Why Jews are Quitting the Democratic Party

Professor Thane Rosenbaum wrote this
for The Los Angeles Jewish Journal:

“The past eight years have been one slow death march of
the Democratic Party’s abandonment of its Jewish voting bloc.”

Not that my political affiliation is any of your business,
but I thought I might share with you that after 46 years
as a die-hard Democrat, I have alerted the New York State
Board of Elections that I am now, officially, an Independent.

Honestly, I couldn’t take it anymore.
My options, as a voter, are now more open than ever.

The past eight years have been one slow death march of
the Democratic Party’s abandonment of its Jewish voting bloc.
It coincided with a descent into an illiberal, ahistorical and
morally misguided adherence to identity politics,
intersectionality, CRT, DEI, anti-colonialism,
and the social upheavals wrought by “political correctness.”

It has led to a wide assortment of pathologies, ranging from
restrictions on free speech and open inquiry to the debasement
of our immigration laws, the bedlam on our streets and college campuses,
the desertion of foreign allies, the brainwashing of our youth,
the wrecking of our economy, the upending of gender and sexual categories,
and an appalling anti-Americanism that I surely have not seen in my lifetime.

Party leaders have taken for granted that Jewish Republicans
are an anathema, and people like me, who identify with 19th-century liberalism,
have nowhere else to go. Believing that there is no risk of flight,
they have consigned Jewish -Americans to a political party
allied with those who would wipe Israel from the map
(if these domestic haters could only find it on a map).

Those presumptions may turn out to be false.
Jewish affiliation with Republican politics has already grown,
and stands at 29%—even before some of the recent events
that have alienated Jewish Democrats.
And while there’s no actual party for Americans who eschew
the two-party system altogether, I do not believe
I will be alone this election as an unaffiliated voter.

To remain with the Democratic ticket would make me feel like a real donkey.
I can live without an animal mascot representing independent voters
(I suggest one that naturally stands apart from the herd).
And I have reconciled myself to knowing that in 2022,
New York banned any political party wishing to refer to itself as Independent.

…The [Democratic] Party has fast become a home for left-wing zealots
for whom nothing matters more than pronoun usage, open borders,
and emptying our prisons of overrepresented minorities.

The Democrats finally became the party that progressives and socialists
wanted in electing Barack Obama. It was unfeasible for him,
at the time, to implement the political transformation
he had hoped his administration would bring. (Yes, I voted for him twice,
even as I feared the generational damage it might inflict.)

Ironically, it was his politically more moderate vice president, Joe Biden,
who would eventually accede to the Oval Office and take America
in a direction that would make Bill Ayers,
Pastor Jeremiah Wright and Reverend Louis Farrakhan proud.

For me, the breaking point came with Joe Biden’s shameful CNN interview
where he made clear that the United States would not support
Israel’s incursion into Rafah to route
the remaining Hamas terrorists responsible for 10/7.

Let me get this straight: The United States devoted a decade to
hunting down and assassinating Osama bin Laden,
killing 250,000 Afghani and Iraqi civilians along the way.
No condemning U.N. resolutions. No protests. No International
Court of Justice proceedings. All throughout America’s War on Terror,
Israel provided necessary intelligence and regional backup,
and erected a 9/11 memorial —t he only one outside
the United States listing the names of all victims.

Yet, the Biden administration is withholding from Israel the necessary
weaponry (already earmarked by Congress) with which to conduct
its wholly justified military operations? Israel does not require Biden’s blessing.
And the precision of the Rafah campaign will now be less precise.

Curiously, the president repeatedly acknowledged that 10/7 was
an unprovoked attack for which Israel has a moral and legal right of self-defense,
and that Hamas presents an existential threat that must be eradicated.
Biden’s “ironclad” commitment to Israel has already gone limp.
Apparently, unlike the United States, Israel must be denied
its moral obligation to bring justice to its people and security to its borders.
It can defend against missiles, but not dismantle them at the source.

Biden’s actions have given comfort to Hamas and its patron, Iran.
Why should Hamas return hostages (some, Americans),
if Biden is singularly focused on constraining Israeli military offenses?

Moreover, Biden just gave a shout-out to those ignorant college students
and their Jew-hating, anti-American professors. Sorry, “Genocide Joe,”
asserting your mojo and cultivating a youthful
antisemitic constituency won’t help you come November.

For reasons only rabid progressives can explain, Palestinians,
who are more like Hamas accomplices than true civilians,
are more precious than the world’s other civilians.
Is it because Jews aren’t permitted to win wars,
especially against brown-skinned people?
The Jewish state must always agree to ceasefires,
perform humanitarian acts while fighting in self-defense, and sue for peace.

This betrayal has little to do with moral equivocation
and everything to do with local politics. Biden will, apparently,
do or say anything to woo the 600,000 Muslim voters of Michigan,
and stay within the good graces of that
dreadful Detroit Motown act, Bernie Sanders and the Squad.

Is it worth it, this backstabbing of Jewish-Americans, an important
minority reliably loyal to the Democratic Party? Always true blue,
as if the Party had nominated Moses as its standard bearer
and Anne Frank as his running mate. The progressive perfidy
is even more heartbreaking. Jews stood at the forefront of
nearly every movement of social activism in the United States,
from labor unions to civil liberties, feminism, civil rights, and gay rights.

Apparently, the reward for all those years of solidarity has been exclusion and antisemitism.

I am under no illusion that my departure from the Party will matter to anyone.
After all, jettisoning Jewish white males is one of the objectives
of its racial identity and rigid orthodoxy.
Should moderates ever reclaim control from the Marxists and Islamists, give me a call.

