by Jeffrey Paul
In the recent vote to cut off U.S. military aid to Israel, including the Iron Dome, Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives voted 103 in favor, 98 against, and 19 present. Republicans voted 215 against and 1 in favor. The rise of anti-Zionism within the Democratic Party has been obvious for some time. The Republican Party has disowned those who oppose America’s alliance with Israel, from Thomas Massie to Marjorie Taylor Greene to Tucker Carlson. Meanwhile, the communist Democratic mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, has called Benjamin Netanyahu a war criminal.
The anti-Semitism which seems to have found a home in the Democratic Party, along with the rise in socialist and communist adherents, reminds one of the German anti-Semitic socialist party that murdered 6 million Jews. It is hardly surprising that a collectivist political philosophy which promotes the theft of property and the subsequent enslavement of its former owners by a dictatorial governing class has captured the American Left. However, in the United States theft of property by the government is forbidden by the “takings clause” of the Constitution’s 5th Amendment. Slavery is proscribed by the 13th Amendment.
It is important to remind oneself that Hitler, who rebranded the German Workers’ Party as the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, was allied with the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, meeting with him on November 28, 1941, after which he remained in Germany for the rest of the war, in which Palestinians fought alongside the Germans. Hitler promised Germany would pursue “the annihilation of Jewry living in Arab space under the protection of British power.”
But in the House vote on military aid to Israel, the following Jewish Democratic Representatives voted to deny it: Jake Auchincloss and Seth Moulton of Massachusetts, Becca Balint of Vermont, Sara Jacobs of California, Jamie Raskin of Maryland, and Jan Schakowsky of Illinois. How many Democrats have called the President a Nazi?
So how should we characterize anti-Semitics, anti-Zionists, pro-Hamas socialists in the Democratic Party? Representative Raskin said “The problem for me is that a ‘no’ vote will be characterized as a vote for the status quo and for supporting Netanyahu and his war of mass destruction and its placement in Gaza, which has killed more than 70,000 Palestinians and brought mass disease, hunger, and suffering to the Palestinian people.” Of course, he failed to mention that the Palestinian people voted Hamas into power and continued to support it and its October 7, 2023 massacre, just as the German people voted for a controlling plurality of the Nazis in the Reichstag of 1932 leading to Hitler’s dictatorship.
Was FDR as despicable as they claim Netanyahu is today for the incendiary bombing and killing of thousands of German civilians in Dresden in February 1945 during World War II? Were Jewish Americans denouncing President Roosevelt for the 25,000 German civilians who died there while the Nazis were murdering millions of their co-religionists? They were not.
As for those on the American “Left” who deny Hitler’s socialism and his party’s resemblance to their own political aspirations, I would suggest that they need to learn the history of the Nazi Party. In September 1919 Hitler, who was employed by the German army, was ordered to investigate the German Workers’ Party. He went to one of its meetings in a murky beer cellar which was attended by about 25 people. At that meeting he was invited by the Party’s founder, Anton Drexler, to join. Drexler wanted the Party to be a nationalist socialist party, unlike the non-nationalist Social Democrats. This was in accord with Hitler’s own views, so he was persuaded to join. Hitler despised the bourgeoisie, which he saw as exploiters of the working class. He became the seventh member of the Party joining Ernest Roehm, who would subsequently form and command the SA (Sturmabteilung, or Storm Trooper) wing of the Party. Hitler then drew up the 25 points of the program of the German Workers’ Party with Drexler and renamed it as a socialist organization. The program was never altered throughout the Party’s history. It included the abolition of income from investments, the nationalization of trusts, the sharing with the state of profits from large industry, the abolition of land rents and speculation in land, the death penalty for usurers and profiteers, and the collectivization of all department stores.
The Nazi Party was a reflection of the division between the two wings of German socialism, which began in the 19th century. The state socialist wing wanted socialism within the boundaries of Germany, which led to Naziism. The internationalist or Marxist wing wanted existing countries to be replaced by countries defined by the geographic location of the working class, which led to Communism.
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and their anti-Semitic allies seem to be increasingly the voice of the Democratic Party. And just as the DSA has been taken over by Marxist-Leninists and pro-Hamas anti-Zionists, should Democrats fail to overtly denounce the DSA and its socialist philosophy, they can look forward to becoming the home of an American radical Islamic anti-Semitic communist ideology. For those who embrace the founding American principles of an individual’s natural pre-legal rights to one’s self and what one produces, i.e., one’s property, the Democratic Party will have become its antithesis, as well as the political residence of anti-Israel virulence.
