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Hop in the time machine and hit the “Way Back” button for 1948.

Upon arriving, you will find that a hot topic of the day was the founding of what would be called the State of Israel. And into the middle of that issue was, among a collection of world leaders, America’s own President Harry S. Truman.

Truman was a lifelong Democrat whose political career had been based in his native Missouri. He had been a county official, then won election to the United States Senate. In 1944, running for what would be his highly unusual fourth term, President Franklin Roosevelt selected Truman as his vice presidential running mate.

Elected, Truman was sworn in as vice president on Jan. 20, 1945.

And then.

On April 12, 1945, FDR died suddenly of a stroke, and Truman was sworn in as the nation’s new president. While the world took note, the chaos of World War II did not stop. One of the large issues the new President Truman had to face was what to do with Middle East policy and the question of the creation and official recognition of the Jewish state of Israel.

In his memoirs, Truman wrote that he was in staunch support of the creation of Israel. He added this of the opposition to the creation and recognition of Israel coming from the professional bureaucrats (aka left leaning bureaucrats) inside the State Department: “I am sorry to say that there were some among them who were also inclined to be anti-Semitic.”

What could not be known at the time was that this antisemitic streak that Truman had to deal with would stretch well down the road into the 21st century Democrat Party.

In 2008, a full 60 years later, NPR reported this of the Democratic National Convention that was preparing to nominate Senator Barack Obama for president:

What’s usually a formality turned a bit dramatic today at the opening of the second day of the Democratic National Convention.

A motion for a voice vote to amend the party platform to declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel — and to reinsert the word “God” into the document — was met with many delegates shouting “no” and with loud boos when the motion was deemed to have passed.

A plethora of stories spread across the media, the theme of antisemitism in the Democratic Party and on the rise in the American Left.

Now, here we are a full 17 years later, and the antisemitism seen by President Truman in 1948, which then flavored the 2008 Democratic Convention, is well out there right now.

In the news this week was this story, reported here by Breitbart. The headline: “‘Free Mahmoud!’: Protesters Occupy Trump Tower NYC over Arrest of Anti-Israel Activist.” (RELATED: The Issue Is Not the Issue at Trump Tower Protest)

The story reported:

Dozens of protesters flooded Trump Tower in New York City on Thursday to demand the administration release anti-Israel agitator Mahmoud Khalil who was arrested last weekend and is targeted for deportation.

At least one of the groups sponsoring the protest is called Jewish Voice for Peace, a group notorious for having a history of sympathizing with terrorists.

Got it.

Let’s be plain.

The antisemitism President Truman picked up on all the way back there in 1948 when he saw it evidenced by liberal State Department bureaucrats has now long since overtaken the modern American Left. Whether at the 2008 Democratic Convention that nominated Barack Obama or this week’s turmoil with lefties taking over the lobby of Trump Tower in Manhattan, the same decidedly antisemitic virus is on display. Egged on, in this case, by a leftist group saying they are really Jewish.

That there is irony in President Trump’s saying that New York Senator Chuck Schumer, the Senate Democrat Leader, is no longer really Jewish but rather a Palestinian cannot be ignored. The reason Trump could say something so startling is exactly because the power of the antisemitic Left inside the Democrat Party is a force Schumer has to deal with.

And history shows this antisemitism has been, albeit slowly, on the march inside the Democrat Party since all the way back there in the Truman era in 1948.

The question now is who inside the Democrats will stand up and resist.

And one could easily add, if not Senator Schumer, who?

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