{"id":122,"date":"2026-05-20T22:08:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T22:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=122"},"modified":"2026-05-20T22:08:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T22:08:05","slug":"i-became-a-democrat-for-maryland-and-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=122","title":{"rendered":"I became a Democrat for Maryland and Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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OPINION:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Two weeks ago, I became a Democrat.<\/p>\n

I made the official party switch from Republican, an affiliation I\u2019d had since I was 18, so that on June 23, I can vote in Maryland\u2019s Democratic primaries.<\/p>\n

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That is how important this election is for Jews and the Jewish state. Among the Democratic candidates for various offices in deep-blue Montgomery County this year are strident Israel haters. If we elect them, we can expect antisemitism in the county to get worse, not better.<\/p>\n

Montgomery County is, to borrow from county board member Daniel Koroma in 2022, \u201ca microcosm of America.\u201d Last year, it accounted for two-thirds of all antisemitic incidents in Maryland: 120 of 181, according to the Anti-Defamation League.<\/p>\n

The county, home to nearly half of all Maryland Jews, also had the highest percentage of antisemitic incidents at non-Jewish primary and secondary schools.<\/p>\n

Voting in Maryland\u2019s Republican primaries is largely a Titanic deck-chair-arrangement situation. Since 1960, the state has voted for a Republican president just three times, last in 1988. It has voted for a Republican governor just three times since 1978.<\/p>\n

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Things are even worse in Montgomery County. There, in the past 55 years, 96% of all county council members \u2014 65 of 68 \u2014 have been Democrats. The council has not elected a single Republican in the past 20 years.<\/p>\n

Next month, Maryland voters go to the polls to choose a governor, an attorney general, state senators and delegates, and a county executive, among other offices. This year\u2019s crop of candidates includes several Israel haters:<\/p>\n