A.G. Gancarski
Splits in the national Democratic Party around Israel’s foreign policy and the right to self-defense are providing challenges in Florida.
That’s the grim prognosis that Nikki Fried, the Chair of the Florida Democratic Party, offered during a Zoom call with Jewish Democrats. She said that events since Oct. 7, 2023 — the date of Hamas terror attacks on Israeli civilians — have caused a cultural shift, with Democrats “losing our Jewish voters.”
“What has happened since then in American politics has made a lot of our Jewish brothers and sisters start to question the Democratic Party,” she said, as reported by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
“I hear a lot about the Squad,” Fried continued. “I hear a lot about Kamala Harris’ policies, you know, what Joe Biden has or has not done.”
Indeed, Harris, who has not campaigned in Florida as the Democratic nominee, has taken heat at rallies for the administration’s attempt to triangulate between support of Israel and catering to a base that sees the Likud government as using the October terror attacks as a pretext for a wider and more destructive war in the region, and sees the administration as supporting “genocide.”
Fried says she told Harris, while Biden was still the nominee, that Jewish voters didn’t feel “seen or heard” based on the White House’s response to campus protests last academic year.
“We just didn’t feel like she was seeing us — or not her, but Joe was not seeing us, and not, you know, helping us to be secure,” Fried recalled. “And she was shocked, actually, that that was the opinion that I was giving to her. But she also said, ‘I hear you and I see you,’ and within 48 hours, and whether or not that was my lobbying or not, but within 48 hours was Joe’s big speech about the campus protests.”
25 comments
I Am Garbage
October 31, 2024 at 11:22 am
Jewish voters starting to finally wake up. Trump is your friend. Multiple President’s said they were going to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem. Trump did it. Evidently there is a town in Israel named after Trump as well. If I was a Jew I would never turn my back to a member of the Squad.
Biden is Garbage
October 31, 2024 at 12:15 pm
Fried nikki needs to have her carry permit revoked. Can’t have one and be using weed. It’s federal law.
MarvinM
October 31, 2024 at 1:46 pm
Trump is no friend to anyone but himself.
White Spiteful Devil Rapist Trump
November 1, 2024 at 4:45 am
They turn on each others Google Hitler Jewish Soldiers
White Spiteful Devil Rapist Trump
November 1, 2024 at 4:57 am
An the town will be a special place in hell for Trump
White Spiteful Devil Rapist Trump
November 1, 2024 at 5:06 am
You are naive,I do not understand why any woman, would have any to do with you,you offer them nothing,but probably your money ,with you do have much,you sound like a clown and cartoon character
Biden is Garbage
October 31, 2024 at 11:26 am
So much for the unity party. The only thing democrats are unified on is lying, hate racism bigotry excuse making and nazi gun control.
MH/Duuuval
October 31, 2024 at 2:06 pm
Still trying to make something of the Nazi gun control program?
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) called on critics of gun control legislation to stop using references to Hitler and the Nazis, saying they are “historically inaccurate and offensive,” especially to Holocaust survivors and their families.” (ADL Director Abraham Foxman)
White Spiteful Devil Rapist Trump
November 1, 2024 at 4:56 am
Who appointed him gun control czar
White Spiteful Devil Rapist Trump
November 1, 2024 at 4:49 am
Nazis were White Spiteful People like you
White Spiteful Devil Rapist Trump
November 1, 2024 at 4:54 am
Google Ben Natan
White Spiteful Devil Rapist Trump
November 1, 2024 at 5:09 am
Republican are unified on being the party of crazy,maybe you should vote in the Crazytown Elections Google Trump Crazytown
White Spiteful Devil Rapist Trump
November 1, 2024 at 5:15 am
Naive ,Google Trump Meim Kampf Google Fred Trump Nazis
MH/Duuuval
November 1, 2024 at 10:25 am
Melania’s book says Trump had a copy of Mein Kampf next to his bed, but DJT says someone gave it to him and he was merely perusing it.
MH/Duuuval
October 31, 2024 at 8:45 pm
Nikki sounds like a zionist Jew, which would slant her views about Democrats and Israel’s war in Gaza and beyond.
Biden has never wavered in his support for Israel. Some Ds hope that KH will insist on following US law and restrict sales of offensive arms to Israel since its deployment of disproportionate violence against non-combatants..
Adam Busch
November 1, 2024 at 6:46 am
Democrats success is much more important to Nikki than Jewish safety. This administration (which is a continuation of Obama’s) is the most antisemitic this nation has seen since post WW2. Certainly don’t like Trump the personality but the Jewish Community is safer with him in charge.
White Spiteful Devil Rapist Trump
November 1, 2024 at 8:13 am
You probably choose Hitler over Roosevelt too ,you probably don’t know what hell ,the people of Israel is living under Bibi and the Protocols of the Genocidal Elders Google Smotrich Palestinians Google Ben Gvir Palestine
White Spiteful Devil Rapist Trump
November 1, 2024 at 8:23 am
What is doing in the dark in Israel,is being brought out in the light Google Harretz Google Times of Israel Google Jerusalem Post
MH/Duuuval
November 1, 2024 at 10:28 am
40k plus dead Palestinians in Gaza, many killed with US supplied weaponry? Not enough for you?
White Spiteful Devil Rapist Trump
November 1, 2024 at 7:59 am
Some said the same about Hitler,it did turn out to be true ,their is no laws saying you have to support Israel,a Federal Judge has rule that Google Federal Judge Oct 7 U of Maryland
Ray Blacklidge
November 1, 2024 at 9:36 am
Gee, you think? The Democrats continue to viciously degrade Israel and support her enemies, what do you think Jews should do, support the Party that hates them or embrace the Republican Party that fully supports Israel and the Jewish population!
MH/Duuuval
November 1, 2024 at 10:32 am
United States spent $17.9 billion on military aid to Israel from October 2023 to October 2024, according the Costs of War Project at Brown University.
The war being waged by Israel’s military in Gaza is not proportional and targeting civilians is a war crime. Not that those Israelis thirsty for revenge can ever be satisfied until all Palestinians removed from Palesine. This is ethnic cleansing, also a war crime.
White Spiteful Devil Rapist Trump
November 1, 2024 at 2:56 pm
Jews are not safer, rocket are falling in their cities hourly,a two state solution,with Palestinians free from Israel occupation
White Spiteful Devil Rapist Trump
November 1, 2024 at 2:54 pm
People in Israel deserve the government they have and the hell that go along with it,their are millions of non Jews joining the party every election cycle,more than the population of Jews in the US
MH/Duuuval
November 2, 2024 at 1:19 pm
People in Israel may deserve Netanyahu — who like Trump faces a possible jail term when he leaves office — but the Palestinians don’t deserve what is happening to them.
Israelis need to declare a ceasefire, get the hostages back, offer Hamas leaders free passage to any country that will take them, and then evict the Israeli settlers in their modern housing who are squatting inf the West Bank.
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