{"id":18322,"date":"2026-07-27T00:35:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T19:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=18322"},"modified":"2026-07-27T00:35:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T19:35:47","slug":"do-democrats-hate-israel-because-they-hate-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=18322","title":{"rendered":"Do Democrats hate Israel because they hate God?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/twt-thumbs.washtimes.com\/media\/image\/2026\/07\/25\/Feder_AH_s980x929.jpg?b4c6ba08a54151e195925bb510d977e06328b7ed\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-category\"><strong>OPINION:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Is there a connection between Democrats\u2019 growing animosity toward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/israel\/\">Israel<\/a> and their rejection of God?<\/p>\n<p>Back in the day, Democrats were the party of pious immigrants, including Irish and Italian Catholics and blue-collar workers who filled the pews on Sunday mornings when Republicans were off playing golf.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats were once the backbone of U.S. support for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/israel\/\">Israel<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/president-truman\/\">President Truman<\/a> was the first to recognize the modern state of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/israel\/\">Israel<\/a> in 1948. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/president-kennedy\/\">President Kennedy<\/a> had nothing but praise for the Jewish state.<\/p>\n<p>However, this is no longer your father\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/democratic-party\/\">Democratic Party<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On July 16, a slim majority of Democrats in the House voted to cut off all aid to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/israel\/\">Israel<\/a>, humanitarian and military. These included former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, and the second-ranking Democrat in House leadership, Rep. Katherine Clark of Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>Anti-Zionism has come to define the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/democratic-party\/\">Democratic Party<\/a> even more than support for abortion and hysteria over U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats are competing to see who can take the most deranged position on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/israel\/\">Israel<\/a>. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani ran on arresting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the next time the Jewish leader visited the Big Apple \u2014 only to discover that he lacked the authority.<\/p>\n<aside>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York Democrat, accuses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/israel\/\">Israel<\/a> of genocide. Abdul El-Sayed, a candidate for the Michigan Democratic nomination for Senate, says he does not know whether <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/israel\/\">Israel<\/a> has a right to exist.<\/p>\n<p>Darializa Avila Chevalier, who recently won the Democratic nomination for Congress in a New York district by defeating the head of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, attended a pro-Palestinian rally the day after Hamas\u2019 2023 massacre of 1,200 Israelis. Ms. Chevalier is a convert to Islam.<\/p>\n<p>What about the God of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/israel\/\">Israel<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>At the 2012 Democratic National Convention, delegates booed putting God back into their party\u2019s platform.<\/p>\n<p>The platform of the 2008 convention acknowledged Jerusalem as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/israel\/\">Israel\u2019s<\/a> capital and made an innocuous reference to God in the form of a call to help individuals \u201creach their God-given potential\u201d \u2014 not exactly the stuff of the Rev. Franklin Graham.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, both positions were removed from the 2012 platform. They were put back in at the insistence of President Obama, who thought it might hurt his chances of reelection.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Democrats have nothing but contempt for traditional religion.<\/p>\n<p>James Talarico, the Texas Democratic nominee for Senate, slams public school displays of the Ten Commandments, says God is nonbinary and calls himself a Christian who \u201chates Christianity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President Biden, who claims to be a Catholic, designated Easter Sunday 2024 as \u201cTransgender Day of Visibility.\u201d Was this a calculated insult to Christians, or did cognitive-decline Joe just forget the date of Christianity\u2019s most important holiday?<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, every Democrat in the House of Representatives save one voted against the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which would have required physicians to render life-giving care to babies who survived abortion. Let us be clear: They did not vote for abortion. They voted for infanticide.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, the FBI\u2019s Virginia office put out a memo, since withdrawn, warning of the danger posed by those it designated \u201cradical traditional Catholics\u201d \u2014 a group that, according to the memo, includes White supremacists.<\/p>\n<p>If something is not done soon, they may force us to attend Latin Masses at gunpoint.<\/p>\n<p>The latest obscene Democratic gesture to people of faith is the Equality Act, the so-called transgender bill of rights. It would force people of faith to violate their deeply held beliefs on gender by allowing the mutilation of minors and accepting men in women\u2019s sports and spaces.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats are offended by the idea of a God whose commandments disallow their ideology, including abortion on demand, the notion that one can choose a gender and taxpayer-funded depravity.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats believe that rights come from the omnipotent state, not what they consider a mythical supreme being. Forget that \u201cendowed by their Creator\u201d stuff in the Declaration of Independence.<\/p>\n<p>By eliminating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/israel\/\">Israel<\/a>, Democrats hope to kill the idea of the God of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/israel\/\">Israel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/israel\/\">Israel<\/a> is a sign of God\u2019s presence in the world. How else can you explain the reemergence of a nation after its people spent almost 2,000 years in exile \u2014 in a region that could not be more hostile to them? How else to explain a nation that transformed a wasteland, survived eight wars and ended up with one of the strongest armies in the world?<\/p>\n<p>It cannot all be a coincidence.<\/p>\n<p>Being on the wrong side of history is one thing, but being on the wrong side of heaven is something else entirely.<\/p>\n<p>                        <a name=\"pagebreak\"\/><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2022 Don Feder is a columnist with The Washington Times.<\/em><\/p>\n<section class=\"author-contact-section\">\n<\/section><\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OPINION: Is there a connection between Democrats\u2019 growing animosity toward Israel and their rejection of God? 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