Posted on 07/21/2014 12:00:12 PM PDT by SJackson
Some truth to that. Antisemitic attitudes are highest in the black community, have been for years.
With very little to back up the claim. Truman, who embargoed arms in 1948. Kennedy wasn't much of an actor on the issue, though his brother was killed for his support of Israel. Still, Democrats never mention that, it would reflect poorly on the palestinians. LBJ, who reneged on Eisenhower's commitment to keep the Gulf of Aquaba open. How big could that have been, back down Egypt, perhaps no 1967 war. I acknowledge LBJ had his hands bull, and Israel in control of the Sinai shut the canal to Russian traffic to Vietnam. But it was a commitment, by a Republican, to defend Israel's access to the Red Sea, and a Democrat refused. Who's next, Jimmy Carter. A collection to make Clinton look good on the issue. Of course other than Nixon and to some extent Reagan, Republicans have their issues too. But Republicans seem, at least to me, to have an affection for Israel despite policy decisions. Many Democrats, certainly post Carter, seem to view it as a necessary burden.
And yet most American Jews viscerally support the extreme left wing Democrats and despise Evangelical Christians. Go figure...
There's a much simpler explanation for this. The intellectual leadership of the Left in America was heavily Jewish, something that wasn't true in the rest of the world because most other countries don't have a substantial Jewish population. The American Left tended to be pro-Israel because for most Jews, even those on the far Left, ethnic solidarity came ahead of ideological solidarity. As to why that isn't the case with today's US Jewish Left, I would say it's because today's generation of secular Jews is more assimilated and has less of a sense of ethnic solidarity than a couple of generations ago.
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