Herzog concedes anti-Israel feeling is growing in America

Israeli President Isaac Herzog isn't pretending otherwise. On Wednesday he acknowledged that anti-Israel sentiment is climbing in the United States, singling out Democrats as the place where the shift is most visible.

His comments came hours after Vice President JD Vance dropped a long post on X laying out what voters care about following the Republican wipeout in the midterms. Among the four reasons Vance gave for disaffected Trump supporters to come home: a change in Washington's relationship with Israel, per Breaking The News.

Herzog took the post in stride rather than pushback. He said the vice president's remarks reflected sentiments that are in the air in our great friend and ally, and made a point of voicing respect for both President Donald Trump and Vance.

The Israeli president also stressed that Israel has friends on both sides of the aisle. He said the country respects Republican and Democratic leaders alike and has always made every effort to be bipartisan -- a line that reads as a quiet plea as much as a statement of fact.

The exchange lands in a politically raw Washington. Republicans just lost the House, Democrats are promising investigations, and Israel policy is now being openly floated as a lever in the GOP's internal rebuild.

What happens next is the open question: whether Vance's framing becomes party doctrine or stays a talking point. Herzog, for now, is betting on the bipartisan relationship holding.