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On Israel, Progressive Jews Feel Abandoned by Their Left-Wing Allies
New York Times via Yahoo ^ | October 20, 2023 | Jennifer Medina and Lisa Lerer

Posted on 10/21/2023 3:06:39 PM PDT by grundle

Progressive Jews who have spent years supporting racial equity, gay and transgender rights, abortion rights and other causes on the American left — including opposing Israeli policies in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank — are suddenly feeling abandoned by those who they long thought of as allies. This wartime shift represents a fundamental break within a liberal coalition that has long powered the Democratic Party.

In Los Angeles, Rabbi Sharon Brous, a well-known progressive activist who regularly criticizes the Israeli government, described from the pulpit her horror and feelings of “existential loneliness,” her voice breaking. “The clear message from many in the world, especially from our world — those who claim to care the most about justice and human dignity — is that these Israeli victims somehow deserved this terrible fate.”

In Atlanta, a Jewish mother involved in local politics wrote an open letter lamenting that her child’s progressive private school had not addressed the attacks in Israel with the same kind of empathy it showed after local killings of Asian Americans. “Our people are butchered, and no one speaks to it?” she wrote. “I don’t know if I’m seething or just sad.”

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TOPICS: Editorial; Miscellaneous; US: Georgia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; notmiscellaneous; shj
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To: grundle
Progressive Jews who have spent years supporting racial equity, gay and transgender rights, abortion rights and other causes on the American left — including opposing Israeli policies

Progressive Jews and Gentiles support evils that God hates.

"I am the Way, the Truth and the Life! No man comes to the Father, except through Me!" John 14:6

Unless Jews and Gentiles who reject Christ receive Him, they will continue to be blind and lost and they will die in their sin.

Christians need to pray for Jews and Gentiles in this world who have been blinded by Satan and self.

41 posted on 10/21/2023 4:08:40 PM PDT by JesusIsLord
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To: grundle

Yeah, that’ll last. Pssst.


42 posted on 10/21/2023 4:12:27 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: grundle
Progressive Jews who have spent years supporting racial equity, gay and transgender rights, abortion rights and other causes on the American left — including opposing Israeli policies in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank

I'm confused. Looking at their list of liberal ideas, I would think that they would also support the Hamas attack.

Or at least not be so upset.

Or are they just pretending to be offended because it's "popular" at the moment.

I really don't understand liberals!

43 posted on 10/21/2023 4:23:01 PM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: dfwgator

“What did they expect?”

So true. This is the socialist way regardless of variant. But this time it will be different.


44 posted on 10/21/2023 4:24:12 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: grundle

Bhoo, hoo, hoo.


45 posted on 10/21/2023 4:36:07 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GLOBALISM! Trump 2024, NO more Mr Nice)
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To: grundle

clarity


46 posted on 10/21/2023 4:39:30 PM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: grundle

77% of Jewish Americans voted for Joe Biden in 2020.

They will NEVER abandon their commitment to the Political Left, whatever the cost.


47 posted on 10/21/2023 4:41:13 PM PDT by zeestephen (Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
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To: Olog-hai

Nazis were just not as far left as the soviets were is all.


48 posted on 10/21/2023 4:43:18 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: grundle

I hope this is a wake up call for Anerican Jews. The left has always been antisemitic but liberal Jews have either ignored that fact or were duped. Now antisemitism is on full display in this country lead by the radical left and not the MAGA voters


49 posted on 10/21/2023 4:48:43 PM PDT by The Great RJ ( )
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To: grundle

Sleep with dogs, wake up with fleas.


50 posted on 10/21/2023 4:50:40 PM PDT by George J. Jetso
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To: grundle

Well, duh. But don’t worry Rabbi, your “friends” will say nice things about you if you choose to self eliminate.


51 posted on 10/21/2023 4:51:36 PM PDT by rbg81
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To: grundle

Boo-hoo-hoo.


52 posted on 10/21/2023 5:40:08 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (בראשית ברא אלקים את השמים ואת הארץ)
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To: grundle

They are progressives ... that’s what they do.


