Jews, Party Identification, and Political Realignment
The recent Pew Research Center poll showing a formidable 9% change in party identification among American Jewish voters favoring the Republicans is only a harbinger of things to come. Party identification is not voting preference. Created by the authors of the political science classic The American Voter, party identification measures something more than how people vote. It measures an underlying psychological attachment to a political party. Party identification is a measure of how people identify themselves politically.
The Pew study was designed to measure how people were leaning politically, but among Jews, respondents did more than lean; they actually changed their psychological identification. This is significant not only because Jews showed the most dramatic change, but also because, apart from African American Protestants, Jews in 2008 supported Barack Obama more than any other ethno-religious group.
I see this as the beginning of a development of a critical mass that will transform the Jewish community. No, I don’t have any illusions; Jews will still overwhelmingly vote Democratic in 2012. After all, most Jews are secular and as such they are more concerned with the right to terminate a fetus than the right of six million Jewish Israelis to continue to exist. But American Jews are understanding that they are not immune to the increasing anti-Semitism of the left and its alliance with the most regressive and reprehensible political force on the planet, radical Islam. The Jewish community is beginning to comprehend that among the nations of the world only Israel is the subject of a debate over whether it has a right to exist. Criticism of Israel is no longer a discussion of policy choices, but a gossamer veil for anti-Semitism that shamelessly uses tactics right out of Joseph Goebbels’ 1934 statement on propaganda at the infamous Nuremberg rally.
Most people come to their politics the way they come to their religion. They’ve been socialized into a political belief system. They learn about politics as accepted behavior. They learn what newspapers and magazines to read, what media to watch, and what clichés they can utter among their friends for which they can receive social affirmation.
The American left might not be a religious people, but they certainly are not a godless people. They worship the god of government in the church of secularism. They believe in anthropocentric global warming, and that government can create jobs, stem inflation, and solve the problems of poverty at home and abroad. They continue to believe that the economy will be transformed by “green jobs,” although precious few have been created despite an inordinate investment of money.
They believe the previous oppressed will create a new moral order. The left refuses to comprehend that the abused are more likely to turn into abusers. When I came of age politically, colonial powers were collapsing. College professors preached the new moral order that would ensue from the rise of the Third World. A new sense of virtue would appear in the international political community because the Europeans would depart and the oppressed would replace them. Anyone who did not adhere to this ideology faced not only a bad grade but also social ostracism. Such is the conformity which the zealotry of the religion of politics demands.
And yet our professors forgot the most basic principles of the revolutionary phenomena they so venerated. They forgot Georges Daton’s immortal words: like Saturn, the revolution devours its own children. Such is the intellectual blindness of groupthink.
If you’re a conservative among liberal Jews, you find that Jewish liberals will view you as being in dire need of confinement to a reeducation camp. Everyone they know thinks as they do. Obviously, there must be something wrong with you. Their attitudes are reminiscent of Pauline Kael in her expression of shock over Richard Nixon’s presidential victory in 1972. An incredulous Kael asked how Nixon could have won when no one she knew voted for him.
Yet, beneath the surface, there has been for years a growing disenchantment among Jews with the political left. And Barack Obama’s anti-Israel policies have fueled that growth.
The 9% movement among Jews into the Republican camp means far and away more than what can be assessed by that number. It means the beginning of a critical mass so that liberal Jews will no longer be free to mouth political banalities, leftist clichés, and Democratic talking points without challenge. They will no longer be able to rely on social pressure to both stifle dissent and to promote political conformity among the vast majority of people whose political interests invariably align with what is socially palatable. They will no longer be able to be arrogant in their ignorance, because their ignorance will no longer be socially shared.
The 9% means a shifting dynamic in terms of the political dialogue within the Jewish community. That means the gathering of a force willing to challenge the leftist groupthink of Jewish communal organizations.
It is important to understand that Jews, like African Americans, were not always Democrats. In the early part of the twentieth century, the Democratic Party was associated with Southern secessionism, nativism, agrarian populism, and a debased currency. The Republican Party was the party of the urban and industrial North. Then came the candidacy of Al Smith, an urban Catholic, and the realigning election of 1928, which ended the Republican hold on the Northern urban and immigrant population. This was reinforced by the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932, which solidified the new immigrant and ethno-religious coalition that made the Democrats invincible until the election of the victorious general, Dwight D. Eisenhower, in 1952.
But Eisenhower’s candidacy changed voting preferences, not the psychological dynamic of party identification. With Eisenhower off the ballot, the ethno-religious coalition that Roosevelt created returned to the Democratic fold, inflating pundits’ appraisals of Kennedy’s impact on the Catholic vote. Kennedy did get a boost from Catholics but not as much as one might have thought by simply comparing Kennedy’s numbers, among Catholics, to Eisenhower’s. Catholics had defected to Eisenhower, but were still psychologically Democrats and absent Eisenhower, they were returning to their Democratic attachment. Eisenhower received Catholic votes, not Catholic party identification.
