Let’s welcome this week’s vote by the Colorado Democratic Party leadership against an anti-Israel resolution that was pushed by the party’s noisy and growing radical fringe.

At a virtual meeting Monday, the state party’s central committee rejected a declaration whose absurd provisions included one condemning Israel for a “disproportionate military response” to a surprise attack on the country last Oct. 7 by Hamas terrorists. The attack killed about 1,200, mostly Israeli civilians — many of them children and elderly. Hundreds were taken hostage.

The resolution also regurgitated Hamas’ preposterous claims about civilian casualties in its home base in neighboring Gaza, where the terrorist group’s political arm rules with an iron fist. Hamas, which controls the flow of information there, routinely has churned out unverified and, by some accounts, wildly inflated numbers for the civilian death toll purportedly resulting from Israel’s months-long military campaign to hunt down Hamas combatants.

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It would be easy to wave off the Colorado resolution as just so much hot air, even if it had passed, given how little say a state party has over U.S. foreign policy not to mention over the events transpiring in the Mideast. But Monday’s vote could have practical value in another way — as a bellwether with broader implications for Colorado’s dominant political party.

Especially following the defeat of hard-left candidates in some key races in last week’s Democratic primary, Monday’s central committee vote could signal that our state’s many mainstream Democrats are fed up, at last, with their party’s extreme wing. Not only with its embrace of the likes of Palestinian terrorists on the international stage — but also with its promotion of reckless policies in our own state.

The same crowd that has demanded the annihilation of staunch U.S. ally Israel “from the river to the sea” has sought in our Legislature to release dangerous criminals onto Colorado’s streets; to cripple our private sector’s ability to create affordable housing; to enable drug abuse; to eliminate our traditional energy industry — the list goes on. Those policies’ advocates — the self-proclaimed Democratic Socialists; the “justice reform” movement, among others driven by narrow dogma — have abandoned their own party’s rank and file.

Could the tide be turning? If so, the radical left’s unprecedented denunciation of Israel — its antisemitic tirades against the Mideast’s only functional democracy — may be the tipping point. The many Democrats who never signed up for such nonsense seem to be losing patience.

And the many Jewish Coloradans who long have called the Democratic Party their political home — and who now are enduring the most insulting and unnerving invective from the left — are at wits’ end.

Just this week, two politically active Jewish Colorado Democrats drove that point home in a commentary they authored for Colorado Politics. Stefanie Clarke and Dawn Reinfeld recently founded the group Stop Antisemitism Colorado to counter the growing hate speech directed at Jews — a lot of it emanating from within the Democratic Party — since the Hamas attack.

Clarke and Reinfeld lauded last Tuesday’s primary election results and vowed “to fight tooth and nail” against their party’s anti-Israel left.

“This election was about more than just winning or losing; it was about sending a clear message: Colorado Democrats do not support the divisive and isolating tactics of the far left,” they wrote. “This is our party too, and we will not let it be taken over by those who seek to marginalize us.”

It’s a manifesto that can inspire not only the state’s mainstream Democrats but also all Coloradans of every race, creed, ethnicity — and political party.

Denver Gazette Editorial Board