Philip Weiss – Mondoweiss.net Dec 2, 2025
Last month, a top staffer at the Jewish organization J Street who had worked for Obama and Harris explained that Congress’s tradition of backing Israel “no matter what” was imposed by a “well-funded group of… Jews.”
“A small, organized and well-funded group of American Jews treated the issue as a threshold question in elections, and most candidates decided it wasn’t worth antagonizing them,” Ilan Goldenberg wrote.
Not long ago, such attacks on the Israel lobby (including my own) were dismissed as antisemitic conspiracy theories. Now, a leading Jewish organization publishes them.
That’s because the American Jewish community is today in open crisis over its historic support for Israel. Prominent Jews are finally attacking the lobby, a political structure created 60 years ago by leading Jewish groups to make sure there was no daylight between the Israeli and U.S. governments.
The crisis was catalyzed by the insurgent victory of New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, who broke a rule of American politics. You can’t be an anti-Zionist and be taken seriously in American politics.
The Israel lobby spent tens of millions to defeat Mamdani, led by Bill Ackman and Mike Bloomberg, yet Mamdani still beat Andrew Cuomo twice. After the general election last month, the Jewish establishment spoke with fearful force. Mamdani’s election is “grim” and “ominous,” the Conference of Presidents said.
“Zohran Mamdani’s elevation to Gracie Mansion reminds us that antisemitism remains a clear and present danger.”
The ADL announced a “Mamdani-tracker” on the idea that Mamdani will promote antisemitic violence—a claim based on Mamdani’s criticisms of Israel. “Mamdani has promoted antisemitic narratives… and demonstrated intense animosity toward the Jewish state that is counter to the views of the overwhelming majority of Jewish New Yorkers.”
If the lobby thought it was knocking Mamdani down, it failed. Two weeks after the election, Mamdani went to the White House and spoke of Israeli “genocide,” and Trump did nothing to contradict him. It’s about time we heard that word in the White House.
Mamdani’s courage set off the new Israel-critical discourse, but it has been enabled by a broader social movement. Young Americans are turning against Israel over its anti-Palestinian policies of genocide and apartheid.
Rahm Emanuel brought the sad news to the largest Jewish organization, the Jewish Federations, last month. Noting that Obama toured Israel before he announced his presidential campaign in 2007, Emanuel, who is running for president, said that in 2028, no Democratic candidate will dare follow the traditional playbook.
“Nobody is leaving America to travel to Jerusalem. That’s the politics.”
And not only Democrats. Emanuel said that all young people, left and right, are turning on Israel.
“Look where Israel stands in America with people under 30,” he said. “Forget party. It is a political risk today to take a [pro-Israel] position. Israel is extremely unpopular—I want to drive this point home for all of us who support a Jewish state– today, Israel for a generation under 30, the last two years will be as seminal a definition as what the Six Day War was for [an earlier] generation. But we have to be honest about the task we have here.”
The Israel lobby is melting down before our eyes. At that same conference, Eric Fingerhut, a former Congress member who leads the Federations, said Israel’s bad image was the result of an international conspiracy:
“We have experienced a planned and coordinated attack on Israel’s standing in North America and on the Jewish community that supports Israel. Fueled by billions of dollars in dark money…. [from ] Iran and Qatar and China and Russia and more. Spread by the most advanced communications tools ever invented…”
The conference was devoted to restoring Israel’s good place in the American discourse– “a major long-term rehabilitation of the narrative of what Israel means.”
But it failed, spectacularly. Coverage of the event focused on another meltdown — author Sarah Hurwitz, a former Obama speechwriter, who’s lamented that talking to young people about Israel today means trying to get through a “wall of dead children.”
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The dead children are even getting to American Jews, Hurwitz said:
“You have tiktok just smashing our young people’s brains all day long with video of carnage in Gaza. This is why so many of us can’t have a sane conversation with younger Jews, because anything we try to say to them they’re hearing through this wall of carnage. I want to give data, information, facts They’re hearing it through this wall of carnage.”
