End of the US “Jewish Community” – there are many Jewish communities…
JVL Introduction
Jews constitute about 2 percent of the US population, not much more than Muslims. They vote the way most college- and graduate-school-educated urban-ish dwellers do: Democratic.
But an important section of Jews are Republican – and much of the vast amount of money spent on lobbying, has gone to the right.
Republican Jews seem to have accepted that the price of Trump’s pro-Israel politics is a Republican embrace of antisemitism as an electoral and governing tactic.
Most American Jews are not so happy about it.
Eric Alterman reports for The Nation on the fragmentation of Jewish identity and, as the two-state option disappears, the dream that one can marry one’s Zionism to one’s liberalism.
This article was originally published by The Nation on Mon 30 Nov 2020. Read the original here.
The Last Few Years Have Spelled a Resounding End to the ‘Jewish Vote’
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It may be worth exploring the links between US Evangelical Christians and the Northern Irish DUP.
Who is following whom, could be an interesting exercise.