By Daniel Greenfield, Frontpage Magazine

When President Trump put forward his new envoy to combat antisemitism, Rep. Jerrold Nadler urged Senate Democrats “not to provide the Trump Administration with a single vote to confirm Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun.”

Rep. Nadler had opposed the Antisemitism Awareness Act, opposed Trump’s crackdown on campus antisemitism, opposed the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism, and opposed defunding colleges that tolerate antisemitism.

CAIR, an Islamist group whose leader celebrated the Oct 7 Hamas attacks, praised Rep. Nadler’s opposition to the Antisemitism Awareness Act meant to protect Jewish students from campus Hamas supporters like the ones that the congressman had been defending in 2025.

So it’s not too surprising that Rep. Nadler now also opposes the new antisemitism envoy.

While many Jewish groups sent their good wishes to Rabbi Kaploun, joining Nadler in his opposition to the new antisemitism envoy was the anti-Israel group J Street which had lobbied for recognizing and funding a ‘Palestinian’ government that would include Hamas.

What did the rabbi do to provoke the ire of the leftist congressman from Manhattan?

According to Rep. Nadler, “Rabbi Kaploun publicly claims that after October 7th, ‘Democrats refuse to even recognize the butchers of women and kidnappers of children as terrorists.’”

Rep. Nadler claims that this accusation is so “offensive”, “absurd” and “insulting” that it “does not deserve a response” but is “disqualifying”. The trouble is that the accusation is also true.

And it’s not only true of Rep. Nadler’s party, but of the anti-Israel congressman personally.

After Mahmoud Khalil, a key figure in the pro-Hamas riots at Columbia, was detained for violating the terms of his stay in America, Rep. Nadler rushed to his rescue.

He tweeted, posted, and signed congressional letters. Nadler claimed that Khalil, who had described the Hamas murder of Jews as “armed resistance”, was solely being persecuted for his “speech.”

After Momodou Taal, a foreign national who had urged students to take a cue from Hamas, and celebrated Oct 7 with a call of “glory to the resistance”, was busted, Nadler claimed that Taal’s detention was “a direct assault on the very freedoms that define our country.”

Taal’s idea of America’s freedom was to declare that “absolutely anyone the US calls an enemy is my friend.”

In 2025, Rep. Nadler issued more press releases on behalf of Hamas supporters in America by name than he did on behalf of any named Jewish hostages. Including Edan Alexander from Tenafly, New Jersey, not even a half-hour drive away from Nadler’s Manhattan district.

While this year Nadler could not bring himself to mention an American Jewish hostage from near his own district, he did agitate for Mahmoud Khalil, Taal, and terrorist supporters by name.

And that’s consistent with Nadler’s growing activism against Israel and for the terrorists.

Rep. Nadler had joined AOC in a congressional letter pushing an arms embargo on Israel, accusing the Jewish State of causing “civilian casualties and humanitarian suffering in Gaza”.

Fighting Hamas, Nadler was “a step backward for all who seek an enduring peace in the region.”

When a mob of Hamas supporters recently attacked a synagogue in Brooklyn, Nadler did not condemn the mob, he condemned the Israeli politician visiting the synagogue whom he denounced as a “racist, terrorist, Jewish supremacist” who had “pushed for an unending war in Gaza.”

This rhetoric could have come from the Hamas supporters whom Nadler has been championing. Nadler then pledged to “introduce new legislation” against Israeli Jews.

As awful as all this is, Rep. Nadler is far from the worst among the Democrats.

Is Rep. Nadler furious at Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun and trying to block his confirmation as the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism because he’s outraged at the rabbi’s accusations or because they’re true and he’s terrified of an antisemitism envoy actually exposing what the Democrats have become?

After Oct 7, more Democrats in a Quinnipiac poll said they sympathized with the ‘Palestinians’ than with the Jews. In a recent poll, 25% of Democrats expressed support for Hamas.

Rep. Nadler complains that Rabbi Kaploun is “divisive” because he condemned the failure of President Biden and the Democrats to stand up for Jews after the worst wave of public antisemitic violence in America in two generations. But those are also Nadler’s failures.