{"id":2273135,"date":"2024-06-21T03:07:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T07:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-past-time-for-american-jews-to-abandon-the-democrat-party\/"},"modified":"2024-06-21T03:10:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T07:10:10","slug":"its-past-time-for-american-jews-to-abandon-the-democrat-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-past-time-for-american-jews-to-abandon-the-democrat-party\/","title":{"rendered":"American Jews Should Consider Leaving the Democratic Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fits-past-time-for-american-jews-to-abandon-the-democrat-party%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2273135&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In a recent podcast, Bari\u200c Weiss, a \u200bformer New York Times reporter known for her criticisms against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-esg-scam\/\" title=\"The ESG Scam\">woke narratives<\/a> and antisemitism, interviewed Sheryl Sandberg, an influential businesswoman and former COO of Meta. Both Jewish, the discussion highlighted their concern over the rise of antisemitism \u2063and the\u2063 perceived double \u200bstandards applied \u2063to Israel&#8217;s actions in Gaza by various groups, including NGOs and\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gallup-poll-bidens-border-invasion-is-americans-no-1-worry\/\" title=\"Gallup Poll: Americans' Top Concern is Biden's Border Invasion\">left-leaning allies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During the podcast,\u200b Sandberg \u2064discussed her documentary \u201cScreams Before Silence,\u201d \u200bwhich\u200b provides a moving depiction of the atrocities of Oct. 7 through interviews with survivors and first responders. This documentary is available on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>The conversation also touched on political\u2062 affiliations where Sandberg reluctantly confirmed her support for Joe Biden, despite \u200bher evident\u200c discomfort with being asked about this. Weiss and\u200b Sandberg\u200d expressed\u200d disillusionment \u2063with the left, especially given the current climate of extreme antisemitism coming from that direction, despite Sandberg&#8217;s ongoing support for the\u200b Democratic party.<\/p>\n<p>Weiss shared the conundrum faced by many Jewish Americans who feel torn between their dissatisfaction with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nonpartisan-economists-say-bidens-infrastructure-plan-will-decrease-economic-growth\/\" title=\"Nonpartisan Economists Say Biden\u2019s Infrastructure Plan Will Decrease Economic Growth\">domestic policies<\/a> of \u200bone political\u2062 group and their \u200calignment with another group&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nikki-haley-says-kamala-harris-never-would-have-gone-to-the-border-if-it-wasnt-for-trump\/\" title=\"Nikki Haley Says Kamala Harris \u2018Never\u2019 Would Have Gone To The Border If It Wasn\u2019t For Trump\">foreign policy stance<\/a>, particularly concerning the treatment of\u2063 Jews by radical groups like Hamas. This sentiment unveils a deeply rooted dilemma where Jews in America have historically supported Democratic\u200d candidates, but are now reevaluating this stance due to \u200bcurrent policies and\u200c attitudes toward Israel and Jewish communities.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>This past week I listened to a podcast in which Bari Weiss, the former New York Times reporter, was interviewing Sheryl Sandberg, who has served as COO for Meta (Facebook), been a C-suite exec for Google, and was Lawrence Summers\u2019 chief of staff in the Clinton administration. Both women are of Jewish heritage.<\/p>\n<p>Weiss has distinguished herself for taking on woke narratives and criticizing those applying a double standard to Israel for actions in Gaza, as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eFVXFXZ9xGA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">those who deny or rationalize the atrocities of Oct. 7<\/a>. Sandberg produced a documentary, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@ScreamsBefore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Screams Before Silence<\/a>,\u201d that is a powerful and moving account, which includes interviews with survivors and first responders, of Oct. 7 and its aftermath. It can be found on YouTube, and I highly recommend it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1502061734\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-de6d28328f4fa4bbda7ca1827fbd7be9 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-de6d28328f4fa4bbda7ca1827fbd7be9\"><\/div>\n<p>Both women are supportive of Israel in the present conflict; they are disappointed and appalled at the antisemitism that has surfaced in the United States, the world, and various NGOs; they disapprove of Israel and Israelis being held to a standard of evidence that wouldn\u2019t apply to other nations and people. Of note, both expressed a sense of betrayal and abandonment by leftists who were formerly allies.<\/p>\n<p>Late in the interview, Weiss brought up politics and asked Sandberg, \u201cWill you be donating to Biden this cycle and supporting Biden?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Sandberg responded, \u201cI did donate, and I do support.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>You could hear the discomfort in her voice; it was as if she wished she\u2019d not been asked the question and was slightly embarrassed with her answer. It seemed to me a negation of everything she had said in the first 30 minutes of the interview.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-6367db7d1c0405cc89819759f5504541 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-6367db7d1c0405cc89819759f5504541\"><\/div>\n<p>This is a woman who put her reputation, friendships, money, and efforts on the line to support Israel in what is arguably its darkest hour. But despite an overwhelming amount of Jew-hatred coming from the left in America, despite a president and administration doing everything possible both diplomatically and militarily to blunt Israel in Gaza, Sheryl Sandberg (in what I suspect will be a representative example of most secular Jews in the coming election) could not break through the denialism enveloping her. <\/p>\n<p>Instead, she talked about listening to one another and educating people, as if understanding and greater knowledge are the keys to a nuanced acceptance that kidnapping, torture, rape, and murder are wrong. She was lost in babble, unable to distinguish her friends from her enemies.