PrintNovember 3, 2008
Symposium: Why do so many Jews still vote Democrat?
Several AT writers share their thoughts on election eve.Bookworm:More and more often, I am getting asked by Jews (conservative) and non-Jews alike: Why are American Jews still aligned with the Democratic Party, why are they backing Obama so fervently, and why are they so incredibly hostile to American Christians, who have never harmed them? I've run out of ideas for answers. I can easily trace the history of the Jewish allegiance to the Democratic Party and I can explain the traditional, pre-20th Century Jewish wariness of Christians, but I cannot explain how, in the 21st Century, these views still hold. The 20th Century (especially the late 20th Century) showed us that American Christians are mostly our friends; the 20th Century showed us that the socialist state is hostile to Jews, often genocidally so; this campaign is showing us that Obama's default friends and advisors, the ones to whom he automatically gravitates, are anti-Israel and anti-Jewish; and this...(Read Full Article)
