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There's one small, unglamorous, word that would immensely improve public discourse about Israel, American Jews and antisemitism. It's the word "some." Every time I hear a pro-Israel Jewish pundit declaring that "Abdul El-Sayed makes Jews feel unsafe" or "Jews feel uncomfortable in today's Democratic Party," I think: What's with the royal we? We Jews are famously disputatious. And that division now extends to basic questions about the nature of Israeli state. 39% of American Jews think Israel committed genocide (Washington Post, Sept 2025) A plurality of American Jews under 35 favor a single democratic state from the river to the sea. (Jewish Voter Resource Center, May 2026) So yes, some American Jews fear Abdul El-Sayed and the Democratic Party's pro-Palestinian direction. But others love it. Is the divide 50-50? No. It's probably somewhere between 75-25 and 60-40. (As a rough proxy, Mamdani won about a third of the Jewish vote). But it sure as heck doesn't entitle anyone to project their own views onto American Jews as a whole. So, next time, include the word "some." Because no one elected you Pope.