Batya Ungar-Sargon Explains the Political Shift No One Saw Coming...

Journalist Batya Ungar-Sargon appeared on the JNS Think Twice podcast to discuss her book The Jews and the Left. She argued that American Jews have historically been equal partners in the United States rather than an oppressed minority and that liberal Jews misread their place in American society.

Ungar-Sargon stated that the Democratic Party has shifted from supporting labor and civil rights to being dominated by credentialed elites and woke ideology, leading to hostility toward Jews and Israel after the October 7, 2023 attacks. She criticized Jewish establishment responses as inadequate and called for Jews to resist antisemitic mobs instead of sheltering in place.