Joy Reid, once a reliable cheerleader for Democrats, now says she will not back the party again unless it severs ties with the State of Israel.
During a podcast conversation with writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, Reid unleashed a blistering critique of both Israel and the Democratic Partys longstanding alliance with the Jewish state, according to Mediaite. She declared, To me, I, going forward, cannot vote for a Democrat who does not pledge to end this relationship [with Israel]. This relationship needs to end.
Reid escalated her rhetoric by portraying Israel as an aggressive power that should be cut off from U.S. support. This is a nuclear armed expansionist power. They dont need our money, and they definitely wont get my vote, she insisted, framing Israel as the villain and Washington as its enabler.
Her frustration extended to both major parties, which she claimed are effectively indistinguishable on support for Israel. The Democratic Party, she complained, has been married to Israel just like the Republican Party no matter what they do, no matter how many people they kill, Reid vented, echoing the hard-lefts most extreme talking points.
Reid hosted Coates on her YouTube show to discuss his recent article questioning whether Kamala Harriss silence on Gaza cost her the 2024 election to President Donald Trump. Coates replied that he was not convinced Harris could have prevailed even with a more aggressively anti-Israel stance, but argued she might at least have lost the race with honor.
Her vow to abandon Democrats is striking given her long record as a partisan loyalist. She told audiences in 2016 she was a lifelong Democrat, and in a 2024 TikTok video boasted she would vote for then-President Joe Biden even if he was in a coma, while also likening Trump to Adolf Hitler.
By late last year, however, Reid was already signaling fatigue with the party, saying she was barely hanging on as a supporter. She now appears to have cut the cord entirely, aligning herself with a radical wing that demands Democrats renounce Israel altogether.
Polling suggests Reids hostility to Israel is no longer fringe within the Democratic base. A Pew survey earlier this year found 80% of Democrats now hold an unfavorable view of Israel, a dramatic jump from 53% in 2022, underscoring how far the party has drifted from its historic pro-Israel stance.
Reid lamented that it would likely take a hard-left figure such as New York City mayor/democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani to completely upend the party establishment and force a break with Israel. For conservatives, her comments highlight a growing ideological chasm: while Republicans continue to back Americas closest Middle Eastern ally, influential voices on the left are openly demanding that Democrats walk away.
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