New York City socialist and Democratic candidate for Mayor Zohran Mamdani is not the only politician casting a chill over Jewish Democrats.
The 34-year-old Democratic nominee recently admitted that pro-Israel Americans would not be welcome in his coalition.
His pointed promise was followed by a photo surfacing of the young radical posing with Imam Siraj Wahhaj, who appeared on a list of unindicted co-conspirators in the trial of the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.
Still, the antisemitic sentiments engulfing his campaign are moving beyond the confines of America's largest city, as reports circulate that top Democrats in the Keystone State are seeking a path to oust the state's Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa.
Sen. Fetterman is the lone pro-Israel liberal whose staunch defense of the U.S.-Israel alliance reflects a sharp departure from the progressivism anchoring today's Democratic Party.
Rather than recoil in disgust, Democrats are leaning into the moral reprehensibility of Mamdani and rejecting the sound liberalism of Fetterman.
From Minnesota to Maine, Democrats like State Senator and Minneapolis mayoral candidate Omar Fateh are taking a page from Mamdani's playbook and redirecting the party away from its centrist-liberal roots.
Yet it is Mamdani's rise that is framing a national narrative that just years ago would have been deemed disqualifying.
The radical anti-Western ethos advanced by the Ugandan immigrant threatens to unravel the city's political and cultural fabric and has received little pushback from seasoned Democrats.
Despite referring to himself as the "guardian" of the Jewish people, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., congratulated Mamdani on his primary victory last summer and has remained all but mum on the mayoral candidate's overt antisemitic leanings.
For her part, Gov. Kathy Hochul, D-N.Y., endorsed Mamdani in September, providing fresh evidence for millions of Jewish Americans that the party long revered as their political home was now comfortable with embracing an ideology posing a grave danger to American Jewry's future.
Her embarrassing inability to secure fellow Democrat Mamdani's backing renders it unthinkable that she will ever rein in the presumptive mayor's left-wing insanity.
The recent endorsement of Mamdani by U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., cemented the fact that Democrats no longer believe straddling both sides of the ideological fence suits an electoral base that has grown younger and moved farther left over the last decade.
Jeffries' support of Mamdani is an insult to the Jewish New Yorkers, many of whom rallied behind the young politician in 2012 to help him defeat former antisemitic New York City Councilman Charles Barron.
The Democrats' championing of the young socialist Mamdani also amounts to a glaring misreading of New York's Jewish electorate.
The latest polls show Mamdani's support among Jewish voters in New York City holding steady between 29 and 38%.
While alarming, these figures are below the historic 45% of the Jewish vote in New York that President Trump received in last year's election.
Recent studies also detect that smaller and centrist modern orthodox communities in the state are moving toward the GOP, alongside other suburban Jewish voters who are understandably repelled by the Democrats' lurch to the left.
It's a phenomenon tracking with voters across the Hudson River in New Jersey, where Republican Gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli is surging against Democrat Mikie Sherrill in the state's gubernatorial race.
Ciattarelli received some welcome from a key Jewish voting bloc late last week.
With a combined base of approximately 65,000 voters, the Lakewood Jewish Councils announced its unanimous endorsement of Ciattarelli on Saturday night.
Their decision represents a marked shift from past elections, when the area’s Orthodox Jewish leaders traditionally supported Democrats.
In fairness, Republicans have been gaining momentum in counties across the Garden State with sizable Jewish communities.
President Trump won Passaic County in 2024, while in nearby Bergen County, Republicans are attracting a new crop of liberal supporters.
Bergen County bears some similarities with New York's Westchester County.
Both regions significantly boosted their support of President Trump in the 2024 Presidential election and boast sizable committed Jewish populations.
While Westchester County may skew more blue than its Garden State counterpart, its residents recently expended resources and energies to defeating far-left former Congressman Jamaal
Bowman and remain weary and skeptical of Democrats whose admiration for Mamdani can no longer be quietly overlooked or easily forgiven.
The Democratic Party's betrayal of the Jews is no fleeting slight.
Gov. Hochul and Rep. Jeffries may believe that they will be relieved from paying an electoral price for their championing of Mamdani.
Yet for Jewish New Yorkers, the tepid reactions and robust endorsements surrounding the dangerous Democratic socialist convey the latest in a string of cruel and unambiguous actions targeting American Jewry by a Democratic Party whose radicalism is no longer restrained.
Irit Tratt is a writer and was co-chair of the Trump47 National Women's Leadership Coalition. Follow her on X @Irit_Tratt. Read more of her reports here.