Is a Vote for Joe Biden in the Interest of American Jews?

A recent study conducted by the Jewish Electorate Institute found that 67% of American Jewish respondents planned to vote for Joe Biden and 30% for President Trump. Eighty-eight percent of those surveyed claimed to be pro-Israel and 64% said Israel is an important election issue. Most ranked Biden higher on U.S.-Israel relations, the handling of anti-Semitism, and ensuring the security of the Jewish community. The survey results are surprising, given Trump’s stellar record on Jews and Israel. American Jews must reconsider, for Biden’s record and positions on critical topics belie these perceptions.

Biden’s record should dispel any notions he is staunchly pro-Israel. In 1982, testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations committee as a Democratic senator from Delaware, he argued with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. He threatened to cut aid to Israel if settlement expansion continued in Judea and Samaria, shouting and banging the table when Begin wouldn’t budge.

In 2010, Biden upbraided Israel for building apartments in a Jewish section of East Jerusalem and opposed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to extend sovereignty over Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria.

In 2016, he pressured Ukraine, an abstainer, to vote for U.N. Security Council measure 2334, which identified the Jewish Quarter, the Temple Mount, and the Western Wall as located in “illegally occupied Palestinian territories,” an affirmation that defies historical fact. UNSC 2334 also condemned Israel building settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Approval of the resolution emboldened the Palestinian Authority to call for the ethnic cleansing of Jews from Judea, Samaria, and the Jewish Quarter, reversing decades of U.S. vetoes against such moves. That year, the U.N. General assembly passed 20 resolutions against Israel. There were only six against other countries.

A huge chunk of American Jews are ambivalent or hostile to the State of Israel. They feel it makes them stand out and puts them on the spot, and as assimilationists, they resent that, feel compelled to side with Palestinians, who are often the darling of the media and the Left. So Joe Biden’s hostility to Israel is a plus to them.

Most if my co-religionists are bothering idiots - a box of rocks has more sense than they do.

The Dems are full-on Collectivists, and that ilk (Nazis and Communists among them) is intensely anti-Semitic.

I am only concerned with American politics. Israel is just another country, and should “American Jews” pour their money and their affection to that country, it would not hurt me a bit if ythey just up and moved there, permanently.

Thanks E, that was an excellent overview. It's interesting how the small-s socialism of the early- to mid-20th century Zionists has given way to highly productive and innovative entrepreneurship in Israel, while a good chunk of American Jewry, which comes from hard-working successful ancestors, has embraced the party of the single party state after the fashion of branding loyalty.

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It's not in America's interest.

DESERVES REPEATING!

“A vote for Biden is NOT in the interest of any American, Jewish or otherwise....”

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