Extremists and antisemites on the far right have united with the left to spread blood libels about the Jewish state. But Trump and most of the GOP are sticking with Jerusalem.
It’s the break they’ve been waiting for. Liberal news publications like Axios, Politico, The Economist and Time magazine, among others, all more or less ran articles with the same headline trumpeting “MAGA’s disenchantment with Israel” and a “Republican divide over Gaza.” These pieces heralded what was described as a seminal shift in opinion on the right about Israel because of “starvation” in the Gaza Strip.
The tsunami of opprobrium directed at the Jewish state has gone into overdrive in the last month over the food shortage in Gaza. That’s a genuine calamity that has been orchestrated by the Hamas terrorists, who steal the aid that Israel has flooded into the Strip, hoard it for themselves and then sell it back to their own people at exorbitant prices. It’s also another item in their toolkit to attract the press when headlines turn to other subjects.
But while the largely dishonest media coverage of this problem has stampeded liberals into joining those progressives denouncing Israel, the idea that this is also happening on the right has become an article of faith on the political left.