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Join John OConnor for fearless conservative political commentary and investigative analysis on OConnors Right Stand. Each week, get unfiltered perspectives on current events, government accountability, and judicial failures that mainstream media wont cover. Hard-hitting episodes featuring in-depth political analysis, breaking news commentary, and the conservative viewpoints you need to hear.
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Good Tuesday evening, Patriots. First time ever saying that. Welcome back to O'Connor's Write Stand. I'm your host, John O'Connor, software programmer by day, conservative choose seeker by night. Happy Thanksgiving, Patriots. I hope you are spending the holiday with the people you love, taking a moment to reflect on what you're grateful for, and yes, getting some football and turkey in there too. Quick note on the schedule. Yesterday's microphone issues on the Quick Strike podcast
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created a domino effect that pushed everything back. So this will be my only right stand episode this week. After the pace I've been keeping for the last six months, I'm looking forward to some genuine rest and relaxation with my fiance over the holiday. I'll see you back here Tuesday for our next deep dive. But tonight we are talking about one of the most dramatic political realignments in modern American history. For generations, Jewish Americans and the Democratic Party
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were inseparable. Jews voted Democrats at rates approaching 80 and 90%. The relationship seemed permanent, unbreakable, like it was written into the DNA of both communities. And then something changed. Today, we are three years removed from October 7th, 2023, the day Hamas terrorists launched the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust. And in those three years, we've watched the Democratic Party
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systemically abandoned its Jewish base. Not quietly, not suddenly, loudly, publicly, with college campuses erupting in pro-Hamas protests, squad members defending terrorists, and Jewish voters fleeing the party in record numbers. How did we get here? When did the support for Israel become a liability in the Democratic Party instead of a given?
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And what does this mean for the future of American Jews and American politics? The right stand starts now.
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Let's start with the history, because you need to understand just how dramatic this shift really is. For most of the 20th century, American Jews were the Democratic Party's most reliable voting bloc. In 1944, Franklin Roosevelt won 90 % of the Jewish vote. In 1960, John F. Kennedy stood before the Zionist Organization of America and declared that,
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That wasn't just a nice speech, Kennedy meant it, and for decades both parties backed that commitment. Jews supported Democrats for multiple reasons. There was the New Deal coalition that brought together urban ethnics, labor unions, and minorities. There was the Democratic Party's stance on civil rights and social justice. As for Israel, that wasn't a factor in choosing parties. Both Republicans and Democrats competed to prove who was more pro-Israel.
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Support for the Jewish state was a given on both sides. Rita Hauser, a Nixon campaign director in New York in 1972, said it perfectly. As an issue, Israel is primordial. That's how central Israel was to Jewish identity and Jewish politics. Now, fast forward to today. In 2024, Jewish support for the Democratic presidential candidate dropped between four and 11 points compared to
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2020 across multiple polls. Donald Trump received his highest share of the Jewish vote of any Republican since Ronald Reagan. And here's what really tells the story. Only 34 % of Jewish voters now report exclusively voting Democrat. Think about that. Two thirds of Jewish voters are either voting Republican or splitting their votes between parties.
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The alliance that defined American politics for 80 years is collapsing before our eyes. So what happened? When did this shift begin? Well, you can point to 2019 as the inflection point. That's when the squad arrived in Congress. uh Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from New York, Elan Omar from Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib from Michigan, and Diana Presley from Massachusetts. These weren't your typical Democrats.
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They were self-described democratic socialists. They were young, media savvy, and they brought with them a completely different worldview on Israel. Rashida Tlaib became the face of anti-Israel sentiment in Congress. She's Palestinian-American, and she didn't hide her views. In May 2023, Tlaib hosted a Congressional event to mark the Palestinian Nakba, or catastrophe, referring to Israel's creation as a catastrophe.
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Let that sink in. A member of Congress hosted an event mourning the establishment of the Jewish state. Talib attended art shows featuring work calling for Israel's destruction and promoting Palestinian terrorists. She repeatedly used the phrase, from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free, which is code for eradicating Israel entirely. Her campaign funneled over $435,000
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a consultant firm run by Rasha Mubarak, an anti-Israel activist with connections to groups tied to Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. And it wasn't just Talib. In September 2022, Talib said in an event that you cannot claim to hold progressive values yet back Israel's apartheid government. She was creating a litmus test. If you support Israel,
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You're not really progressive. The Squad made being anti-Israel cool on the left. They framed it as standing up for oppressed people. They tied it to social justice, to Black Lives Matter, to every progressive cause. And Democratic leadership? They defended them. Nancy Pelosi called the Squad our sisters. Instead of condemning their anti-Israel rhetoric, leadership embraced them. Then came October 7th.
