Shamefully, one of the constant tenets of modern progressivism is its tolerance for, if not an outright promotion of anti-Semitism. This is not just something from today's headlines from the mouths of the bigoted members of the "squad," the liberal tolerance of anti-Semitism has a long history.

Many point to FDR as one of the fathers of today's progressive movement. While FDR is lionized for leading the country through the Great Depression and WW2, his public persona hid his private distaste and patrician attitude toward Jews. In an article in the LA Times recounting a meeting with Churchill, FDR offered what he called "the best way to settle the Jewish question." Roosevelt's VP Wallace noted in his diary that FDR spoke approvingly "to spread the Jews thin all over the world." The common theme in Roosevelt's private statements about Jews was that they were "overcrowding" many professions and "exercising undue influence." Sadly, nothing changed in seven decades.

Ilhan Omar doesn't even feel compelled to hide her feelings, tweeting that congressional support for Israel "Is all about the Benjamins, baby." That's not a marginalized White nationalist talking; it's a US Congressman. After a few individual Democrat condemnations, how did the Democrat-controlled Congress deal with this anti-Semitism? They introduced a resolution ignoring Omar's remarks. They denounced racism against "African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Pacific Islanders and other people of color, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, the LGBTQ community, immigrants, and others." Quite a profile in courage. Fellow squad member Tlaib chastised Congress for wanting to pass an anti-BDS bill saying those for it "forgot what country they represent," an age-old canard that Jews place ethnicity before patriotism. Can you imagine if something similarly bigoted were uttered by a Republican about Muslims, blacks, or gays, the hearings would rival today's impeachment charade?

While these current bigots should be condemned, they are merely following in the footsteps of former President Obama. His public disdain for Israeli PM Netanyahu had the predictable consequence of mainstreaming anti-Semitism into Democrat politics. Name one other President who would publicly consort with PLO advisors and sympathizers (Khalidi, Malley); failed to immediately condemn Jimmy Carter's (another Anti-Semite) meeting with Hamas; accepted a political endorsement from the terror group; and empowered Iran, the largest benefactor of murderous anti-Semitic/Israel terror groups.

I've never understood how someone can justify saying I'm not Anti-Semitic, just anti-Israel. Anti-Israelism always ends up Anti-Semitism, what part of it's the "Jewish State" don't these people understand. It's the Israeli people who suffer from these actions and condemnations.

It's not just politics infested with this hate. On many American college campuses, Jewish students are harassed, bullied, even spat on just for being Jewish, wearing yarmulkes, or voicing any support for Israel. The attacks are routinely overlooked by administrations, bowing to the leftists who run today's campuses and accepting these actions as exercises in "social justice," justifying their cowardly responses as protecting free speech. According to a recent study by AMCHA, anti-Semitic harassment of college students jumped by 70 percent from 2017-2018, the highest levels ever. What's worse is they found college faculty promoting academic BDS institutionalizes these attacks and give them academic legitimacy.

Anti-Semitism and the Democrat's new-found embrace of socialism go hand-in-hand. Roger Kimball, the editor/publisher of The New Criterion, explained in an article last year:

"As people scramble to explain the sudden resurgence of socialism not only on America's college campuses but also in the corridors of political power, it is worth noting the concomitant revival of anti-Semitism in those redoubts. The coincidence is not, as the Marxists like to say, an accident. The truth is that unfettered socialism, though based primarily on a demand for the abolition of private property, always comes riding on a current of anti-Semitism...... Consider this observation: "What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money. . . . Emancipation from huckstering and money, consequently from practical, real Judaism, would be the self-emancipation of our time [and would] make the Jew impossible. . . . In the final analysis, the emancipation of the Jews is the emancipation of mankind from Judaism ." Louis Farrakhan in his "Jews are termites" mode? Nope. That's old Karl [Marx] himself in his classic Anti-Semitic effusion of 1843, 'On the Jewish Question.'"

The old guard of the Democrat party seems paralyzed to stop the growing acceptance of the biased and destructive path the new leadership and its minions have put their Party on. We know through history where "blame it on the Jews" leads. People of conscience better wise up, "never again" isn't a platitude.