Posted on 10/16/2021 10:05:33 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
There is almost nothing Democrats can do to damage America, or Israel, that would change most American Jews' political leanings.
The latest example took place just last week. A college student speaking to the vice president of the United States, a Democrat, condemned America for supporting Israel, and charged Israel with committing "ethnic genocide" against Palestinians.
Harris's response?
"Your voice, your perspective, your experience, your truth cannot be suppressed, and it must be heard."
It was indeed the student's truth -- which means it was a lie. "Your truth" always means "a lie." When a person says something that is true, people don't say, "that is your truth." They say, "that's true."
And indeed, what the girl said to the vice president was a complete lie. Not a partial lie, a complete lie. As a rule -- except on the Left with regard to Israel -- groups that are victims of genocide decrease in number. Yet the Palestinians have had one of the highest population growth rates in the world. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, in 1991, there were 2,783,084 Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza. In 2021, there were 5,227,193. This number does not include another 2 million Palestinians who are citizens of Israel. How many other national or ethnic groups have doubled in size in the last 30 years?
Yet, despite this revealing incident, it is hard to imagine that one American Jew will in any way rethink his or her commitment to Biden-Harris.
One reason is that few Jewish Democrats even know it occurred. I Googled "new york times kamala harris george mason university" and the following results came up (in this order): New York Post, Politico, Times of Israel, JTA (Jewish Telegraphic Agency). Next came the New York Times -- an article from 2020: "Kamala Harris Makes History as First Woman and Woman of Color as Vice President."
I could find nothing about the incident in the news sections of the Washington Post or Los Angeles Times either.
Some of the most powerful forces in the Democratic Party (the reason for the $3.5 trillion spending bill) are indistinguishable in their hatred for Israel from Hamas, Hezbollah and the Iranian regime. Does this disturb American Jewish Democrats?
Not nearly as much as Donald Trump disturbed them. Most American Jews loathed Trump despite the facts that he was the most pro-Israel president since Harry Truman; that his daughter and grandchildren are religious Jews; and that he engineered the Abraham Accords, a peace agreement between the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain and Israel, which was followed by normalization of relations between Sudan and Israel and between Morocco and Israel.
Most American Jews believe the Democratic Party is a good and moral party and that the Republican Party is immoral and perhaps even evil.
This view is entirely emotional, which is why it is difficult to imagine it changing.
Most American Jews identify Republicans with the right and they assume "the right" means "fascist" or even "Nazi."
Most American Jews identify Republicans with the rich and powerful and the Democratic Party with the poor and downtrodden, even though the rich and powerful are overwhelmingly Democrats.
Most American Jews identify the Democratic Party with secularism and the Republican Party with religion (religious Christians and Orthodox Jews). And they are as committed to secularism as Christians are to Christ.
Most American Jews have signed on to just about every secular substitute for Judeo-Christian religions: feminism, environmentalism, "anti-racism," humanism, socialism. Jews, I have often noted, may well be the most religious people in the world -- but for the great majority of them, Judaism is not their religion. And the Democratic Party is the party of all these secular religions.
This is all a great tragedy -- not just for America but especially for American Jews.
America has always been the best country Jews have ever lived in outside of Israel. That is why a Jew wrote "God Bless America" (and did so at a time when antisemitism was much more prevalent and accepted in American society than it is today). That is why the most influential religious Jew of the 20th century, the Chabad leader, Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, described America as a (SET ITAL) medina shel chesed (END ITAL), a "country of kindness." Coming from Europe, he did not compare America to Utopia but to all the other countries Jews lived in.
Yet, something happened to American Jews after World War II. They veered more and more left -- becoming able to support America-hating movements (like the Black Panthers, for whom Leonard Bernstein and other prominent Jews in music and Broadway threw an infamous fundraiser).
And why did that happen? Because Jews became less and less committed to Judaism, substituted the New York Times for the Torah and went to college in greater proportions than any other ethnic or religious group in America. Colleges corrupt most students' values. Jews are no exception.
That helps explain why a Democratic vice president could praise a student who just told her that Israel commits ethnic genocide -- and have it mean nothing to most American Jews.
You're a Jew who believes in a creator God with established laws.
Most of those laws align with born again Christians .... as adopted into the family Jews.
For 3500 years, Israel (the Jews) have not known who their Friend is.
The will find out soon.
If you look at the Theocracy created by Judeaism in the old testament, you will see a relationship between the “government” and the citizen that is surprisingly similar to the Muslim theocracy.
It’s not about individual freedom as much as Christianity is. Not even close.
“In heaven, all stop signs are replaced by Yield signs.”
American Jews just like American Blacks have bought the Democrat and Mainstream Media Line hook, line and sinker. To get them to wake up and realize the truth is a huge task that will take all the resources of the Republicans and a whole lot of money to counter their advertising.
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There is indeed something about the Jewish people in a wish people in a collective sense not necessarily an individual sense where they seem to embrace the enemies of the Jewish people. For example there are a myriad instances of Jewish people who supported the Nazi regime even though from the very outset the nazi regime was openly unambiguous about their hatred for the Jews.
George Soros comes to mind.
It seems they are possessed of a collective self loathing and self hatred. What’s worse is the Jewish people in entertainment and media have transmitted this collective self loathing and self hatred to the so-called woke generation in Western civilization.
Granted, Jewish comedians who indulge in self loathing are often highly entertaining. What stymies me is the realization that perhaps their self loathing isn’t an act.
Also the voice to text feature on my Samsung Galaxy note 20 sucks..
Leftism is a religion.
You cannot be both a Leftist and a real Jew.
What Dennis should but doesn’t understand is that American liberal Jews are Jewish in name only. They look at Israel the way liberal whites look down on those hicks from hillbilly ville.
There is a guy named Michael Fremer on Youtube who has a channel called Analog Planet. He is a vinyl enthusiast who writes for Stereophile magazine. He interjects little political swipes once in a while. He loves the “Squad”.I needle him about how his girlfriend AOC is anti semitic, but he loves her and won’t listen to reason.
“Look, free ovens!”
Truth is not relative. There is only Truth. Truth does niit mutate into something else because some disturbed person says something crazy.
“And I’m getting tired of hearing that smarmy phrase “your truth””
Second that. Plus ‘and so it begins’.
Most would vote National Socialist if that was the republican opposition.
Jews are even slightly more Democrat than Catholics. Thank goodness we can still count on rock ribbed Presbyterians and
Baptists. What’s that you say? Oh wait....
The rot is everywhere.
Well, it’s been said that there are Jews, and then there are atheists who call themselves Jews.
Any party that puts up with and even tacitly endorses the likes of ilhan Omar and Rashida Talib and to a certain extent AOC, has crossed over into outright anti-Semitism. Yet American Jews continue to support the Dem Party. I had this discussion with two Jewish family members (in-laws). They insist the anti-Israel position is not anti-Semitic. I insist it is.
For a smart people, they sure are gullible.
JINOs. Arbeit macht frei.
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