Why Are American Jews So Liberal?<\/b><\/p>\n
Over the years, Christians have often asked me why American Jews are so liberal. I have answered them by saying because of their history as a persecuted minority and their secular humanist beliefs that have replaced their \u201cchoseness\u201d as the people of God called to be a light to the nations.<\/p>\n
In the article below, Ben Shapiro gives a clear and insightful statement that I found helpful and wanted to share with you. Ben is the editor-in-Chief of TruthRevolt, a bestselling author and conservative news commentator and an Orthodox Jew. The surveys will help you understand why most American Jews care nothing for Israel \u2013 are not Zionists. Read it and weep. Please pray for a spiritual awakening for the Jews in America and the American \u201ccultural Christians\u201d that both will return (teshuvah<\/i>) to the One True God of the Bible.<\/p>\n
Ben Shapiro: Why Jews Vote Leftist?<\/p>\n
February 12, 2015\u00a0by\u00a0TruthRevolt.org<\/a>\u00a02 Comments<\/a><\/p>\n In 2008, American Jews voted overwhelmingly for Barack Obama. Even though Obama had spent large segments of his prior life hobnobbing with vicious anti-Semites like Jeremiah Wright and Rashid Khalidi, even though he had staffed his campaign with anti-Semites ranging from Zbigniew Brzezinski to Robert Malley, Jews turned out in droves for him. Sarah Silverman harangued young Jews into telling their grandparents that they were racist if they didn\u2019t vote for him; Jeffrey Goldberg, Obama\u2019s designated court Jew \u2013 a role he has never relinquished \u2014 informed Jews that they were racist if they feared Senator Obama\u2019s positions on Israel.<\/p>\n American Jews voted 78 percent for Obama in 2008.<\/b><\/p>\n After he was elected, Obama proceeded to undermine Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, force Netanyahu to humiliate himself before thugs like the Turkish government, publicly condemn Israel\u2019s defense of itself during the Gaza war against Hamas while funding the Hamas unity government, repeatedly leak vital national security information that would have allowed Israel to strike Iran, and sign a deal with Iran that essentially foreclosed any possibility of Western attempts to stop Iran from going nuclear.<\/p>\n American Jews voted 69 percent for Obama in 2012.<\/b><\/p>\n The question I\u2019m most often asked, thanks to my kippa, is why Jews vote leftist. The answer is simple: the vast majority of Jews don\u2019t care about Judaism or Israel. They care about secular leftism, which is their religion.<\/p>\n The polls show this. American Jews are the least religious group in America.<\/p>\n American Jews and Israel<\/b><\/p>\n What does being Jewish mean to most American Jews?<\/b><\/p>\n So, what does being Jewish mean to most Jews?<\/p>\n Just 19 percent said it was about observing Jewish law<\/p>\n Jews, in other words, are not religious. They are secular leftists who don\u2019t want to be labeled white people because they like being diverse and being able to enjoy the in-jokes in Woody Allen films.<\/p>\n So why is it a surprise that most Jews vote leftists? Most Jews aren\u2019t Jewish in any real sense beyond ethnic identification. They have nothing to do with Torah, the five books of Moses. They have nothing to do with the ethical system posited by Biblical Judaism. They have nothing to do with the mitzvot, the commandments. They have nothing to do with Israel. Polling Jews on their politics is like polling anyone born Catholic on\u00a0their\u00a0<\/i>politics: you\u2019re going to skew far to the left by including lapsed Catholics. And most Jews are lapsed Jews, or never-knew-anything-in-the-first-place Jews.<\/p>\n The Torah is not a left-wing document. It opposes abortion and opposes same-sex marriage. It does not believe in a grand welfare system, but in private charity. It dictates belief that Israel was promised to the Jews, and that the Jews have a responsibility to live ethically according to a set of specific behavioral guidelines. Judaism is conservative, in the modern parlance. Those who pretend to back both Judaism and left-wing values are betraying Torah Judaism. Which is why while Jews vote three to one for Democrats, Orthodox Jews vote nearly two to one for Republicans.<\/p>\n Now, there are older Jews who vote leftist because they remember the bad old days of country club Republicans who rejected them from the golf course, and don\u2019t realize that things have changed rather dramatically. There are older Jews who vote leftist because they remember the legacy of European Christianity that preyed on Jews for centuries, and don\u2019t realize that American Christians are Jews\u2019 best friends, not the American left that stands by President Obama.<\/p>\n But by and large, most Jews vote leftist because they are upper middle class agnostics with above-average levels of post-graduate education who believe that religion is a great ill, that Biblical morality is intolerant and vicious, and that Judaism itself is pass\u00e9.<\/p>\n Jews who care about actual Judaism don\u2019t vote leftist. And those who prioritize leftism don\u2019t vote Jewish.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Why Are American Jews So Liberal? Over the years, Christians have often asked me why American Jews are so liberal. I have answered them by saying because of their history as a persecuted minority and their secular humanist beliefs that have replaced their \u201cchoseness\u201d as the people of God called to be a light to … Continue reading Why Are American Jews So Liberal?<\/span> \n
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