Ambassador Fitz Haney raised money for Barack Obama and served as his ambassador. Today the lifelong Democrat says he feels politically homeless.

S. Fitzgerald "Fitz" Haney is Managing Director for Latin America at the Genesis Prize Foundation and American Friends of Isaac Accords, and former U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica.

Raised Catholic by a widowed mother outside Chicago, he went to an Orthodox rabbi in Mexico City hoping to find his way back to the church. Somewhere along the way he found something else, and he eventually made his home in Israel.

He has spent his life as the person every community had to make sense of. After October 7th, on a London street, a stranger came for every part of him at once.

Asked whether he truly understood what he took on when he became a Jew, he gives an answer he knows will draw criticism, one that overturns what he believed the day he converted.

This is not a conversation about switching parties. It is about a man who chose each of his identities and is now watching every one of them tested.

And Avi Jorisch asks him one question with no clear answer: after October 7th, where did the betrayal cut deepest?

Statecraft with Avi Jorisch is a production of IEF. Conversations with the people shaping the destiny of Israel and the Jewish people.