Far-right parties winning over some Jewish voters, top rabbi warns

Yahoo News ^ | May 31, 2016 | Reuters

[PapaBear3625]

VIENNA (Reuters) - Far-right parties in some European countries are winning over Jewish voters by exploiting fears about militant Islamists and mainstream parties must do much more to address Europeans' security concerns, a Jewish leader said on Tuesday.

Boosted by Europe's migrant crisis, Norbert Hofer of Austria's anti-immigration Freedom Party only narrowly lost the country's presidential election on May 22. He would have been the first far-right head of state in the European Union.

"I understand that, most probably, a not insignificant part of the (Jewish) community here voted for Hofer for the presidency," the head of the Conference of European Rabbis (CER), Pinchas Goldschmidt, told Reuters in an interview.

[PapaBear3625]

Gee, the idea of Jewish voters being in favor of their own survival. Who would have thought it?

[PapaBear3625]

ping

[2banana]

Because the left is importing muslims by the millions who want to kill you and rape your daughters?

[rbg81]

When God gave out intelligence, not everybody stood in line.

---

Bow ironic this Rabbi should use this analogy as he seems to have been one of the ones not standing in line. If he thinks that “moderate Muslims” are his allies, he’s delusional. Sounds like the rank & file have much more common sense, however.

[Netz]

Jews just tired of voting for their haters...problem is, move to the far left and you get antisemites, move to the far right you get antisemites. Either way Jews must wake up and begin voting for those who support them, not Farrakhan in disguise, BHO...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Apparently a lot of them aren’t.

[HomerBohn]

The ‘Top Rabbi’ needs to have his head examined by a competent psychiatrist.

[BigEdLB]

The rabbi didn’t understand. The right is now the ones who would have the Jews back against the left and Islamist filth.

[IYAS9YAS]

Hey, morons. The Nazis weren't "right". They belong on the left, like Commies.

Totalitarian control of the populace, state over individual, what isn't forbidden is mandatory.

Get it yet? Of course not.

[N. Theknow]

The ‘Top Rabbi’ needs to have his head examined by a competent psychiatrist proctologist..

[Roman_War_Criminal]

Why should this be a “warning” Rabbi?

Are you a conniving libtard too?

[Roman_War_Criminal]

Ecclesiastes 10:2

The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.

[SoFloFreeper]

Just like Christianity, there are apparently some professing Jewish “leaders” who just don’t get it. Reminds me of the histories I’ve read of the 30s. “They’ll never go that far,” was the mindset. Until the Night of Broken Glass... then it was too late.

[ladyjane]

Gee, the idea of Jewish voters being in favor of their own survival. Who would have thought it?

78% of Jews voted for Obama. They continue to vote overwhelmingly for Democrats in spite of how the US has treated Israel, in spite of the US nuclear treaty with Iran. It's a mystery!

[ladyjane]

...move to the far right you get antisemites.

That's liberal propaganda designed to give conservatives a bad name.

The Evangelicals are far right, Born Agains too. They are very supportive of Israel. You'll find more anti-semitism at liberal universities than you will find in any conservative group.

[Trumpinator]

This Rabbi knows what he is doing - for the longest time many Jews in the USA and Europe just voted en bloc for whomever their Rabbi stated - American Mormons are like that here as well - see Utah and Bishop Romney. So the rabbi is afraid he can’t bring out the vote anymore for the current establishment is what I think.

[SunkenCiv]

When he sez "far right" he means, common sense nationalist. Thanks PapaBear3625.

[Moltke]

...exploiting fears...

How about "recognizing reality"?

[Redmen4ever]

The sentence is both loose and narrow.

On the loose side, the Austrian Freedom Party is not a “far right” party. It is a nationalist- or populist-right party. In the EU Parliament, it sits with other such parties from France, Holland, and elsewhere. The far-right parties, such as the German National Democratic Party and Jobbick of Hungary do not sit with this group. And, the lunatic New Dawn Party of Greece is in another category by itself.

On the narrow side, reference to the EU is an artful way of avoiding the fact that the Swiss Freedom Party - an exact counterpart - is the largest single party in that country, participates in the 7-member presidency and routinely assumes the rotating office of president in that presidency. Switzerland, along with Norway, is in association with the EU for economics, but retain their own currencies and political sovereignty.

[Lisbon1940]

>> It’s a mystery!

Colombo could figure it out.