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Do not let the execution of six more hostages blind you to the reality that the Biden-Harris administration signed their death warrants. Enough with the empty talk about “ironclad” commitment to Israeli security, the White House repeatedly threatened Israel not to operate in Rafah, exactly where the IDF recovered the hostages’ bodies.

I am sorry their hour of need fell on an election year, where Jewish blood seems to be worth as much as the sensibilities of a Dearborn constituent who would rather see it spilled.

The White House kept Israel on a tight leash for almost a year. Only one day after Hamas massacred Israelis and paraded captives into the dungeons of Gaza – before Israel could even mount a military response – Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with the Turkish intelligence chief who oversaw the establishment of a Hamas headquarters in his own country, and together called for a ceasefire in a now-deleted tweet. Frankly, I do not care that Blinken descends from a Holocaust survivor if his only role is to serve as the Jewish facade to the administration’s anti-Israel recommendations. 

The blood of our people cries out from the soil of our homeland, yet some among us drown them out with daydreams about a “Mamala” Harris presidency. This weak-kneed White House already forces the beleaguered Jewish state to endure the humiliation of negotiating with its killers, a terrorist organization that dangles the lives of hostages over our heads with impossible demands and then blames the Israeli government – not the terrorists! – for failing to secure a deal. It’s a feckless regime that capitulates to socially acceptable Jew-haters, whitewashing their crimes to avoid offending the ever-decreasing number of “peaceful” Muslims.

Yet the Democratic Party still has the audacity to ask for our vote. Why? Because it knows we will give it to them.

I’m not holding my breath for the Jewish vote to suddenly turn red. This election is about priorities, and many American Jews prioritize leftist conventional wisdom over Jewish morality – or foolishly conflate the two. The attacks on October 7 changed that for some, but not all.

These Jews often view Judaism through a lens similar to one Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff adopted in their Hanukkah greeting last year, emphasizing universal victimhood instead of Maccabean defiance. I fear this ideological divide is too deep to bridge anytime soon, and certainly not before election day.

Nevertheless, a Harris promotion would entrench the progressive agenda within all institutions where Jews have historically flourished, turning our esteemed halls of learning, culture, and justice into battlegrounds for pampered extremists to stage Palestinian Passion plays. Protected minorities who regularly assault Jews  – yet seldom face the same degree of outrage in the media as right-wing antisemites do despite wielding far less influence – would continue to go unpunished. This country is becoming a ticking time bomb for everyone, especially for Jews.

As for Israel, many American Jews find the temporarily convenient position of “not anti-Israel, just anti-Netanyahu” but refuse to acknowledge that our enemies do not care who is in power. To them, Tel Aviv is as much an illegal settlement as Gush Etzion. The State Department might have you believe a solution is on the horizon, but for Israelis, Democratic Nobel Peace Prize efforts sound a lot like air-raid sirens. Kamala’s vow to support Palestinian self-determination should be strongly opposed, but effectively, they’ve already achieved it – they’ve manipulated and rallied the international community against the Jewish people to justify their global reign of terror.

Israel is the land that gives us life, that gives us a name and a purpose. You can sever the umbilical cord that attaches you to Israel, but you can never escape being a child of Israel. Reject any gesture of solidarity Democratic politicians offer us when the children of Israel are slain. Vote only for those who stand with us when we rise up to fight back and rescue the children that remain in captivity. Otherwise, on Election Day, do the rest of us a favor: stay home.