Why Jews Hate Palin

Commentary Magazine ^ | January 2010 | Jennifer Rubin

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Abstract

For more than a year, Sarah Palin has been a national Rorschach test. The views expressed about her reveal the distinctions and conflicting perceptions of often antagonistic groups of Americans—the religious and the secular, the conservative and the liberal, the urban and the small town, the elitist and the populist.

And now, with the publication of her autobiography, Going Rogue, and Matthew Continetti’s The Persecution of Sarah Palin, the Rorschach tests are being administered anew, and with increasing fervor.

For her conservative admirers, she continues to exemplify independence, moxie, common sense, the superiority of the common American over the nation’s elites, and the embodiment of modern womanhood and Christian faith.

For her detractors, both conservative and liberal, she is uncouth, unschooled, a hick, anti-science and anti-intellectual, an upstart, and a religious fanatic. There is no group so firmly in the latter camp as American Jews. And there is much to learn in their reaction to Palin, both about her and about the sociological makeup of American Jewry today. While Palin enjoys support from some prominent Jewish conservatives, it is not an exaggeration to say that, more so than any other major political figure in recent memory (with the possible exception of Patrick J. Buchanan), she rubs Jews the wrong way . . .

Ask an average American Jew about Palin and you are likely to get a nonverbal response—a shiver, a shudder, a roll of the eyes, or a guffaw. Naomi Wolf, the feminist writer, sputtered that Palin was the “FrankenBarbie of the Rove-Cheney cabal,” articulating the mixture of contempt and fear that seemed to grip many Jewish women.

The disdain is palpable and largely emotional. While 78 percent of American Jews voted for the Obama-Biden ticket, it is fair to say that most did not harbor animosity toward or contempt for Senator John McCain; the same cannot be said of their view of Palin . . .

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Subscription to Commentary Magazine required to read the entire article. The abstract does not give an answer to the question "Why".

[Perdogg]

Debbie Schlussel doesn’t like her. I have been trying to convert her.

[Sarah Barracuda]

I know why many American Jews don’t like Sarah Palin, its because Sarah Palin is more PRO Israel then they will ever be and they can’t stand it

[sickoflibs]

They are also scared she is a holy-war Christian zealot, stirring up the trailer park crowd army to take away their Mosaics. ( this is how they talk in Maryland anyway.)

[Marty62]

PAHLEEEZE.
The commie/fascist/socialist Dums do not speck for all Jews.
Obvious attempt to drive a wedge between Christian and Real Jews.

Race baiting hasn’t worked.
So now they are trying to pull the anti-semite tactic.
FORGET it DUMS. WE have your playbook.

[DoughtyOne]

The title expresses a premise I’m not convinced is true. As far as I am concerned, it’s a disgusting ploy.

[bwc2221]

I think I can answer the question why: liberalism has become a religion for secular American Jews. It trumps everything else. The fact that approximately 75% voted for Obama in 2008 emphasizes that.

[SonOfDarkSkies]

Here's the reason many American Jews don't like Sarah...

78 percent of American Jews voted for the Obama-Biden ticket

[Iowamerican]

Not going to read the whole article, but I suspect it could be titled “Why Liberals Hate Palin”.

They didn’t warm up to McCain with the backing of Lieberman for crying out loud. No Republican is going to break their hate ceiling.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Meanwhile, Obama and the democrats have done everything in their power to undermine the State of Israel.

Sarah Palin and her fellow conservatives are the most ardent supporters of the State of Israel. Sarah even has an Israeli flag in her office in Anchorage. Yet the American Jews disparage her and other conservatives. So much for the theory that Jews are smart. I guess they’re liberals first and Jews second.

[Canedawg]

Most “modern” liberal Jewish women are PRO-CHOICE, and they hate her for the same reasons that gentile women hate her- she reminds them of their disposition towards infanticide.

[omega4179]

They are pro infanticide pro Hamas and she is neither.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Ping

[darkwing104]

I guess they prefer the guys who will throw them under the bus at the first chance.

[Winged Hussar]

There are “Jews” (I am thinking of the National “Jewish” “Democratic” Council) who would probably vote for Hitler if he was running with a D instead of an N after his name.

I also hear that the National “Jewish” “Democratic” Council worships a golden donkey, and that its Holy Trinity consists of Franklin Roosevelt the Father, Barack Obama the Son, and Lyndon B. Johnson the Holy Ghost. And that they serve kosher ham and cheese sandwiches on Yom Kippur.

[AUH2O Repub]

Maybe we should start calling them JINOS. No jew that cares about Israel would ever support the muslim-loving Democrats.

[Tallguy]

For her detractors, both conservative and liberal, she is uncouth, unschooled, a hick, anti-science and anti-intellectual, an upstart, and a religious fanatic.

There's the key right there. With the extra premium that elites tend to put on education -- particulary professional education -- the reaction to Palin becomes understandable. Combine this with a generalized suspicion of practicing-Christians, and you have your answer.

[bwc2221]

With Debbie Schussel it may be a woman's issue. Debbie is very vain. I has familiar with Debbie's appearance from the photo on her website. She was on FNC a while back and I thought “this can't be Debbie.” In real life she is older and not nearly as attractive as the retouched website image.