You and I can take GREAT satisfaction in knowing America is unique among the nations in our long history of love, affirmation, and respect for the Jewish people. And because America has blessed the children of Abraham, God has, in turn, placed his heavy hand of blessing on our land. Just as he promised in Genesis 12:3.

But as the United States marks her 250th birthday, a grim and dramatically different picture is emerging.

Muslims and Marxists—the notorious New York Mayor, Zohran Mamdani, is both—are bringing down the curtain on America’s two-century-long love affair with the Jewish people...

Unless you and I act ... and fast!

It’s easy to find evidence for America’s long-standing love for the Jewish people...

• John Adams wrote a Jewish friend in 1819, “For I really wish the Jews again in Judea an independent nation.”

• Elias Boudinot, a Founding Father who served in the Continental Congress, wrote in 1816: “Who knows but God has raised up these United States in these latter days, for the very purpose of accomplishing his will in bringing his beloved people to their own land.”

• American fascination, love, and support for the Jewish people and Jewish return was so intense in the 19th century that historian Michael Oren termed it a “Palestine mania.”

• The Jewish Telegraphic Agency credited America in 1935 for its “generous and unstinted support given to the cause of Zionism.”

As a result, Jewish immigrants entered the “golden door” that awaited them in New York Harbor, as Jewish poet Emma Lazarus termed it. Millions of Jewish immigrants transformed their adopted land on almost every front—business, culture, arts, and entertainment. And America became for many a “second promised land.”

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No more. Today in New York City—the most Jewish city in America, with nearly two million Jews in the metropolitan area—the Islamic call to prayer shatters the sleep of many. Just as it does in Minneapolis, Paterson, New Jersey, and Hamtramck and Dearborn, Michigan.

A pro-Muslim, Hezbollah-flag-waving mob massed outside a New York synagogue and almost broke through a police barricade. Protesters shouted insults like “Death, death to the IDF [Israel Defense Forces], “Rapists,” and “Settlers, settlers go back home, Palestine is ours alone.”

But, instead of condemning the surly mob, Mamdani upheld their right to protest (riot, really) and lent his support to their cause.

Political Islam and sharia are gaining footholds across the nation. And antisemitism is spiking. Nine out of 10 Jews feel less safe than a year ago. And some Jews are pondering a move. Thirteen percent of Jewish adults considered leaving the U.S. in the previous five years, according to a 2024 American Jewish Committee survey—DOUBLE the number the prior year.

 The situation is grim and growing darker. But with your help, CIDI works online and in Washington to fight antisemitism and inspire fresh love for Israel.

Your much-needed generosity, as we mark America’s 250th birthday, is crucial to renewing a pro-Israel America and to defending Israel.

Please give a generous single gift or pledge a recurring gift today. As you give, I want to send you a special gift that celebrates America’s love and support for Israel and the Jewish people from our nation’s infancy onward!

Discover America’s amazing pro-Israel heritage and help renew it today!

Mat Staver
Founder and Chairman
Liberty Counsel

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