Democrats have a math problem: “No Person Is Illegal” + “Free, Free Palestine” = Jews set ablaze by an antisemitic undocumented immigrant in Boulder, Colorado.
The question now is whether the party can change the calculations with its current coalition.
The facts in the Boulder case aren’t contested. Mohamed Sabry Soliman is an Egyptian national who was in the country illegally when he turned his “improvised flame thrower” on peaceful activists supporting the hostages held by Hamas.
Also not in dispute: The Democratic Party’s stance on the issues of border security and anti-Israel rhetoric. It opposes the former and has a discomfiting tolerance for the latter.
Democrats have spent decades burnishing their brand as opponents of immigration enforcement. They blocked President Trump’s first-term attempt to build a border wall, and they unanimously supported legislation to give amnesty to millions of illegal aliens in the United States.
On the crime front, the vast majority of Democrats in Congress voted against the Laken Riley Act, passed in response to the gruesome murder of a Georgia college student killed by an undocumented alien who had previously been arrested on other charges and released. And Democrats continue to support sanctuary city policies across the country.
As for the party’s “Free Palestine” problem, the surge of antisemitism in the party’s coalition is hardly breaking news. Just ask Gov. Josh Shapiro, the popular Democrat who could have helped Kamala Harris carry the must-win state of Pennsylvania but whose standing as a practicing Jew and a supporter of Israel made him politically suspect in his party.
During this year’s Passover season, an antisemitic assailant snuck into the governor’s mansion while Shapiro and his family slept and set the building on fire. The attacker cited Shapiro’s stance on Gaza as his motive, quoting language often heard among progressives.
In 2023, Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s chants of “From the River to the Sea, Palestine Shall Be Free!” led to a censure resolution by the House of Representatives. The slogan is a regular feature at anti-Israel rallies and appears in Hamas propaganda.
While the censure resolution easily passed the House, only 22 Democrats voted in favor of it. An additional 188 Democrats voted in defense of Tlaib.
Not surprisingly, the party has seen its support among Jewish voters slipping. In 2024, Fox News and the Associated Press exit polling found just 66 percent of Democrats voted for the Harris-Walz ticket, the lowest percentage since the Reagan era.
But the bigger problem is that typical Americans who tune in to politics only around Election Day continue to pick up the message that if you like undocumented aliens and hate Israelis, the Democratic Party is for you.
That is a simplistic and incomplete description of an entire political party whose nominee won 48 percent of the vote in the November election. However, most voters don’t do complexity and nuance. If Democrats keep holding “Free Palestine” rallies and suing to get undocumented immigrants with gang ties back into the country, voters will react.
On a recent episode of his 2Way program, veteran political journalist Mark Halperin said left-leaning reporters giving Democrats a pass on this math problem aren’t doing them any favors.
“The dominant media is wrapping them in blue bubble wrap and leaving them completely vulnerable to reality.”
So, why aren’t Democratic leaders stepping up to address this problem within their ranks? Democratic operative Dan Turrentine, who also appeared on Halperin’s show, put it.
“They’re afraid of their base. A lot of senators and governors have this super-progressive 15 to 20 percent of the electorate, and they’re like, ‘I don’t need the headache of going to war with them, so I say nothing.’ That was Kamala Harris’ principle during her campaign,” Turrentine said.
During the campaign, Democrats and their allies tried to give Harris cover on her role in the Joe Biden age cover-up and her extreme stance on transgender issues. New books about the Biden White House reveal that the press shrugged off the age issue. And when news outlets bothered to cover the transgender topic, it was to denounce Trump for even bringing it up.
What happened? Democrats lost the House, Senate, and White House.
Today, many Democrats insist their party doesn’t have an undocumented immigration or antisemitism problem, that it’s all right-wing spin.
In 2026, they may be reminded of another political theorem: There is no education in the second kick from a mule.
Michael Graham is Managing Editor at InsideSources.
Reprinted with Permission from DC Journal – By Michael Graham
The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of AMAC or AMAC Action.
Let me start by saying I am not Jewish. I am a Christian that supports Israel and the Jewish people. The author refers to a Fox News and AP exit poll from the 2024 election saying “…just 66% of Jewish Democrats voted for the Harris-Walz ticket” as if 66% is a low amount of support. It isn’t. I guess those 66% must hate being Jewish. Because what else could explain being a member of or voting for a member of a political party that absolutely hates you for being Jewish and that loudly and openly supports individuals who want to wipe you off the face of the earth.
