Posted on 11/07/2016 7:32:58 PM PST by nickcarraway
Donald Trump has only received endorsements from six newspapers, as many conservative publications have declined to back him or announced their support for his rival Hillary Clinton. But with less than a week to the presidential election, the Republican nominee received the blessings of three Jewish newspapers — the Jewish Voice, the Jewish Press and the Long Island Jewish World.
“[Trump] represents America’s best hope for reversing the calamitous course on which elected officials from both the Republican and Democratic parties have led us,” the Jewish Press wrote in its last edition before the election.
Trump’s candidacy has turned off newspapers that usually endorse Republican nominees, like the Arizona Republic and the Dallas Morning News, each of which broke with decades of tradition to support Clinton.
The Jewish Press said its decision to issue a late endorsement came from the reemergence this week of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s inquiry into whether Hillary Clinton sent or received classified information on a private e-mail server while secretary of state.
KKK newspaper The Crusader endorses Donald Trump Ku Klux Klan Newspaper Joins Sheldon Adelson in Endorsing Donald Trump Nathan GuttmanNovember 1, 2016 Once publishing articles by far-right activist Meir Kahane, the Jewish Press has a reputation for conservative stands on the issues, and also for embracing an ultra-Zionist attitude on Israel.
The Long Island Jewish World and the New York Jewish Voice maintain similar editorial lines, and the two papers hit many of the same notes in their Trump endorsements.
Describing Trump as “one of the leading supporters of Israel,” the Voice praised him for his stated goals of eliminating the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Education, ramping up domestic oil protection and lowering taxes.
It also called positive attention to his business record.
“And as a proud entrepreneur himself, he would cater to and come to the aid of small businesses which he calls the heart and soul of America,” the paper wrote.
The Jewish World measured its tone more carefully, noting its qualms with the Republican nominee, but echoing these points.
It blasted Clinton for a “systemic lack of integrity” and “an inability to determine where the ethical ‘line in the sand’ starts, much less whether she has crossed it.”
The paper also raised concerns about her foreign policy and economic policy ideas.
“Hillary’s White House would pursue an economic agenda so far to the left that ‘socialism’ would become a pillar of her presidency,” the editorial declared.
“Her inability or unwillingness to prevent the Obama administration from making repeated errors in international relations during her tenure is of great concern to us,” it also stated, citing Clinton’s position in favor of the Iran nuclear deal.
The paper qualified its endorsement for Trump, but argued that it reached the right decision.
“That is not to say that Donald Trump has not engaged in troubling behavior, some of it egregiously so. But he brings to the scene the ability to reset the table — domestically, internationally, economically and politically,” it summed up.
In First-Ever Political Endorsement, NY Jewish Week Slams Trump and Backs Clinton Josh Nathan-KazisOctober 11, 2016 Meanwhile, numerous publications have abandoned their non-partisan inclinations to support Clinton, citing her opponent’s unique peccadilloes and policies. These have included The Atlantic, USA Today and New York Jewish Week.
In an October editorial, the Jewish Week explained its decision as a matter of decency.
“This newspaper has not endorsed political candidates in the past. But this election is an exception. It’s not just about politics. It’s about character, competence and compassion,” the paper wrote.
Correction: Meir Kahane was previously identified as the founder of the Jewish Press. He was in fact a writer for the publication.
For shame!
WOW!!!
I just wish this had come sooner.
This article is in the Forward, a Marxist rag from its inception 100 years ago. The editorial policy of this paper is very, very biased against Conservatives, observant Jews, and the State of Israel.
Our discussion last week of the Nov. 8 presidential election centered on our lament that the focus of the campaign had shifted from a comparison of the candidates’ positions on critical issues to a fixation on a seemingly endless series of personal “gotcha” moments.
So, as a matter of underscoring our chagrin, we basically urged readers to make their voting decisions based on issues rather than personal foibles – perhaps some serious ones – and did not specify our choice. This, even though our preference for Mr. Trump was plainly manifest in what we had to say.
However, developments since then have impelled us to cross the line and endorse Mr. Trump outright. On Friday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced it was reopening its criminal investigation, closed this past summer, of Hillary Clinton’s possibly illegal mishandling of national security material. The decision was said by the director of the FBI to be based on the discovery of some 650,000 e-mails on a computer belonging to the husband of a senior Hillary Clinton aide and characterized by the director as including some that “appear to be pertinent” to the earlier closed investigation.
It is inconceivable to us that the investigation would have been reopened so close to the election absent the discovery of evidence of serious wrongdoing.
And so we urge readers to come out on November 8 and vote for Donald Trump for president of the United States. He represents America’s best hope for reversing the calamitous course on which elected officials from both the Republican and Democratic parties have led us. Israel, the Supreme Court, immigration, health care, the economy, gender rights, and national defense – issues we have addressed many times in earlier editorials – are just some of the areas in which he will bring back common sense and sanity.
Donald Trump is the better choice.
Nothing will sway the liberal secular Jewish voter. Liberalism is their god (lower case on purpose here).
Nothing will sway the liberal secular Jewish voter. Liberalism is their god (lower case on purpose here).
One thing I wonder about is why LIJW has no website. I asked Jerry Lippman about it and he is committed to print circulation only.
The Forward was once a sane, liberal newspaper but very anti-communist. I’m afraid that its’ new leaders are back to the old Marxist/socialist crap, which is a shame.
As for the NY Jewish Week, if this is the original Jewish Week (I wrote for its affiliate the Jewish Week, DC for many years as an investigative reporter), my first professional article was for Phil Hochstein, then the editor of both papers.
Phil was an old-time moderate to conservative Jewish editor who defended a relatively explosive expose’ I did on Israel’s enemies here in the US with the editorial sentence, “We will not be a propaganda platform for Israel’s enemies” or close to that. He could stand the heat and throw it back at the liberal idiots who criticized him.
Unfortunately, a lot of the Jewish newspapers of today are run by the equivalent of millenials with lots of degrees, very little common sense, and little real journalism experiences, esp. overseas.
Milk-toast in, milk-toast out!
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