drained support from some young people and progressives.

Hamid Bendaas, a spokesperson for the IMEU Policy Project, said that during the meeting “the DNC shared with us that their own data also found that policy was, in their words, a ‘net-negative’ in the 2024 election.” Two other senior aides at the pro-Palestinian organization also said the DNC had drawn that conclusion.

This reasoning seems odd, given that Harris was clobbered by the most pro-Israel president in American history. And I seriously doubt that a lot of progressives stayed home, forgoing the opportunity to vote against the hated Trump, because Harris was insufficiently pro-Hamas.

More:

Flashback: Harris said in her book that President Biden’s unpopularity, which she argued was partly because of “his perceived blank check” to Netanyahu, harmed her in 2024.

Harris wrote that she privately “pleaded” with Biden to show more empathy for civilians in Gaza. But during her campaign, she declined to publicly break with him over Israel.

Of course Biden’s unpopularity hurt Harris. But Biden was unpopular because he had proved to be senile, and because his policies were across-the-board failures, with the sharp spike in the cost of living just one example. The idea that Biden’s unpopularity was in significant measure due to his being insufficiently sympathetic to Hamas and its October 7 massacre is absurd.

Still, you can see which way the wind is blowing: Democrats in the future will be less positive toward America’s key Middle Eastern ally, and more in tune with Hamas and other anti-Israel groups.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/02/democrats-not-anti-semitic-enough.php