The Zionist Right Has a MAGA Problem
”Pulling together the conference in DC was like “herding cats while building an airplane in the sky,” Moon told the audience of 50 or so, composed mostly of End Times Christian Zionists, [politicalresearch.org] anti-LGBT ideologues, and Jewish Short for Make America Great Again, the slogan of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Learn more influencers. Joined by an anti-DEI activist with a Tikvah Fund luggage tag and a German Shepherd bomb-sniffer-in-training wearing a vest with an Israeli flag patch, this motley crew had urgent business to discuss: The Carlson-Fuentes-Heritage episode was only the latest evidence that right-wing support for Israel was eroding. Polls indicate that younger conservatives increasingly view Israel in a negative light. Even leading MAGA figures—not just Carlson, but influencers like Candace Owens and politicians like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie—have criticized Israel’s crimes in Gaza and called US support into question under the banner of ‘America First.’ The challenges ahead were clear enough: How could the Task Force, along with the broader pro-Israeli right, counter this growing dissent? And how best to respond to the rise of overt MAGA A form of oppression targeting Jews and those perceived to be Jewish, including bigoted speech, violent acts, and discriminatory policy. Learn more ?”
Cowritten by PRA’s Ben Lorber.