CNN commentator Scott Jennings said the Democratic Party was not doing enough to denounce rising anti-Semitism on college campuses and at protests across the country following the war between Israel and Hamas.
“Everyone at this table knows where the source of anti-Semitism is in this country,” Jennings said on “CNN This Morning” Friday in a discussion of former President Trump's efforts to appeal to Jewish voters.
“It's not on the right,” he said.
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CNN commentator Scott Jennings said the Democratic Party was not doing enough to denounce rising anti-Semitism on college campuses. (CNN)
He argued that Democrats are not being honest in acknowledging growing concerns about anti-Semitism in their party.
“Let's talk about what's going on. [at] “All these college campuses,” he said. “Let's talk about what's happening on the streets of New York City.”
Elite schools like Columbia and Brown University have been rocked by anti-Israel protests on campus, and one of Brown's former administrators announced his resignation in an op-ed published earlier this month in The Wall Street Journal.
Jennings also defended former President Trump for his support of Israel during his administration.
“He had a very pro-Israeli policy,” Jennings said. “And he took a tough stance against Iran.”
“The problem of anti-Semitism in this country is on the left,” he added. “Not on the right.”
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Jennings defended former President Trump for his support of Israel. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
“There's no denying what we've seen in America since Oct. 7,” Jennings said, referring to the Hamas terror attack on Israeli citizens and others that started the war. “And it only has to do with one thing: Anti-Semitism is on the rise and there are people who believe that now is the time to express it, and it's horrible.”
“If they want to apologize for it to the left, go ahead,” Jennings said, sparking a discussion with Republican Voters Against Trump executive director Sarah Longwell about Trump's standing among Jewish voters. “I'm not going to do it.”
“No, you're denying that it exists on the right,” Longwell said. “You're campaigning for Trump in a way that tries to ignore the fact that he himself dined with a white supremacist” and “befriended” Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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Trump dined with white nationalist Holocaust denier and political commentator Nick Fuentes in 2023. Greene has come under fire for her comments about the 2018 California wildfires being started by “space solar generators” in a statement that has been characterized as anti-Semitic.
Jennings argued that anti-Israel protesters were even more concentrated on the left, telling Longwell: “That's your party now, those are your people. Those are the people you seek to represent. That's your coalition.”
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
