Megyn Kelly: “It's not that Jews couldn't be critical of Israel, but there's a lot of, like, self-hatred or self-loathing at least in the vote”

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Megyn Kelly: "It's not that Jews couldn't be critical of Israel, but there's a lot of, like, self-hatred or self-loathing at least in the vote"

From the November 5, 2025, edition of SiriusXM's The Megyn Kelly Show 

MEGYN KELLY (HOST): The anti-Israel hatred that's been growing, especially on the Democrat party and New York is all Democrats, 100% played a role here. There's no question. And that includes a lot of American Jews. Like, it's not that Jews couldn't be critical of Israel, but there's a lot of, like, self-hatred or self-loathing at least in the vote, in the way they vote in New York, how could Jewish people in New York elect this guy?

SID ROSENBERG (GUEST): You know, it's funny you asked that. So I've been very, very critical of the liberal American Jew. When I say critical, I'm nasty. Okay? I'm not nice.

So I get a text from my wife about two weeks ago. She goes, Sidney, will you do me a favor? You are Jewish. They're Jewish. Can you lighten up a little bit? This is not BLM. This is not, you know, the Democrats. I said, Danielle, sweetheart, I will. I'll try. So I spent the last two weeks trying to be a little nicer to my brethren, my Jewish people.

And then like you said, they go out and vote for this guy. I don't know if it's 14%, if it's 25%. It doesn't matter. The fact is there are Jews that are supporting Mamdani. There are Jews that every day are in with the Israel-is-committing-genocide crowd and all that nonsense.

So I don't know why they do it. I thing is, American Jews, New York Jews don't care about Israel.

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The Jew in New York, what do they care about? Their shul on the Upper East Side on Saturday morning, their vacation home somewhere in New Jersey. They don't care about Israel. They don't care about their religion. They barely care about the hostages that, thank God, are home now.

So it is a — the liberal Jew in America is as dangerous as any group in this country.