The pre-election spinning is over 鈥� let the post-election spinning begin!

Jews and Israel-supporters beware. An election that had little to do with us, is being reframed as the Jews鈥� fault by some Republican losers 鈥� and as a repudiation of Israel, by most Progressive winners.

It was the NAZA election. Jews and Israel are collateral damage, nezek agavi in Hebrew, known by its acronym NAZA. That contemptible NAZA movie spreading lies about Israel embodies today鈥檚 anti-Zionist mania: facts, from Israel鈥檚 battlefield ethics and protocols, to actual exit poll results, are forever-sacrificed to the insatiable moluch of anti-Semitic, anti-Zionist, anti-Americanism.

The exit polls reveal just what generated the Blue Tidal wave on Election Day 鈥� without sweeping the Jews in an undercurrent of libels. Trump鈥檚 32 percent approval on election day tells it all. No president since 1946 entered the midterms so hated. Americans punished Donald Trump on an historic scale. But most swing voters negated Trump without embracing Democrats, let alone Progressives. While two of three voters blamed Trump for hurting the economy, most 鈥� 53 percent 鈥� disliked the Democratic Party too.

It was, as they say, the economy stupid 鈥� compounded by the Iran war, Trump鈥檚 corruption, his boorishness. Nevertheless President Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance most blamed the Iran War, which the Tucker Carlson hate-a-sphere translates into 鈥渟capegoat the Jews.鈥�

Even more terrifying is Progressive victors鈥� web of lies. Michigan鈥檚 Senator-elect, Abdul el-Sayed, continued his campaign of Israel-bashing and Jew-hating dog whistling. He never got the memo that should be elegant, healing. Using code words for Jews, he calling his opposition 鈥渁n astroturfed, corporate-funded advertising campaign built to deceive and distract.鈥� He 鈥渢hanked鈥� AIPAC, 鈥渨ho spent $42 million against us鈥� for giving me the opportunity to beat you twice.鈥� Then, telegraphing another round of Zio-bashing, he proclaimed: 鈥淲e don’t want our money sent to do apartheid or genocide or war.鈥�

Predictably, el-Sayed鈥檚 people, along with other Jew-hating, Zionist-baiting, Bash Israel firsters nationwide purposely misread Americans鈥� rejection of Trump as a rejection of Israel. Bhavik Lathia, a Progressive strategist fighting 鈥渞espectability politics,鈥� posted a chilling riff on Mehdi Hasan鈥檚 substack Zeteo. A reporter asks: 鈥渨hy are Democrats doing so well tonight in a way they couldn鈥檛 two years ago?鈥� Ignoring disdain for Democrats鈥� wokeness, Biden鈥檚 lies, Harris鈥檚 cackle, and Trump鈥檚 authoritarianism, Lathia claims: 鈥淭his is a referendum on several decades of foreign policy that has failed Americans, America, and the world. The win tonight I would dedicate to the people of Palestine, because without them sharing their heartbreaking gruesome stories we would not have had鈥� the 鈥渁wakening鈥� and 鈥渢his type of seismic realignment.鈥�

Traditionally, Americans vote their pocketbooks, ignoring places most couldn鈥檛 even find on Google Maps.

Stil, regurgitating the 鈥済enocide鈥� libel, Lathia adds: 鈥渢oday the Democratic party, the big tent, is fully aligned, Israel-First Politics is over鈥︹�� The post circulates with the headline: 鈥淚SRAEL-FIRST POLITICS IS OVER.鈥�

True, I鈥檓 supposed to 鈥渨hat about鈥� and blast Tucker Carlson-Candace Owens Republicans for balance. Yet, not one Republican who just won a Congressional seat was clouded by anti-Semitism. This low standard used to be commonplace bipartisan pablum. Today, it鈥檚 a counter-cultural achievement.

The illiberal liberals and anti-Zionists feel empowered, emboldened, vindicated. They were shameless when they lacked pop stars like El-Sayed, Zohran Mamdani and a reinforced Squad of Socialism-spouting, anti-91传媒 obsessives on the march. What now?

Still, they鈥檙e less disappointing than the sniveling mainstream Democrats like Senator Charles Schumer terrified of confronting them. Schumer hasn鈥檛 even condemned anti-American, 9/11-rationalizing bullies like Hasan Piker, the poisonous podcaster.

