American Jews on the Left Are Just Shocked
by Their Fellow Leftists
PJ Media,
by
Dennis Prager
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
11/7/2023 12:46:09 AM
New York Times headline: "On Israel, Progressive Jews Feel Abandoned by Their Left-Wing Allies.
NBC News: "The left faces a reckoning as Israel divides Democrats."
Time Magazine: "How the Activist Left Turned on Israel."
Los Angeles Times: "'The left has really let us down.' Why many American Jews feel abandoned"
Financial Times: "Left's take on Hamas stuns American Jews -- and threatens Democratic party split."
You get the point.
Left-wing American Jews feel betrayed by the Left. A Left that remains anti-Israel even after the greatest single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, and even though most Palestinians and their supporters explicitly call for the destruction of the Jewish state: "From the river
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
singermom9 11/7/2023 12:56:18 AM (No. 1593451)
Leftists HATE. Always have. Always will.
Full of violence too. It never was MAGA.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
janjan 11/7/2023 2:33:50 AM (No. 1593460)
American Jews are nothing like Israeli Jews. For some odd reason they thought they had a comfortable home with the Democrat Party. Now they are realizing that they are in great danger in their own country from the very people they trusted. Reality is setting in.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Dannee 11/7/2023 3:37:06 AM (No. 1593479)
I have never understood why Jewish people vote straight Democrat.
There must be a mental belief that Jews should be hated and persecuted.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Strike3 11/7/2023 4:03:26 AM (No. 1593489)
Our educational institutions can't seem to make most people understand basic math and reading but they have really dropped the ball on history. Don't think it's accidental; in order to change history you must make sure nobody knows what is truth in order to replace it with what they want you to think is truth.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
FJB 11/7/2023 4:06:03 AM (No. 1593490)
And now, thanks to traitors Pansy Barry Hussein and China Joe, we’re ALL in very grave danger. Know any Biden voters? Be sure to thank them. MAGA-FJB
61 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
Sully 11/7/2023 4:44:36 AM (No. 1593494)
Really? I am shocked that You are shocked. The (brute) Squad house dems took Israel off their maps! Our wire framed President, Democrat Barak **Hussein** Obama insulted the Israeli Prime Minister publicly and repeatedly.
The left hates you. The evangelical right has always defended you. Wake. Up. Shame it took an atrocity to stir you against your own avowed enemies but welcome to reality.
Also, Stop Feeding the Grizzlies. Dershowitz and other leftists have been training young skulls of mush n the culture of death for decades. In academia and media. American Jews are on the wrong side of the culture war and only now are dope slapped by the monster they contributed to create.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
5 handicap 11/7/2023 5:55:28 AM (No. 1593515)
Progressivism is nothing less than Hatred of ones past, in it's entirety, and all who hold it dear... Unfortunately they offer nothing better, only destruction of the present...
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
chance_232 11/7/2023 6:00:41 AM (No. 1593517)
For years, anytime there is a left wing protest for any reason, the leftist anti-semites were right there, up front waving their Palestinian flags. The last time the UN took a positive position on Jews was in 1948. Divestment of Israeli investments has been all the rage for the past 20 or so years. College students have been showing increasing anti-semitism for decades and even the DNC has been getting more and more anti-Semitic. It’s all been out there for anyone to see who is willing to suspend disbelief. And all the while, the leftists have been accusing the right of racism and antisemitism.
It’s funny and sad that American Jews are the only ones surprised. I’m only surprised that they finally took the mask off.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
privateer 11/7/2023 6:10:32 AM (No. 1593520)
Well, nobody ever said Jews were smart. Oh Wait!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 11/7/2023 6:12:22 AM (No. 1593521)
#3, have to wonder because a lot of people think Adolph Hitler was a conservative. He was a socialist.
