Rahm Emanuel, a potential Democratic presidential candidate and longtime defender of Israel speaks in Tel Aviv University, Israel , Wednesday, July 8, 2026. AP Photo/Ariel Schalit

Rahm Emanuel wants to run for president as a Democrat in 2028, but bowing to the antisemitic wing of his party is a beyond-despicable way to do it.

In a speech Wednesday — in Israel, no less — the former Chicago mayor and Obama chief of staff slammed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and read the Jewish state the Riot Act, cravenly selling out the nation his own father fought for in its War of Independence.

Under Bibi, Emanuel warned, Israel was becoming a “prisoner of its own tools,” a reference to its military prowess.

Unconditional US support, he chided, “has allowed you to deny food and medical relief to innocent Palestinians in Gaza, leaving the world to conclude that Israelis not only want to kill Palestinians, but they are completely indifferent to their death” and “suffering.”

Never mind Israel’s unmatched record of sparing civilians in warfare, even at the expense of the lives of its own soldiers.

Emanuel vowed to end US military aid to Israel, called for sanctions against West Bank settlers and demanded the establishment of a sovereign Palestinian state flanking Israel on both sides.

Who’s he kidding? He knows well that, for decades, Palestinians have rejected the two-state solution.

Rahm’s old boss Bill Clinton repeatedly complains of the enormous time and political capital he wasted trying unsuccessfully to get Arabs to agree to it.

And today, Hamas, a murderous cult, is the moral center of the Palestinian polity and promises as many Oct. 7-style massacres as it takes to destroy the Jewish state.

But Emanuel has opted to play to the Dems’ antisemitic wing. It’s naive enough to be disqualifying.

Does he think the people who march against Israel and scream outside Manhattan synagogues will forgive his history of volunteering for the Israel Defense Forces, or his family’s longstanding ties to the Jewish state? Not bloody likely.

The moral midgets now steering the Democratic Party see themselves as the “good people” who must destroy any hint within their ranks of complicity with the colonialist, capitalist forces of racism and evil — i.e., anyone who shows any hint of sympathy for the Jewish state.

And this is who Rahm Emanuel imagines he can win over? Good luck with that.

Emanuel is feasting with wolves in hopes they’ll forget he’s on the menu. It won’t turn out well.