Are Democrats Institutionally Anti-Semitic Now?

While America as a whole will suffer from the radicalization of the Democrat Party, perhaps no group will suffer more from the far Left’s takeover of the party than the American Jewish community.

by Caroline Glick
March 10, 2017

Was former secretary of labor and assistant attorney general Tom Perez’s victory over Cong. Keith Ellison in the race to serve as the new chairman of the Democrat National Committee a victory of centrist Democrats over radical leftists in the party?

That is how the mainstream media is portraying Perez’s victory.

Along these lines, Prof. Alan Dershowitz, a lifelong Democrat who promised to quit the party if Ellison was elected due to his documented history of anti-Semitism and hostility towards Israel, hailed Perez’s election.

Speaking to Fox News, Dershowitz said that Perez’s election over Ellison, “is a victory in the war against bigotry, anti-Semitism, the anti-Israel push of the hard left within the Democrat party.”

There are two problems with Dershowitz’s view. First, Perez barely won. Ellison received nearly half the votes in two rounds of voting (235 to 200).

Tipping his hat to Ellison’s massive popularity among the party’s leadership and grassroots, Pe…