This was a perfect mini-storm that has been brewing in the Dem Party for several decades.
Jewish people in the US have reliably voted D for something like a century or more, for reasons that elude me (the KKK was a Dem Party institution a century ago; academia limited the number of Jews allowed to enroll in major universities; the Wilson Administration labeled Jews as too intellectually deficient to serve usefully and advance in the military; yada, yada, yada).
Meanwhile, hatred for Israel has been worming its way into lib/Prog mainstream thought since at least the 1967 Six Day War. On at least some college campuses, openly Jewish students have been harassed, with impunity, for 20-30 years. Obama's pastor was and is an open Israel-hating antisemite, and Obama was and is his disciple. Obama's
MalAdministration was openly anti-Israel and supportive of Israel's enemies (remember the "pallets of cash" sent to Iran?). Over the past decade, the Dem Party has tolerated and even embraced antisemites like Ilhan Omar and the rest of The Squad.
Hamas' invasion of Israel - massacring civilians, abducting and raping and torturing -brought these into collision. What Hamas did was too horrible for LIEden and minions to support, openly, and supporting Hamas would alienate many Jewish voters. OTOH, supporting Israel's just and proportional response to 10/7 and the prior 2 decades of rocketings was more than LIEden and minions could support, and their perception was that supporting Israel would alienate the Muslim vote they had been courting for a couple of decades. Being courage-free weasels, LIEden and minions tried to find a middle course, neither totally condemning Israel nor embracing Hamas' actions. It did not work.
In this conflict, DU is a microcosm of the the Dem Party, split between Jew-hater members and members who cannot support Arab-Pali terrorists.