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2023, Hamas terrorists invaded Israel. They murdered roughly 1,200 people, mostly civilians. They raped women. They beheaded babies. They took over 240 hostages, including American citizens. It was the deadliest attack on Jewish people since the Holocaust. And how did the squad respond? Rashida Tlaib suggested there could only be peace after lifting the blockade, ending the occupation,
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and dismantling the apartheid system. She blamed Israel for Hamas terrorists murdering Israeli civilians. Cory Bush wrote that, must do our part to stop this violence and trauma by ending US government support for Israeli military occupation and apartheid. All of them immediately called for a ceasefire, before Israel even responded, while hostages were still being held.
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They wanted Israel to just accept that Hamas had murdered over a thousand people and do nothing about it. Talib and Cory Bush spoke at pro-Hamas rallies outside the capital. The same types of rallies where protesters chanted, are Hamas, and then threatened Jewish students. When reports came out about Hamas using rape as a weapon of war, AOC and Cory Bush attacked the AIPAC, the pro-Israeli group.
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instead of condemning the rapes. They refused to stand with the victims. They stood with the terrorists. And this wasn't just the squad. This was where the entire progressive base went. What happened on college campuses in spring 2024 exposed just how deep this goes. Columbia University became ground zero. Pro-Hamas encampments took over the entire campus.
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A local rabbi urged Jewish students to return home for their own safety. Classes went virtual because the university couldn't protect Jewish students from harassment and violence. A Jewish professor had his key card deactivated. Columbia wouldn't let him on campus because they said they couldn't guarantee his own safety. Let me repeat that. A Jewish professor was banned from his own campus because pro-Hamas protesters made it too dangerous for him.
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At Yale, students formed human chains to block Jewish students from entering the university. One Jewish Yale student was stabbed in the eye with a flagpole by anti-Israel radicals. At Columbia, protesters told Jewish students, remember the 7th of October, that will happen not one more time, not five more times, but 10,000 more times. They were threatening to murder Jewish students and celebrating October 7th.
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This wasn't just a few crazy students, patriots. A major report found CCP-linked influence behind the anti-Israel protests. This was organized, funded, and designed to destabilize America. And where were the Democrats? Harvard's own task force found that faculty were afraid to vote for hiring Zionists or Israeli candidates. Instructors canceled classes so students could
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attend pro-Palestinian protests and then held office hours at the encampments. The institutions had been captured by the anti-Israel left. Let me show you what this did to democratic support among all Americans, not just Jews. In 2022, 63 % of Democrats viewed Israel favorably. By 2025? Well, that number had collapsed to just 33%. A 30-point drop in just three years.
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The partisan gap between Republicans and Democrats on Israel reached over 50 percentage points. That is the widest gap ever recorded. 84 % of Americans favored an immediate ceasefire, meaning they wanted Israel to stop defending itself before Hamas is defeated. 45 % of voters believed Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians. A view that predominates among Democrats, liberals, independents.
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and even moderates. Think about what that means. Nearly half of Americans have been convinced that Israel, a democracy defending itself against terrorists who murdered 1,200 people, is committing genocide. Two-thirds of the Democrats oppose sending more military aid to Israel. Over three-quarters of Democratic voters think Israelis are committing genocide in Gaza. The Democratic base has turned decisively against Israel.
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And it happened fast. So how did Jewish voters respond? They started leaving. Democrats are now least trusted by Jewish voters on security, Israel, and anti-Semitism, with only a 16-point trust advantage. On economic issues like taxes and inflation, Democrats maintain much larger leads. But on the issue most central to Jewish survival? Democrats are barely ahead. Here's the really telling stat.
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Orthodox Jews voted 74 % for Trump in 2024. These are the most religiously observant Jews, the ones most connected to Israel and the Jewish identity. They voted Republican at rates approaching African Americans voting Democrat. Even among non-Orthodox Jews, the shift was dramatic. Trump won among Jewish voters who identify most strongly with Israel and who cited Israel as a key reason for their vote.
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One poll found Kamala Harris leading Trump among Jewish voters by just 53-46%, the narrowest margin since Michael Dukakis in 1988. Why? Because Jewish voters saw what was happening. They saw the squad. They saw the campus protests. They saw democratic leadership either silent or actively defending the anti-Israel left. And they realized...
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The Democratic Party doesn't stand with us anymore. Here's the good news. When individual squad members faced their own voters, many of those voters said enough is enough. The original squad, made up of AOC, Ilan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Presley, arrived in Congress back in 2019. Then they were joined in 2020 by members like Jamal Bowman and Cory Bush, who embraced the same anti-Israel ideology.
