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Worldwide incidents of traditional antisemitism are up, American Jews explain, and they are no longer occurring in obscure places: the marchers holding torches yelling ”Jews will not replace us” happened on US soil, and the mobs disrupting disrupted public Yom Kippur services last year occurred in Israel.
Harris makes a strong statement on fighting antisemitism, Jewish Democrats say, while Trump associates himself with antisemites.
Jews do not vote based on Israel, even in existential times. So, with all respect to Iran and the ICC, there are more pressing issues: abortions, rising traditional antisemitism incidents, and the environment.
Moreover, Democratic Jews are satisfied with the Biden-Harris administration providing weapons to Israel, intercepting the Iran missile attacks, sharing intelligence, and having Israel’s back. At the same time, they look the other way at the executive order that gave Treasury and State Departments a broad “license to sanction” Israeli Jews, as well as at the weaponry the administration withheld from Israel, the pressure it puts, and the restrictions it placed on the Jewish state’s ability to win the war.
Times of London columnist Melanie Phillips sees this phenomenon in a greater context. Speaking last week at the launch event for The Assault on Judaism, she said that there is an American worldview known as “The Obama Doctrine” that calls for a tie between various actors in the Middle East – Suni and Shia, Israel and Iran: “My impression is that current American administration will not allow Israel to be destroyed on its watch… but they want Israel to continue to swing in the wind. They do not want Israel to win because winning is inconvenient to their worldview, which must prevail.”
Trump, who argues Israel will not survive if Harris wins, says that Jews who vote for Harris should have their heads checked.”
Yet, voting for Trump is not the only way Jews can get America to support Israeli Jews, just like voting for Dewey against Roosevelt in 1944 was not the only way Jews could have gotten America to support European Jews.
American Jews are estimated to account for about half of Democratic party funding. Seventy percent of them voted for Biden in 2020, and they are concentrated in swing states, such as Pennsylvania.
Are American Jews using their leverage to urge the administration to defend the escalating assault on Judaism and the Jewish state?
Israeli Jews today, as European Jews back then, certainly do not think so.
In fact, some American Jews infuriated Israeli Jews on the Left and Right alike by urging Israel to respond to the October 7 and Iranian attacks by “ending the occupation” and establishing a Palestinian State. This would be akin to the 90% of American Jews who voted for Roosevelt in 1944, urging European Jews to end the Jewish occupation of Europe, that they were broadly accused of engaging in: taking jobs away from “indigenous Europeans,” competing with Europeans businesses, and Judaizing European culture.
“In every generation, someone rises to eradicate us,” – but many American Jews apparently do not vote based on such an existential threat – not in 1944 and not in 2024.
Gol Kalev is the author of the new book The Assault on Judaism: The Existential Threat Is Coming from the West (TheAssaultonJudaism.com). He is chair of the Judaism 3.0 Think Tank and author of Judaism 3.0: Judaism’s Transformation to Zionism.
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