It's been noted more than a few times here and in other places that a large proportion of the American Jewish electorate who are otherwise thoroughly supportive of Israel will still cast their presidential ballots for candidates who are not exactly friends of the Jewish State. In other words, their "progressive" politics trumps their feelings of Zionism. It is a phenomenon which has never been adequately explained; and, frankly, I have come away scratching my head from many an argument with highly educated and successful friends who are staunch Zionists but still boosting Obama and his administration, downplaying his unfairness to the Jewish State and covering up for his partiality toward Israel-hating Muslim nations and bigots the likes of Jeremiah Wright, Jr. This anomalous practice has now spread, for the first time, to several major Jewish organizations. The very groups who should be defending Israel against Obama are, instead, deniers and protectors of his antagonistic attitudes...(Read Full Post)