As nativist anti-Semitism colonizes the right, are American Jews now politically homeless?

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First the left went anti-Israel, and the conservative world became a home to many Jews. But as nativist anti-Semitism colonizes the right, are American Jews now politically homeless?

Anti-Semitism and America — words that for so long seemed uneasy neighbors, are now firm friends. The old news is that the left is a lost cause.

A plurality of Democratic voters say they are more sympathetic to the Palestinians than to the Jews of Israel.

The energy of the party has transferred to the Democratic Socialists of America, and now New York City, with the second-largest Jewish population of any city in the world, has elected Zohran Mamdani, a DSA(Democratic Socialists of America) mayor, endorsed by virtually every elected Democratic figure, despite his openly expressed contempt for Israel. With the slowly dawning recognition that the Democratic Party is increasingly inhospitable to Jews, many American Jews have begun to take a fresh look at the Republican Party. But in a shocking new development, there, too, old-fashioned anti-Semitism has reared its ugly head in the form of former Fox News host and very popular podcaster Tucker Carlson’s embrace of Nick Fuentes, a viral anti-Semite.

The bigotry that has erupted on the right raises what was once an unthinkable question. What happens when the anti-Semites come out of the woodwork of the right?

What’s the next step when a bastion of Reaganism fumbles the response to hatred, and the vice president and tribune of the new right adopts a neutral tone to those who question the America-Israel alliance?

Hounded by their century-old association with Democrats, and driven into the arms of a conservative movement that has been overtaken by MAGA, are American Jews now politically homeless?

As the fight for the American right rages, and the standing of Israel — and indeed Jews themselves — is litigated where it once was a given, the Jewish community can only watch and wait.