It's Official: Democrats Are Now an Anti-Israel Party

Guy Benson / Townhall Tipsheet 

 

These numbers are highly disturbing yet unsurprising. Democratic voters' sympathies have dramatically shifted from pro-Israel to pro-Palestinian since October 7, 2023.  On that terrible day, Hamas terrorists slaughtered 1,200 people, including dozens of Americans, and took hundreds of hostages -- also including Americans.  These acts of explicitly genocidal violence touched off a brutal war in which Hamas used civilians as human shields while operating their terrorism out of hospitals and schools.  As a result, self-identified Democrats in the United States stampeded to turn against the Jewish state, the victims of the attack.  Democrats are now are pro-Palestinian political party, and it's not even particularly close.  

CNN's Harry Enten surveys the landscape:

"But look at the sea change! Now Democrats sympathize more with the Palestinians by 43 points! Oh my God! That is a change in the margin of 56 points over the course of just eight years...So all of a sudden, it's the pro-Palestinian position that actually reigns supreme in Democratic politics — not the Israeli position." Read more, see Xs and video here.