Posted on 12/01/2023 5:56:29 PM PST by SeekAndFind
That’s not to say that being a Democrat makes you an antisemite. Hardly. 7 in 10 Jews are Democrats, and many non-Jewish Democrats are anything but antisemites.
But let’s face facts: the home of antisemites in America is the Democrat Party. While 80% of Republicans and nearly 70% of Independents support Israel, only 45% of Democrats do.
Americans' sympathies overall lie with Israel in this conflict, but Democrats are split
By a 61%-30% margin, respondents said their sympathies lie more with Israelis than Palestinians, but that's driven by Republicans (79%) and independents (67%), who overwhelmingly support…
— Dumisani Washington (@DumisaniTemsgen) December 1, 2023
It’s pretty hard to ignore these dramatic differences.
Most of the Republicans I see who are critical of supporting Israel do so because they lean toward isolationism, disdaining support for Ukraine as well as Israel. Most of the Democrats who are viciously attacking Israel are big supporters of Ukraine and the Palestinians. The people ripping down posters of Jewish hostages are, in many cases, sporting Ukraine flags on their bios.
The difference is clear: as the young Turks of the Democrat Party move up the political ladder, the Democrat Party is becoming more and more hostile to Jews.
38% of Americans say Israel’s military response to Hamas has been too much. This is up from 26% in the week following the October attack. 17% say the response has been too little, a decline from 27%, and 38% think the attack has been appropriate. This is down from 44% previously.
Americans, though, are more likely to sympathize with the Israelis (61%) than the Palestinians (30%). While Republicans (79%) and independents (67%) are more likely to express greater sympathy toward Israel, Democrats divide. 45% say they have greater sympathy for Israelis, and the same proportion (45%) say their sympathies are more with the Palestinians.
This is a huge problem for both the Democrat Party and for the Jewish progressives–and over 50% of Jews call themselves liberals, which is double the general population.
For the foreseeable future, those Jews will become increasingly homeless politically. Chances are that many will drift toward the Republicans and stick with the Democrat Party until it becomes untenable.
It will become untenable.
I’ve seen it here in Minnesota, where a Leftist Jewish State Senator is getting pummeled politically in his own party because he defends Israel’s right to exist. He is clearly bewildered by his “allies” turning on him, although he shouldn’t be. When Ilhan Omar was making her rise to prominence here, she ran against a long-time incumbent progressive State Rep who was Jewish, and her message to her fellow Somalis was, “Don’t vote for the old Jewish lady.”
All this was swept under the rug as a multicultural misunderstanding, but the fact is that younger Democrats are antisemitic. They see Jews as White oppressors, settler colonialists, and, ultimately, enemies. No amount of ideological convergence matters in an environment that puts identity over ideology, and Leftist Jews are finding themselves frozen out by people they have supported their entire political lives.
Liberals have supported identity politics because they automatically embrace anybody they consider “powerless,” and they define powerless by race, gender, sexual orientation, and any other “identity” they see as oppressed.
But these so-called powerless see things differently: like Mao, they see power stemming from the ability and willingness to commit violence in the service of their goals, which is why Antifa rallies inevitably devolve into violent confrontations. This is also why the Leftists support Hamas’ terrorist attacks.
Liberal Jews are in a pickle. The Democrat Party has been their political home for generations, and ideologically, they would be disgusted to hang out with Republicans. But they are a tiny minority in the country and highly concentrated in areas where, frankly, Democrats generally don’t need their votes but only their money. Democrats can discount any discontent among Jews if it buys them progressive votes and boots on the ground. Except for Florida, Jews tend to live in states that vote overwhelmingly Democrat anyway.
As has so often proven to be the case, Jews depend on the goodwill and sense of fairness of others, and when that evaporates, they find themselves alone. Republicans are sticking with Israel because it is the right thing to do. That is true of most Independents and a minority of Democrats–an important but weakening fraction of the Democrat Party.
But soon, Jews will have to make a choice–stick with the antisemites for ideological reasons or ally with the classical Liberals in the Republican Party, whose ideological commitments to Western values are stronger than their ideological differences with liberal Jews.