26 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
Rinktum 11/7/2023 6:35:51 AM (No. 1593529)
I could be quite tacky and say that you voted for these people. If I knew what Obama’s views on the Middle East were before 2007, why didn’t you? I had many discussions with Jewish friends prior to that election who thought I was a racist because I did not trust Obama and thought he would be bad for Israel. It had nothing to do with color, but Obama made it clear that he was an anti-Semite when he sat and listened to his pastor spew hate and when we found out he was a friend to Louis Farrakhan. Those are big red flags. The lines have been drawn and it is clear who supports the Jews and Israel and it is not the democrat party. The decision that American Jews make in the next election very well may be a life and death one. Better weigh your options carefully and remember as you do, democrats are not your friends.
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Rich business men think that if they contribute heavily to the causes of the left, it will insulate them from the harsh treatment of the left.
But eventually, the left plans to grab all you own and throw it in their big pot. They want to trash this country and make it part of the one world government system.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
bpl40 11/7/2023 7:27:07 AM (No. 1593553)
Expecting milk from a snake is foolish.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
govlawyer 11/7/2023 7:32:12 AM (No. 1593557)
Leftist Jews are surprised that their passionate "support" for their fellow travelers is not reciprocated when the crunch is on. Leftists' support may be a thousand miles wide but it's only a millimeter deep.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
udanja99 11/7/2023 8:22:21 AM (No. 1593598)
To add to #11’s post, I learned everything I needed to know about 0bama when he said this on national television on September 7, 2008….
“…you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith ...”
He and the usual suspects tried to walk it back but it was the truth and everything he has done since proves it.
I am Catholic but my paternal grandfather was Jewish. The names of over 100 of my recent ancestors are on the memorial wall at the Holocaust Museum in Prague, Czechoslovakia. We are flying the flag of Israel on our front porch next to our American flag. I am wearing a Star of David pendant alongside the Cross I wear on a necklace and we now have a mezuzah on our front door frame. I stand with Israel.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
marbles 11/7/2023 8:37:36 AM (No. 1593614)
Jewish parents ( generally first generation native born ) of the baby boomers were democrats. They grew up during the Great Depression and Roosevelt was the president of their childhood and early adulthood. FDR was idolized. You have to keep in mind that the press was biased back then too and covered up a lot. As the baby boomers grew up they followed their parents politics. There was no internet, only news at 11 and a host of papers that carried the party line. Most people had no interest in politics and voted democrat out of habit.
They're democrats because they're democrats which is laziness on their part. No critical thinking went on. Now the unrest is aimed at Jews and American Jews are beginning to see that they do have to think about what and who they support.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 11/7/2023 8:39:36 AM (No. 1593618)
Our next-door neighbors are Jewish and practice their faith every week at their synagogue. They are the finest people I have ever met. They both lost many family members during the WWII holocaust. Their WWII stories are gut-wrenching. I get to talking with them fairly often and even though my spiritual upbringing is different than theirs (I was confirmed in the Lutheran Church when i was in 8th grade), we agree on many things politically and spiritually. They both despise the dim party, what it stands for, and what it has done to America. They believe that Trump is the rightful President and should be sitting at the Resolute Desk. They are all in for Israel and so are my wife and me.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
chagrined 11/7/2023 8:50:38 AM (No. 1593623)
Sounds like you have some great neighbors, poster #17.
Unfortunately, concerning the rest of the Jewish population of the U.S., I'll take a wait and see stance on whether the bulk of them wisen up and do not vote for demonrats in upcoming elections. I'll believe it when I see it, just like there won't be nearly as much voter fraud in upcoming elections.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
bobmadison 11/7/2023 8:55:06 AM (No. 1593630)
Years ago, I was told Jewish people vote Democrat because they equate Republicans with Hitler and the NAZIs.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Venturer 11/7/2023 8:59:50 AM (No. 1593635)
American Jews have been voting left for years and now their Wittle Feewings are hurt.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
paral04 11/7/2023 9:30:43 AM (No. 1593667)
Jews went along with all the Left-wing nonsense and fed it. Now it is biting them in the rear. They had better think harder next time they vote.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Samsquanch 11/7/2023 9:34:03 AM (No. 1593672)
It's willful ignorance then, Obama always said what his evil plans were.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Zigrid 11/7/2023 11:14:35 AM (No. 1593753)
The time has come for all Jews to remember the holocaust and say...."never again"....the attack on Israel by Hamas and Hezbollah was no better than hitler's holocaust in viciousness and contempt for the sovereign state of Israel....so let the useful idiot people from BLM and intifada and the worthless college brats march and chant and destroy property...a reckoning is coming.....