This is why the 9% figure among Jews is so important, for it speaks to party identification, not to ephemeral voting preference. It shows that Barack Obama has achieved the near impossible. He has created a psychological transformation among Jews, who will now increasingly identify — not just vote — as Republicans. And Obama is creating a similar phenomenon in the Catholic community, but that of course is another story.
The presidential election of 2012 might be the beginnings of a realignment of party identification. If so, Barack Obama will go down in history as the man who unraveled Franklin Roosevelt’s ethno-religious coalition.
The Left has controlled the Democrat Party for many years now. Many Americans are unaware of just how extreme the Democrats are because the Main Stream Media propogandizes for them and because the Republican Party is too feckless to expose them. Now that Extremists like Obama and Pelosi have been in control, many people are finally learning who the Democrats really are.
Note to the GOP: The GOP must run against Leftism and for conservatism!
Exactly.
And now Obama has also thrown the working-class whites – many of whom are Roman Catholic – under the bus too. I knew from the get-go that Obama wasn’t even remotely as intelligent as his PR flacks would have us suppose. But this is over-the-top, off-the-charts idiotic.
Is Obama mentally defective?
I think you have hit on a critically increasing weakness on the part of the Democratic Party and the Left in America. Once a group, in this case Muslims, occupy the politically correct space in terms of ethnicity or religion, gender or gender preference, basically they can do no wrong, even when displaying obvious bigotry or naked group advocacy themselves.
This is why groups on the Left which conspicuously organize themselves by race for example, not only are not criticized for it, but criticize the world at large which does not organize itself by race. This is the source of cries of Islamophobia directed mostly at faceless and nameless Americans in their millions.
Where this critical weakness then lies for the Dems is in the fact that they are indeed allying themselves with Muslims, who in their more Conservative expressions, show little difference between themselves and a hate group when it comes to intolerance for gays, minorities and women. In fact, conservatives Muslims despise the very Rainbow Coalition that is the centerpiece of the Dem Party and the Left in America.
As was shown on a very minor scale with the suspension of Roland Martin of CNN over a Twitter comment, the Left in America will now begin to consume itself. Martin, as a member of the Left’s protected group, was incessant and conspicuous in his disdain for white people and advocacy for black folks. However it was not for his obvious racism towards a group unprotected by PC, namely whites, that Martin was suspended but for attacking another member of the Left’s protected group, gays. Then, suddenly and mysteriously, Martin’s bigotry could be seen.
The Left’s alliance with Islam will eventually cause many to leave the Dem Party though not necessarily the mindset of political correctness which is a phenomenon that can transcend political affiliation. The Dem’s alliance with Islam will also force members of the Rainbow Coalition to fight and consume one another. For example, gays and Muslims are natural enemies. This has not expressed itself yet but will in the very near future as Muslims simply cannot and will not stop being Muslims in this regard.
Feminists and Muslims are also natural enemies and there will be a fight for dominance within the new Rainbow Coalition. It can be presumed that increasing cries of Islamophobia will be thrown around within the Left at each other rather than from within the Left at others. It can also be presumed that this is a fight Muslims will eventually lose due to their intolerance but who knows how much damage will be done to a fractured Left before this is played out.
Certainly it will damage America; it already has with the constant stream of complaint and advocacy for itself that emanates from Muslims in America and the UK. The Dem Party is depraved in their views of what constitutes justice and that is the long and the short of it. You cannot distribute morality and presumed innocence and guilt by skin color, economic status and gender; the Dems have in fact become the very racist and bigoted institution they once fought against.
Many others besides Roland Martin need to be marginalized into the swamps to reside alongside David Duke and Stormfront. Melissa Harris-Perry, Al Sharpton, Cornel West and Jesse Jackson would be a good start. No surprise they are the racist darlings of the Left. Not all that far behind them are Soledad O’Brien and Ed Schultz, among others, who cozen these racists and themselves make the most outrageous claims about America. In fact, the entire Dem Party needs to be marginalized as virtually anyone who disagrees with their party platforms and aims is colored as a bigot or racists that want to bring back slavery, women in kitchens and Jim Crow.
Yes the left is an interesting coalition of Progressives, Jews, Blacks, Gays and Muslims. They despise each other and vote for the same party.
If only it were that simple. Try organizing programs and politics exclusively for white people and see what happens. In fact it’s worse than merely organizing around race. It’s doing that only for certain approved groups.
Mr. Newton, your assessment of the Democratic Party is surely one of the best I’ve read. Kudos. And I agree with everything you’ve said.
It will truly be interesting watching them devour themselves during this coming election; a ‘feast’ which will only get bloodier if the Big Zero loses. If that happens, the next Democratic party convention will see half its members arriving in tumbrils. Yeah, should be very interesting indeed.