A massive influx of Jewish votes into the Republican Party will have few, if any, electoral consequences. A few more percent of the vote in New York City or Los Angeles will not change any elections, and Republicans in Florida are doing just fine.
But to my Jewish friends, I say this: we are your friends, and the Democrats are not. We believe in fairness, decency, and tolerance, no matter what the top Democrats have told you. You are welcome in our party. Not so much among the new Democrat Party.
The Party of Hate - what a surprise
I am so ignorant and naive. I just don’t get the source and depth of conflict. What gives? Yeah, it’s historically intransigent, the hatred. But antisemitism is an alien concept to me. I just don’t get it. I don’t get Seinfeld either. Won’t someone out there teach me who to hate?
I hate those who shed innocent blood without cause or due process. Is that hood enough?
Jews have been in The Holy Land for over 4,000 years. The recent arab islamists are the colonialist settlers.
To the roughly 80% of Jewish voters who are “always Dems”:
Your mother told you when you were a tot on the carpet listening to her, The Democrats are for the little guy, for the disadvantaged, and the Republicans are for the richest people and are against Jews.
Your mother was wrong.
The hatred of the Left for Israel and Jews is no surprise at all - except for the naive, who take campaign slogans and promises at face value. But anyone with any knowledge of history and politics knows that the Left has no permanent favored groups, only those that it pretends to favor in exchange for the unwavering loyalty of those groups. The only true loyalty of the Left is to itself or, rather, to its own power. Ultimately, when the Left gets the power it wants (which is to say, dictatorial power), the first groups hunted down, imprisoned or executed are its closest allies - one need look no further than any Communist regime, ever.
Well, lately and very explicitly, it is now the turn of my idiot co-religionists to learn this hard lesson, as the Left tosses them under the bus because they found a larger group of new suckers to use, which group just happens to despise Jews with a hatred unrivaled in all of history.
Democrats have an autonomic seething hatred for any group that is self sufficient and generally successful
The party of segregation, Jim Crow and the KKK. Who would’ve thought?
Honestly, conservatives don’t need squishy Jewish liberals voting for republicans. They just need to keep voting for their communist overlords. I don’t understand it but lots of Jews just seem to want the world on fire. If you find a communist dictator, you will find Jews in early support of them until they are turned on. Then they want help. I say no thanks. You broke it you pay the price.
Well said. There is a gulf, I think from my own acquaintances, and it isn’t religion, it’s a consequence of a classic urbanite tendency to bite a little too deeply into the notion that non-urbanites are too unsophisticated to appreciate the nuances of modern society. This maps, however imperfectly, to Democrats and Republicans respectively. The urban Democrat media are to blame for this crippling stereotyping and it is quite deliberate.
The party of slavery, the KKK, segregation, etc. - the Democrats
The KKK genes resurfacing.
As I’ve told my Jewish friends over and over again....the antisemitism they are seeing comes from the LEFT, not the Right. Look at the latest outburst. Is it coming from Rednecks out in the sticks? This is who they so desperately want to believe it comes from. But no.
It came from the heart of the Leftist establishment - The Ivy League....Academia....NYC....the Squad in Congress. That’s clearly not MAGA/Red State America. Hey there is some good news in all this. The people you thought were your enemies and who hated you are not your enemies and do not hate you. Its your supposed “friends” and “allies” who do that.
Time to take a long hard look at things and be honest with yourselves no matter how painful that is.
A lot of it is envy/jealousy.
Its that simple. There’s no grand conspiracy that explains why a tiny 2% minority was able to come here with nothing....many coming only in the 20th century or later from Eastern Europe....and become so successful in so many fields. It turns out that obeying the law, getting a good education and working hard pays off. Who knew?
And if this tiny and historically oppressed minority could do it, then others could do it too and......uh oh. I think I see the problem.
The mask has been ripped off of the rodent party. This may finally convince Jews that they have been making a mistake all of these years. Maybe.
It’s funny how EVERYTHING bad, filthy, disgusting, perverted, evil, etc. is ATTRIBUTED TO THE DEMOCRAT PARTY!!
It’s almost Satanic isn’t it?
True indeed.
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