Rahm Emanuel: Israel has ‘a problem in America,’ not just Democratic Party

Rahm Emanuel, a top Jewish Democrat and likely candidate for the party’s US presidential nomination in 2028, tells Channel 12 in an interview that “Israel does not have a problem in the Democratic Party. Israel has a problem in America.”

Citing a recent poll showing that American Jews are more favorable toward New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, an outspoken critic of Israel, than toward Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Emanuel says, “The way the prime minister…has conducted Israel’s… national security overall has led Israel into a dead end and has put the [US-Israel] alliance at a tipping point.”

“Today, Israel is a pariah. Israel has lost the United States, it’s lost Europe, and you picked up Somaliland… you’ve lost your economic market, you’ve lost your political patron, and you picked up Somaliland,” he adds, criticizing Israel’s decision to become the first country to recognize the Republic of Somaliland as an independent state, which triggered international backlash.