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
PrayerWarrior 11/7/2023 11:19:06 AM (No. 1593754)
Years ago we were in San Francisco shopping and a couple of blocks away was a demonstration of people marching down Market Street. We went down to see what the San Francisco crazies were protesting about, and it was for Palestine against Israel. Standing on the sidewalk next to the people walking by, I said out loud, "why do you all hate the Jews?" and a lady stopped and looked at me and said, "I'm Jewish." My mouth dropped open. A Jewish woman marching and protesting against her own people! I've never forgotten that experience.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
broken01 11/7/2023 11:41:07 AM (No. 1593767)
American Jews are shocked that the left hates them with the fury of 1000 suns? I as a Conservative who is a Christian knew that from day one. I may not be a genius on the level of an Albert Einstein but ever since I was lied to by an adult (middle school teacher) I've always read and did my own research. That goes double for who I vote for especially for POTUS. Even I knew what kind of man Obama was back in 2004. Heck Biden has been a festering boil in DC since 1973. Those are just two major examples of worthless leftist democrats that don't care for American Jews (unless it's for votes) and hate Israel. I have friends that are Jewish who voted for the Joetard and like my Black relatives and friends I ask why. Both groups say the same things as mean tweets, Trump, republicans and Conservatives are racist and anti-Semitic bullies etc. That to me is what's shocking.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
dbdiva 11/7/2023 12:33:31 PM (No. 1593789)
If people do NOT want to know/see something they will go out of their way not to know/see it.
Those on the left have always lived in bubbles of their own making where uncomfortable facts are not allowed to penetrate. 10/07 was a HUGE uncomfortable fact that was strong enough to burst some bubbles; comfort zones have been breached. Hopefully this horrific event will be a catalyst that prompts Jewish voters to rethink their political allegiances. I hope some scales have been removed from their eyes.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Roberto 11/7/2023 12:36:10 PM (No. 1593792)
Tom Wolfe revealed in "Radical Chic" (1970) how the NY Jewish elite was shocked to find that their chic Black Panthers supported the PLO, wanting to destroy Israel.
But apparently they forgot this lesson. 50 years later: BLM supports Hamas? Who knew??
More than 50 years have passed since "Radical Chic," yet it seems that American Jews have learned nothing.
https://forward.com/culture/401311/that-time-tom-wolfe-lampooned-leonard-bernstein-and-radical-chic
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 11/7/2023 2:42:48 PM (No. 1593854)
#23, I always enjoy your comments and click "like" every single time. You would be preaching to the choir with my Jewish neighbors, a very well-grounded retired husband and wife. They would have written your comment using the same exact words. They both experienced, firsthand, the holocaust. They survived for only reasons God could explain, but the nazis shot, gassed, or starved to death their siblings, parents, uncles and aunts, and grandparents. I can only hope that my neighbors now speak for the many Jewish worshippers and believers in America. Just wondering - why was hamas' latest murder rampage necessary to remind Jewish believers as well as the rest of us as to the satanic evil that is here.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
mk213 11/7/2023 2:47:50 PM (No. 1593857)
They're all JINO's and getting exactly what they deserve. ESPECIALLY the UWS nadler JINO's.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
MickTurn 11/7/2023 10:12:50 PM (No. 1594113)
I thought Jews as a culture were pretty smart, it appears I'm WRONG!
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