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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Thanks for posting.
Jewish people have to reach behind and pull off the Dems’ Kick Me I Love It signs taped there.
It’s getting so obvious that the Dems have sold them out to the Muslim and Squad bloc that staying with the Dems is really suicidal.
Dennis Prager, Jewish talk show host: When today’s Jews vote Democrat again and again they believe they are still voting for Franklin D. Roosevelt.*
* I know, I know, FDR got intelligence about the secrets that millions of Jews were getting killed in the early Holocaust and kept it quiet, and he had a chance to allow refugees to come to the US but refused it, so FDR was never truly in favor of the Jewish cause.
Biden and Schumer will not be in power much longer. In a little while, AOC and the Squad will take over the Democratic Party.
No, never. They would largely vote for their extermination before they’d vote for a Republican.
Jews in blue states may be moving to Republican candidates further down on the ballot, while still voting Democrat for the top of the ticket. I don’t think there’s going to be big move towards Matt Gaetz, MTG, or Lauren Bobert.
You can accuse Jews of being leftists, and therefore unwise, but they ain’t “stupid”. Ashkenazi Jews consistently have the highest measured IQs of any group on the planet.
About Britain, not so much. Assimilated middle class British Jews felt more out of place in the Labour Party than in the Conservative Party. Margaret Thatcher's constituency, her government, and her inner circle all had many Jews. Labour had Jewish intellectuals and many working class and immigrant Jews, but shop owners and businessmen didn't trust Labour.
Excellent point.
In the 1968 Dem Nat. Convention stories, several spokespeople for the Left said “Real change in America won’t came soon. It will take having many of us get a little older and take over all the positions of power in the Establishment. Then we will be in charge.”
Pew Research, September 19, 2022
In 2019, nearly two-thirds of Democrats and Democratic leaners (65%) had a positive view of socialism. Today a smaller majority of Democrats (57%) say they have a positive impression.
There has not been significant change among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents since 2019. Today, just 14% say they have a positive impression of socialism, while about four times as many say they have a very negative view of the term.
Jewish Democrats and old guard liberals like Bill Maher will have to make a decision soon. The Democratic Party will become pro-Islamic and pro-Marxist.
No more Bidens. No more Clintons.
RE: No more Bidens. No more Clintons.
Wish there were a good rhyme as with “No more pencils, No more books, No more teachers’ dirty looks.”
‘Cause Chevy didn’t make a 327 in ‘55, the 327 didn’t come out till ‘62. And it wasn’t offered in the Bel Air with a four-barrel carb till ‘64. However, in 1964, the correct ignition timing would be four degrees before top-dead-center. However, in 1964, the correct ignition timing would be four degrees before top-dead-center.
[I’m not Jewish but I’ve definitely noticed the rise in Jew Hate. Even here on Free Republic occasionally! ]
Almost from “My Cousin Vinny,” but not quite.
High IQ and common sense are often strangers.
You’d think they’d be smart enough to. Sadly, that’s not been their history.
Highly intelligent but not very wise has been the perennial failing of that group.
I doubt it.
“...there are now more Muslim voters than Jews.”
I’m not sure that’s accurate, it might even be addressed in this article, which I read elsewhere today. But might have seen it somewhere else.
IIRC, there are more Jews than Muslims in the US. And we better do our utmost to reduce the number of Muslims as much as possible.
We might even need to amend the Constitution. We can certainly amend the immigration laws and that needs to happen STAT.
[I know, I know, FDR got intelligence about the secrets that millions of Jews were getting killed in the early Holocaust and kept it quiet, and he had a chance to allow refugees to come to the US but refused it, so FDR was never truly in favor of the Jewish cause.]
Think $900b is a lot to spend annually on defense? How about $10T? That kind of spending built weapon systems (the A bomb, sonar and radar) that were only theoretical before the war, but exacted a huge toll. Civilian car production ended, as well as a host of other items. Among other things, sugar, tires, gasoline, meat, coffee, butter, canned goods and shoes were rationed.
American citizens of Japanese descent were being interned. Why would Americans care about literal foreigners, kin to another despised minority? You might say this was cynical political calculation, but it was a calculation necessary to sustain a war effort in which unprecedented demands were being made of the entire population, a hefty chunk of whom - Germans and Italians - sympathized to some extent with their ethnic brethren across the Atlantic.
FDR used every last bit of political capital he had to get the war effort going. There was nothing left for Jewish refugees, many of whom had other options (Dominican Republic, et al) but refused to lower their sights. Now, if those refugees had known beforehand they were targeted for extermination and that Hitler would conquer most of Western Europe, they would have settled for any spot of dry land. Unfortunately, only hindsight is 20-20, and these refugees paid with their lives for underestimating the threat and being too picky.
No. Especially the older Jews I know. Some are conservative, some are liberal - none are changing their minds. To the liberal, secular Jews, Republicans = Whites = Nazis and that early conditioning cannot be overcome.
[Highly intelligent but not very wise has been the perennial failing of that group.]
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