The race card went overdrawn back in 2010 with the multiracial Tea Party victories.
The woman card most likely played itself out when Newt won in SC. Too many of us noticed the filthy and shadowy hands of David Axelrod and Gloria Allred pulling the strings behind the smearing of Herman Cain.
We can only hope that the gay-baiting card will soon stop being a major issue. Many of us are tired of being bullied by proponents of the gay agenda. I have better uses for my time than monitoring what my fellow Americans are doing in bed. But don’t ask me to call a gay relationship (or for that matter, a polygamous relationship) a marriage, and don’t spend my tax dollars to subsidize any benefits for lifestyles other than traditional marriage between one adult man and one adult woman. That does not make me a “bigot” or a “homophobe” – just a traditionalist, and for that I make no apology.
On a tangential issue: Florida was a fluke in the primaries; seasonal migration patterns cause it to differ from other states. It is clear to me that the reason Romney won in Florida had a lot to do with the fact that the primary was in January. “Snowbird” Democrats from the blue states in the Northeast were in Florida at that time, and took advantage of the opportunity to vote in the Florida primary as Republicans. They felt no need to vote in the Democrat primary, because there was no real opposition to Obama. Instead, they wanted Romney to win the GOP primary, simply because they know he is not a real conservative, and because he would be far and away the easiest GOP candidate to beat in November.
In past years, some “snowbird” voters maintained registrations in both the heavily Democrat Northeast states (where their primary residences are located) and in Florida (where they winter), so that they could vote twice in the general election. Some people actually do live in two different states. I don’t care which state they pick to register and vote in – as long as it is one or the other and not both!
Don’t forget; it was the democrat party that gave us the civil war AND the Ku Klux Klan.
To a certain extent, a big reason that the Republicans did so well in 2010 is that people in rural southern and lower Midwest areas finally stopped voting Democrat. That legacy was essentially a fall out from the civil war, where the Republicans were more or less literally an occupation force. And that (the Reconstruction era) was 100+ years ago.
With that said though, most Jews I know are not social conservatives, and until most the Republican party stops hating gays, I don’t think too many Jews will feel comfortable in a party that is okay with bigotry.
stops hating gays?” HATE?
Sure, some people hate gays, people of all kinds — whites, blacks, and even (gasp!) some Democrats! Yes, they do.
Vast numbers of muslims hate and kill them with regularity, even as they engage in gay sex themselves on the sly.
Vast numbers of people feel pretty uncomfortable with or about gays, even straights who champion their rights.
Sex is a complex, powerful instinct, with taboos, over many millennia, that can’t be erased by PC pronouncements.
I find it much more common for homosexuals to express hate towards republicans than vice versa. If you were honest I think you would admit the same.
more gays hate Republicans than vice versa.
But gays hate themselves most of all. How come?
Because basing one’s individual identity and sense of self on a sexual preference is a dead end.
This idea that people “hate” gays because they don’t favor same-sex marriage is pretty ridiculous. It’s a shibboleth of the left, just like the idea that anyone who doesn’t favor unlimited state-funded abortion must “hate” women. Nonsense. This is part of the process of lefties enabling themselves to feel superior and more “evolved.” Once they feel that way, they can of course more easily rationalize taking control. And that power grab with an overlay of smugness is the essence of progressivism.
It’s not nonsense.
It’s a deliberate lie.
You, just as the MSM and the race baiters, have cheapened the word “hate” to the point it has no meaning. I hate child abuse, rape, hunger, cancer, incontinence, 3rd degree burns, identity theft….etc. But I only find Gays a minor annoyance.
I choose my words thoughtfully, especially the 4 letter words for when I speak them, those who know me truly are impacted. I just don’t throw them about like a registration form at an ACORN rally.
@3 JeremyR put his finger on a problem many Jews have with the Republican Party platform: social conservatism. On the other hand, many Rabbis have problems reconciling acceptance of homosexuality with the teachings of the Talmud and Tanakh. Two millenia ago one of Judaisms most famous Rabbis, Hillel, taught that “one should do unto one’s neighbor as ye would have him do unto you.” He added that this summed up Jewish thought and that the rest of the Talmud was merely commentary on how to deal with life. A very significant problem arises, of course, when the neighbor disagrees with that premise.
Homsexuality is forbidden behavior. Treating ones neighbor in a respectful manner has nothing to do with condoning your neighbors behavior when it violates ethical conduct. Hillel concluded the phrase that the ” rest was indeed commentary ‘ with ” Now go and study it! “. Something you should do before pretending any sort of expertise.
