Sadly, a great many Jews have always seemed to have an affinity for globalism and opposition to nationalism.
Maybe it stems from being without a country of their own for so long.
My best Jewish friends are strongly pro-Israel, and fully understand and emotionally agree with Trump’s efforts to ban or extreme-vet Muslim immigrants . . . but they cannot break with their democrat/U.N.-oriented politics. I’ve told them it seems insane, but it does not seem to register. So we talk mostly about our kids’ sports.
Sigh.
Looking at you, Ben Shapiro :(
(Love Ben Shapiro a brilliant and articulate conservative but he is rabidly Never Trump)
I worked with a Jewish man that was a communist. His parents immigrated from USSR and were communist. They kept up with the holidays (also Christian holidays) and traditions but that was about it. He had a brother that lived in Israel that he would go visit. I often wondered what his brother was like.
interesting to me especially since my mom’s dad was jew, but his family became Christian, revised their name, and my mom thought communism was just fine. I have a star of David necklace I wear occasionally and she told me I shouldn’t wear it because people would hate me. Thank God I always thought for myself.
Jews may feel more secure when they are just one more ethnic group in a multicultural country.
I think you are on to something there. How would they have learned nationalism if they hadn’t had one. But one would have thought that with the war victory brought to us by the stewardship of FDR and cleaned up by Trueman, the creation of their own ancestral lands as their new homeland would have counted for something.
Maybe it is because they didn’t have to do the heavy lifting for that creation although giving all due respect for those who served. Maybe they were actually strains of the Communist Jews who fled here? It is very perplexing.
Keep in mind that compared to the U.S., Israel is a den of Marxism. So when I hear that someone is “strongly pro-Israel,” I give them the same credibility that I would have given to someone who was a strong supporter of East Germany during the Cold War.