Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice David Wecht announced on Monday that he is leaving the Democratic Party due to what he believed was the rampant spread of “Jew-hatred” and antisemitism within the party. His announcement comes a little over six months after he won a retention election to serve another 10-year term in November. Wecht was first elected to Pennsylvania’s high court in 2015.
“From 1998 to 2001, years that preceded my judicial career, I served as Vice-Chair of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party,” Wecht said in a statement announcing the change of his party affiliation. “In the quarter-century that has passed since then, the Democratic Party has changed. Nazi tattoos, jihadist chants, intimidation and attacks at synagogues, and other hateful anti-Jewish invective actions are minimized, ignored, and even coddled. Acquiescence to Jew-hatred is now disturbingly common among activists, leaders, and even many elected officials in the Democratic Party.”
“I can no longer abide
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