American Jews: Living Republican, voting Democratic and not repentant

[King_David]

American Jewry is virtually a one-party state and all the talk about a drift toward the GOP has little basis in reality. Liberal values are in the Jewish DNA, it seems.

David Rosenberg
Published 04:58 29.05.15
While the Adas Israel Synagogue was hosting the president of the United States last Friday, the right-wing blogosphere went hysterical. Still trying to regain its balance after years of throwing itself against the wall like madmen in a padded room, trying to prove that the president is a foreigner, a white-hating Marxist and radical Muslim anti-Semite, commentators parsed Obama’s speech to death, looking for hints of Israel-bashing.

The fact is, the president gave a very hamish talk, displaying a greater intimacy with Jews and Israel than most of the pro-Israel firebrands of the Republican right, none of whom are likely to know that the plural of kibbutz is kibbutzim or have many Jewish friends with a net worth of less than a billion dollars.

Ostensibly Obama came to Adas Israel to mark Jewish Heritage Month. The real reason was to buttress support among Jewish voters for his administration and for the Democratic Party ahead of the 2016 election. And more than that - Obama is a friend to the Jews and to Israel, and wanted to yet again demonstrate his true feelings amid an onslaught of accusations to the contrary.

Cool to Israel?

The conventional wisdom holds that the Democrats are losing the support of America’s Jews because Obama is perceived to be cool to Israel and even cooler to its prime minister, and is intent on signing a nuclear agreement with Iran, which is nothing less than a mortal danger to Israel’s security.


http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/david-s-harp/.premium-1.658332

[King_David]

1. Snip

By nature, American Jewish support for Democrats has had its ups and downs, ranging from 80% for Bill Clinton in the 1990s to a low of 45% for Jimmy Carter when he ran for re-election in 1980. But overall, Jews are overwhelmingly Democratic because they are overwhelmingly liberal: 49% described themselves that way in a Pew Research Center poll taken last year, versus 21% of the general public. Only 19% called themselves conservative, half the rate for the general public. Obama’s approval rating – including his attitude toward Israel – was much higher among Jews than among Americans as a whole.

[Scootaloo]

2. Wrong group Dave. This is I/P.

[King_David]

3. Nope

And more than that - Obama is a friend to the Jews and to Israel,

the right-wing blogosphere went hysterical. Still trying to regain its balance after years of throwing itself against the wall like madmen in a padded room, trying to prove that the president is a foreigner, a white-hating Marxist and radical Muslim anti-Semite, commentators parsed Obama’s speech to death, looking for hints of Israel-bashing.

The conventional wisdom holds that the Democrats are losing the support of America’s Jews because Obama is perceived to be cool to Israel and even cooler to its prime minister, and is intent on signing a nuclear agreement with Iran, which is nothing less than a mortal danger to Israel’s security.

[Scootaloo]

4. Just want to check...

Do you feel that a US / Iran deal is a danger to Israel, or no?

[King_David]

5. Relevance?

There are as many dangers to Israel as there are to Jews worldwide in general for the last 2000 years.

But the threat of another Holocaust inquisition , expulsion against Jews in the world today is effectively zero because of the existence of the Jewish State . And that's fact and also the reason so many people want that states demise.

Obama has reassured us USA Jews that he "has Israel's back" and I trust Obama and voted for him and supported him twice.

[Scootaloo]

6. I wanted to know your position

[King_David]

7. As I said :

Obama has reassured us USA Jews that he "has Israel's back" and I trust Obama and voted for him and supported him twice.

[Scootaloo]

8. So you don't find the idea of a US / Iran nuclear deal threatening?

Cool I think if it goes through, it'll be one of the man's master-strokes alongside Obamacare and Cuba.