Micha Danzig

Chag Sigd sameach. Happy Sigd. My @Jerusalem_Post column today is about arguably the most Zionist holiday, a man I’m proud to call family, and the Jews Israel keeps waiting. jpost.com/opinion/article-91…

Exactly right ⤵️. And notice what @AbdulElSayed never says about Egypt, where his family came from, whose constitution makes Islam the state religion and Sharia the principal source of law. No “struggle” there. He struggles only with whether the one Jewish state has a right to exist. “Palestine” as a proposed nation-state gets a unequivocal “yes” from El Sayed. Israel, which has been a nation in this same land multiple times before the modern era, gets a “yes, if.” The “I love Judaism, just not Israel” line, which people like El-Sayed &@cenkuygur keep selling, isn’t new. It’s Clermont-Tonnerre in 1789: “to the Jews as individuals, everything; as a nation, nothing.” Europe would tolerate us as a “church,” never as a people. But we were never a “church.” We are a people whose tribal faith carries the memory of a homeland in every prayer, every Seder, every wedding. Cut out Zion and you don’t get a purer Judaism. You get one no Jewish generation before ours would recognize. There are a few principled “antiZionists:” a tiny Haredi sect that believes sovereignty must wait for the Messiah, and anarchists who reject every nation-state. El-Sayed, and all of the “antiZionists” like him, are neither. They oppose exactly one nation-state, and it’s the Jewish one. That isn’t a policy disagreement. It’s a double standard, and the double standard is the tell.

Wednesday night in Tel Aviv, @BoyGeorge did the one thing almost nobody in his industry will do anymore. He showed up. He came after the threats. After his posters were defaced. After old peers in the music business called him a fascist for refusing to join the boycott. He sold out Menora Arena anyway, and added a second show dedicated to the survivors of the Nova massacre. He didn’t just perform for us. He talked to us. About our trauma. About the hatred Jews now face in London, Paris, New York and on college campuses throughout the west. About why he stands with us when it costs him. Then he sang “We Will Dance Again.” He also asked everyone who had lost someone who went to war to raise their hands. He sang about everyone who had “lost someone who only went out to dance” to raise their hands. All around us arms went up. In this country, almost no one is untouched by one of those two. I have been to a lot of concerts. I have never felt anything like that. Here is the hard truth. Boy George is a tiny minority. Once again in Jewish history, the easy path is to swim with the tide: repeat the blood libel of the moment, which means ridiculously demonizing the one Jewish state as the most evil nation on earth, and collect the applause. Most of the people doing it have never lifted a finger to improve a single Palestinian Arab life. What they want is the one Jewish state gone, from any piece of our indigenous homeland. Lending your name to that hate movement costs nothing. Refusing, costs you bookings, your “social” acceptability, and your peace. The ones who refused have always been few. Émile Zola wrote “J’Accuse” in 1898, defended Alfred Dreyfus against an entire nation, was convicted of libel and fled to England. Raoul Wallenberg saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews in 1944 and vanished into Soviet custody. Frank Sinatra made “The House I Live In” in 1945, a short film against antisemitism, and kept standing with the Jewish people for the rest of his life. We remember every one of their names. We will remember Boy George’s too. And we will remember the names of everyone who chose to the tide and ride with the wave of 21st century antisemitism. #boygeorge #antisemitism #JewHatred #StandWithIsrael

*The Horseshoe Closes* The Democratic Party spent a decade making room for Israel obsession on its left flank. @TuckerCarlson is trying to build the same room on the right. If you want proof, look at who he's campaigning for in Michigan. Tucker for El-Sayed. •In September, Carlson said he “wouldn't vote for Mike Rogers at gunpoint,” called Abdul El-Sayed's campaign “literally Trumpian,” and predicted @AbdulElSayed would win. •When El-Sayed's 2021 remark resurfaced that Americans fail to “center” the millions “scarred” by the US response to 9/11, Carlson called him “obviously right.” He then said the American response amounted to “dozens and dozens of 9/11s.” •El-Sayed welcomed it on CNN, saying they don't agree on much but agree about Rogers. •Days before the election, a PAC ran an ad using Carlson's “gunpoint” line. Haley Stevens and Van Jones demanded it come down. Some Democrats found the alliance too toxic. El Sayed didn't. What do a self-described America First nativist and a DSA style progressive who wants to abolish ICE have in common? Not healthcare. Not immigration. Israel and antisemitic scapegoating. That's the whole alliance. The Track Record That Got Carlson Here: •2025: Predicted thousands of American deaths and a lost war if the US struck Iran's nuclear sites. Iran's retaliation killed zero Americans. •June 2025: Warned of $30 gas and said war would end Trump's presidency. Even in the 2026 war, gas on average peaked near $4.45. Trump is still president. •February 2026: Claimed Israel detained him at Ben Gurion. The Israel Airports Authority and the US Embassy called out the lie, and airport footage showed him smiling in the VIP lounge. •February 2026: Told the US ambassador that Israel's President Herzog “was at Pedo Island.” Three days later - likely afraid of a defamation lawsuit - he apologized and admitted he had no evidence. •March 2026: Declared it “a fact” that Qatar and Saudi Arabia had arrested Mossad bombers. Qatar said it had no such information. Saudi Arabia's Al Arabiya called it baseless. The ADL noted he used the same moment to push the conspiracy theory of Israeli involvement in 9/11. •April 2026: Said Trump was preparing to nuke Iran and should be removed from office. No nuke. Every error points the same direction. Every lie lands on the same country. And now the man who spent two years telling Republicans that Israel is the enemy is telling them a DSA style Democrat who views 9/11 through the lens of American guilt is the real America First candidate. That isn't a realignment. It's a merger. The Israel hatred that took over the Democratic left now has a Republican-branded salesman, and Tucker Carlson and his acolytes on the “woke right” are trying to close the deal.

