Posted on 06/12/2024 4:07:01 PM PDT by CFW
For much of modern history in both Europe and North America, Jews have been reliably left of center politically, backing Democrats in the United States, Labour in Britain, Canada’s Liberals, and France’s Socialists. In recent years, though, Jews are moving toward the center, and, somewhat tentatively, even the right.
The shift reflects Jews’ revulsion at the increasing popularity of anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic positions in most left-of-center parties. For the roughly 80 percent of Jews who back Israel’s war aims in Gaza, remaining reliably progressive will be hard. In Great Britain, a 2019 study showed Jews shifting substantially away from their traditional Labour orientation and largely embraced the conservatives. In France, Jews generally no longer affiliate with the Socialist Party but instead support the centrist government of Emmanuel Macron. Similarly, Canadian Jews seem to be severing their historic ties to Liberals and adopting a friendlier stance toward the Conservatives.
The change is also occurring in the U.S., albeit more slowly. Three-quarters of Orthodox Jews, whose numbers are growing due to their higher birthrate, identify as Republicans, up from 57 percent in 2013. In 2020, Donald Trump gained 30.5 percent of the Jewish vote, a 6.5 percent bump from 2016. A more recent Economist study found that roughly 37 percent of Jewish voters favor Trump, whose campaign just received $5 million from the increasingly influential Republican Jewish Coalition.
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But it was the mass movement of Muslims into Europe, starting in the 1960s, that super-charged the revival of anti-Semitism in the West. Famed Nazi-hunters Serge and Beate Klarsfeld suggested to me over two decades ago that the biggest threat to Jews would come from an alliance of Islamists and left-wing activists. One need only look to college campuses today to see the prophetic nature of their warning.
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I’m not a Jew either, but the article caught my eye given the protests (riots) over the past few months and especially the fact that many local, state, and federal entities are taking a hands-off approach. Also, there is the obvious foreign Muslim involvement in the protests. These are not generic American youth protests. Something more sinister is involved.
If you’ve read even a minimum of Muslim war history, you know that this is the way they have waged war and conquered nations and continents over the past centuries. I’d think most orthodox Jews would be aware of that history as well and see the path the progressives are taking our nation.
No.
Most Jews look at abortion and consider that their most important issue..if they dont have family in israel they dont consider it to be their problem..orthodox Jews vote Republican, the rest vote Democrat regardless of anything..but I just cant understand how they can see what is going on in this country, seeing pro hamas lovers calling for their slaughter and still thinking “Yeah sure gonna vote Dem anyway” is abortion really that much more important than actual survival
I think many Jews see the right -- Christians and white advocates -- as their primary enemy.
Such Jews see the left as misguided idealists, the ideal being a multicultural, multi-religious society. Such Jews think the real challenge is to educate the left that Jews and Israel are nonwhite and their natural allies against white Christian nationalism.
I think it’s mostly the Democrats just going further and further left.
We just had a trial run with the Covid B.S.
It is easy to see the COVID NAZIS being just like the Germans who ignored the Death Camps. You can find the same personality types, some Scared, many know-it-all, many following orders, you mane it.
Only a few Martin Niemoller's today.
will anyone pay for COVID?
They're all controlled by the Left.
Maybe that's not the case in rural areas but then again, how many Jews live in those places? They live in urban areas controlled by the Democrats.
They should take a long, slow re-read of Ezekiel 16.
I have a few Jewish friends going back many years and they are all the most infuriating leftists imaginable.
Jews who support Israel have been expelled from the Left.
Some will try to buy their way back in with even more Leftism.
The others will be Entryists into the Center-Right and Right and demand Leftist compromises to accomodate them.
Unlikely.
Since much of Trump's support is populist conservatism, I can see lots of Jews being hesitant to become strong Trump supporters.
I heard a "debate" on the radio in 2016 between a liberal and a conservative who were both Jews. Rather than disagreeing on policies they spent the entire "debate" agreeing that whatever happened it would be a tragedy if Trump became president with both having misgivings about his populist appeal.
Well, maybe a couple of dozen, nationwide.
The series starts before Hitler was in charge of anything and slowly shows his rise and the attack on Jews as business owners and then the attacks and then the camps.
Is THIS Pope a Catholic?
Doubtful, most American Jews religion is liberalism, no ties to Israel. Like most liberals they can’t accept the fact they can be wrong about anything, IMO.
“Are American Jews Moving Right?”
if not, they damn well ought to be given that the left has repeatedly demonstrates their pervasive, endemic, bedrock, and hateful antisemitism ...
I am not a Jew but I do belong to the JPFO - Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership. And these Jews are not lefties!
A rabbi was assaulted on the campus of UCLA last night. Just saying… this has gotten out of hand….
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