David Hogg, a progressive activist and former co-vice chair of the Democratic National Committee for several months, is being widely accused of Jew-hatred after saying that AIPAC is “the most successful foreign influence operation in U.S. history.”
“Shockingly, a politician who was fired blames the Jews,” said Rabbi Steven Burg, CEO of Aish. “We’ve never read this script before.”
Daniel Sugarman, deputy editor of the Jewish News in the United Kingdom, wrote that “it’s genuinely quite astounding how in the space of two decades, neo-Nazi talking points about Jewish influence, couched in language about ‘Israel’ or ‘Zionism,’ became widely accepted on the American far-left and increasingly tolerated within the wider left.”
“Very few things united the left and the right like antisemitism,” said David May, research manager and senior research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. “It warms the heart—like Jews getting burned at the stake during the Spanish Inquisition.”
The longtime progressive activist and former congressional candidate Brianna Wu wrote that the post is “a wildly antisemitic statement.”
“The people at AIPAC are our American friends and neighbors. They see the value to America in this relationship with Israel,” Wu stated. “We get intelligence, technology sharing. We just had to deal with Houthi terrorists attacking our shipping lanes, and we could not have done that without Israel.”
“I’m tired of this lie that Israel is a vampire sucking the United States dry,” Wu added. “Anyone who actually understands this relationship knows we get a lot out of it, too.”
Hogg survived the 2018 mass shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. He is a gun-control activist who served in the DNC position from February to June.
In follow-up posts, he compared AIPAC’s support for Israel with a “group of Americans putting hundreds of millions of dollars into congressional elections specifically to focus only on arming and funding the North Korean or Iranian governments.”