What the contemporary, heterodox rabbis have done is utter ideological violence not only to traditional Torah values but to the human dignity of gays themselves! Basically, the stated position of the Conservative movement goes something like this; we will celebrate your marriages, you can serve as rabbis and cantors, you can live among us as equals in your chosen lifestyles…but DO NOT ENGAGE IN FUDGEPACKING OR PILLOW-BITING! Well, if you put together two people who have a binding affection for each other, including a desire for certain behaviors, and you then prohibit them from doing so that is simply a cruel imposition of an impossible test. Most people in that circumstance are going to be “living in sin” according to the movement’s own rulings. That is just contemptible and, moreso, I see it as a violation of simple honor and respect due to other people (a core Torah value). So, tell me again who really hates gays; it isn’t who you think it is.
Hillel actually said, “Don’t do unto others what you wouldn’t have done unto you.” The difference is profound.
Hillel did NOT teach “one should do unto one’s neighbor as ye would have him do unto you.” (That would mean that if you’re a pervert or a Roman sympathizer who would prefer to live under a fascist or communist dictatorship, then you are fully justified to impose that form of government on your neighbors. There’s also a contradiction, insofar as that saying justifies imposing your preferences as the standard by which everybody else must live, at the same time that it justifies your neighbor to impose their differing preferences as the standard by which you must live, which historically has resulted in extremely bloody wars to resolve the matter through the solution of “might makes right”).
Hillel was teaching the most fundamental principal of love and mutual respect, which requires taking into account the differences in thought and preferences between individuals when he said, “That which is hateful to you, do not to your fellow. That is the whole Torah. The rest is commentary. Now go and study.”
This is the traditional understanding of the Torah Law to “Love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD”. – Lev. 19:18
9 per cent is “formidable” ? The study has a 6.5 margin of error…
So it could be a “formidable” 2.5 per cent…
And we are talking about an administration that violates the Constitution, weakens our military, destroys the economy, abandons Israel…
“No, I don’t have any illusions; Jews will still overwhelmingly vote Democratic in 2012. After all, most Jews are secular and as such they are more concerned with the right to terminate a fetus than the right of six million Jewish Israelis to continue to exist.”
That’s because a secular Jewish female is much more worried about getting pregnant than she is about Iran getting a nuclear bomb. The irony is, they may say they do not care about what happens to Israel, but they are usually the first ones to scream at our government if something does. But if American Jews ARE interested in the American economy and their jobs, all they have to do is ask themselves, “Am I better off today than I was four years ago?” If the answer is no, you would be stupid to keep the same guy in office, right? I don’t think you want to make the same mistake twice with Obama. That would just be plain foolish.
Mr. Miller, well written, agreed, and I hate to even bring this up for one small quibble. But it is important.
The left are the most “religious” of people – their Humanist Manifesto says as much, and the present entire government education system is an establishment of the humanist religion.
And nothing is more evil than impure religion.
That’s important to understand. They have the strictest moral code of any group in America, I suppose with the exception of some *really* fundamentalist religious groups. They are the new Puritans. Doctrine must be followed, dissent must be condemned as heresy. Most people (even the leftists themselves) don’t recognize this because their values don’t always coincide with those of “traditional” religions. Values they have, though, and they seek to impose them on the world just as surely as any crusader or jihadi ever did.
And so I say unto you plebes: eat not salt nor transfats. But go forth with your fat tranny and copulate.
- The Gospel according to Mayor Mike
Jewish voters left the Democratic party in droves in 1980 in disgust with jimmy carter. We are actually in carter’s second term and the Jewish vote could leave again. The democrats won’t receive the 78% of the Jewish vote that was theirs in 2008. A ten or fifteen percent shift to the Republicans could make an important difference in critical states such as Florida. One can at least hope that American Jews will finally recognize the domestic and foreign horrors being formulated by a democratic party gone insane.
As a Jewish college professor, people are constantly surprised that I’m a Republican. It took time to get there, but 1 A minor in economics taught me that Keynes did not work. 2. I opposed the Vietnam War but I had no illusions about the Viet Kong.3I had no illusions about Castro.4.I was shocked about left’s opposition to Israel in 6 day war and especially the Yom Kippur War.5 The New York Times”s radicalisation, especially it’s opposition to Orthodox Judaism.
6 The consistant anti Americanism of the American left.
Frankly when I registered as a Republican I felt that I had come home.
I am curious: are you yourself Orthodox? If not, do you have an affiliation?
Congratulations! An honest and rational professor with an accurate memory! Wonderful. Now, before you get too cosy w/the Republicans, I recommend that you check out the Libertarian Party.
It’s really a comfortable home for us. A Jewish friend of mine explained it this way, “Judaism is a libertarian religion! There’s no Pope, you are encouraged to arrive and answers yourself through Torah study, and most of your observance takes place at home!”
Oops! *arrive AT answers*
It has been a perplexity to me most of my adult life why Jews, seemingly without any analysis, blindly align behind a Democrat regardless of his policies and beliefs.
