Jewish Democrat Shabbos Kestenbaum criticized the Democratic Party, saying he feels 'abandoned' by them amid rising antisemitism across the U.S.
A lifelong Jewish Democrat said he feels 'abandoned' by the party after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office dropped charges against dozens of anti-Israel protesters who barricaded themselves inside an academic building at Columbia University in April.
Kestenbaum, a registered Democrat since he turned 18, said while he doesn't want to abandon the party, Democrats' treatment of Jewish Americans has shown him that 'the party very clearly want to abandon me.' 'Why are we being treated this way? Why the double standards? Why the inaction? And it's not just New York City. We saw these antisemitic riots yesterday in L.A., and Joe Biden, who is in charge of the Department of Justice, can investigate these crimes.
He also finds it 'shocking' that New Yorkers have to 'beg' Bragg's office to prosecute crime in order to receive 'equity, justice and the rule of law.' Stephen Millan, a prosecutor in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, said there was insufficient evidence to show that any individual defendant damaged property or injured anyone.
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