American Jews have been betrayed by the Democratic party they helped create

Nypost · 🇺🇸 public United States · May 30, 2026 · 1161 words · By Batya Ungar-Sargon

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What happened

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Why it matters

Add The New York Post on GoogleBatya Ungar-Sargon is the author of “The Jews and the Left” (Broadside Books), out June 2.

Common ground

On May 14, 2026, a flag bearing a star of David and two swastikas flew over a dorm at NYU — one of the most left-wing universities in one of the most left-wing towns in America.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Name Calling / Labeling, Flag-Waving: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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Loaded Language 90% confidence

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Name Calling / Labeling 85% confidence

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Flag-Waving 90% confidence

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Black-and-White Fallacy 70% confidence

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 9 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Batya Ungar-Sargon is the author of “The Jews and the Left” (Broadside Books), out June 2.”

VERIFIED

Multiple sources, including Wikipedia, HarperCollins (the publisher), and Amazon, confirm Batya Ungar-Sargon is the author of 'The Jews and the Left' published by Broadside Books on June 2, 2026.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Batya Ungar-Sargon is an American journalist and author who served as the opinion editor of The Forward and later worked as deputy opinion editor of Newsweek. She is the author of two books which addr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batya_Ungar-Sargon

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web search NEUTRAL — She is the author of two books which address class consciousness and working ... The Jews and the Left. New York: Broadside Books. ISBN 978-0063460607 ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batya_Ungar-Sargon

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web search NEUTRAL — The Jews and the Left. By Batya Ungar-Sargon,. On Sale: June 2, 2026. The Jews and the Left by Batya Ungar-Sargon (9780063460607). Listen to an Audio Sample.
https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-jews-and-the-left…

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Claim 2: “On May 21, 2025, a man named Elias Rodriguez allegedly murdered two innocents because he thought they were Jews.”

VERIFIED BY REFERENCE

Wikipedia explicitly confirms that on May 21, 2025, a gunman named Elias Rodriguez opened fire outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., killing two Embassy of Israel staff members.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On May 21, 2025, a shooting occurred near the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. A gunman opened fire outside the museum during a "Young Diplomats Reception" hosted by the American Jewish Commi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Capital_Jewish_Museum_sho…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Guy Christensen (born 2005 or 2006) is an American pro-Palestinian activist, best known for his political commentary on TikTok. After making controversial remarks about the 2025 Capital Jewish Museum …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Christensen

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Capital Jewish Museum, officially the Lillian & Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum, is a historical society and museum in Washington, D.C., focused on the history of Jewish life in the American ca…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_&_Albert_Small_Capital…

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Claim 3: “On March 12, 2026, a Muslim man drove a truck full of explosives into a synagogue in Michigan with the intent of blowing up 140 Jewish-American preschoolers in the name of the Palestinian cause, according to prosecutors.”

CORROBORATED

Multiple sources report a vehicle loaded with explosives was driven into a preschool at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan, on a Thursday in March 2026. One source specifically identifies the date as March 12 and the motive as the Palestinian cause.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Michigan ( MISH-ig-ən) is a peninsular state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwestern United States. It shares water and land boundaries with Minnesota to the northwest, Wisconsin to the wes…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Nation of Islam (NOI) is a religious organization founded in the United States by Wallace Fard Muhammad in 1930. A centralized and hierarchical group committed to black nationalism, it focuses att…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation_of_Islam

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Islam is the third-largest religion in the United States (1.3%) after Christianity (67%) and Judaism (2.4%). The 2020 United States Religion Census estimates that there are about 4,453,908 Muslim Amer…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_States

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Claim 4: “the vast majority of American Jews are Zionists.”

INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE

The claim that the 'vast majority' of American Jews are Zionists is directly contradicted by a Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) survey, which found that only 37% of American Jews identify as 'Zionist'.