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For years, they seemed untouchable in their deep blue districts. But after October 7th, that changed. In June 2024, Jamal Bowman lost his primary to George Latimer by 17 points. Bowman had claimed AIPAC had full control of Congress, used anti-Semitic tropes throughout his campaign, and called reports of Hamas raping Israeli women propaganda and lies. In his concession speech, Bowman said voters had been
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brainwashed by Jewish money. So even in defeat, he blamed the Jews. He was the first squad member voted out of office. Two months later, in August, 2024, Cori Bush lost her primary to Wesley Bell, 51 to 45%. Bush had been just as anti-Israel as Bowman, calling for ceasefires, accusing Israel of genocide, and standing with pro-Hamas protesters. Both races saw massive spending from pro-Israel
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Israel groups like AIPAC and progressives screamed about it. AOC claimed 20 million in big money from a Republican finance organization defeated Bowman. But here's what they won't admit. Bowman received substantial amounts of money too. Almost all from outside his district while most of Latimer's came from within the district. His own constituents rejected him. The voters, including many Democrats,
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We're sending a message. We are done with anti-Semitism. So let me explain why this happened, because it's not just about Israel. The progressive left has adopted an ideology called intersectionality. It's the idea that all oppression is connected. So, if you fight racism, you must also fight colonialism, capitalism, transphobia, Islamophobia. Everything's linked. In this worldview,
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Israel is automatically cast as the oppressor. Why? Because Israelis are seen as white Europeans who colonize brown Palestinians. It doesn't matter that half of Israeli Jews are from the Middle East and North Africa. It doesn't matter that Jews are indigenous to that land. It doesn't matter that Israel is the only democracy in the region. In progressive ideology, Israel is a settler colonial state that must be dismantled.
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As one former DEI administrator explained, DEI is built on the unshakable belief that the world is divided into two groups of people, the oppressors and the oppressed. In that framework, Jews are oppressors and Israel is a genocidal settler colonial estate. This is what's taught on college campuses. This is what drives the squad. This is why progressives can't condemn Hamas.
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because in their worldview, Hamas represents the oppressed fighting back against their oppressors. It's all garbage, patriots. It's ahistorical, it's morally bankrupt, and it leads directly to anti-Semitism. But it's become the dominant ideology on the left. So who's behind this shift? Well, let me connect to the dots. First, there's the squad and progressive Democrats in Congress.
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They have made anti-Israel positions mainstream in the party. They have created litmus tests where supporting Israel disqualifies you from being a real progressive. Second, there are college campuses. Harvard's report found that anti-Zionism crossed the line into stereotyped notions that Israel is just a settler colony of white Europeans with no real connection to the land. This is what's being taught.
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DEI offices and progressive faculty have turned universities into indoctrination centers against Israel. Third, there's foreign influence. The report on CCP-linked funding of anti-Israel protests show this isn't organic. China and other adversaries are funding these movements because they know it destabilizes America and weakens our closest Middle East ally. Fourth, there's the progressive
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activist base. Organizations like If Not Now or Jewish Voice for Peace and Students for Justice in Palestine have pushed the Democrat Party left on Israel for years. They have organized the protests, trained the activists, and created the infrastructure. And finally, there's the broader cultural shift. Young Democrats overwhelmingly oppose Israel.
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A Harvard-Harris survey found that 40 % of young people say they support Hamas over Israel. 40 %! Supporting a terrorist organization over a democracy. This is a generational shift, and it seems to be only getting worse. So where does this go from here? Well, the trends are clear. Since 2022, support for Israel has dropped across the board, with Democrats showing the steepest decline. Among Republicans,
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Favorable views of Israel dropped from 69 to 63 percent, for independents from 56 to 50 percent. But among Democrats, support collapsed from 51 to 41 percent, a 10-point freefall. Jewish voters are responding by leaving the Democratic Party. Even among Reform and non-denominational Jews, the most liberal denominations, the majority no longer votes exclusively Democratic.
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The squad may have lost two members, but the ideology they represent has won. The progressive base is more anti-Israel than ever. The next generation of Democrats will be even more hostile to the Jewish state. Here's what that means for America's future. So if Israel is only a key political issue for just 3 % of Jewish voters, then the future of American support for Israel is a matter of grave concern. Were it not for the evangelical community,
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American politicians would have little political incentive to support Israel. That's where we're headed, patriots. A future where one party is solidly pro-Israel and the other is increasingly hostile. Jewish voters are already becoming a reliable Republican consensuancy because Democrats abandoned them. The realignment isn't complete yet, but it's happening, and it's one of the most consequential political shifts of our generation.
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Well, that's it for tonight, Patriots. The Democratic Party spent 80 years building trust with Jewish Americans. They threw it away in three simple years for the approval of college protesters and squad members who defend terrorists. Democratic favorability for Israel dropped 30 points in three years. Jewish voters are leaving the party that the grandparents would have died for, and the progressive base cheers it on. The stakes here are bigger than any election.
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This is about whether America will stand with democracies and against terrorism or whether we will abandon our allies the second it becomes politically inconvenient. The left chose poorly and they are going to pay the price for generations to come. If you want to support the show, head over to O'Connor's Right Stand.com and follow me on X at O'Connor podcasts. Deep Dives every Tuesday and Thursday. Quick Strike podcasts every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
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Until next Tuesday, Patriots, stay strong, stay informed, and keep holding the line unapologetically. And once again, Happy Thanksgiving. This is John O'Connor, signing off.