Shabbos Kestenbaum is a college Democrat who is Jewish and has just endorsed Donald Trump, saying that he will be voting for him in November.
If you have followed the news over the past year, you have seen mobs of radical leftists on college campuses denouncing Israel and supporting Hamas, despite the fact that it was Hamas that attacked Israel last October in horrific fashion.
In the video below, Kestenbaum criticizes the Democrats for failing to address this issue at their convention and says that he reached out to numerous high ranking Democrats and couldn’t even get one of them to return his phone calls.
The Times of Israel reported:
Shabbos Kestenbaum, high-profile campus antisemitism critic, endorses Trump
Shabbos Kestenbaum, a Jewish Harvard alumnus who is suing the school over its response to antisemitism, announced on Thursday that he has broken with the Democratic Party and will be voting for Donald Trump.
Kestenbaum made the declaration during a speech at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual convention, saying that he had become disillusioned with Democratic leaders and their policies during his push for action against campus antisemitism.
“I did not support Trump in 2016, I did not support Trump in 2020. Hell, I did not support Trump six months ago. Nobody’s perfect,” said Kestenbaum, a registered Democrat.
“The Democratic party has taken the Jewish vote and Jewish voters for granted for far too long,” he said. “I will be supporting, I will be endorsing, I will be voting for President Trump.”
Kestenbaum’s party switch isn’t a complete surprise: He addressed the Republican National Convention in July, an experience, he told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency at the time, that felt “lonely” but that was warmly received by the crowd. In that speech, he talked about his vote in November — but did not specify which candidate he would support.
Watch the video:
I am a Democrat.
I support most progressive policies.
I will be voting for President Trump.
Please watch and share my speech below to understand why. pic.twitter.com/A3gpmuV4ft
— Shabbos Kestenbaum (@ShabbosK) September 6, 2024
Plenty of Jewish Democrats will be voting for Trump in November on this single issue. Just look at what happened to Jamaal Bowman in New York over the summer.