As the Democratic Party continues to shift further to the Left, the party has been captured by the loudest of its activist class, which means that candidates must increasingly pander to the “pro-Palestinian” movement and its support of a global intifada.

This process is playing out in New York City, where Democrats will nominate their candidate for mayor on Tuesday night. The top candidate is disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, but the progressive wing of the party has lined up behind state Rep. Zohran Mamdani. Under the monstrosity of New York’s ranked choice voting, Mamdani now has a four-point lead on Cuomo, according to Emerson College polling.

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That poll result came just days after Mamdani defended protesters using the phrase “globalize the intifada,” a reference to the first and second intifadas, in which Palestinian terrorists killed over 1,000 Israeli civilians (and hundreds of Palestinians deemed to be collaborators). When Mamdani hears cries to globalize such violence, he claims he actually hears “a desperate desire for equality and equal rights in standing up for Palestinian human rights.” You say antisemitic terrorism, Mamdani says potato.

Mamdani even defended his position by claiming, “The very word has been used by the Holocaust Museum when translating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising into Arabic, because it’s a word that means struggle.” This earned him a condemnation from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, because the pro-terrorist protesters who want Israel to be erased “from the River to the Sea” and believe Israel is “stolen land” are not using the word “intifada” to simply mean “struggle.” We all know what “globalize the intifada” means when pro-Palestinians shoot Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington, D.C., or light elderly Jewish protesters on fire in Colorado.

Through all this, Mamdani has become the shiny new star of the Democratic Party. Liberal media loves him, and he has the endorsements of both Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). Now, juxtapose the glowing coverage of Democratic enthusiasm for Mamdani with the Democratic Party’s treatment of Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA).

Fetterman is the immensely popular senator from Pennsylvania. He suffered a stroke and disappeared from the public eye, but was still nominated by Pennsylvania Democrats in 2022. By the time the November election rolled around, Fetterman could still not understand English or hold a basic conversation without a transcription device, according to a reporter from liberal NBC News. Still, Democrats rallied around him, and Pennsylvania voters chose to send him to the Senate.

Fetterman is now better than he has been since before the stroke, and yet earlier this year, Democratic hit pieces came out regarding his mental and physical condition. The hit pieces, pushed by anonymous former aides and his disgruntled former chief of staff, came not because of any concern over Fetterman’s health, but because he speaks with moral clarity on Israel and the terrorist threat from Palestinians. Fetterman is a more vocal defender of Israel than many Republicans, and is the only Democrat not just defending Israel, but celebrating the deaths of Palestinian and Iranian terrorists who kill civilians in the region.

“Intifada” is the unavoidable elephant in the Democratic primary room, which is why Fetterman’s former primary opponent is trying to make a political comeback. Conor Lamb lost to a hospitalized Fetterman last time, but now he has the praise of Ocasio-Cortez and the Democratic activist class at his back, all because of Israel and its enemies. Last week, Fetterman said that he hopes President Donald Trump destroys the regime of the Iranians, who have killed hundreds of Americans in the region through their proxies. Lamb criticized this by saying that Fetterman “talks about bombing and killing like it’s a video game” and that it’s worse than embarrassing “if you think about the human lives involved.”

Oh, the humanity. Won’t someone think of the Iranian nuclear facility buried in a mountain or the Iranian terrorist regime that chants “Death to America.”

This will become a more striking issue in bigger races than the Pennsylvania Senate race or the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City. That was clear in the lead-up to the 2024 election, when then-President Joe Biden pandered more to Muslim voters in Michigan than anyone else as he prepared his delusional reelection campaign.

Biden’s team constantly shamed Israel for trying to kill Palestinian terrorists after those terrorists massacred 1,200 Israeli civilians on Oct. 7, 2023. Biden’s team threatened to withdraw U.S. support from Israel and pressured Israeli leaders to account for Biden’s domestic political aspirations. Biden cried Islamophobia when the Wall Street Journal described Dearborn, Michigan, as “America’s Jihad Capital” in highlighting how the heavily Muslim population was celebrating antisemitic terrorism.

Biden’s pandering to Michigan’s anti-Israel Democrats was so shameless that he sent the U.S. military to build an “aid pier” in Gaza, designed to deliver aid by water. This, despite the fact that Hamas terrorists routinely steal such aid. Biden wasted $320 million, got an American soldier killed, and delivered no aid to Palestinian civilians, according to his own Pentagon. The pier lasted a grand total of 20 days.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris pandered to these same voters when she took over Biden’s position as the Democratic Party nominee. She said that Israel should agree to a ceasefire to keep Hamas in power in Gaza, placing blame on “what has happened in Gaza” on Israel, including the “images of dead children and desperate, hungry people fleeing for safety, sometimes displaced for the second, third, or fourth time.

Harris aligned herself with anti-Israel Democrats, publicly threatened to pull support from Israel, and privately pushed the Biden administration to be more anti-Israel. Most notable of Harris’s pandering to the anti-Israel base of her party was her choice of a running mate. The obvious selection at the time was always Gov. Josh Shapiro, the popular governor of swing state Pennsylvania, which would be crucial for Harris to win.

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But Shapiro was Jewish, and thus untrusted by the “globalize the intifada” voters. He was branded “Genocide Josh,” and so Harris went with the candidate endorsed by antisemites such as Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN): Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. Walz was a bumbling fool who added nothing to the campaign but a steady stream of mockery, and the Harris team did not even vet him seriously, but he was chosen based on his own quality as a candidate. He was chosen because he appealed to the people in the street, chanting to globalize the intifada.

Mamdani is hoping to ride the momentum from that same type of voter to defeat Cuomo and win his way to the mayor’s office in New York City. Conor Lamb is planning to do the same to get himself back into Congress when he can finally challenge Fetterman in 2028. Democratic politicians continue to offer moral and rhetorical defenses for the pro-Palestine antisemites who flock to the streets, while Democratic prosecutors regularly drop charges against pro-Palestine rioters who violate the law. These are the people Democrats believe will decide the future of their party, and they have proven that these are the voters they want to be in such a position.