The Democrats’ dismal failure to stamp out anti-Semitism

It’s been a year since I warned that the Democrats were at risk of replicating the Labour party’s lurch into extremism. As Americans go to the polls in the midterms, let’s have a look at some of the rising stars of the Democrat Party. There are some recurrent themes that chime pretty eerily with the radicalisation of Labour. 

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, running in the solidly Democrat 14th congressional district of New York, ‘represents the future of our party’ according to Democratic National Committee chair Tom Perez. We can only take him at his word. Ocasio-Cortez is backed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA); advocates the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Homeland Security agency tasked with curbing unlawful immigration and terrorism by illegal immigrants; and referred to the deaths of 62 Palestinians in a riot on the Gaza/Israel boundary as ‘a massacre’. Fifty-three of the 62 killed were, according to the Palestinians, members of Hamas and other terrorist organisations.