This says it all from a Democrat
Three cheers for Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice David Wecht.
A longtime Democrat whose father, Cyril Wecht, was a legendary Pennsylvania Democrat from Allegheny County (Pittsburgh) and one-time U.S. Senate nominee, David Wecht, to say the least, has a distinguished political pedigree. And is currently serving on the state’s Supreme Court. A job to which he was elected.
The other day Justice Wecht issued this statement:
From 1998 to 2001, years that preceded my judicial career, I served as Vice-Chair of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party. In the quarter century that has passed since then, the Democratic Party has changed. Nazi tattoos, jihadist chants, intimidation and attacks at synagogues, and other hateful anti-Jewish invective and actions are minimized, ignored, and even coddled. Acquiescence to Jew-hatred is now disturbingly common among activists, leaders and even many elected officials in the Democratic Party.
I can no longer abide this. So, I won’t. I am no longer registered within any political party. It is my hope that Pennsylvanians, and Americans, of all viewpoints and backgrounds will oppose and resist the scourge of Jew-hatred before it undermines what our ancestors have built here.
Mind you, the current governor of Pennsylvania is Democrat Josh Shapiro. Who is Jewish. And Pennsylvania has a long history of electing people who happen to be Jewish to high office. The state’s longest-serving Senator was Republican Arlen Specter, who was Jewish. The state’s Democrat Governor Milton Shapp, who served in the 1970s, was also Jewish. A later Jewish Democrat governor was Ed Rendell.
So it is no small thing that Justice Wecht has taken a long, seriously hard look at the present state of his own party and decided he can simply not tolerate its turn to antisemitism.
As said, three cheers for Justice Wecht. But the larger question out there is what has happened to the Pennsylvania Democrat Party? And beyond the state’s borders, what is happening to the national Democrat Party? (RELATED: The Spectator P.M. Ep. 211: The Democrats Continue to Miserably Fail)
It may take a look back to realize that it was a Democrat President Harry Truman who made a point of having the United States recognize the creation of the State of Israel in the late 1940s. Writing in his post-presidential memoirs Truman details the political opposition he faced in his support for creation of the Jewish State of Israel, notably from bureaucrats in his own State Department. It was no small thing.
But for a while in later years the Jewish community in Pennsylvania repeatedly supported Democrats. And, as noted, elected Jewish Democrats to the governor’s mansion, including current Governor Josh Shapiro. Not to mention, in Shapiro’s case, he is frequently mentioned by state Democrats as a potential 2028 Democrat presidential nominee.
With that said it is disturbing — to say the least — that someone of Justice Wecht’s stature feels compelled to say that….
…the Democratic Party has changed. Nazi tattoos, jihadist chants, intimidation and attacks at synagogues, and other hateful anti-Jewish invective and actions are minimized, ignored, and even coddled. Acquiescence to Jew-hatred is now disturbingly common among activists, leaders and even many elected officials in the Democratic Party.
This very year Pennsylvania has an election for governor at hand. Republican Stacy Garrity, the popular former state treasurer, is carrying the GOP flag against Shapiro. She most assuredly is not making an issue of the governor’s Jewish faith. The problem with antisemitism is, as Justice Wecht has candidly pointed out, with Democrats in his own party. (RELATED: The Rising Star of Pennsylvania’s Stacy Garrity)
So as noted, Three Cheers for Justice Wecht. And Pennsylvania.
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