The New York Post published a piece this week saying what we've all known for years but polite Washington wouldn't dare utter: the raging antisemitism devouring the Democratic Party didn't spring up from nowhere. It was built, brick by brick, by Barack Obama. And on the same day that opinion hit the internet — June 3, 2026 — yet another antisemitic attack erupted on a New York City subway, as if the universe wanted to underline the point in red ink.

But sure, let's keep pretending this is all some grassroots mystery. Who could have possibly guessed that tolerating Jew-hatred at the highest levels of a political party would eventually trickle down to the streets?

The Post's argument is straightforward and devastating: Barack Obama deliberately realigned the Democratic coalition in a direction that made anti-Israel sentiment not just acceptable but fashionable. He didn't stumble into it. He architected it. From his 20 years in the pews of Reverend Jeremiah Wright's church — the same Jeremiah Wright who blamed America and Israel for the world's problems — to his deliberate courtship of demographics and activist groups hostile to the Jewish state, Obama laid the foundation for everything we see today.

And the receipts are a mile long.

Remember December 2016? Obama's parting gift to Israel was abstaining on United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334, allowing it to pass and condemn Israeli settlements as illegal. Every previous president — Democrat and Republican — had shielded Israel from exactly this kind of UN pile-on. Obama broke that tradition on his way out the door, giving the anti-Israel crowd at Turtle Bay exactly what they wanted. It was a signal heard around the world: the Democratic Party's unconditional support for Israel was officially over.

Then came the Iran nuclear deal — the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action — which Obama rammed through in 2015 over the furious objections of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Obama didn't just disagree with Netanyahu on policy. He treated the leader of America's closest Middle Eastern ally like an inconvenience. When Netanyahu addressed Congress to make his case against the deal, Obama's team openly worked to undermine him, reportedly encouraging Democrats to boycott the speech. Dozens did.

So what grew in the garden Obama planted? Exactly what you'd expect.

Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota — who arrived in Congress in 2019 and immediately tweeted that American support for Israel was "all about the Benjamins" — didn't emerge from a vacuum. She emerged from a party that had spent eight years learning from its leader that hostility toward Israel carried no consequences. Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan wrapped herself in a Palestinian flag on the House floor. The Squad became the face of the new Democratic Party, and party leadership couldn't do a thing about it because the base Obama built cheered them on.

The Democratic establishment's response has been a masterclass in cowardice. When Omar made her "Benjamins" crack, did the party censure her? Of course not. They passed a watered-down resolution condemning "all forms of hatred" — so vague it could have been a Hallmark card. Speaker Nancy Pelosi essentially said Omar didn't know what she was saying. The message was clear: antisemitism from our side gets a participation trophy, not a punishment.

And now we're watching the inevitable result. Antisemitic incidents in the United States have surged to record levels. Jewish students on college campuses get harassed and physically blocked from attending class. Synagogues need armed security. A man gets attacked on a New York City subway. And the Democratic Party — the party that lectures everyone else about "hate" — can't bring itself to name the problem in its own ranks.

Because naming it would mean naming him. Barack Obama.

Look, Obama didn't personally spray-paint swastikas or punch anyone on a subway platform. But he did something arguably worse for the long term: he made anti-Israel politics respectable within mainstream liberalism. He elevated activists and organizations that treated the Jewish state as a colonial oppressor. He gave a $150 billion sanctions relief package to Iran — the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism and a regime that has called for Israel to be wiped off the map. He staffed his administration with people like Ben Rhodes, whose contempt for the pro-Israel establishment was barely concealed.

Ben Rhodes, Obama's deputy national security adviser, openly bragged to The New York Times Magazine in 2016 about creating an "echo chamber" of sympathetic journalists and think-tankers to sell the Iran deal to a skeptical public. That's not policy. That's propaganda. And the echo chamber he built didn't shut down when Obama left office — it just got louder.

The NY Post piece ties a bow on what conservative commentators have been saying for a decade. This isn't about one man's personal feelings toward Jewish people. It's about a deliberate political strategy that prioritized coalition-building with groups hostile to Israel, tolerated antisemitic rhetoric when it came from allies, and systematically undermined the bipartisan pro-Israel consensus that had held for generations.

The monster is out of the lab now. Omar, Tlaib, the campus encampments, the subway attacks — they're all children of the Obama realignment. And the Democratic Party has no idea how to put the genie back in the bottle because doing so would require repudiating the man they still consider their greatest modern leader.

We know who built this. The Post finally said it out loud. The only question left is whether anyone on the left has the guts to admit it.