Why Do Jews Keep Voting for Leftists Who Hate Them?
One author thinks she has found the answer.
Elise Cooper | July 6, 2026
The Jews and the Left, Batya Ungar-Sargon’s latest book, takes readers through the long history of Jews in American political life, from George Washington’s praise for the Jews to FDR and the Civil Rights movement, concluding with the shock many Americans felt on October 7, when Hamas committed the 21st-century Holocaust that was not universally condemned.
Batya noted, “I wrote the book because the question that I get asked, maybe the most, especially by Christians, conservatives, Republicans, is ‘why do the Jews vote for the Democrats, when the Democrats hate them, and we love them?’”
Although the book ends with the aftermath of October 7, the results of the recent New York and Maine primary elections underscore the book’s relevancy today and are a dramatic postscript. A direct threat to America’s values and ideals is the recently elected Democrat candidates that include Nazis, communists, and antisemites.
Maine Democrat Senate candidate Graham Platner has a chest tattoo of the Totenkopf, the skull-and-crossbones icon adopted by the infamous Nazi SS unit. He retweeted a post that characterized Judaism as a “death cult” and praised the military tactics that Hamas used in 2014 in the horrific execution of five Israeli soldiers.
Batya addresses the Nazi tattoo directly.
The left told people who were not Nazis, “You are Nazis, you are white supremacists. You are evil.” And now they’re lining up behind a guy with an actual Totenkopf tattoo and who knew what it was. And that’s not a deal breaker for them?
In my book, I have this quote that applies: ‘Many in the Democratic Party insist that it is the radical left that has turned on the Jews, not the mainstream of the party. But, few of the Democratic politicians are willing to take on the extremists on their side.’ Just look at House minority Senate leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), both supporting Platner. We defeated the Nazis, because that was very important to us as Americans. It’s not just Jews who should be upset about his candidacy.
Brad Lander, who is Jewish, won his primary race for New York’s 10th Congressional District by accusing Israel of genocide and apartheid and attacking pro-Israel lobbying, while acknowledging that the attack line made him “queasy” because it played into antisemitic tropes. Then there was Zohran Mamdani, who was elected New York City mayor with 30 percent of the Jewish vote. Have the Jews forgotten what happened to the German Jews of the 1930s, and are they falling off the same cliff by failing to recognize the dangers?
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