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NPR Poll Tells Us What We Already Know
hotair.com
1 Dec 2023 ~~ By David Strom
The bottom line is this: the modern home of antisemitism is the Democrat Party.
That’s not to say that being a Democrat makes you an anti-semite. Hardly. 7 in 10 Jews are Democrats, and many non-Jewish Democrats are anything but anti-semites.
But let’s face facts: the home of antisemites in America is the Democrat Party. While 80% of Republicans and nearly 70% of Independents support Israel, only 45% of Democrats do.
Americans' sympathies overall lie with Israel in this conflict, but Democrats are split
By a 61%-30% margin, respondents said their sympathies lie more with Israelis than Palestinians, but that's driven by Republicans (79%) and independents (67%), who overwhelmingly support…
— Dumisani Washington (@DumisaniTemsgen) December 1, 2023
It’s pretty hard to ignore these dramatic differences.
Most of the Republicans I see who are critical of supporting Israel do so because they lean toward isolationism, disdaining support for Ukraine as well as Israel. Most of the Democrats who are viciously attacking Israel are big supporters of Ukraine and the Palestinians. The people ripping down posters of Jewish hostages are, in many cases, sporting Ukraine flags on their bios.
The difference is clear: as the young Turks of the Democrat Party move up the political ladder, the Democrat Party is becoming more and more hostile to Jews.
38% of Americans say Israel’s military response to Hamas has been too much. This is up from 26% in the week following the October attack. 17% say the response has been too little, a decline from 27%, and 38% think the attack has been appropriate. This is down from 44% previously.
Americans, though, are more likely to sympathize with the Israelis (61%) than the Palestinians (30%). While Republicans (79%) and independents (67%) are more likely to express greater sympathy toward Israel, Democrats divide. 45% say they have greater sympathy for Israelis, and the same proportion (45%) say their sympathies are more with the Palestinians.
This is a huge problem for both the Democrat Party and for the Jewish progressives–and over 50% of Jews call themselves liberals, which is double the general population.
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Soon, Jews will have to make a choice–stick with the antisemites for ideological reasons or ally with the classical Liberals in the Republican Party, whose ideological commitments to Western values are stronger than their ideological differences with liberal Jews.
Commentary:
To the roughly 80% of Jewish voters who are “Always Democrats”:
Your mother told you when you were a tot on the carpet listening to her, The Democrats are for the little guy, for the disadvantaged, and the Republicans are for the richest people and are against Jews.
Your mother was wrong.
The hatred of the DSA Democrat Socialist Left for Israel and Jews is no surprise at all, - except for the naïve, who take campaign slogans and promises at face value. But anyone with any knowledge of history and politics knows that the Left has no permanent favored groups, only those that it pretends to favor in exchange for the unwavering loyalty of those groups. The only true loyalty of the Democrat Socialist Left is to itself or, rather, to its own power. Ultimately, when the Left gets the power it wants (which is to say, dictatorial power), the first groups hunted down, imprisoned or executed are its closest allies - one need look no further than any Communist regime, ever.
Lately and very explicitly, it is now the turn of my idiot co-religionists to learn this hard lesson, as the Left tosses them under the bus because they found a larger group of new suckers to use, which group just happens to despise Jews with a hatred unrivaled in all of history except for Nazi Germany.
