Democrats are embracing genocidal antisemitism

Around the world, and especially here at home in the Democrat party, the Islamo-leftists’ fanatic hatred for Jews is creating a very scary 1938 vibe.

Andrea Widburg | Am Thinker | May 21, 2026

Image created using AI.

If I were writing a post about Jews in the news because of further contributions to the world (to add to such things as the Bible, the polio vaccine, pacemakers, Google, stainless steel, the ballpoint pen, the theory of relativity, etc.), I would be happy as a clam, and this post could be a series that lasts for weeks.

However, the reason Jews are in the news lately is that Islamo-communists across the West have stopped hiding their core antisemitism. This week has been filled with reports of fanatic attacks against Jews, including from within the heart of the Democrat party.

The Democrat party’s march into virulent antisemitism was inevitable once it took a hard left turn. Karl Marx was of Jewish descent, but his father converted the whole family when Marx was 9. Marx grew to despise the Bible and Jews, and those hatreds were integral to the murderous ideology he created.

We know about communism’s efforts to destroy the Bible as the foundation of Western civilization, but few know about Marx’s antisemitism. They think that Hitler and Stalin randomly added antisemitism to their repertoire, and that it had nothing to do with their socialist beliefs. Au contraire!

I don’t want to waste time in this essay, but you can read here some of the things Marx wrote, words that later flowed easily from the Nazis’ lips. If you know this, you also know why a socialist Democrat party is a fanatically antisemitic Democrat party.

This was obvious early on to those involved in the leftist movement that overtook the modern Democrat party. It’s no wonder that a preeminent feminist disavowed the entire movement in the early 1980s, long before Linda Sarsour announced that no feminist could be a Zionist.

Now add in the Democrat party’s allegiance to Islam, which also hates our biblically-based civilization. Suddenly, you’ve got a perfect storm, one that creates a 1938 vibe across the Western world, including here in America.

Before getting to the Dems, though, we cannot ignore the antisemitism on the rise amongst people who claim some level of allegiance to the Republican Party. This is the Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and wannabe Megyn Kelly cohort.

What’s important to note about these people is that, even though their followings are too large for comfort, conservatives have consistently disavowed and shunned them. They don’t win elections—as Thomas Massie’s fall just revealed. (He mostly fell, of course, because Trump gunned for him after Massie tried to tie Trump to Epstein). Their careers as Republicans are over, but they get loving gigs on MS-NOW.

As for the Dems, the radical antisemites have been doing wonderfully. Here’s just the short list:

1. For the first time since 1964, the year New Yorkers held their first Israel Day Parade, the mayor of New York won’t be there. Mamdani has made no secret of the fact that he hates Israel, which means hating the Jews. (Tip: If Israel is the only nation you think doesn’t deserve to exist, or it’s the only foreign country you attack for crimes that other nations commit, that isn’t justifiably criticizing a foreign country’s policies. It’s pure antisemitism.)

2. In San Antonio, Maureen Galindo made it to a run-off in the Democrat House primary. She posted on Instagram that “she’ll turn Karnes ICE Detention Center into a prison for American Zionists and former ICE officers for human trafficking… It will also be a castration processing center for pedophiles, which will probably be most of the Zionists.” (Yes, she uses the third person to refer to herself.)

American Zionists means Christians and Jews. Galindo has just floated a “new” idea that hasn’t been tried since the late 1930s. It did not end well then. Let me reiterate that she made it to the run-off.

3. In Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed is doing wonderfully in the primary for the Democrat Senate race. He’s said that Israel is as evil as Hamas (as a reminder, this is Hamas, while this is Israel), he said America is the root cause of Muslim terrorism, he’s best buds with Hasan Piker, and he’s way too close to CAIR (which consistently denies it’s tied to terrorism, although it was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in a terrorism funding case).

4. Christopher Rabb just won the Democrat primary in Pennsylvania’s third congressional district. He routinely describes Israel as an apartheid state (it’s the only nation in the Middle East where people of all faiths and races have full civil rights), and labeled the Gaza war a genocide, a risible claim based on Hamas propaganda.

5. Academia, which is almost completely Democrat-party run, revealed itself to be radically antisemitic within minutes of the October 7 massacre. Jewish students are now fleeing to Yeshiva University, one of the few places they know they’ll be safe.

6. The two young men who killed three at the San Diego mosque turned out to be nihilists who sucked up every bad idea social media offers. However, in this mélange of crazy from both the left and the fringe right, one idea drove them: their hatred for Jews, leading some to wonder if they had mistaken the mosque for a synagogue.

And of course, there are the Democrats already in Congress: Rashida Tlaib, Bernie Sanders, AOC, Ilhan Omar, Ro Khanna, and many more, all of whom are stridently anti-Israel.

Meanwhile, in Europe, which has gone much further down the Islamo-communist pathway, British Jews are terrified (they take this kind of threat seriously), and the EU just sanctioned Israelis while offering a seat at the table to the Taliban.

And here’s one little weird thing. I use ChatGPT for most of the images I make. It’s a fantastic way for me to get visual ideas out of my brain and into the real world. It also removes the omnipresent risk of accidental copyright violations.

However, when I did my post about Randi Weingarten, ChatGPT did something disturbing. Here’s the prompt I gave it:

A new report, based on government filings, shows that Randi Weingarten, the longtime head of the American Federation of Teachers (“AFT”), spent around $1 million in AFT funds to write a book. She gave some of the profits to charity and pocketed $125,000. Using my preferred image style…create an image of Randi Weingarten that is as uncomplimentary as your algorithm will allow.

I did not include a photo of Weingarten because she is a well-known public figure, so she already exists in ChatGPT’s database. This is what ChatGPT returned:

It’s certainly uncomplimentary. The problem is that, aside from getting the hair right, it doesn’t look at all like Weingarten. Instead, if you look at the nose, it’s a classic stereotype of the “ugly” Jew. This is what Weingarten actually looks like:

It was only after I provided that photo to ChatGPT that it was able to make a caricature that looked like Weingarten, not a generic Jewish stereotype:

I’m perfectly willing to admit that I’m getting paranoid, and maybe ChatGPT’s original image was totally within the parameters of acceptability. But given that all these AI programs reflect leftist bias, and that Weingarten identifies as Jewish although her Judaism bears no relationship to the Torah (this is her synagogue), I’m concerned.

I was born 16 years after WWII ended. Growing up, I naively thought that the worst of antisemitism had been permanently purged from the Western world, and certainly would never take root in America. I’m stunned by how wrong I was.