During the 2008 campaign every Jewish person I knew would not entertain even questions about Obama as simple as “Why do we know so little about his life from early childhood to graduation from law school.
We knew Bush and Clinton smoked pot and were generally happy-go-lucky playboys…about Obama…nothing!
The reaction was always the same, “You are racist, you are a bigot, you hate him because he is black”. I never said I hated him, (I do now) I simply asked a question about his apparently sanitized past.”
As to being anti-black or racist I pointed out I would vote in a second for Thomas Sowell or Condoleezza Rice or both on the same ticket.
My protestations gained no traction, their minds were made up and they wanted nothing to do with seeking facts or the truth.
It would be nice if the most highly educated demographic in the country would select 2012 to broaden their horizons, open their minds, and look objectively at the devastating destruction of the current crop of Democrats.
My ancestors as well as theirs risked a lot to come to the United States for opportunity. Left to his own devices Mr. Obama wants those opportunities to dry up.
I hope the 9% is a sign of expanded examination of reality without bias…but I am not counting my chickens or Jewish votes.
in an instant, but Condi Rice, never. She equated Arafat with MLK and blacks, and Israel with red-neck white racists.
If you on’t believe me, check it out for yourself.
As one of my parents’ friends once told me, there was a Yiddish phrase describing Jewish beliefs for most of the 20th Century: “Diser Velt (This world), Yenner Velt (The World To Come), un Roosevelt.” That philosophy has basically held true for as long as that generation has remained influential.
I’ll never understand your friend’s parents. Our fascist FDR regime made Shechita illegal under the National Recovery Act. Yet the Shechter’s who sued all the way to the Supreme Court and had this bill overturned, then decided that to be good American’s they would vote for FDR in 1936. That these fools would wish for a good Czar is understandable. That American Jews would fall pray to some Stockholm Syndrome or mass hysteria is not.
These FDR worshipers will say that they must support Democrats because FDR opposed Hitler. Yet FDR’s State Department refused to even fill immigration quotas lest Jews be allowed to escape Hitler and then tried to hide the Holocaust.
But then, I’m not your kind of Jew. All my grandparents and my father survived the Holocaust, while American Jews took “Rabbi” Wise’s advice to suck up to FDR.
I never knew that Shechita was banned back then.
“It has been a perplexity to me most of my adult life why Jews, seemingly without any analysis, blindly align behind a Democrat regardless of his policies and beliefs.”
Very, very simple. Elementary even. Jews hate Evangelical Christians more than they hate what the Socialists are doing to them and the country. Evangelicals don’t particularly hate Jews (many are very pro-Israel), but their faith reminds the majority of Jews (who are secular) that they (the Jews) have ignored their own traditional faith. Like it or don’t, that’s why. BTW, I’m part Jewish so skip the pro forma accusations of antisemitism, and no, I’m not self-hating.
Very, very true, RKV. However, on the bright side – many observant Jews recognize the similarities between themselves and the evangelical Christians, and are aligning in significant ways. Also, the Sephardic Jews I know do not fall into the mindless Democratic Party sheepfold. They have no problem supporting Republicans, even, ugh!, moderate Republicans.
” Jews hate Evangelical Christians more than they hate what the Socialists are doing to them and the country. Evangelicals don’t particularly hate Jews (many are very pro-Israel), but their faith reminds the majority of Jews (who are secular) that they (the Jews) have ignored their own traditional faith. ”
What nonsense! Your statement leads me to believe you know few members of either group. Evangelicals voice strong support for Israel. They are widely respected by Jews here in Israel and abroad. What Jews do hate is to be preached at and condescended to. Your comment about not ” particularly ” hating Jews is informative and sheds light on your mindset. As far as your own background being ” part ” Jewish is concerned it is meaningless and self serving , meant to deflect criticism of your ill founded comments.
And your point is? Your over-reaction is what I expect when I point out the inconvenient truth. Further you make assumptions to bolster your point which don’t happen to be true in my case, but then you don’t know jack about me personally do you? So that’s not a valid argument. You overgeneralize too. As far as being preached at or condescended to, Jews need to learn to just ignore that stuff, or deal with the own lack of faith. Get over yourselves (I certainly have tried to, and as part Jewish, I recognize the symptoms). Funny how the Evangelical Christians take the flack, when it’s the Islamofascist Muslims which are the real enemies of both Christians and Jews.
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cast ballots for their beloved Obama. They LOVE him. It’s sick.
Worst part of it is, he hates Jews, and they’re too stupid to see it.
Mr. Miller,
I agree and respect what you wrote. However, every time there is an article on Jewish voting, I always ask the same question. How much confidence do we have in the numbers? Despite the skepticism of many on this site, most seem to accept without question such facts presented by the media, without considering how difficult it is to arrive at accurate figures. I raise these questions because as a Jew, who knows many Jews, I don’t see the degree of liberal/secular domination that the media trumpets. I don’t doubt there is a majority of liberals, but beyond that I am skeptical of the numbers.
