Batya Ungar-Sargon

I don't ever feel like he's being anti-Semitic.

There's a line where you cross that it's not just Jews and it's not just pro-Israel people.

The American people have very little tolerance for antisemitism.

And when you start saying that the Republican Jewish coalition, just Republican Jews are somehow undermining American interests because they're, you know, trying to,

whip up support against you, that reads, I think, to average Americans as really anti-Semitic, and I think it's really off-putting.

Like, I think the fact that he, you know, the Trump piece obviously is a really big deal, but he won before against a Trump-backed candidate.

I really think it was the tonal shift, the way that he talked about Israel,

It stopped being the same as the way he talked about Ukraine.

It stopped sounding like it was a principal opposition to funding and to war and started sounding like he was attacking American Jews.

And I feel like average Americans, they're not so into Israel right now, but they are very protective of their Jewish neighbors.

And I think that that just came off as so gross.

Like his opening to his concession speech where he said, I had to go find...

my opponent's phone number, and he's in Tel Aviv somewhere.

I think we have the clip.

The whole time, except for the various kids.

That gives Americans the ick.

What I was going to say is, yes, on the far right and the left, you see a similar kind of blame the Jews for everything.

The Jews are all pedophiles.

The Jewish state is undermining American interests, et cetera, et cetera.

But I really kind of dispute this horseshoe theory because a horseshoe suggests that they're equal, but they really aren't in terms of the mainstream, which is, I think, what Drew was just pointing to.