Exactly. Many well-off Liberal Jews can't emotionally accept their own material advantages. So they become pro-terrorist and anti-American/Israeli as a form of self-hatred. (The evil Tony Kushner is one example.)
Not to play up the Jewish angle, but I have heard more than one liberal NYer describe the NYT, especially the Sunday edition, as their 'Bible.'
Scary/ironic in more ways than one, but among the scariest thought is that there are people out there who think every word printed in the NYT is absolute truth.