53 posted on 10/21/2023 6:25:53 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Biden not only suffers fools and criminals, he appoints them to positions of responsibility. )
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To: dfwgator

As per Solzhenitsyn, even in the Gulags the Communist party bureaucrats (Jewish or not) still believed that their incarceration was all a mistake and sooner or later Comrade Stalin would release them. For some people, no amount of reality can penetrate what they wish to be true. There seems to be a principle at work here that if you walk away from revealed truth, or you’re not all that concerned about pursuing it, you are in great danger of believing that which will destroy you. The battered wife that still believes ‘he’ll change’ or the liberal Jew that believes there’s a political solution for the demonically inspired hatred against them, they don’t seem to see what is plain to everyone else. It’s very sad for the Jews and I know things are only going to get worse for them.


54 posted on 10/21/2023 6:36:31 PM PDT by Lake Living
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To: RetiredTexasVet

There are people of Jewish descent and still with Jewish names who identify as “progressives” but most of them are really communists or at least “useful idiots” for communism (whether they realize it or not).
And nearly all of these people abandoned faith and religion and Biblical moral teachings years ago. It is impossible to pursue or support the Marxist materialism of “progresivism” and still be a faithful Jew or Christian — moral teaching and communism are contradictory belief systems and the leftist play book recognizes this as all communist regimes and most “progressives” are anti- Christian and anti- Jewish.


55 posted on 10/21/2023 6:36:34 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: grundle

They feel abandoned ... but will still vote for them


56 posted on 10/21/2023 6:49:07 PM PDT by 11th_VA (<><)
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To: dfwgator

As per Solzhenitsyn, even in the Gulags the Communist party bureaucrats (Jewish or not) still believed that their incarceration was all a mistake and sooner or later Comrade Stalin would release them. For some people no amount of reality will change their mind from their preferred wished for world view. There seems to be a principle at work in life that if you walk away from revealed truth you are very likely to believe in that which will destroy you in the end. The battered wife that believes ‘he’ll change’ or the liberal Jewish person that believes there’s a political solution to the demonically inspired hatred behind those that want to eradicate them from the earth. They seem to not see what is obvious to those around them. We’re all blind in many ways - Jew and Gentile - until we come to the Lord Jesus and agree with His assessment of us - and his solution. It’s only going to get worse for the Jewish people. But it’s going to get bad for all of us too. Not hard to believe that God is drawling things to a close - and I think soon. Prayers for our Jewish friends that God removes the vale from their eyes.


57 posted on 10/21/2023 7:03:15 PM PDT by Lake Living
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To: Olog-hai; lightman

Karl Marx himself was baptized in the Lutheran Church, and was presumably confirmed also.

https://landmarkevents.org/the-baptism-of-karl-marx-1824/#:~:text=In%20fact%2C%20at%20the%20age,Church%20on%20August%2028%2C%201824.&text=Why%20did%20a%20descendant%20of,Trier%20along%20the%20Moselle%20River.

But of course it did not “take”.

There are unfortunately many others with a similar course of life, even if they do not become famous radicals.


58 posted on 10/21/2023 7:29:28 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: markman46

Just another version of Lenin’s New Economic Policy. This later became Khrushchev’s “different paths to socialism” and, of course, the European Union’s “social market economy”.


59 posted on 10/21/2023 8:13:29 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: grundle

Know thy enemy:

The Western Jew is generally far left ideologically seen. The idea of a Kibbutz is basically a communist commune. Many of the folks in Israel today came from Eastern European nations that were very socialist and if you look at Israel you see they are actually very far left when it comes to many of their social policies etc. If you look at Hollywood (very Jewish) you see they’re far left. Many Jews in the US tend to be concentrated in very far left states like New York: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Jews#/media/File:Percent_of_population_Jewish_by_US_state.svg

But their strongest allies (folks that tend to not be anti-Semites) and even like them, who support Israel and see the Palestinians as the bad guys, are folks that tend to be on the right, especially if they’re religious.

It’s a odd situation where the folks that share your values don’t like you, but the folks that you make fun of and sort of see as backward hicks are in reality your best friends. Example: https://prestonwood.org/pastors-israel-statement/ And if that’s not enough, go to Israel with them: https://prestonwood.org/about/news-events/israel-trip/ This is one of the biggest Baptist mega churches in Dallas and likely the nation.

Yet, the Jews will pretty much vote Democrat, because at the end of the day, they are ideologically far left.

So you get Trump who did more for Israel than Obama or a Clinton ever did, but they will Vote Biden, nearly 70% of them.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/poll-finds-us-jews-overwhelmingly-back-biden-over-trump-in-2024-rematch/ And that is true even today!


60 posted on 10/21/2023 8:34:10 PM PDT by Red6
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