[rmlew]

Maybe the priorities are different between Jews in the U.S. and those elsewhere. In the U.S., a typical Jewish person may view a relatively cohesive white majority (i.e., traditional America) as their biggest concern, and vote accordingly leftward to reduce that perceived threat. But in Israel, they see neighboring Muslims as the main threat and vote to the right. Here, universalism, there ethnocentrism.
A reasonable thought but voting for Obama over McCain disproves this. McCain was no less for immigration, whereas Obama is an enemy. Jews (like the Irish in the Northeast) are motivated by Greivance Politics, not rational ethnosolidarity.

[ruination]

A reasonable thought but voting for Obama over McCain disproves this. McCain was no less for immigration, whereas Obama is an enemy.

On immigration, yeah, but Obama had the entire package. He is Mr. Universalism. The ultimate in the new, multiracial, multicultural America in which support for open borders is a given.

On the other hand, McCain was a white military guy with this strange side obsession on Hispanic immigration. If he'd supported the 1990 Civil Rights Act, MLK day and participated in a sit-in or two, maybe he'd have gotten more Jewish support.