78 percent voted for Obama? How big was the sample, who was sampled, who wasn’t. I have never been sampled and no one I know of has told me they were. How do we know it was a representative sample? Was the sampling properly balanced to account for the right proportion of orthodox, conservative, reform and unaffiliated Jews? Do we even know what the right proportions are at this point since there has been a vast difference in fertility between the orthodox and the unaffiliated and reform. If there has been a shift, I think the main reason is the demographics. Left-leaning Jews are dying out, orthodox and more conservative Jews are reproducing, just as in Israel.
In my congregation, a mixed bag otherwise, easily 4 out of 5 voted for Obama. Can’t say for sure this year.
Good questions. Having been in the sampling business, systematic random samples have been refined over the last seventy some years. Accuracy is only partly dependent on number. It is more dependent on how the sample is drawn. A national sample of 1200 can easily predict the popular vote, although not necessarily the electoral vote. Of course, if the popular vote is very close, the sampling error will cause it to be called as a tie. Religion is more difficult to represent, especially for Jews, who are less than 3% of the population. But there are reasonably good studies than bear out a lot of anecdotal and aggregate data. As for the birth rates of the Orthodox, it will take time for that to have an impact. Most affiliated Jews are Reform, and most Jews are secular. The Pew study confirms a lot of anecdotal data from people who are in the campaign business. Jewish liberalism is so suffocating that I know several congregations where the rabbis dare not speak their mind and hold on to their positions. The New Jewish Agenda is officially gone, but it still affects a lot of the community organizations. Let’s think of it this way, can you imagine the African American community having the equivalent of a J Street or a New Israel Fund?
That’s anthropogenic global warming.
Yes, you are correct, although why this term was conceived to be used almost exclusively with climate change is a mystery to me. I can’t find it used anywhere else, and I must say anthropocentric makes more sense to me. I’ll concede the point.
In the world of the CIA, they use the term ‘blow back’ to describe their own actions coming back to haunt them. This defection of a nearly a tenth of American Jews has to be the Democratic Party’s blow back for embracing Muslims. If I were a Jew, I couldn’t think of anything which would clench my gut worse than seeing my party condone an ideology which slaughters its own daughters for wearing lipstick, threatens murder for a simple cartoon and rolls the decapitated head of a journalist along the floor like a volley ball. And there’s also that pesky thing of child molestation and homophobia. Nope, doesn’t make a comfy fit for Judaism at all. In fact, I’m wondering why MORE Jews aren’t leaving?
I have never been able to comprehend the monolithic nature of how over 95% of Blacks and almost 90% of Jews voted for Hussein. The Blacks, who as a group are the least-educated demographic, offer some sort of explanation for their idiocy; rank stupidity and overt racism. But what could possibly be the excuse for the lunacy of the Jews, who are the most-educated demographic. It would seem that the more exposure to education a people achieves, the greater the degree of asininity that people exhibits. The behavior of the Jews has always been an absolute puzzlement!
Please enumerate for me “Barack Obama’s anti-Israel policies”
You of course jest, but permit me to humor you. Embracing a more fervent prohibition on construction in Jewish areas of Jerusalem than Abbas, or even Arafat himself, ever conceived and forcing Abbas to follow the president’s lead. Announcing the shape of the final settlement before the parties ever sat down to negotiate. Blaming Israel for Abbas refusing to come to the negotiating table. Telling Israel it must take risks for peace but demanding nothing of the Palestinians, not even that they show up to negotiate. Treating Netanyahu like he was some lackey from a banana republic during the days when United Fruit ran Central America. Omitting Israel from the roll of states facing terrorism–not once but twice. Refusing to invite the ZOA to White House meetings and replacing it with the anti-Zionist, George Soros owned J Street. Need I go on? What do you see as a favorable policy? That America continues to sell arms to Israel to prop up the defense industry? Oh, how about wasting three years talking to Iran while it works on a program to wipe Israel off the face of the planet.
Asking Israel to go back to the pre-1967 borders is anti-Israel since Israel clearly has no wish to do so. And let’s not quibble with semantics. In terms of those borders, which are actually an armistice line, there are only the borders from ’67 to today and those of 1948; there is no in-between. When the President calls for 1967 borders, he is clearly not calling for the status quo but the lines before the 1967 War; there are no other lines in terms of the larger picture – using the term “1967 lines” is disingenuous since no such lines exist in a vacuum – they are today’s lines.
And when the President calls for mutually agreed swaps, that means Israel can keep only what is agreed on with Palestinian consent. I leave it to you to guess the fate of Jewish settlements on the West Bank if left to Obama’s “plan.” The Palestinian Arabs don’t care about what Israel cares about which is defense in as much depth as possible in terms of prospective Muslim tank columns coming out of the West Bank.