Hurwitz said that Holocaust education had failed with young Jews. It caused them to see heavily armed Israelis as Nazis and their emaciated Palestinian targets as the objects of sympathy.
Hurwitz was savaged on social media for these comments. But she is a hero to the official Jewish community in her insistence that those who deny the right of Jews to a Jewish state are antisemites.
Jewish sovereignty in the Middle East is inherent in Jewish religion, Hurwitz says, and Israel’s military strength is the necessary response to a 2000-year story of Jewish hatred. By denying these truths, anti-Zionists show that they hate Jews.
These ideas are wrong and dangerous. The reason that young Americans hate Israel is that it has killed Palestinian civilians indiscriminately and destroyed their means of life for two years in Gaza, with the underwriting of the American government and the Israel lobby.
The children’s media star Ms. Rachel voiced the moral dimensions of Gaza in November when she welcomed a traumatized girl named Qamar to New York:
“I’m so sorry to Qamar that the world stood by as her camp was bombed, she was denied medical care for 20 days, and they had to amputate her leg, and she lived in a ripped, flooded, cold tent.”
It is no wonder that Ms. Rachel has emerged as a leader in the Palestinian solidarity discourse within the U.S., due to her clarity, simplicity, and sense of responsibility.
The mainstream media are today doing all they can to deny this movement. They deny that attitudes on Palestine had anything to do with Kamala Harris’s defeat in 2024. They deny that they were an important factor in Mamdani’s victory in New York.
Even as insurgent candidates who are running against Israel are sprouting up in Democratic primaries across the country.
This political upheaval is now a Jewish crisis, as it should be. The Jewish community is fracturing over its official support for genocide.
Jews who denounce Israel’s actions were key to Mamdani’s coalition. Some were liberal Zionists. But liberal Zionism is itself in disarray, ditching old dogmas—like, BDS is antisemitic — to align itself with young Jews.
While Sarah Hurwitz and Eric Fingerhut, and Jonathan Greenblatt are leading the Jewish establishment into a fringe position. Hurwitz’s ultimate argument is exceptionalist. Jews have a special role to play in the world– and that’s why people hate us.
She’s in a long tradition: The lobby has foisted one lie after another on our political discourse. The refugees have no right to return to their homes. Moving 700,000 settlers into occupied territory is fine. There is no apartheid. There is no genocide.
Israel’s wars against its neighbors are in the U.S. interest.
These lies are now failing. Whatever ideals Zionism embraced at its origin as a European liberation movement, it solidified into bigotry in the face of Palestinian resistance. The official Jewish community promoted that bigotry.
The Israel lobby’s lies were once a taboo subject in America. Today its crisis brings that discussion into the public square.
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“Look where Israel stands in America with people under 30”
Yes indeed — all spouting ideas by guys well over 60 with names like David Duke, who were out in the wilderness a generation ago telling the world exactly where Jewish Supremacy would lead.
And they were right, here we are. But enough people heard during those years, so the story is about to change.
Swapping one set of jews for another won’t save you.
observing (((american politics))) is like peering into a toilet bowl full of shit…
time to pull the chain, open the window, wash your hands & walk away..
They did to them selves the boy who cried wolf.
4 December https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wwbys6yGqus Ben Meidas Touch Meiselas/ Fox News collapsing on air as the Trump administration’s death spiral can’t be stopped and nothing they can do can save his demise.
drumpf/ Ilhan Omar the Congresswoman 16.11: should go back to her country in Somalia / Somalians are garbage people../ a reaction: 16.47 Everybody realises he is focussing on what she is doing not who she is/
what did she do? / she calls him a rapist…..a racist a xenophobe…..
comments/ ” The Freudian slip between racist and rapist took me out”/ Death spiral – like a murderous alligator in a swamp… the irony.” /
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaFLtskpVbc Meiselas reports on Donald Trump losing all control as his administration rapidly falls apart over his catastrophic failures in the United States and across the world.
4 December https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-Ag27jw_LA ‘Just In drumpf reign End After Senate Vote Seals His Fate/ Patriot Nation-Media´ not yet though but asap before Chistmas/ ‘they’ will shove in another pause…. but drumpf will contnue his gestapo ice ops. etc. while golfing on US taxpayers dollars & will pour out his unstoppable increasing psychosis in the world at large….
