Gavin Newsom bets antisemitism is the Democratic Party’s future
Gavin Newsom endorsed the lie Tuesday that Israel is an “apartheid” state — a damning sign of where the Democratic Party is headed, and how far it’s already sunk.
At an event promoting his new book, the California governor said Israel’s critics are “appropriately” calling it an “apartheid” state — i.e., a knockoff of South Africa’s old segregationist regime.
This is a lie — one so egregious that many deem it a form of antisemitism.
Apartheid South Africa denied blacks the vote and forced them to endure separate hospitals, separate schools, and even separate bathrooms.
Arabs, 20% of Israel’s population, vote and serve in the government and even the military; there is no segregation whatsoever between Jews and Arabs.
Newsom’s “apartheid” smear is a “blood libel” that has spurred antisemitic mobs to target Jews and Jewish institutions, often with deadly results — including in his own California.
The gov once claimed a presidential candidate should be a “repairer of the breach,” yet he’s instead widening divisions — and adding to the pressure on Jews, one of the country’s most vulnerable minorities.
At the same event, Newsom said he’d consider ending US military support for Israel — even as Iranian missiles flew through Israeli skies, aiming to kill civilians across the Jewish state.
Days before, Newsom repeated a claim that the United States and Israel had bombed a school in Iran — without waiting for the facts.
We have no idea if Newsom truly shares Jew-hate implied by his “apartheid” comment; he has a long, long record of mouthing whatever sentiments he thinks serve his political needs.
After the Oct. 7 attacks, he visited terror victims in Israel — because that was popular then.
Now he trashes Israel — because it plays well in a Democratic Party that increasingly follows its radical left-wing fringe.
The right holds an antisemitic fringe, too — but President Donald Trump has marginalized it.
Newsom, the frontrunner for his party’s next presidential nomination, has now embraced the far left’s anti-Israel extremism — which should disqualify him for the presidency or even the job he holds now.
Whether he’s a bigot or just a shameless cynic, from here on out he merits nothing but contempt if he dares say a word about peace, human rights or tolerance.
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