“Come November, what do your Jewish values tell you to do?”

Peloni:  The answer to the question raised by Michigan AG Dana Nessel about Jewish values demonstrates an inherent betrayal of Liberal Jews whose understanding of Jewish values is actually substituted by their loyalty to the Democratic party.  In doing so they have replaced the ethos of Justice for the worship of even their own destruction as the ultimate golden calf worthy of their obsessive dedication.  Such warped vision of the world and what might serve as an ultimate good is not only dangerous to the Jewish people, but to civilization at large.  As Nessel acknowledges, service to the Democratic party is paramount conviction of the values she holds so high, its replacement of anything related to Jewish values is demonstrated further by the re-imagining of the entire telling of the story of Esther, as Avi Abelow describes below.  Jewish protection, Jewish education and Jewish identity are the keys to fighting Jew Hatred, but of course Jews who have cast off their own identity and values to support a globalist project integrated with Islamist antisemites will instead find value in their own self destruction so long as it serves their new ideology, and in keeping with the warping of reality they describe the would be destruction of our people as a necessary good.  This is truly evil.

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Did you hear what Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, herself Jewish, just told the Michigan Democratic Jewish Caucus???

“We have a moral imperative to place the needs of the world above even our own self-interest and, yes, even our own survival.”

Nessel wasn’t speaking abstractly about Jewish ethics. The immediate political backdrop was convincing a growing population of Michigan Jews uncomfortable voting in the November Michigan Senate for Democrat Abdul El-Sayed and instead voting for Republican Mike Rogers.

El-Sayed has generated serious concern among Michigan Jewish Democrats because of his Israel positions and his response to the March 2026 terrorist attack on Temple Israel outside Detroit. After that attack, El-Sayed had said “hurt people hurt people” and “violence is a cycle.”

But Nassel went even further in trying to convince her fellow Jewish Democrats to vote for El-Sayed, invoking Queen Esther while suggesting Jews may have to “sacrifice the comfort, safety and security and even the very future of our own people” to save humanity.

And she explicitly juxtaposed protecting Israel with other global concerns:

“What good is defending the historic homeland of our ancestors and demanding that candidates acknowledge its right to exist, if the planet upon which it rests is no longer inhabitable?”

She then asked the Jewish Democratic audience:

“Come November, what do your Jewish values tell you to do?”

This is truly insane and extremely sad, but not surprising.

She literally turns the ancient Jewish lesson of Esther completely upside down.

Esther risked herself to save the Jewish people. She didn’t risk the Jewish people to save a growing Jew-hating antisemitic party leadership.

Sadly, it was inevitable that some American Jews would eventually reach this dangerous place.

For generations, too many Jews have gradually replaced Judaism as a civilization – faith, Torah, peoplehood, Jewish history, Eretz Yisrael and responsibility for Jewish continuity – with a universalist political identity.

They have convinced themselves that supporting the Democratic Party represents caring for humanity, the Jewish value of “Tikun Olam” ( fixing the world), and that caring for humanity is therefore the ultimate expression of “Jewish values.”

The result is the troubling reality we see today: for too many Jewish Democrats, their political affiliation has effectively become their new religion, justified every step of the way in the name of “Jewish values.”

But caring for humanity is Jewish.

Sacrificing Jewish survival is not. And definitely not sacrificing Jewish survival to save a growing Jew-hating antisemitic party leadership.

But there is an even greater tragedy here.

Many Jews embracing today’s radical anti-Israel politics seem completely ignorant of the decades-old ideological convergence called the Red-Green alliance: the strange partnership between the progressive/socialist left and jihadi Islam.

These movements disagree about almost everything. Yet they have repeatedly found common ground around anti-Zionism and the Jew-hating antisemitism that accompanies it.

And Israel became the perfect unifying target.

Turn Israel into a “colonial oppressor.” Turn Zionism into racism. Turn “palestinian Arabs” into the ultimate victims. Then portray Jews, and those who support Israel, as immoral.

This isn’t some new phenomenon. This was a plan hatched years ago.

Decades ago, the now defunct Soviet Union systematically weaponized anti-Zionism as part of its propaganda war against Israel and the West, helping popularize the narrative portraying Zionism as racism, colonialism and imperialism.

