'Makes no sense': Carville scolds Jewish donors for abandoning party, defends Dem record on Israel

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville responds to Jewish donors who nary longer enactment the Democratic Party owed to the pro-Palestinian protests astatine Columbia University. 

"I've ne'er seen a Democrat person meal with Kanye West and Nick Fuentes," Carville told Fox News Digital. "I've ne'er seen a Democrat that endorsed the Alternative für Deutschland Party successful Germany. I tin constituent to plentifulness of Republicans who have."

Carville is pouring acold h2o connected Democratic donors' excuse that the emergence of antisemitism connected assemblage campuses, peculiarly astatine Columbia University, means they tin nary longer enactment the Democratic Party. 

"In my view, that makes nary sense. You can't beryllium for a Democrat due to the fact that they're protesting against Biden? It's nonsense," Carville said. 

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Democrat strategist James Carville (right) criticized the Republican Party's relation with individuals accused of antisemitism.  (AP/)

College campuses became the epicenter of absorption to the warfare successful Gaza arsenic students crossed the country, a typically Democratic voting bloc, began protesting President Joe Biden during his re-election run past year.

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Before Biden dropped retired of the contention and endorsed Harris, students chanted, "Genocide Joe has got to go!" extracurricular his run rallies successful captious plaything states and organized protestation votes to explicit their disapproval of the United States' enactment for Israel successful the warfare against Hamas. 

Last month, President Donald Trump's medication accused Columbia University of violating national instrumentality done its "deliberate indifference" toward anti-Israel protests that person persisted connected field since Oct. 7, 2023. 

Democratic strategist James Carville slammed Jewish donors for abandoning the Democratic Party implicit Columbia University protests.  (Screenshot/ "Politics War Room" podcast)

But Carville, speaking to Fox News Digital astir caller comments connected his podcast, said it makes nary consciousness for Jewish donors to crook distant from the Democratic Party due to the fact that of protesters astatine Columbia.

Carville said it is the Democratic Party – not the Republican Party – that has historically supported Israel. 

"I would archer my Republican friends, which president was instrumental successful the founding of the authorities of Israel? I hap to cognize Harry Truman. I hap to cognize he's a Democrat," Carville said. 

"Which president came closest to achieving Middle East bid and information for the authorities of Israel? I hap to cognize his sanction was Bill Clinton," helium added. 

"Which president installed the Iron Dome, which saved, I don't know, however galore thousands of Israeli lives? I hap to cognize Barack Obama. So, erstwhile you're looking astatine who is much supportive of the authorities of Israel, it's not adjacent close," Carville told Fox News Digital. 

US President Donald Trump greets Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arsenic helium arrives astatine the North Portico of the White House successful Washington, D.C., Feb. 4, 2025. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)

Carville drew a stark opposition with the Republican Party arsenic helium criticized Trump for eating with Kanye West, who is infamous for making antisemitic comments, and Nicholas Fuentes, considered a "white supremacist, Holocaust denier who hates Jews" by the American Jewish Committee. 

The longtime Democratic strategist besides criticized Elon Musk, who until this week was a loyal Trump confidant and a "special authorities employee," for endorsing the Alternative for Germany party, considered a "confirmed extremist" radical by Germany's home quality agency. 

Carville said connected his podcast, "Politics War Room," this week that those Jewish donors are astir apt embracing the Republican Party due to the fact that they privation their "f---ing taxation cut."

Speaking with Fox News Digital, Carville reiterated that Columbia University protests weren't a precise bully excuse for abandoning the Democratic Party. 

But the White House rejected Carville's cognition of the Republican Party. 

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"President Trump received unprecedented enactment from the Jewish assemblage successful his historical re-election, and this enactment continues to turn arsenic helium combats the left’s rampant anti-Semitism that is exposed daily. The Trump medication is the astir pro-Israel and pro-Jewish successful our nation’s history, and the President’s grounds stands arsenic a testament to this commitment," White House spokesperson Harrison Fields told Fox News Digital. 

Trump signed enforcement orders during his first administration, and again past month, aimed astatine combating antisemitism successful the United States. 

Fox News Digital's Elizabeth Pritchett and Breanne Deppisch contributed to this report.