Senate Democrats are increasingly turning against Israel, following the direction laid out by President Joe Biden surrendering his administration to the whims of antisemitic activists.
Various Democratic senators are now effectively against Israel, either because that was their inclination anyway or because they are searching for any angle to defend Biden choosing to treat Hamas terrorists as more important than our Israeli allies. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) falls into the former category, calling for Biden to go even further than he has by making sure Israel doesn’t receive “a nickel” of U.S. military aid.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) also likely falls into this category, as he has repeated pro-Hamas talking points to defend the pro-terrorist U.N. Relief and Works Agency and now antisemitic students who know nothing about anything, much less about what is going on in Gaza. Van Hollen complained that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was being “dismissive” of those students’ uneducated concerns when she noted that they were, in fact, ignorant.
Others likely fall in the category of pushing away from Israel to defend Biden’s abysmal foreign policy. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) defended Biden against the consistent criticism of Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) by saying that “we have no obligation to write a blank check of military support” to Israel or anyone else. Murphy successfully defeated that straw man argument of his own making to try and protect Biden’s tanking reputation, but that does not change that Biden is withholding arms (and information) from Israel. The result could keep Hamas from being eliminated.
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Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE), a close Biden ally, is in the same boat. He is warning that this conflict will affect a leader’s legacy, but he isn’t talking about Biden. Instead, Coons is warning that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be thinking of his legacy, as if Netanyahu’s legacy would be better in Israel if he told the country that he was going to allow Hamas to survive and rebuild. Coons has to know how ridiculous this sounds, but he has to protect his buddy’s reelection chances, which are fading fast.
While Fetterman retains his moral compass, the rest of the Senate Democratic caucus is shifting toward Biden’s anti-Israel view to rally around him for his reelection. This is what happens when partisanship takes priority over wanting a presidential administration that functions and doesn’t routinely pander to terrorists. It is the exact kind of shift conservatives have been warning about as the Democratic Party embraces the “Squad”-style Sanders acolytes who are content to display their antisemitism, knowing senators such as Van Hollen will defend them.