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web search NEUTRAL — The survey marks the most detailed assessment of the sentiments of American Jews about Zionism by a major Jewish organization in the United States, finding that 14% of Jews ages 18 to 34 identify as a…
https://www.jta.org/2026/02/05/united-states/jews-who-suppor…

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web search NEUTRAL — It found that only 37% of American Jews identify with the term “Zionist,” even as 88% believe that “Israel has the right to exist as a Jewish, democratic state.”
https://forward.com/news/antisemitism-decoded/804502/america…

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web search NEUTRAL — The Jewish Federation of North America (JFNA) released its survey of American Jews last week. Much of the commentary on the survey has focused on the seemingly small proportion of respondents who iden…
https://www.aurora-israel.co.il/en/A-JFNA-survey-reveals-tha…

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Claim 5: “The Democrats are now set to elect a man with what resembles a Nazi tattoo, hastily covered up after 20 years of proudly showing it off, as their senator from Maine.”

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Multiple sources, including an AP report and Wikipedia, confirm Graham Platner is the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Maine for 2026 and that he has faced scrutiny over a tattoo on his chest that has been recognized as a Nazi symbol.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 1940 United States presidential election in Maine took place on November 5, 1940. All contemporary 48 states were part of the 1940 United States presidential election. State voters chose five elec…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026 United States Senate election in Maine will be held on November 3, 2026, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of Maine. Republican incumbent Susan Collins is s…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_Senate_elec…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Graham Cunningham Platner (born September 1, 1984) is an American oyster farmer, Marine Corps veteran, and political candidate who is the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in the 2026 U.S. Senate ele…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Platner

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Claim 6: “for 100 years, American Jews have overwhelmingly been Democrats.”

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While Wikipedia and other sources confirm American Jews have been predominantly Democratic since the 1930s (New Deal coalition), the claim that this has been true 'for 100 years' is contradicted by evidence that from roughly 1864 to 1916, American Jews voted Republican in overwhelming numbers.

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web search NEUTRAL — Politically, American Jews have been especially active as part of the liberal New Deal coalition of the Democratic Party since the 1930s, but recently, a conservative Republican constituent has emerge…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_the_Uni…

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web search NEUTRAL — First, there has been a lot of fuss about declining Jewish support for the Democratic Party over the past seven years. According to an oft-cited Gallup study, 61 percent of American Jews identified th…
https://www.jbronitsky.com/why-we-couldnt-solve-the-jewish-l…

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web search NEUTRAL — While today’s American Jews lean overwhelmingly Democrat, that wasn’t always the case. “In the late 19th century, from roughly 1864 until roughly 1916, American Jews voted Republican in overwhelming n…
https://www.jns.org/demographics-and-decisions-projecting-th…

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Claim 7: “On May 14, 2026, a flag bearing a star of David and two swastikas flew over a dorm at NYU”

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Multiple independent web search results report a flag with a Star of David and two swastikas was raised over an NYU building during commencement events in May 2026.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Please Don't Destroy is an American comedy group in New York City composed of Ben Marshall, John Higgins, and Martin Herlihy, who began collaborating as students at New York University. The group was …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Please_Don't_Destroy

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — NYU Langone Health is an integrated academic health system located in New York City, New York, United States. The health system consists of the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and NYU Grossman Long Is…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NYU_Langone_Health

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City, United States. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin as a non-den…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_University

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Claim 8: “the vast majority of Jews worldwide [are Zionists]”

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Sources contradict each other. Some web results claim a large majority of Jews worldwide identify as Zionists, while others suggest the identification is more complex or lower depending on the region.

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web search NEUTRAL — The shifting of the discourse to focus on Zionism is problematic because the overlap between Zionists and Jews is very high: a large majority of Jews worldwide identify as Zionists. Singling out an en…
https://www.abc.net.au/religion/uri-gal-israel-hamas-ethics-…

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web search NEUTRAL — Only one-third of American Jews say they identify as Zionist, even as nearly nine in 10 say they support Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish and Democratic state, according to a new survey conducted b…
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-885770

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web search NEUTRAL — The overwhelming majority of Jews worldwide identify with Israel and with Zionism in some form. To declare that Zionism is inherently racist is to declare that most Jews are morally suspect by definit…
https://thej.ca/2026/01/07/zionism-is-not-the-lie-the-blood-…

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Claim 9: “In 1790, President George Washington wrote a famous letter to the “children of the stock of Abraham” of Newport, RI”

INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE

No evidence was found in the provided search results to confirm or deny the specific letter from George Washington to the 'children of the stock of Abraham' in 1790.

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