The Mask Is Coming Off: The Radical Left's Vision For A World Without Israel

For years, defenders of the increasingly anti-Israel radical Left have insisted that its activists are simply criticizing Israeli government policy. They don't hate Israel, we are told. They only oppose settlements, military operations in Gaza, or American military aid.

But sometimes someone says the quiet part out loud.

Megan Romer, national co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, did exactly that during a remarkably revealing interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick.

Asked what the DSA actually wants for Israel and the Palestinians, Romer replied that the organization supports "a free Palestine with the capital in Jerusalem." When Remnick pressed her on whether that meant a two-state solution or a single state replacing Israel, Romer acknowledged that her answer could "be safely read as a one-state solution."

That distinction matters enormously.

This isn't merely a dispute over where Israel's borders should be drawn.

It raises the far more fundamental question of whether the world's only Jewish state should continue to exist at all.

And Romer's comments became even more disturbing when the conversation turned to October 7.

Remnick asked Romer about an anti-Israel rally held in New York on October 8, 2023--the day after Hamas terrorists slaughtered approximately 1,200 people in Israel and abducted more than 200 hostages.

Would she have attended?

"Probably," Romer answered.

When Remnick emphasized that this was just one day after the massacre, Romer responded that October 7 was "largely inevitable," arguing that Palestinians living under Israeli policies could eventually be expected to revolt.

She insisted she was not defending attacks against civilians. But Remnick immediately challenged the contradiction: if you say you would have joined such a rally immediately after the massacre and then explain why the massacre was inevitable, where exactly does explanation end and justification begin?

This is one of the most dangerous transformations taking place in Western attitudes toward Israel.

October 7 is slowly being rewritten.

What began as the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust is increasingly being filtered through the language of "resistance," "decolonization" and "oppression."

The killers become revolutionaries.

The murdered become representatives of an oppressive system.

And Israel's attempt to defend itself becomes the greater crime.

The significance of the interview is that Romer isn't some anonymous activist with a megaphone.

She helps lead the Democratic Socialists of America, an organization enjoying growing electoral success.

Nor is her rhetoric disconnected from DSA's official positions.

On October 7 itself, while Israelis were still being murdered and kidnapped, DSA declared that the day's events were a "direct result" of Israeli policies, while also condemning civilian deaths.

The organization has since gone considerably further. A January 2025 statement called for the establishment of a "democratic secular state, from the river to the sea." In October 2025, DSA affirmed Palestinian "resistance" while demanding an end to American support for Israel.

And in May 2026, an official DSA statement declared its solidarity with efforts to establish a "liberated Palestine, FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA."

Romer merely made the implications harder to ignore.

That might once have been dismissed as campus radicalism.

Not anymore.

DSA itself celebrated Zohran Mamdani's 2025 election as mayor of New York City as the American socialist movement's most significant electoral victory in a century. The organization said thousands of DSA members helped power his campaign and promised to continue supporting socialist candidates throughout the country.

Its own reporting describes major electoral gains in 2026 and the prospect of an expanded socialist bloc in Congress.

That is why Romer's interview matters.

Ideas once confined to protest signs are moving closer to the machinery of government.

The progression is becoming increasingly clear:

First Israel's policies are condemned.

Then Israel is described as an apartheid or colonial state.

Then terrorism against Israelis is explained as inevitable resistance.

Then American support for Israel becomes morally unacceptable.

Finally, the solution becomes eliminating Israel's identity as a Jewish state altogether.

Romer herself described U.S. defense and economic support for Israel as a DSA "solid red line."

The mask is coming off.

For Christians who take biblical prophecy seriously, there is another element that should be impossible to miss.

Jerusalem keeps returning to the center of the controversy.

The Bible warned thousands of years ago that Jerusalem would eventually become a source of extraordinary international contention. Zechariah described a day when Jerusalem would become "a burdensome stone for all people."

Israel is increasingly being told that peace requires surrendering more than territory.

For a growing political movement, peace ultimately requires surrendering Israel itself.

And now its leaders are beginning to say so openly.