Vice President JD Vance told Sohrab Ahmari that 99% of Republicans and probably 97% of Democrats do not hate Jewish people for being Jewish, describing tensions as backlash to U.S. foreign policy consensus and urging open debate, according to an X post by Amichai Stein1 between 4:46 AM and 5:46 AM UTC on December 22, 2025. Vance said, “99% of Republicans, and I think probably 97% of Democrats, do not hate Jewish people for being Jewish. What is actually happening is that there is a real backlash to a consensus view in American foreign policy. I think we ought to have that conversation and not try to shut it down. Most Americans are not antisemitic, they’re never going to be antisemitic, and I think we should focus on the real debate,” as quoted in the post at https://x.com/AmichaiStein1/status/2002969330758094906. This statement follows Vance's earlier remarks in the same interview with Ahmari, where he declared antisemitism has no place in the conservative movement, defended Tucker Carlson, and addressed attacks on his wife, according to X summaries posted over the prior hour from 2:16 AM to 3:16 AM UTC on December 22, 2025.
