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I’m Catholic, but attended a coworker’s son’s Bar Mitzvah service a couple of years ago.

From the ‘pulpet’ (or whatever the Jewish equivalent is) came an endless liberal rant. Karl Rove’s name came up frequently. Even heard sympathy for the ‘plight of the Palestinians’.

With this one experience, I’m left with the impression that the liberal slant comes from the Jewish leadership

With the notable exception of Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov), most of the leading Communists who took control of Russia in 1917-20 were Jews. Leon Trotsky (Lev Bronstein) headed the Red Army and, for a time, was chief of Soviet foreign affairs. Yakov Sverdlov (Solomon) was both the Bolshevik party’s executive secretary and — as chairman of the Central Executive Committee — head of the Soviet government. Grigori Zinoviev (Radomyslsky) headed the Communist International (Comintern), the central agency for spreading revolution in foreign countries. Other prominent Jews included press commissar Karl Radek (Sobelsohn), foreign affairs commissar Maxim Litvinov (Wallach), Lev Kamenev (Rosenfeld) and Moisei Uritsky.6

I’ve been trying to figure this out for years. I’ve asked Jewish people why they seem to have propensity for cozying up to the very people who will eventually annihilate them.

The only response (it was certainly not an answer) was “its a tribal thing”.

For what it’s worth here’s my take:

1. Jews have been persecuted for eons. This has led to self defense behavior which includes keeping your enemies close and going along to get along. The WWII lesson seems to be totally forgotten.

2. Jews, because they have been persecuted, tend to circle the wagons for protection. They live in imposed or self imposed ghettos or communes where it’s all for one and one for all. Very similar to Marxist communes. Thus, they’re preconditioned to accept communal Utopian ideologies. The Israeli kibbutz is organized around the Marxist ideal.

3. Jews want desperately to be thought of as socially advanced and caring people. I believe this need is what drives many Jews into being care givers—doctors, dentists, psychiatrists etc. Unfortunately this also draws them to Utopian ideologies like Marxism. One of the left’s aliases is “progressive”. It perfectly captures the Jewish mindset.

Certainly some Jews understand perfectly well the threats facing them. But they are constrained from speaking out for fear of being ostracized by the larger Jewish community. It seems the larger Jewish community only stirs itself to fight when it is on the brink of annihilation.