Jews hate Christians.
And the majority will continue to vote for the Anti Christian Left.
It is as simple as that.
They try to rationalize that hatred and blame the victim of their animus …. Jewish support for the destruction of Christian Civilization.
But there it is. It is what lies at the heart of Jewish perfidy.
They are far from alone in this endeavor, many other minority groups, “Others,” are similarly supporting the effort, and enjoying the spoils of success.
It isnt going to end well, though.
It is not true that all Jews hate Christians. It is quite true that Christians over the centuries have done much to earn the hatred of the Jewish people. Wouldn’t you hate a group that had persecuted you people for 1500 years? If a group burned you, tortured you, murdered your children , would you not hate them? Of course you would. Jews are after all quite human. Something you , judging by your comments, are quite unaware. You are the problem.
Well, you just rationalized the hatred Machem.
Jews are the enemy of Christian Nations, whether the Christians themselves are to blame for that, or not. That is the reality of the situation. Jews do not have the best interests of Christian peoples or Nation States in mind. They are the enemies of those peoples and nation states…which is why they overwhelmingly support all “Others” and the self hating Left in the endeavor to deconstruct it, empower all “Other” cultures and groups within them whilst conversely disempowering Christians.
This is the plain truth of the matter. It doesnt make me an Anti Semite by recognizing it. Just as recognizing that Arab Muslims are the enemy of a Jewish Israel, doesnt make one an Anti-Arab Anti-Muslim bigot.
Jews are not the friends of European Christians or their Nation States…as can be seen in their overwhelming support for the delegitimization of those states as European Christian nations…via promotion of diversity, mass non-discriminatory immigration, multiculturalism, and radical interpretations of the Separation of Church and State.
You can call me all the names you like. You can prosecute me with thought and speech control Orwellian “Hate Speech,” etc. but the Truth is plain for all to see.
Well Menachem old boy, I guess guilt by association is your method. Personally I had a walk through a cemetery in Normandy a couple of years back, where a bunch of American Christians were killed doing their best to stop the guys who made a practice of murdering Jews. You seem to have forgotten that bit of history. Same folks who stood by the state of Israel in 1948 (and ever since). Of course its easier to blame the Christians for what happened in the past than it is to look at what the Islamofascists are promising to do if they get the chance now. Israel’s got issues a lot closer to home than in the Bible Belt of the US.
Wrong, anti-Semitic, brainwashed drone. Are you paid to be here? The Jewish people are not joined at the brain. They’re individuals and like everyone else, they make their own individual decisions about who they like or hate. Maybe they just hate you.
They keep on voting for the Anti Christian Left. They are the farthest Left group of any ethno-religious group in the US….besides perhaps the Nation of Islam.
Even Black Americans are Christian Social Conservatives in the main.
Actions speak louder than yelling Anti Semite! Racist! McCarthyist! at those who have the temerity to give voice to the plain obvious.
Could it be that many Jewish families run businesses, many are Doctor’s and Lawyers. A lot of the law changes by the D’s have made running a business harder.
I believe that liberty and religious liberty are important to Jews. Yes they may be secular themselves but they usually bristle when they are told to follow rules they didn’t promote. They are usually very family orientated and can flip out if their child wants to marry outside the faith. The left’s assault on values is finally rubbing salt into old wounds.
Jews have long tolerated the insults toward Israel and religious groups but now they see they are getting rounded up. There are many similarities between fascists and Islam, and they are both anti-Semite. They can see that Obama will throw them under the bus once the Catholics are trampled.
Absolutely, John Galt, and the short-sighted don’t realize that he’s coming for all of us. It just starts with the Jews and Christians. He’ll get around to everyone else as soon as he destroys the most powerful opposition. Read the Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evens or Not A Shot Was Fired by Jan Kozak and you’ll see that the way this man and his administration is advancing, with social programs, environmentalism, favoritism for specific groups, alliance with and then destruction of unions, is the way of all thugs of every stripe. You begin with small changes and the changes get bigger and bigger until suddenly people are wearing gold stars and being shipped off to gulags. By the way, Germany was an enlightened representative republic before Hitler, as was Czechoslovakia (about which Kozak writes). They both thought it could never happen there, either.
Obama says “transparency” and means none.
Obama says “post-racial” and then sets up a website just recently especially for African-Americans, ironically a term that community doesn’t like all that much nowadays if you follow the goofy trail of acceptable semantics minorities change like oil in your car.
If the Jewish vote follows Dems it speaks to secularism and liberal views a sub-culture may share by inclination and tradition. Jewish folks in America have always been heavily interested in the arts and that is no place for Conservatives.
