Here’s the game plan to remove the anti-Israel narrative from the DSA
A lot of us pro-Israel Democrats are understandably anxious when they see DSA candidates winning primaries.
I am not and here is why:
The DSA is loud, organized, aggressive, and devious, but it will not have the votes in the next Congress to dictate America’s policy toward Israel. Even if it adds a dozen seats, it still cannot cut off support for Israel. That would require broad support in the House, passage in the Senate, and a president willing to sign it.
We still fight the remaining primaries by supporting Democrats who stand with Israel and opposing candidates who are anti-Israel.
After the primaries, we need to elect Democrats. If you are a Democrat reading this, I believe it is more important to elect the Democratic nominee in November, even if that nominee is DSA aligned, because saving democracy is the immediate priority. The answer to the DSA problem is not to hand power back to Trump. Trump is no true friend of Israel, and my next article will address that directly.
The battle is with the DSA mindset, its candidates, and its base. We need to pull them out of their anti-Israel DSA bubble.
They were drawn in by domestic issues many of us also care about: health care, housing, wages, labor rights, education, and working families. They were also drawn in by frustration that Democrats have not yet fully delivered on that agenda. The DSA exploits that frustration, ignores the long list of Democratic accomplishments we can be proud of, and then teaches that hating Israel is part of being morally serious.
That did not happen by accident.
The DSA’s current anti-Israel obsession is not just a policy disagreement. It is an indoctrination process. It takes legitimate American domestic concerns and attaches them to an old and dangerous lie: blame the Jews. Blame Israel. Make the Jewish state the symbol of everything wrong in the world.
That playbook is not new. It was used in Europe, in Russia, and in Germany in the 1930s. It did not end well for Jews, and it did not end well for Europe.
Today, it has a new vocabulary. It uses words like colonialism, apartheid, genocide, occupation, resistance, and liberation. But underneath the slogans is the same old poison. The Jewish people are being cast once again as the obstacle to justice.
That is why my previous article matters. “Dem/DSA Unity with Israel, Peace = Big Victory in November,” published July 7, 2026. It was written for people whose heads are stuck inside the DSA bubble and need to see an alternative vision that also happens to be reality.
DSA supporters are unlikely to find this article, or the three others I am sharing here, on their own. That is why people like us need to use these articles and say, “Read this, then let’s talk.” We need to understand the arguments well enough to present the narrative ourselves. We also need to post the links everywhere so others can find them.
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/dem-dsa-unity-with-israel-peace-big-victory-in-november/
The purpose of that article is not simply to defend Israel. It is to project an alternative future, one I believe can happen by 2028. We need to start now.
The vision is achieving the domestic agenda while also achieving peace, with Israelis and Palestinians living side by side as neighbors, not enemies. That is the alternative to the DSA’s destroy-Israel narrative.
Our path leads toward coexistence, security, dignity, and peace. More than two million Arab citizens already live inside the State of Israel. That reality proves coexistence is not fantasy. It exists. The task now is to get more people to believe it is possible, especially young people inside the DSA bubble who have been taught that justice requires Israel’s destruction.
It does not.
Justice requires peace, and peace requires both peoples to remain.
The DSA was founded in 1982 around a domestic democratic socialist agenda. It was not founded to become an anti-Israel movement. We need to challenge that hijacking with purpose and urgency.
Here is another article that backs up the narrative: “If You Make Peace With Israel, Israel Makes Peace With You,” published June 21, 2026.
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/if-you-make-peace-with-israel-israel-makes-peace-with-you/
I wrote another article about the Trojan horse that has hijacked the DSA: “I Call the DSA Corrupted by the Worldwide Jihadist Movement,” published June 27, 2026.
The irony is that DSA candidates routinely accuse their Democratic primary opponents of being “corrupt” without specifics, while the DSA itself has been corrupted by jihadist propaganda and anti-Israel extremism.
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/i-call-the-dsa-corrupted-by-the-worldwide-jihadist-movement/
On July 1, 2026, Times of Israel featured my article, “The Democratic Party Can Have Both: Young Voters and Israel.”
The DSA and the anti-Israel left want Democrats to believe we have to choose between young voters and Israel. That is a false choice.
We can reach young voters without surrendering Israel.
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-democratic-party-can-have-both-young-voters-and-israel-2/
These articles are meant to work together as tools: for young Democrats, for peace and coexistence, for exposing the hijacking of the DSA, and for showing people how to use these arguments.
Read them. Understand them. Discuss them. Share them with friends, family, young Democrats, students, activists, and anyone who says being progressive means being anti-Israel.
Because that is the lie we have to break.
We won’t choose between:
• progressive values and Israel.
• young voters and Israel.
• fighting Trump and fighting antisemitism.
We can do all of it.
For more of my articles, you can find me here on Times of Israel:
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/author/mitch-mallett/
You can also find my published work at The JCA International Jewish News:
https://thej.ca/author/mitch-mallett/
I invite you to join 10,000 others in “We Are Progressive, Liberal, Woke and Pro Israel,” where we have these conversations every day:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/273235018591633
Help us build a pro-Israel, pro-democracy, progressive Democratic movement strong enough to defeat Trump, reject the DSA’s anti-Israel narrative, and speak clearly for peace, justice, and the Jewish people’s right to live safely in their homeland.
