New York Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman expressed fears that his get together is popping individuals who promote antisemitic views into “martyrs” of their rush to oppose President Donald Trump.
The Trump administration has come below fireplace from Democrats over its efforts to deport and revoke the visas of international college students who’ve taken half in anti-Israel and pro-Hamas protests throughout faculty campuses since Oct. 7.
Whereas Goldman stated this was an overreach and “abuse of the First Amendment” by the Trump administration, he suggested his fellow Democrats to watch out in defending folks with antisemitic views.
“We are seeing, because of Donald Trump’s overreach, that people who have espoused antisemitism are becoming martyrs, and that scares me,” Goldman stated at a Jewish Democratic Council of America convention on Thursday.
He insisted that as an alternative extra time must be dedicated to discussing the remaining American hostages in Gaza, of which just one continues to be alive.
“[I]f we allow our party to focus so much on these detentions of people who have espoused antisemitism, and we’re not talking about these hostages who have truly been treated as horribly as anybody and are American, in the five cases, we’re losing the forest for the trees,” Goldman stated.
Goldman, who co-chairs the Home Bipartisan Job Pressure to Fight Antisemitism, additionally suggested Democrats, significantly Jewish Democrats, to name out antisemitism on the left and never enable Trump to distract them.
He inspired Republicans to do the identical and referred to as out the Trump administration for utilizing issues over antisemitism to advance an agenda.
“The fact that Donald Trump is abusing his power in the name of antisemitism is very troubling and so it has become harder to find common ground for the task force,” Goldman stated.
Goldman was certainly one of 21 Home Democrats who signed a letter in 2024 urging Columbia College’s Board of Trustees to disband “the unauthorized and impermissible encampment of anti-Israel, anti-Jewish activists on campus.”
