{"id":909947,"date":"2026-06-02T15:12:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T20:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/too-many-dems-noticeably-shamefully-silent-about-jew-hatred-on-far-left-gottheimer-writes\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T15:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T20:12:14","slug":"too-many-dems-noticeably-shamefully-silent-about-jew-hatred-on-far-left-gottheimer-writes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/too-many-dems-noticeably-shamefully-silent-about-jew-hatred-on-far-left-gottheimer-writes\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Too many&#8217; Dems &#8216;noticeably, shamefully silent&#8217; about Jew-hatred on far left, Gottheimer writes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modulewell>\n<figure>\n<picture><source width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Josh Gottheimer\"  width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/static.jns.org\/dims4\/default\/b9cf160\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/5687x3202+0+0\/resize\/1000x563!\/format\/webp\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.jns.org%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F04%2Fshutterstock_2201068999.jpg\"><\/p>\n<\/picture>\n<p><figcaption>Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) speaks during the annual Jerusalem Post conference at Gotham Hall, on Sept. 12, 2022. Credit: Lev Radin\/Shutterstock.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>(May 11, 2026 \/ JNS)<\/span>\n                    <\/p>\n<p>Although Democrats have long decried Jew-hatred on the far right, \u201ctoday, too many Democrats are noticeably and shamefully silent when antisemitism comes from the far left,\u201d according to Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a glaring double standard,\u201d the congressman <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/10\/opinion\/hasan-piker-democratic-party-antisemitism.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">wrote<\/a><\/span> in the <i>New York Times<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsider the response to\u2014really, the embrace of\u2014Hasan Piker, a prominent left-wing commentator with millions of online followers,\u201d who \u201creferred to Orthodox Jews as \u2018inbred\u2019 and said \u2018America deserved 9\/11,\u2019 both statements he halfheartedly walked back,\u201d the congressman wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said that Hamas, a designated terrorist organization that has killed Americans and taken Americans hostage, is \u2018a thousand times better\u2019 than Israel, America\u2019s ally, which he called a \u2018fascist settler colonial apartheid state,\u2019 a statement he stands by,\u201d Gottheimer added. \u201cNone of this should be waved away as mere edgy commentary. Mr. Piker traffics in antisemitic and anti-American extremism that has been met by silence from many on the Democratic left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Sadly, we\u2019ve seen several prominent Democrats appear on his show and even campaign with him, granting his views legitimacy,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Although it\u2019s hard, \u201cprincipled\u201d leadership is about saying what\u2019s right even if it comes with heckling and trolling, according to Gottheimer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt takes far more courage to stand up to those who have long claimed to be in your corner than to oppose your political opponents,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere should be one response to those who express hatred toward any American: condemnation. Hate is hate,\u201d he added. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t get a pass because it comes from your side of the aisle.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> Yuri Menjivar<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/news\/u-s-news\/too-many-dems-noticeably-shamefully-silent-about-jew-hatred-on-far-left-gottheimer-writes\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) speaks during the annual Jerusalem Post conference at Gotham Hall, on Sept. 12, 2022. Credit: Lev Radin\/Shutterstock. (May 11, 2026 \/ JNS) Although Democrats have long decried Jew-hatred on the far right, \u201ctoday, too many Democrats are noticeably and shamefully silent when antisemitism comes from the far left,\u201d according to Rep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":909948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93298,4769],"tags":[8091,21441],"class_list":["post-909947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-many","category-noticeably","tag-many","tag-noticeably"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}