Romanian intelligence defector Ion Mihai Pacepa later described Soviet-bloc efforts to cultivate and disseminate anti-Israel and anti-American propaganda throughout the Arab and Muslim worlds. They created the Palestinian national identity as the key part of this strategy, to legitimize hatred and terrorism against the Jew and the Jewish state of Israel.

The Soviet Union is no longer, but this strategy is succeeding far beyond their imagination.

Then came another revealing document.

A 1991 internal Muslim Brotherhood memorandum, later introduced as evidence in the Holy Land Foundation case, described the Muslim Brotherhood’s work in America as a “Civilization-Jihadist Process” and spoke explicitly about “eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within.”

Ignoring these ideologies today working in tandem, clearly seen on university campuses and in election campaigns, is dangerously naive.

Because Israel and the Jews were never the final target.

First delegitimize Israel.

Then Zionism.

Then the Jews who refuse to abandon Zionism.

And ultimately challenge the America and Western civilization Israel represents.

And legitimize hatred and terror against all Jews and their supporters.

That is why the obsession with “Palestine” is so powerful. It becomes the gateway cause bringing together political movements that otherwise have almost nothing in common.

And incredibly, Jews like Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel themselves are helping advance it while believing they are fulfilling “Jewish values”, while in reality they are actively assisting the campaign against the Jewish people and the destruction of America as a freedom-loving country.

Nessel actually recognizes part of the danger. She acknowledged that there are people within her own political camp who “seek the destruction of Israel as a Jewish state and place the Jewish diaspora in jeopardy.”

Yet her conclusion is still that Jews might have to place even our own survival second.

No.

Jewish survival is not selfish.

Defending Jewish children is not selfish.

Fighting Jew-hating antisemitism in the Democratic Party is not selfish.

And defending the world’s only Jewish state after 2,000 years of exile is not selfish.

Ignoring the growing cancer of evil in the Democratic party elected leadership is not selfish.

The real lesson of Esther is precisely the opposite.

There comes a moment when Jews must stop worrying about acceptance, recognize the danger around us and stand unapologetically for our people.

American Jews need to understand something else as well:

The forces seeking to destroy Israel will not stop with Israel. The ideologies demonizing Jews will not stop with Jews. And the red-green alliance that wants to destroy America do not become defenders of America simply because Americans join them in attacking Israel.

The whole red-green alliance is about the destruction of America and the Biblical values upon which the West was established. And the Jews/Israel? We are just the canary in the mine, the low hanging fruit to galvanize the masses to join the red-green revolution out to destroy life as know it.

Jewish history has given us enough warnings.

Jews in both parties, the Democrats and the Republicans, need to wake up.

We shouldn’t need another catastrophe before we finally learn to recognize one.

Our future as a Jewish people is bright in Israel, and I hope and pray more American Jews begin planning their families’ futures here, at the very least, by sending their children and grandchildren to study at Israeli universities and build a deeper connection to their homeland, where the national calendar is the Jewish calendar.

In the meantime, American Jews must wake up to what is happening around them on both sides of the political aisle.

For now, these dangerous forces have not penetrated the Republican Party leadership or become mainstream within the party to anything approaching what we are witnessing among Democrats. But nobody should become complacent. Troubling voices are emerging there as well.

What once seemed impossible inside the Democratic Party became mainstream far faster than many Jews imagined. We cannot assume it could never happen on the Republican side too.

We Jews have survived more than 2,000 years of exile and relentless persecution across the world, including in countries where Jews once flourished and contributed enormously to the societies around us: Spain, Germany, Poland, Britain and throughout the Arab and Muslim world.

But today is different. As Jew-hating antisemitism once again grows across Western countries, Jews no longer have to simply run away searching for another temporary place of refuge. For the first time in 2,000 years, we are blessed with the opportunity to come home.

We are once again sovereign in our God-given, indigenous, ancestral homeland. Our Jewish future in Israel is bright. And the Jews of the West have something generations of our ancestors could only dream of: the opportunity not merely to flee growing Jew-hating antisemitism, but to come home to Israel and join us in the miraculous, redemptive process of building the future of the Jewish people.

Am Yisrael Chai!!!