The Israel-obsessed haters have even lost SNL. New sketch: a section on the plane for the totally deranged. Seated there: the guy trying to open the door midflight, screaming “this plane is made of Israel.” Correct seat assignment. Mainstream Democrats, take note. youtu.be/QFR2QTNf2rA?si=4oFG…

Macklemore claimed he was being “silenced.” He just sold out Dublin, Paris and London, with part of the money going to the “Palestinian Youth Movement,” which hailed the October 7 terrorists/rapists/murderers/kidnappers as “the men who broke through.” My @Jerusalem_Post column: jpost.com/opinion/article-91… @macklemore @LiveNation

Cenk Uygur says his @AbdulElSayed ad can't be antisemitic because it never uses the word “Jew.” Wilhelm Marr had the same idea in 1879, when he popularized “antisemitism” to make Jew-hatred sound like a political position. The vocabulary has changed since then, but the pitch is the same one: your family is struggling, and “they're” the reason. The @cenkuygur ad tells Michigan parents to put the eggs back because the money was going to “killing Palestinians,” and added that they're “probably” paying for Israeli healthcare too. US aid to Israel is military aid. None of it funds Israeli hospitals or clinics. Egg prices went up because bird flu killed off tens of millions of hens. Cenk took a grocery bill Israel had nothing to do with and put the Jewish state's name on it. A few days ago Cenk was saying Israel “buys” Mike Rogers. Now Cenk is saying Van Jones is on someone's payroll. Somehow everyone who disagrees with Cenk has been paid off, and always by the same people. The same people centuries of antisemites have claimed use money to purchase disloyalty. @VanJones68 called the ad “anti-Jewish hate.” He pointed out that aid to Israel is less than 0.1% of the federal budget, and said he'd speak up against hate aimed at Jews as loudly as he has against hate aimed at Muslims. That's someone applying one standard to everybody. @cenkuygur answered by implying Van Jones was bought, which has been the standard accusation against anyone defending Jews since well before Cenk was born. Cenk built his whole defense on the fact that the ad never says “Jew,” then turned around and accused Van Jones of blaming all Jews, a claim only Cenk made. Marr never needed to mention Judaism to get his point across, and Cenk’s ad never needed to say “Jew.” Leaving the word out doesn't change what the ad says or does.

Israel counted its votes last night. Nobody hit 61, everybody claimed victory, and coalition haggling has begun. Loud, messy, democratic. But if you care about antisemitism, the election that should scare you is this Tuesday, in Michigan. @AbdulElSayed calls Israel an “illegal apartheid regime” that “did a genocide,” says he “often struggles” with whether it should exist, and blames America's affordability crisis on Israel and “AIPAC money,” the oldest Jewish-money trope barely dressed up for the 21st century. Now @cenkuygur's Rebellion PAC has taken that poison to the grocery store: a fake Michigan couple who can't afford eggs or bananas because their taxes fund Israel's bombs, while Israelis get the health care Americans are denied. And it's all because @MikeRogersForMI is supposedly bought and paid for by Israel. Check the receipts. Aid to Israel is about $11 per American, nearly all of it spent in American factories on American jobs. Not one dollar can touch Israeli health care. Meanwhile, not a word about the roughly $45 billion in aid to other countries, or the $55 billion-plus it costs to keep U.S. troops in Germany, Japan and Korea, all of which have universal health care. Egg prices are down 64% from their peak. Bananas cost about a penny less per pound than a year ago. It's the oldest libel there is: your table is empty because the Jews took your bread, and your leaders serve “them,” not you. It starts with @mehdirhasan's fake “93%” theft libel and ends at the checkout line. My new piece at @JNS_org: jns.org/opinion/micha-danzig… Share it w/ any Michigan voters you know.