Obama recently told his community organizing mentor, Jerry Kellman (the man who groomed him for the presidency) that he was still organizing. Yes, he is.
“the arts…is no place for Conservatives. — Newton
Unfreakinbelievable!!!!!!
Let me offer you a european perspective; Since 1956 the Communist parties have totally jumped the bandwagon against the jews ( branded as filthy capitalists ) and against Israel ( branded as a fascist colonialist puppet state of the imperialist camp). But thanks to you american republican, thanks to Ronald Reagan,thanks to Senator Henry Scoop Jackson ( a democrat) thanks to Margaret Thatcher, thanks to the resilience of Israel , the soviet evil empire was defeated and their affiliates in the west lost totally any credibility. We were then in 1991, and since then the the remnants of the soviets had to find a new job; when I speak of those remnants I mean all the ” intellectual army ” the writers, the journalists, the the academic professors, the so-called ” friends of peace and progress ” were left without a cause, but they were clearly alive and looking for a new way of enhancing their career by some anti-western protagonisme. They found that the new weak camp vs. strong camp was inside their own countries the plight of the arab-muslim immigrants and outside their countries the Israel-arab conflict which was already a tune they sang from 1956 until 1991. This ” intellectual army ” invaded the european ” socialist parties ” and made a strong effort at making guilty anyone opposing their new anti-western( pro muslim & pro-arab ) agenda. The idea of promoting the muslim immigrants very quickly evolved into the project of a new ” multiculturalist society ” where the new entrants ( muslim immigrants ) should not adapt to the host society ( French , German, English ) in matters of laws and their respect, education, freedom, language, work ethic, etc..The ” intellectual army of the left ” succeeded in a very impressive way to impose a relativist scale of values and a new language to sanctify the intruders and to despise the old, conservative, law-obedient society. Jews were constrained, coerced by the ” intellectual army of the left ” the new champion of the multicultural society to to either engage themselves on the side of the new underdogs ( the muslim immigrants ) in the name of their past sufferings ( anti-semitism – shoah- traditionnal jewish tolerance etc ) or to refuse that ” multiculural ” society and then to be branded as reactionary, bigots, egoists, fascist etc..The jewish communities could not at first glance catch who was preaching that new kind of ” kulturkampf ” and it is only since the september 11th and the mediatisation of world jihad that they discovered the new paradigm of the left. It was too late to change anything at that new falsification of history , at this sanctification of the muslim underdog ( either immigrant, or palestinian, or jihad fighters ) vs. the white, american. capitalist, jewish or israeli oppressor.It was quite late because the ” intellectual army of the left ” which was at most a fringe share of the public opinion in the 50″- 60″-70 “s ( 10 % of communist voters ) entered the mainstream left parties ( socialists are 25% Green-Ecologist are 5%) in the 80″s and represent now a solid group of 30% which constantly receives new voters from the islamic-arab immigrants . Since 1977 in France , the immigration law has resulted in a massive wave of new arab immigration, the newcomers receive automatically the citizenship and the right to vote since they are naturalized as french after 5 years, and thanks to the JUS SOLI their children are also french. So the ” intellectual army of the left ” has managed a very strong comeback after having been totally defeated with the loss of the soviet empire. Their combined share ( communist-socialist-green-arab immigrant group) now weighs 55% of the opinion. The conservatives parties have lost their appeal, and cruel of irony ; the left ( socialist parties ) has promoted through electoral system change the resurgence of the extreme right parties who are taking root among the lower classes ( wagers, employees, suburbans dwellers ) thriving on the frustration of the white, the ” français de souche “at the new predominance of the arab immigrant ( français de la diversité in the novaspeak language of the left ) . Result : The french jewish community ( 600,000) is now threatened physically by arab thugs everywhere, some young jews (Ilan Halimi, Sebastien Sellam ) have been murdered by organized bands of arab kidnappers, the synagogues are under heavy guard and you are asked to hide any jewish identification ( skullcap, maguen david, hebrew books ) as soon as you leave the synagogue and enter the street, the tube, the bus.Out of 60,000 jews in age of school ( from 6 to 18 years old ) 20,000 have enroled into catholic schools in order to avoid the ant-jews violence that is common in the state schools. The left media control is such that those thugs and murderers are only named ” Jeunes ” ( young guys therefore irresponsibles ) )to offend them as little as possible.Their ethnic origin is cautiously hidden, if they are caught they are judged behind closed doors courts , to avoid ethnic resentment from their community . Jews are systematically accused of standing by Israel and therefore guilty of faning the flames of the ” jeunes, poors, français de la diversitè” resentment. Well I will stop here the description but you americans are entering the same process of debasement of your society. The jews, israel are used by Obama, the democrat party as a scapegoat, and the whole fabric of your society is at stake.Here in France it is totally irreversible and whoever can leave is actively doing it.
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