The people there are actually friendly. They don’t flip you off as soon as you commit a lane change. If there’s a crowd of people in Dollywood all trying to get through one bottle-necked place, there’s a chorus of “No, you first.” The politeness of Southerners is actually stunning and refreshing to see.

Tennessee is a very trusting state. If you go to a counter and order food and a drink, they’ll hand you the cup to go fill it with a soda and trust that you’re good for it when you come back. It’s like everyone there is on the honor system. In California, if you don’t pay for something immediately up front, it’s assumed you’re there to rob the place, and instead of shooting you or calling the police, they pull out their cellphones and put your probable offense up on YouTube.

There’s something else I didn’t experience one time during my vacation in the South, but sure did the second I got back and started plugging back into the news – anti-Semitism. And the Democratic Party has got a metastasizing cancer on their hands.

Netroots Nation, or as it was originally called back in 2006 by its founder, progressive blogger Markos Moulitsas, the YearlyKos, took place in Chicago over the weekend. And regardless of whatever the event’s ultimate goals and agenda items were supposed to be, the takeaway was to see who could outdo themselves in their hatred of the Jews.

Washington Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal, a charter member of the Squad, who has been a long-standing opponent of the state of Israel, had this to say.

Here’s the only place in this clip where she’s right. She claimed that it feels like a two-state solution between the state of Israel and the Palestinians is slipping away and not possible. It’s not. And there’s a pretty good reason why. When one of the two parties in a hypothetical two-party negotiation refuses to accept the other party’s right to exist, it makes it awfully difficult to come to an agreement on peace. Israel certainly has had its share of political problems of late, but the last time I checked, they do not launch rockets they’ve acquired from terror-sponsoring states indiscriminately into civilian neighborhoods. Israel doesn’t, to my knowledge, pay the families of people who turn themselves into suicide bombers in civilian neighborhoods, and celebrate them as martyrs. The argument is just objectively ridiculous for Jayapal to make. But the crowd of protesters in the room wasn’t satisfied with her hatred of Israel and the Jews. They wanted more.

Jan Schakowsky is not only a Democratic Congresswoman from Chicago, she’s one of the deputy whips. She’s in leadership of the House Democratic caucus. This isn’t just a couple of backbenchers in attendance here entertaining anti-Semites.

Wait, did someone say anti-Semites? That has to mean that Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar can’t be too far away, right?

She was condemned by her colleagues in 2020 for her repeated anti-Semitic comments, but only because it was an election year and the Democrats felt like they had to do something to show they weren’t openly anti-Jewish. But they also supported her robustly earlier this year when Kevin McCarthy and the Republicans removed her from the Foreign Affairs Committee. So Democrats purportedly condemn her words, but not enough to actually back it up with any meaningful punishment after she continues to utter them.

At least the titular head of the Democratic Party, President Joe Biden, isn’t going to get caught being openly hostile to the state of Israel, right? Nah.

Say what you want about Donald Trump and his many personal flaws, but he treated Israel during his term like the ally they are. He punished the terrorist actions out of the Palestinian territories by slashing U.S. foreign aid by $235 million dollars. Want to guess who restored that funding in short order? Joe Biden.

In 2018, Congress, then controlled by Republicans, passed the Taylor Force Act, which ended foreign aid so long as the Palestinian Authority rewarded those involved in suicide bombings inside of Israel. It’s a law on the books. Biden is just refusing to enforce it. The aid has resumed.

Biden is still trying to resurrect the nuclear deal with the largest state sponsor of terror in the world, Iran, who is still hellbent on the permanent destruction of the state of Israel. The administration has been attempting to undermine the Netanyahu government from day one. He has snubbed public visits to the White House from the Prime Minister, and every time he makes any hostile statement, it’s in the headlines in Jewish media.

The latest anti-Israel move by the Biden administration is to enter into the BDS movement in their own special way. As the Jerusalem Post reports,

Fifteen US Senators threatened to hold up the process of approving Biden administration nominees if the State Department does not reverse a guidance banning US funding for scientific and technological cooperation in east Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria or the Golan Heights.

Ted Cruz, Tim Scott, and 13 other Republican Senators are going to blockade any nominees until the Biden administration relents this absurd and anti-Semitic policy. Notice that there’s no Democratic Senators as signatories to the letter. And what does the Biden administration want? Israel to go back to pre-1967 borders. If you want to destroy the state of Israel, try enforcing an armistice line, not an actual end of war boundary, that all but bifurcates the tiny nation in half. It’s utterly nonsensical to think that any country could defend itself with a boundary map that looks like 1967.

But at least there’s a backup plan in the 2024 primaries, if one were a supporter of Israel and also a Democrat, if Biden is not your cup of tea. Here’s Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a week or so ago.

Okay, maybe not. What’s depressing about this is that as the anti-Semitism continues to dial up in volume within the Democratic Party, there’s virtually no pushback in regime media. Remember, the Wall Street Journal piece was run on their editorial page, which is much more conservative then their left-wing news division. Media is just ignoring anything that might paint the Democratic Party in a bad light.

As for the leadership of the Democratic Party, there has been to date no response from the Democratic National Committee. The Biden administration has not weighed in. The House Democratic leadership, however, did issue a brief statement in favor of the State of Israel.

Israel is not a racist state.

As a Jewish and Democratic nation, Israel was founded 75 years ago on the principle of complete equality of social and political rights for all of its citizens irrespective of religion, race or sex, as codified in its Declaration of Independence.

Good for them to go at least that far, but they should have condemned the voices in their caucus that continue to make statements like this necessary to be issued.

American Jews continue to vote 80-20% on average in favor of the Democrats. It’s stunning to see those numbers holding among that voting bloc when the party so clearly doesn’t want them around, literally and figuratively. It makes you wonder what it would take for a Democrat to say in order to get Jewish voters here in the States to finally turn on them. Perhaps if someone high up in the party started talking about reducing population size, which if memory serves was an attempted thing about 80 years ago in certain parts of Europe.

Yes, I realize the Second Fella is Jewish. He votes Democratic, I would presume. I’d also note that no one in regime media has put a microphone in his face, or Kamala Harris’ for that matter, and asked her about the comments and activities in Chicago over the weekend. I’d love to see someone in media ask her if she believes the anti-Semite parade in the Windy City has the ‘vision to see what can be, unburdened by what has been’. Yes, she used that line again when talking about Jesse Jackson over the weekend. It’s her favorite line. I wonder if she can see an end to anti-Semitism, unburdened by what has been in the long ago past, as well as this past weekend by colleagues in her own party.