Instead, how did Schumer and his blue-state yellow-bellies try looking tough: by beating on Representative Haley Stevens, a rare voice of Democratic moral courage. Finally 鈥揵elatedly! 鈥� appalled by el-Sayed鈥檚 fanatic anti-Zionist anti-Semitism 鈥� Stevens withdrew her endorsement of him days before the election 鈥� shaming all the dithering Dems. Suddenly finding his voice, Schumer denounced Stevens鈥� 鈥渄espicable betrayal.鈥� More appalling, as the Michigan Democratic Party excommunicated her, Congressman Jared Huffman called Stevens, his House colleague in the Democratic caucus for eight years, 鈥減athetic, petty, selfish, unhinged.鈥�

When Liz Cheney and other Republicans abandoned Trump, Schumer and his yes people applauded her for 鈥渟peaking truth to power.鈥� Schumer called the resulting barrage against Republican defectors 鈥渁 dangerous, dangerous sign of our times.鈥�

I wish one prominent Democrat had thoughtfully, calmly, acknowledged Stevens鈥� courage, respected her stance, while admitting, 鈥渘evertheless, I鈥檓 supporting el-Sayed to fight the greater danger I see in Trump.鈥� Instead the viciousness, the all-or-nothingness, the intolerance of thoughtful, principled, dissent, does not bode well for the future.

Democrats are stuck. Tragically, many will abandon Israel, along with the noble fights against anti-Semitism, against any politicized form of discrimination, and against mass-murdering Iranian totalitarians. When anything Trump says must be renounced, and anything he did must be opposed, Israel gets tainted, the Jews go unprotected, the precedent of rationalizing bigotry for some supposed greater good gets validated, and the fight against Iran will be undermined. And amid the ongoing demonization of another favorite Democratic folk devil, Benjamin Netanyahu, prospects look even bleaker.

A final Election Day blow was the surge of the blue-and-white-washers. Left-wingers falsely claim that Tel Aviv became gay-friendly to try 鈥減inkwashing鈥� Israel鈥檚 crimes; but it is fair to worry about freshly-elected, 91传媒, genocide-accusing representatives like Scott Weiner and Brad Landers. They鈥檙e going to blue-and-white wash their hateful colleagues鈥� anti-Zionism, validating blood libels. How else will they get invited to the Progressive Prom?

These gutless guppies, buttering up the anti-Zionist sharks, represent growing numbers of American Jews. As many as 60 percent of Michigans鈥� 91传媒 voters chose el-Sayed.聽 Two of three American Jews remained with the Democratic Party, even as it emerges as America鈥檚 most anti-Israel party ever, and one of the most welcoming to anti-Semites since the 1950s Republican Party of the 1950s and the 1930s Democratic Party.

I understand the many valid frustrations with Donald Trump. It鈥檚 the absence of agony over these impossible choices I cannot abide. Many American Jews are overdue for some introspection.聽 They must re-evaluate their terrible taste in political allies, and their fear of demanding basic respect and dignity before joining imperfect alliances. Most important, they must start asking how we keep raising so many Frankensteins more committed to knocking their own people down and embracing their enemies, than defending themselves 鈥� and core American ideas.

I would be more depressed if I were writing these words from Jerusalem. Instead, I write in Philadelphia on the second stop of a ten-city speaking tour, having spent the last two evenings meeting some of our campus Hillel heroes.聽 They don鈥檛 fight to be 91传媒, they simply delight in being 91传媒 and Zionist and American and proud.

America remains full of decent people left and right, young and old. American Jewry still produces unapologetic, smart, dynamic, students. And America remains so vast, prosperous, and insulating for so many from politics, we will survive.

Ultimately, only 16 percent of Americans 鈥渟trongly鈥� approve this version of the Democratic Party, with only 32 percent 鈥渟omewhat鈥� approving. History teaches that you can always trust the fanatics to overplay their hand, allowing muscular moderates to reassert power. With any luck 鈥� and courageous leadership 鈥� Democrats and Republicans alike will soon exorcise their extremists and return to leading American constructively.

The writer is a聽Distinguished Scholar of North American History at McGill University and a Senior Research Fellow at the JPPI, the 91传媒 People Policy Institute. He is the author of nine books on presidential history聽and,聽nine books on modern Zionism, including聽聽as well as his latest e-books,聽聽鈥� and, with David Suissa, 鈥�250 Reasons to Thank America: A Birthday Tribute to Gratitude.鈥