U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz: “Read my lips: I don’t even know what an abortion is.” Credit: Shutterstock / lev radin

Once again, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz has shown his unwillingness to let the truth get in the way of a good story.

In a tweet reacting to a controversial weekend performance at the Glastonbury Music Festival where London punk-rap duo Bob Vylan led crowd members in chanting “Death to the IDF” — or Israel Defense Forces — Cruz tweeted: “This is the base of the Democrat Party.”

Um, OK. Let’s stop here for a much-needed reality check.

First, the Glastonbury Music Festival takes place annually in the United Kingdom, not the United States. Second, the Democrat Party has nothing to do with the festival and isn’t even listed on its sponsor page. Nor does it have any connection to Bob Vylan, the act that led the chants. 

Just the same, Cruz was determined to make the pearl-clutching moment all about those horrible Dems. “Truly sick. Thousands of people screaming ‘Death to the IDF.’ This is the base of the Democrat Party,” the senator railed.

As expected, Cruz’s online detractors were quick to point out that Glastonbury takes place on another fucking continent and has no connection to any U.S. political party. Just the same, Teddy Boy — no novice to saying stupid shit on the internet — wasted no time in backfilling an argument to justify his claim.

“Lots of comments saying this is in England. True. These are the looney British anti-Israel Left,” Cruz declared in his own defense. “They are the very same antisemitic zealots as the American anti-Israel Left — to whom the Democrat Party is utterly beholden.”

Time for another reality check.

Seven-in-ten Jewish adults identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party, according to the Pew Research Center. Not to mention, the party took heat from some of its own voters in 2024 over the Biden administration’s response to Israel over the bloody crisis in Gaza. Doesn’t sound like a bubbling cauldron of anti-semitism, does it?

But, hey, this weekend’s online outburst is exactly the ass-backward logic is what we’ve come to expect from Cruz, who has a long history of letting his fingers do the tweeting before his brain catches up.

Need more proof? Consult the senator’s similarly asinine online meltdown last week, where he hyperventilated about Zohran Mamdani’s New York mayoral primary win as being a communist coup.

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This article appears in Jun 26 – Jul 9, 2025.

Sanford Nowlin is editor-in-chief of the San Antonio Current. He holds degrees from Trinity University and the University of Texas at San Antonio, and his work has been featured in Salon, Alternet, Creative...