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Related: About this forumMazel Tov, Trump. You've Revived the Jewish Left.
Only one political party is quite literally inciting white nationalists to shoot up our synagogues.
'On Aug. 11, more than 1,000 people marked Tisha BAv, the saddest day in the Jewish calendar, by occupying an Amazon Books store in Manhattan, protesting the technology behemoths technical support for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Sitting on the floor, they read harrowing accounts of people in immigration detention and recited the Kaddish, the traditional Jewish prayer of mourning. One of their signs said, Never again means never again.
According to organizers, 44 people, including 12 rabbis and a member of New Yorks City Council, were arrested. It was one of over 50 Jewish-organized demonstrations against ICE held across the country that day.
A few days later, a corrections officer drove a truck into a row of Jewish protesters who were blocking the entrance to a private prison in Rhode Island where migrants are being detained. Two of the protesters were hospitalized. That demonstration was one of at least 38 organized this summer by Never Again Action, a decentralized group formed two months ago to engage in nonviolent direct action against immigrant detention.
Donald Trump might have thought he was going to lure Jewish voters to the Republican Party with his lock-step alliance with the Israeli right. Instead, by attempting to use American Jews as mascots for an administration that fills most of them with horror, he has spurred a renaissance on the Jewish left.
New progressive Jewish groups are forming. Older ones, like New Yorks Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, one of the forces behind the Amazon action, are growing; once-sleepy organizing meetings have become standing room only. Jewish Currents, a left-wing Jewish publication founded almost 75 years ago, was reborn last year with a new cadre of writers and editors who speak to the millennial socialist zeitgeist.'>>>
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/24/opinion/sunday/trump-jews.html
pangaia
(24,324 posts)that led in turning around the horror that this country has become....
elleng
(130,126 posts)Let's DO IT!
pangaia
(24,324 posts)What pisses me off is that it just may be left to Jews to save 'us all'...
Oh, I'm not Jewish, but I dated a Jewish girl once many decades ago..
elleng
(130,126 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)burrowowl
(17,606 posts)EndGOPPropaganda
(1,117 posts)Before the Shoah, there were two kinds of Jews in America: Zionists and non-Zionists. The non-Zionists were pretty strong! and perhaps stronger than the Zionists.
Until a few years ago, almost every Jew in America was a Zionist. Support for Israel and being Jewish were basically one and the same.
Thanks to Netanyahu and Trump, a new Jewish left is arising-- American Jews that don't just agree with everything the Israeli gov't does.
erronis
(14,941 posts)The main purpose for having this raving maniac spew his garbage is to drive wedges between any/all groups.
First they split off the deplorables, then they went after the moderate repuglicons. Then turn to various groups of color and then various religions. Pretty soon the "United" states are turned into a million islands of a few that hate one another.
To what goal?
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Support for Israel is an issue very specific to the Jews (I know about evangelicals but not relevant for this discussion).
GOP thinks it can split off Jewish voters by driving a wedge into them: support for
Israel vs human rights concerns.
It helps that Sheldon Adelson is a huge GOP voter who is also pro-Israel
And also helps that Netanyahu is essentially a rightwing white Republican man who was raised in Philadelphia.
Anyway, it's not going to work. Some Jews will vote for Trump based on Israel. But it won't get bigger.
MadDAsHell
(2,067 posts)It is quite literally one of the most locked up voting blocs in the country.