Well this is one Jew who isn’t democratic. And while I cetainly take issue with affirmative action, it is not a creation of the Jewish state. To understand Jew’s leaning towards the dims, one must go back in history when the republican party was not the big tent it is today. Rather it was dominated by anti-semites like Ford, Morgan and others. Tammany Hall took great advantage of this. Many Jews first contact upon entering the country was with an Irish immigration official. Tammany often found these new arrivals housing and a job. Thus was built an alliance that still exists in many large cities to this day.
The fact that the dim party has changed and is pro black, pro islamofacist and anti-semetic has been lost on many Jews. Whether this will change is an open question. One can only hope that this much heralded intellectual advantage will make them see the light.
I agree. As for why American Jews favor the left, I agree you have to go back in time. In addition to the reasons you site, I would add that Jewish progressives and communists came to the aid of blacks who were suffering under racist policies in America. That progressivism eventually found its home in the Democratic party. The Democrats from the Jim Crow days, like Strom Thurmond, mostly ended up as conservative republicans. So the cultural lines were drawn. Or so it seems to me.