Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice quits Democratic Party, citing antisemitism concerns
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
May 11 (Reuters) - Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice David Wecht announced on Monday that he is leaving the Democratic Party to become an independent, saying the party was ignoring "hateful anti-Jewish invective and actions."
Wecht, who was just re-elected in November to another 10-year term on the state supreme court after running as a Democrat, said that more than two decades ago he had served as the vice chair of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party.
But Wecht, who is Jewish, said the party has changed in the years since and that "acquiescence to Jew-hatred is now disturbingly common among activists, leaders and even many elected officials in the Democratic Party."
"Nazi tattoos, jihadist chants, intimidation and attacks at synagogues, and other hateful anti-Jewish invective and actions are minimized, ignored and even coddled," he said.
Wecht noted that he had been married in 1998 at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life Congregation, which in 2008 became the site of the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history when a shooter killed 11 people.
"That terror came from the right," Wecht said. "Jew-hatred has always festered on the fringe of that sector. In the years that have followed, that same hatred has grown on the left."
The Pennsylvania Democratic Party did not immediately respond to a request for comment
Israel's bombardment of Gaza has reshaped Democratic politics, triggering a backlash among largely younger voters and intensifying a generational divide within the party.
Wecht, 63, has served on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court since 2016.
Four of the court's six other justices are Democrats, while two are Republicans.
visit seeded article for remaining content
Article is LOCKED by author/seeder
Who is online
95 visitors
"acquiescence to Jew-hatred is now disturbingly common among activists, leaders and even many elected officials in the Democratic Party."
The Jew hatred he references among Democrats as not been subtle for a very long time, but after their public rallying around Platner, not even the most willfully blind democratic party apologist can deny it at this point.
Please, would you, or anyone, post the rest of the article as I cannot open the link, and this article is important to me.
That's all there is to the article Buzz. I'm not sure what the "remaining content" is supposed to be.
Here's some other coverage, including in state, if you are interested:
Thank you Sean. I don't subscribe to anything I have to pay money for.
i would help U if i could,but as U might know from experience, i spell I. T
I. D. I. O. T. !
for my own inserted two non sense, of course there are some Dems that will fall under the antisemitic label, but it has been my experience that the far 'right' and good ole gOP, have proven far more worrisome, at least to me.
Seems to me that as Bob Dylan sang, "The times they are a-changin"
Only if they're a reighny day woman, blowin in the wind, witch mite cast they asz gay if shifting the trans back in reverse so asz they could lay, lady lay, all Tangled up in jello, after jello wrestlin in an Old School, cause My Boy Blue, ....well, you see , he needed the money, to get home, asz he had Subterranean Homesick my boy Blues!!
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
Got to hand it to Wecht. He's a man of principles and integrity, and obviously more intelligent than many if not most of those of his political bent. The Democratic party now has as its leaders "The Squad", featuring Rashida Tlaib who wrapped herself in her Palestinian flag rather than an American one to celebrate her election. Nobody questions her about where HER loyalty lies.
But then, as I've posted here MANY times already, the gullible blame Israel for starting the war when it was IRAN who trained and armed Hamas for what they did on Oct 7. They blame Israel for the shelling that Hezbollah fired at Israel in support of Hamas (both proxies of Iran) but they buy Iran's story that it was Israel, not them who started the conflict, it was only their proxies, the tentacles of the octupus.
And don't I know about Hezbollah's, without provocation, sending bombs into Northern Israel. I PERSONALLY had to run and hide in a shelter on a kibbutz I was visiting when they did it.
But hey, blame Israel. The Jews are used to it, because antisemitism has been happening for thousands of years and it will NEVER end.