Bernie's Jewish Outreach Chief: Democrats Are Turning on Jews

He ran Jewish outreach for Bernie Sanders in 2020. This month he wrote that the Democratic Party is turning against the Jews. Today he explains why to Cliff Schecter, live at 4 p.m. Eastern.

Joel Rubin has spent his career inside the Democratic coalition: deputy assistant secretary of state under President Obama, Jewish outreach director for the 2020 Sanders campaign, and now a principal at the Washington Strategy Group. He is not a Republican concern troll, and he is not a stranger throwing rocks from outside the tent. That is exactly why his warning matters.

Cliff and Joel get into the conversation almost nobody in the party wants to have out loud: what happens to a party that needs Jewish voters, Jewish organizers, and Jewish donors to win, at the very moment many of them are asking whether they are still welcome.

IN THIS EPISODE

🔹 Rubin's warning, in his own words, and what it cost him to say it

🔹 The Bernie question: how the movement he served handles the oldest hatred, and where Rubin says its leaders have failed the moment

🔹 Hasan Piker's latest, the House Democrat who called it a call for violence against American Jews, and what it says that the biggest streamer on the left keeps getting a pass

🔹 Michigan after the primary: what the Senate race tells us about where the coalition is heading

🔹 The midterm math nobody wants to say out loud

🔹 What Democrats who want to keep the coalition together actually do now

This is not a comfortable conversation. It is the one the party needs before November, not after.

READ JOEL RUBIN

His essay"I Worked for Bernie Sanders. The Democratic Party Is Turning Against the Jews."

Washington Strategy Group

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