Look at the split screen in American politics right now, and you will see two parties moving in opposite directions on the question of whether Jewish Americans and support for our ally Israel belong in the political mainstream.

On one side, Republicans continue the hard work of holding our own accountable. In Kentucky, the party’s primary voters made clear that Rep. Thomas Massie’s (R., Ky.) serial hostility toward the Jewish community and Israel has no future in the GOP. This is how a serious party polices itself. You name the problem, you confront it, and you win.

The Democratic Party is doing the opposite. It is not drifting. It is sprinting toward the fever swamp, and its leadership is cheering the runners on.

In Pennsylvania’s 3rd District, Democratic primary voters chose Chris Rabb, a Democratic Socialist whose hostility to Israel is not a quibble at the margins but the core of his political identity. 

In New Jersey’s 12th District, the leading Democrat, Adam Hamawy, volunteered with a Bosnian organization that was later shuttered for providing material support to Al Qaeda. Read that sentence again. A major party congressional candidate has a documented association with an entity shut down for aiding the terrorist network that murdered nearly 3,000 Americans on September 11th. In any serious political party, that is disqualifying. In today’s Democratic Party, it is a résumé line.

Then there is Maine, where Democrats are rallying behind Graham Platner for the United States Senate — a man who, for eighteen years, carried a Nazi SS tattoo on his chest. Eighteen years. Not a youthful mistake he removed in shame, but a permanent emblem he wore through adulthood. The Democratic establishment’s response has been to circle the wagons around him.

And in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed — a leading Democratic candidate for the United States Senate — said this week that he struggles with the question of whether Israel should exist as a Jewish state. This is the same man who twisted himself into a pretzel to explain away a Hezbollah terrorist driving his car into a synagogue to murder Jewish schoolchildren. Let’s be clear: that attempted cover was disgusting, and it should be disqualifying. Instead, El-Sayed is leading in the polls.

Where are the Jewish Democratic leaders? The voices that exist, in theory, to be the conscience of their party on antisemitism have gone shamefully silent. The same people who manufacture outrage when a Republican misspeaks cannot summon a sentence when their own party’s voters nominate candidates with Nazi tattoos and Al-Qaeda adjacencies. Their priorities are not our priorities. Their silence is complicity.

The contrast is not partisan spin. It is the observable record of two parties in 2026.

The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) is going to keep saying this plainly, because the American Jewish community deserves to hear it plainly. The GOP is the only party where it is safe — and welcome — to be proudly Jewish and loudly pro-Israel.

The fight is worth fighting because the alternative is a Democratic Party that has decided antisemitism is a manageable problem and Jewish voters are a manageable constituency. We reject both premises. The split screen over the past few weeks tells you everything you need to know.

Matt Brooks is the CEO of the Republican Jewish Coalition.