US Jews are for more liberal than Israeli Jews
JVL Introduction
America may be “the diaspora” as far as Israel is concerned, but for the overwhelming majority of US Jews it is simply their home.
Philip Weiss and James North highlight the growing chasm between them and Israeli Jews.
Despite Donald Trump’s fanatically pro-Israel stand, he has failed to take American Jews with him.
A higher percentage have voted for Biden this time round than did for either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.
And, according to J Street, just 5% listed Israel as one of their top two voting issues, down from 9% in 2016.
American Jews are rightly fearful of Trump – someone who has enabled bigotry and white nationalism.
This article was originally published by Mondoweiss on Wed 4 Nov 2020. Read the original here.
US Jews’ ‘total repudiation’ of Trump highlights chasm between them and Israeli Jews
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“Failed to take American Jews with him” ? Maybe not. More importantly he DID take very many – and much more numerous – Zionist evangelical CHRISTIANS with him!
The conservative evangelical Christians who support Israel do so because they think that it will bring about Armageddon and the so called Rapture. These people are no
Friends of Jews.
Trump upset the balance of reason in the US as you would expect a narcissist to do. Jewish people should keep a moral eye on the people they champion, all that glisters is not gold.
American Jew’s fear of white nationalism and bigotry is very understandable. It scares all of us who remember the initial rise of many parts of the ideology of the Nazi party. I for one am very glad to see that Trump is unlikely to win a second term. In fact I hope he never gets another chance!
Jim S. Quite so! Numbering an estimated 90 million or so in the USA alone, Christian Zionist Evangelicals have a real political clout.. The advisors and lawyers surrounding Trump might include Zionists (Christian and Jewish), who are very determined to keep their man in power by whatever means. Let’s hope that they have few peers in the military. Units of the armed forces operating with heavily armed civilians and paramilitary units eg Proud Boys, could conceivably keep their man in power. Look at how Trump attracts unquestioning adoration from his followers. He is a God!
It would be comforting to think that these views would be shared by UK Jews, particularly those in the Labour Party. At the moment it would seem Sir Keir Starmer, and others, conflate any criticism of Israel with anti semitism.