<\/p>\n<p>A little further on in the interview, Weiss, outlining the position of many women on the left, said something as astonishing as it was clarifying: \u201c[T]here\u2019s one group of people who I detest on their domestic policy, but I really like what they\u2019re saying in terms of, you know, the women that are being held hostage right now by Hamas. And there\u2019s another group of people who are completely silent on this foreign issue that feels extremely intimate to me, but have policies that I really like on things like choice and abortion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dear God.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-84d275b7555d54c8cba8d5101d8c8c16 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-84d275b7555d54c8cba8d5101d8c8c16\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cDetest.\u201d One group of people is detestable. Even though those she detests are not the ones cheering on kidnapping, torture, rape, and murder, when both groups are placed upon the voting scale, apparently, their differences are nearly indiscernible. One thing seems sure, the detestable group supports a law that means there are some states, in which Weiss will never live, where she would find it more difficult, or even impossible in later stages, to have an abortion. And this is to be considered and weighed against the other group who won\u2019t condemn, but in some instances will openly support, barbarians who would kidnap, torture, rape, and murder Weiss because she is Jewish. Evidently, the choice is a difficult one.<\/p>\n<p>Bari Weiss should be unequivocally admired for both her courage and her intellect, but her judgment, as with that of Sheryl Sandberg, is wanting because it\u2019s ossified.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the same perspective is deeply entrenched among Jews across the United States. In 1916, Warren Harding won a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/jewish-voting-record-in-u-s-presidential-elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">43 percent<\/a> plurality of the Jewish vote. That was the last presidential election in which a Republican candidate got more votes from Jews than the Democrat. It should come with an asterisk because Eugene Debs, a socialist, ran third-party and received 38 percent of the Jewish vote. In short, Democrats, for more than 100 years, have been able to count on unwavering support from Jews.<\/p>\n<p>But the post-Oct. 7 tidal wave of antisemitic and anti-Israel protests on school campuses and in blue cities paired with the Biden administration\u2019s arm-twisting of Israel to negotiate with Hamas (including withholding some munitions needed to fight terrorists in Gaza) has led many people to wonder if Joe Biden and Democrats will be able to count on the continued fealty of secular Jews. (Orthodox Jews are a different story, but they make up a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/american-jews-by-religious-affiliation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">small minority<\/a> of the Jewish vote.)<\/p>\n<p>The upheaval in universities absolutely has politically leftist roots; street demonstrators have been shown to have financial ties to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/05\/05\/pro-palestinian-protests-columbia-university-funding-donors-00156135\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">leftist billionaires<\/a>; and Joe Biden, facing a neck-and-neck race with Trump in Michigan, is attempting to placate that state\u2019s Muslim voters by strong-arming Israel.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re an American Jew with a background of multigenerational support for Democrats, but you believe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/religion\/2021\/05\/11\/u-s-jews-connections-with-and-attitudes-toward-israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">caring about Israel is either \u201cessential\u201d or \u201cimportant\u201d<\/a> to being a Jew, does this make for a conflict of allegiances? I\u2019m neither a Jew nor a leftist, but I\u2019d have thought the answer was no. Still, even though there have been a few notable defections (such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-06-05\/venture-capitalist-david-sacks-is-all-in-on-donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">David Sacks<\/a> supporting Donald Trump), the choice is evidently more difficult than I\u2019d imagined.<\/p>\n<p>But Judaism in America will not survive without Israel, and Israel will not survive without the support of America\u2019s Jews. I want to say to Sandberg and Weiss and all liberal Jews in a liminal position, this is not a Hobson\u2019s choice, but it is easy and clear cut: One side in this argument is just, right, and moral; the other is dissimulating, immoral, and evil. Shake the scales from your eyes. Allow your logic to travel to its proper conclusion. Do what you know is right.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-0c382129a8bec83969a9db4001246435 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-0c382129a8bec83969a9db4001246435\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I tuned into a podcast where Bari Weiss, ex-New York Times journalist, interviewed Sheryl Sandberg, former COO of Meta and Google executive, and ex-chief of staff for Lawrence Summers during the Clinton era. Both women share Jewish heritage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3243,"featured_media":2273136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Untitled-design.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2273135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Untitled-design.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3243"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2273135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2273136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2273135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2273135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2273135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}