[Steely Tom]

The explanations I've heard fall into two basic catagories:

1. Many Jews live in urban settings. They think that liberalism passifies populations that would, under conditions of widespread unrest and social breakdown, target Jews for attack.
2. Many Jews living in wealthy industrialized western countries are not "religious." They are also highly conscious of their spirtual and cultural heritage. The tension between these two facts creates in them a sense of angst, of spiritual "wrongdoing," that they try to expiate by accepting, embracing, promoting, and funding liberalism, which they see, consciously or otherwise, as a secular substitute for the good works that are promoted by organized religious institutions. By doing this, they innoculate themselves against existential angst.

How realistic either of these are in fact, I don't know. They at least offer a starting point for discussion.

[VanDeKoik]

They also have allowed their heritage to be demeaned with a constant string of lib Jewish comedians that have made it “acceptable” to lampoon their culture in a way that would be considered an “hate crime” if it came from anyone else.

It becomes cool to be a Jewish person and treat themself as a walking punchline, bringing out their heritage, or a stray Yiddish word, only when they need a laugh from their non-Jewish lib friends so they can “fit in”.

So when lefty politicians bash on Israel, they either join in or shrug there shoulders, because that’s the place where they take their Jewish-ness too seriously. Soooo uncool.

[stuartcr]

I imagine it would be good to actually ask Jews why.

[wardaddy]

whoa dude...you are a deep thinker...you shoulda written this piece for the Thinker

decent insight though I must say

man I have studied Jews since I went to school with a Shulmeister and a Shornik.

and 8 years in Manhattan, time in Ramat Gan and 4 years in Miami

Israelis are different actually..much less angsty than US Jews...

but this stuff runs real deep...no question...

I respect those who shake this off a lot

[ansel12]

That doesn’t explain a 100%, 100 year old perfect record of radical leftism.