The problem with liberal Jews is that they care more about saving the world than saving themselves. How can you save others if you don't have enough self-respect to stand up for yourself? I've been right-wing (proudly so) for so many years I simply don't understand liberal Jews. They are alien to me.
Let me give you my personal take on why many Jews are liberals,and in the Sixties,wandered into the radical left camp.
My all white suburban high school was mostly Italian and Irish Catholic with a hefty mix of Protestants and a Jewish demographic of around 20%
Well,the Jewish kids as a group were the ones who shined most scholastically and won many of the academic awards at the school.They were less likely to be the popular trendy stylemakers and were the most"free thinking"in that they were the ones most likely to support the embyronic civil rights and"peace"movements of the middle sixties.
As a group,they were the ones most likely to be persecuted by the less successful ethnic groups at the school.It was not uncommon to hear the epiteth "kike"and "Jewboy".They were the outsiders for the most part and I really think their mistreatment in high school fueled their college radicalism.
Many joined SDS and other Marxist groups as sort of a way to exact revenge.Many hooked up with black militants who they saw as alienated"outsiders"like themselves.They saw that their Goy tormenters from high school were usually quite afraid of"the niggers"and by allying with the black enrages they often obtained a shield from these"reactionary"types.
Many Jewish girls joined Women's Lib for the same reason.Very few were the glamour girl and cheerleader types in high school and, as most of us remember, it was these"foxes"that got all the male attention.Who wanted an overweight Jewish chick who could quote Sartre and Camus?So they were ripe for the whole women's movement whose main point was to "smash male chauvinism"and decry the"objectification"of women.
It all makes sense from a certain vantage point.The desire for revenge and vindication is part of human nature.Of course,most of these Jewish radicals are now upper middle class professionals and live the same lives as their upwardly mobile parents whom they rebelled against.Most are still liberals but probably chastened somewhat by the current anti-Israeli anti-Semitism of the Left and the unraveling of the black-Jewish alliance of the civil rights era.