Military Coup…?
Annyway every body everywhere
h.a.n.d. have a nice day
CIA O
How ironic. The historical taint Jews have foisted on Germany for ‘perceived’ events in the 1940’s, now comes full circle and even young Jews call Israeli behaviour nazi like.
They’ve lost the entire world, and here’s hoping the abomination called Israel will soon vanish into history.
This is a beautiful moment in time. Wait until we all read page 240.
What would happen if a white man, who was imbued with the Holy Spirit, were to be elected to some political office, who denounces ersatz Israel along with aipac & its well monetized, bribing lobby?
Only the lesser races get away with it, while contracts are arranged against the lives of such white men.
It is all by G-d’s design that the truth is now revealing itself. Reference this parable (a short story to highlight a moral principle) spoken of by Jesus:
Hurwitz (US) pushes the same tag line as Barbara Lerner Spectre: “Jews have a special role to play in the world – and that’s why people hate us.” No, the world hates them because they are busybodies meddling in people’s affairs where they have no business to. The focus is not on justice by taking care of the murderers, thieves, rapists, destroyers, liars libeling one’s reputation, and etc. that harm society. It is their Anti-Gentilism.
Spectre’s wickedness is evidence by her statements in reference to the lack of compassion toward the Palestinian suffering.
See Between a Communist Rock and a Zionist Hard Place by Henry Makow, October 8, 2024. She states the following from https://gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/151/958/181/playable/00b89248f8273429.mp4 :
Her voice is that of a murderer. They are not the centre of the world, they are the centre of attention. Their uncompassionate murderous deeds upon the innocents, the women and children, classifying medical doctors and UN aid providers as Hamas, an Israeli creation. They make all sorts of excuses to punish and murder the innocent and destroy their livelihood. Most shameful and revealing has been the treatment of all Gaza flotillas, who came to help the Palestinians being starved by Israel, are being treated as terrorists. Israel considers food and medical supplies as weapons:
https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=316440 America’s Shame by Paul Craig Roberts | Oct 8, 2025:
There are wicked financial reasons for the displacement and destruction of the Palestinians. It is the theft of their natural resources:
https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=275313 Nov. 5, 2023 – Massive Oil and Gas Reserves Discovered Under Gaza – Israel Grants Development Licenses
This lack of natural mercy, compassion toward suffering fellow humans is what the young Jews and young Christian Zionists see, which is causing them to depart from these wicked folds.
This is now why the Israeli Lobby is now in damage control mode. They have been exposed. They are surprised that no one buys their lies any more. The truth is the antidote to lies. The time has arrived that these poisonous darnell weeds or tares be removed from society.
People are waking up to this cabal who view all others not them as Palestinians. They seek the worldwide theft of all personal incomes, all personal properties, all personal transportation. They push their tainted unwholesome food supplies, wares, poisonous false medicines upon us with a desire to murder 94% of the world population according to their deadly Satanic Kalergi Plan.
G-d has already stated the outcome:
The following exposes the motives for murder and theft from the Palestinians, Jared Kushner wants Gaza as a Mediteranean playground for the wealthy:
https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=284066 Jared Kushner says Gaza’s ‘waterfront property could be very valuable’ by tts-admin | Mar 22, 2024
It is a cover for the money maker, the Khazarian Mafia harvest of the oil and gas off the Gazan coastland, which belong to the Palestinians.
https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=275313 Massive Oil and Gas Reserves Discovered Under Gaza – Israel Grants Development Licenses by tts-admin | Nov 5, 2023
This is the reason for evicting the Palestinians, having destroyed over 94% of their homes and livelihood. Gaza now resembles WW2 Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
With Israel seeking to destroy Iran for its natural resources, may we see this outcome soon?
Perhaps instead of a playground for the wealthy, may Gaza become a burial ground for all of Israel? Gog is Netanyahu, not the honourable Vladimir Putin that the ultra-wealthy false cleric Christian Zionist John Hagee vilifies.