Posted on 04/04/2015 12:08:50 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
A longstanding alliance between Jewish voters and the Democratic Party no longer appears very durable.
The rift — aggravated by a nuclear deal with Iran and sour relations between President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — will likely have political implications in the 2016 elections, The Wall Street Journal reports.
"At this moment in time, many American Jews who have consistently voted Democratic are beginning to waver in that support, because they've felt the bedrock relationship between Israel and this administration has been severely shaken," Rabbi Howard Buechler, of the Dix Hills Jewish Center in New York, told the Journal.
Republicans think the shift in loyalties could influence key Senate races in Florida and the Philadelphia and Chicago suburbs, the Journal reports.
For example, the Journal notes, a new email petition sent out by the National Republican Senatorial Committee urges people to sign and "tell Obama it's now time to stand with Israel and Prime Minister Netanyahu."
Alan Kessler, a longtime Democratic fundraiser based in Philadelphia, told the Journal that Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Pat Toomey might have an easier re-election run because he's a dependable supporter of Israel.
"It could make things more difficult" for a Democratic challenger, Kessler said.
Other Democrats worry that Jewish voters may want to punish some Democratic House and Senate members who boycotted Netanyahu's address to a joint session of Congress last month.
"Many fellow Democrats of the Jewish faith were appalled" that lawmakers didn't show the prime minister "the respect and courtesy of being in the audience," Democratic fundraiser Leonard Barrack told the Journal.
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A rift opens between real Jews and liberal bagel and lox Jews. The latter are at their Seders this weekend crying with joy, “Next year in Jerusalem!” with their mouths and with their hands busy applauding Obama for paving the way to blowing it up.
Y'could'a eliminated this mess 20 years ago
30,000,000 "unaccompanied children" will be voting Democrat in 2016.
I went to a Seder last night on Long Island, and the Jewish lib I spoke with (a hardcore lefty) saw no problem with the Iran deal. Neither did his sister and her husband.
He then resorted to wanting to discuss “social issues”. Jews who aren’t orthodox, support gays (there was a male gay pair at the Seder as well) and are pro-abortion.
The Jewish girls, going back to the 70s were all in favor of birth control, and proud of their status as equals to Jewish males, (which they extended to the infamous “Our Bodies, Our Choice” mantra). Don’t try to tell a Jewish lib that abortion is a sin. They will look at you like you’re a Birther (which I am- fubo was born in kenya).
Hmmm?
Israel is forever but not so for little boys.
I’m trying really hard to find sympathy for those Jews who have been a dependable vote for commie-libs for decades.
Jews are liberals first and Jews second.
Cultural Jews are.
Just as Cultural Catholics and Cultural Protestants are.
Israel is among the most tolerable places for all sorts of people in the Middle East, why aren’t more people recognizing that fact?!!!
I don’t have any.
Go to a Christain Eater Dinner ad the Christian Libs, Male & Female/LGBTQ, will react the same.
Translation, please? :-)
Easter Dinner
Yes, but 70% of American Jews voted for fubo. It’s a disgrace, I tell ya’.
Yeah, these are my Jewish friends as well. Abortion lovers and a lot of their kids are either gay or cross dressers - with total parental approval if not encouragement. Something’s gone wrong with that community...
agreed, of course you are correct.
(ps: so the IslamoNazis are eating Christians now, eh? guess they’re not satisfied torturing Christians, buring Christians alive, and crufifying Christians. Now we all get eaten, too?
Problem for Islam: “you are what you eat!” ... won’t eating us Infidels make you into Infidels yourselves?
The rift was always there, only now, it is in the open, and the Democrats as led by the Current Regime have done their best to rip at the edges of that rift.
After all, where are all the Jewish voters going to go, over to the Republicans?
The Current Regime is awfully darned sure of themselves.
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