The seven Republicans who criticized Vice President JD Vance anonymously over his reluctance to attack the Houthis may have placed the American Jewish community at risk by choosing Jewish Insider as the forum for their complaint.
Vance’s views on the attack emerged in a leaked Signal group chat that was leaked to The Atlantic. Vance’s views on foreign policy are closer to those of the GOP’s isolationist wing, though he has also been consistently pro-Israel.
Many American Jews are concerned that isolationism, whether left or right, also comes with hostility to Israel, and possibly antisemitism as well, given that isolationists pushed the U.S. to stay out of Europe in the Second World War.
While the “America First” foreign policy of President Donald Trump has always included a robust defense of Israel, there are some isolationists who argue that “America First” should also mean ending aid to, and support of, Israel.
Among these isolationists, there is a small but vocal minority of critics and commentators who have either expressed outright antisemitic views, or have at least entertained antisemitic conspiracy theories and radical anti-Israel views. […]
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