I never understood it eiher. People I know vote for the left on automatic. Doesn't make any sense. Does anything?
Because Israel isn't their main concern (nor should it be). They're liberal because they're pro-abort, anti-gun, pro-multicult, etc. ....and have, as have non-Jewish liberals, equated "the right wing" in American politics with Nazism. ....an association that's so ingrained it'll be next to impossible to dispel.
Yawn.
The author seems unaware that most American Jews do not place a high priority on Israel.
I've wondered about this many times. Not being Jewish, I cannot answer but only guess.
As Conservatives we expect a logical answer, but logic does not apply here.
My guess is it is a cultural trait that goes back to tribal times and is passed down generation to generation.
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As a conservative Jew - from a large liberal Jewish family - here are some insights: There is a hangover in the Jewish community from the bigotry of the earlier part of the 20th century that, according to people like my grandparents, has a vague Republican aroma, such as preventing Jews from going to Ivy League schools, or closing off the country clubs and certain communities to Jews. Second, the association between Jews and blacks during the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s coincided with the Democratic Party's effort to link themselves to the issue. Third, a lot of Jews live in the New York metro area (all of my relatives do, except for my sister and I), and the politics of the area are skewed toward the Democrats from a century of machine politics (Tammany Hall, for instance). Finally, a lot of us are college-educated - which means that those of us who are utopians tend toward elitist, "philosopher-king" ideologies, such as socialism.
I agree with the focus of this article. It is so sad to see the movement of those who want to exterminate the Jews do so with the implicit consent of the American Jews. On the other hand, this isn't the first time in our history where a large portion of the Jewish people have ignored dangers, turned away from tradition, or split into factionalism. God didn't call us a "stiff-necked lot" for no reason.
Why did you think , even for an instant , that you could post something as heretical as this here>
IMO, they're courting the destruction of America and all it stands for. Particularly, the America that has been a haven for oppressed people the world over.
As it happens, I had an American Jew tell me today that if the Christian Right in this country continued to gain power, many American Jews intend to migrate to Australia. Needless to say, this astounded me.
How could it be that Jews distrust Christians as much as or maybe more than they distrust Muslims? The answer is of course in history. Until just recently, Christians have been as ruthlessly cruel to Jews as Muslims have been. Jews feel they can trust and cope with liberals who have no religion and believe in nothing strongly enough to kill for, but they distrust anyone whose religion could, and has in the past, threaten them.
It took my mother 30 years to come to grips with the fact that I became an observant Jew.
She still can't accept that I am a Republican.
the title should also include "& Blacks"
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/dennisprager/2003/01/21/169065.html
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/dennisprager/2003/01/28/169118.html
If one remembers that most of America's Jews had grandparents or parents who came from either Germany (Marxism oriented) or Russia (Communism oriented) there remains only the pressing question of why teh continuing love of socialism?
IMHO, it is simply something absorbed while growing up. Oops - make that getting older but no wiser.
The jews are more worried about abortion and homosexual "rights" than in Israel's survival.
Bears repeating.
Actually, George W. Bush made some inroads among Jewish voters in 2004.
I then said, "I just don't understand it! If the Catholic Chruch in America falls, who is NEXT?! One would think that the Jews would have learned after 2000 years of persecution."