The Squad vs. The Old Guard

"Blue On Blue" was a popular song from the 1960s. It's opening line, "Blue on blue, heartache on heartache" could easily describe the state of the "Blue Party" today.

Earlier this week, Rep. Ilhan Omar posted a tweet comparing the United States and Israel to Hamas and the Taliban. A dozen Jewish Democrats demanded Omar clarify her statement. Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democrat leadership team issued a separate statement denouncing Omar's "false equivalencies." 

But the members of the far-left Squad rushed to defend Omar. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted that she was "Pretty sick & tired of the constant vilification, intentional mischaracterization, and public targeting" of Omar "coming from our caucus."

Rep. Rashida Tlaib tweeted, "[The] House Democratic leadership should be ashamed of its relentless, exclusive tone policing of Congresswomen of color."

Rep. Cori Bush added, "Enough with the anti-Blackness and Islamophobia." 

What irony! The same rhetoric that Pelosi often uses to silence conservatives is now being used against her by the progressive wing of her own party!

It's not an accident that the issue causing such heartache for Democrats is Israel. 

The left is able to gloss over a lot of things. But it can't gloss over the fact that old guard Democrats who support Israel are being defeated by progressives who hate Israel and can't keep quiet about it. It can't gloss over the rising anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism within the progressive movement.

If they tolerate the existence of the Jewish state at all, they demand that Jerusalem be divided and given over as the capital of a Palestinian state. 

I am reminded of the verse in Zechariah: "On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against [Israel], I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves."

Meanwhile, I promise to continue standing with Israel and fighting the ancient evil of anti-Semitism.