Dems Embracing of Antisemitism Is About to Backfire | Batya Ungar-Sargon
The Rubin Report
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🗓️ 12 June 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" talks to Batya Ungar-Sargon about her new book The Jews and the Left; why American Jews historically aligned with the Democratic Party through labor activism, the New Deal, and the civil rights movement; the rise of anti-Zionism as a litmus test on the modern left and its impact on Jewish voters; Zionism, antisemitism, Israel, and the growing divide between progressive activists and mainstream Americans; Tucker Carlson, Thomas Massie, and the debate over anti-Israel sentiment on both the left and right; America's unique relationship with Jewish history; populism, Trump, working-class politics, and why she remains optimistic about America's future, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | So for all these reasons, it made a lot of sense at the time for Jews to become Democrats. |
| 0:04.3 | And of course, anti-Semitism back then, where it existed, was on the right. |
| 0:09.1 | You fast forward to today, and the exact opposite is the case. |
| 0:12.9 | The vast majority of today's anti-Jewish sentiment, I think, comes from the left, |
| 0:17.1 | whereas the right is doing a really good job of kicking these people out. But at this point, |
| 0:22.6 | Jews are extremely overrepresented in the kinds of people who become Democrats, who become |
| 0:28.1 | leftists, which is over-credentialed college-educated elites. They're just demographically programmed |
| 0:34.2 | to end up on that side of the political aisle in a day and age when |
| 0:38.1 | working class Americans are on the right and the college educated are on the left. |
| 0:49.5 | All right, guys, it's Friday, June 12th, 2026. I'm Dave Rubin. This is The Rubin Report, and joining |
| 0:55.4 | me today is the host of News Nations, Batya! Exclamation Point! And the author of the newly |
| 1:01.3 | released book, The Jews and the Left, my friend Baia Ungersargan Ba'a. We started a second late |
| 1:07.9 | here because there were some, we heard some police sirens in the background. |
| 1:12.0 | You are in New York. |
| 1:13.2 | Is this Knicks related, General Jihad related? |
| 1:16.2 | Are you okay? |
| 1:17.0 | Are you okay? |
| 1:18.8 | You know, I'm one of these people who's always like, |
| 1:21.2 | guys, slowly roll. |
| 1:22.6 | Like, I don't appreciate, like, very macho men coming in here and acting like New York, |
| 1:26.9 | you got to be scared and stuff. |
| 1:28.4 | As long as we got Jessica Tisch, police commissioner, Jewess, proud Zionist in charge, you know, everything's going to be okay. |
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