Democrat leaders are not stepping up to address the problem because they do not perceive that there is a problem.
Whether it’s a case of illegally crossing the border or overstaying visas, blood is on the liberals’ hands. They won’t admit that there’s a rise in crime and violence caused by ILLEGAL ALIENS until one of their family members becomes a victim. That’s not going to happen, because the liberals are protected by walls around their properties, and they hire security guards who carry the very same firearms that they want to take away from us.
Joe Biden successfully in his attempt to destroy America! Thank God for President Tump to make America great Again!
What exactly Free Palestine means to those who chant it? They have no clue what they are talking about only repeating useless over used slogans. It is as useful weapon as color of the skin or sex . You can hide behind it or attack with it, it is always effective and the user always a victim. There is no one it seems to tell them to grow up and stand on their own two feet. Must be profitable to someone else it would not go on.
I’m watching NEWSMAX. As I expected, a liberal CO judge is stopping the deportation of this terrorist’s wife and five kids. This is PATHETIC.
Stop saying “undocumented alien“. There is not such thing. Period! They are illegal aliens. Say it correctly and stop trying to be PC. Calling an illegal alien a “undocumented alien (migrant, immigrant, etc..)” is akin to calling a burglar an “uninvited house guest”.
I was just thinking, every single person of Jewish persuasion is lifted from this earth by some miracle or the other, there is not even one left , now what? “Palestinians “will be happily building their paradise on earth and live in brotherly love with the rest of the mankind? I don’t think so. Time we and they stopped kidding one another .Problem is them, not the rest of the world.
Any Democrat who doesn’t step up due to fear of “the voter base” doesn’t deserve to be in any political office: local, state or federal. Anyone elected is there to do the people’s work honestly and as bravely as necessary. Turrentine is making ip excuses for the brainwashed, ignorant scum now in command of that political party. We would all be so much better off if the entire party were washed out to sea.
NOT Pro victim only Hamas etc alone
& Lose voters
rewrite the article to replace the use of the title of “Democrats” to “DNC”, when your referring to what DNC and its’ coerced Legislators do. Reserve the use of title of Democrats to the Democrat Voter, not the actions of the DNC, its’ leader and legislators. There were obviously Democrat Voters who are rejecting what the DNC causes to happen and voted for Trump-don’t demean them by loosely using the Title of Democrats when your describing what the DNC, its leader and legislators do………DNC and those legislators who do block voting are no longer the Democrat voter.
Both Democrats & Republicans need to learn form this attack & quit pointing fingers at the other party. It would be a lot better if we stop these incidents from happening in the first place instead of knee jerk reactions afterward cuz a person was an illegal. Support your police & quit coddling the criminals cuz they are mental cases or whatever.
I have learned two things from this Boulder thug: 1) It concerns me that he learned how to make his fire bombs on Youtube and 2) He was unable to buy a gun , so that means that Colorado has tough gun owner laws. The attack was horrible, but would have been a lot worse if this idiot had a gun of any kind.
First, I despise the Democrat Party but why does anyone need to “stand up” in any regard concerning this CRIME? It was a crime, we have an abundance of law enforcement someone already “stood up” and hired.
Quit acting like the Democrats and stop forging stupid narrative talking points.
In the OLD TESTAMENT book of Exodus, Chap 23, vs31, GOD tells Moses that HE will establish their boarders “From the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea and from the desert to the Euphrates River!!! Not the river that that the current anti-Zionist scream about !!!!!
“Snuck” is not a word. Use “sneaked”.
Even though Soliman was in the country illegally on the day of the attack, this has nothing to do with illegal immigration. He came here legally on a travel visa in 2022. Eighteen of the 19 Saudis who attacked us on September 1, 2001, came in on business or travel visas. Should we cut off all travel visas? I don’t know. We definitely need to find better ways to prevent visa overstays.
Oh goodness, all this violence toward supporters of the worst mass murdering country (besides America), on earth.
The horror, the horror.
Where was all the AMAC crocodile tears when video spread globally of Israeli soldiers bulldozing the dead bodies of Palestinian women, children and the elderly in Gaza? Where were the crocodile tears when the video aired of tube attached hospitalized Palestinian civilians being burned alive in the hospital Israeli soldiers blew to bits?
Boo hoo……….the horror in Colorado.