Is there anything else he needs to know?

In the end, Joe Biden picked the Muslims of Michigan over moral clarity,
a coherent foreign policy, and love of country. Yes, he’s increasingly addled.
But he well knows that Jewish-Americans, or Jewish-Israelis,
are highly unlikely to ever burn an American flag and shout, “Death to America!”

SOURCE: article titled: “So Long, Democratic Party”
by Professor Thane Rosenbaum, 2024 May 12,
The Los Angeles Jewish Journal, www (dot) JewishJournal (dot) com

Mr. Dominic Green wrote this:

“Nor are American Jews unique in voting Democrat,
even though the Democrats will tax them and use quotas
to exclude their children from the best universities.”
….
“the Democratic Party is now the party of the rich.”

SOURCE: article titled: “Despite it all, America’s
Jews are still voting for the Democrats”
by Mr. Dominic Green 2023 June 29 www (dot) The JC (dot) com

Jews are leaving the Democratic Party:

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/general/2325699/jewish-voters-in-presidential-swing-states-reconsider-their-longtime-devotion-to-democrats.html

President Obama vs Jewish Victims of Terrorists
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The victims of the Sbarro’s bombing of August 2001 tried to sue Iran,
but then-President Barack Hussein Obama changed the law,
to make it impossible for American Jews to sue Iran.

In other words, then-President Barack Hussein Obama
helped the terrorists and harmed the victims of terrorists! Wow!

Even worse, President Obama (Democrat) and President Joe Biden
(also Democrat) both gave BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to Iran,
which was used to massacre more than 1,200 Jews on October 7, 2023.

Sadly, most American Jews continue to vote for the Democrats.
If Kamala Harris (Democrat) were President now,
she would certainly give BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to Iran,
which they would certainly use to kill even more Jews.

Jews should NEVER vote for any Democrats, because
the Democrats are allies of Muslim terrorists and Iran.
Democrats are ENEMIES OF JEWS, both in Israel and the USA.

Mr. Eric Levine (a founding member of a New York City law firm) said:

“No doubt [Donald] Trump’s strong showing among Jews is a reaction to the
explosion of antisemitism on our university campuses and in cities across the country,
and to the Democratic Party’s failure to condemn it.
To the contrary, significant portions of the Democratic Party embrace it.”

“Vice President Kamala Harris’s failure to select Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro
as her running mate, her tepid support for the Jewish state and her failure
to contradict a protester who said Israel is committing genocide in Gaza
created a four-alarm fire in many quarters of the American Jewish community.”

SOURCE: article titled: “How to defeat the antisemitism
of the progressive left and strengthen America”
by Eric Levin 2024/11/26 for www (dot) JNS (dot) org

WHICH OF THESE FAMOUS PEOPLE QUIT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY:
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President Ronald Reagan

President Donald Trump

Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona

Representative Tulsi Gabbard

Representative Tricia Cotham

Mia McLeod (South Carolina State Senator)

Elon Musk (owner of SpaceX and Twitter)

Joe Rogan (podcaster, comedian, actor, television host)

Andrew Yang (lawyer, author, businessman, political candidate)

Nicole Shanahan (lawyer and philanthropist)

Allison Huynh (former Obama fundraiser)

Alan Dershowitz (Harvard Law School Professor)

Mr. Shabbos Kestenbaum (recent Harvard graduate)

Miss Elizabeth Pipko (founder of JExodus = Jewish Exodus movement)

The correct answer is: ALL OF THEM!!

These quotes are from an article published by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency:

“Donald Trump [in 2024] won a higher percentage of Jews than in 2020…”

“While 48% of Jewish voters thought [Donald] Trump would be
more pro-Israel than [Joe] Biden, only 7% said the same of [Kamala] Harris.

And while 23% of Jewish Trump voters said
they had a high attachment to Israel,
9% of Harris voters said the same.”

“Those figures would be consistent with actual voting results in
heavily Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods, as opposed to polls,
that showed a marked preference for Trump in places
like Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Teaneck, New Jersey.”

SOURCE: article titled: “One month after Election Day,
here’s what we know about how Jews voted”
by Ron Kampeas 2024 December 4 www (dot) JTA (dot) org

We must always remember how, under the influence of The Democratic Party,
thousands of children below the age of 13 were made to believe that
they were born into the wrong bodies, and then received surgery
to make boys into girls or surgery to make girls into boys.
These unforgivable atrocities were done without the consent
of their parents and without the knowledge of their parents.

When the parents complained in a legal and peaceful way,
they were threatened and attacked by FBI agents.

All of these unforgivable atrocities were done to
achieve the evil goals of THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

Any Jew who continues to vote for The Democratic Party
after these unforgivable atrocities is both completely evil
(a rasha gamur) and completely stupid (a shoteh gamur).

Any Jew who continues to vote for The Democratic Party
after these unforgivable atrocities is committing a sin worse than
slaughtering a lamb on Yom Kippur,
then cooking it in its mother’s milk on Yom Kippur,
and then eating it on Yom Kippur.

We must always remember that, in the final days of his Presidency,
Joe Biden unfroze ten billion dollars ($10,000,000,000) of Iranian assets,
in addition to many billions of dollars given to Iran
by Joe Biden (Democrat) and Barack Obama (Democrat).

This is the same Iran that funded and armed Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists
for many years and bombed innocent Jews in Argentina and other counties.

This is the same Iran where large crowds of people shout
“DEATH TO AMERICA” and “DEATH TO ISRAEL” 365 days a year,
every year since 1979 when the Ayatollahs took control of Iran.

Any Jew who continues to vote for The Democratic Party
after these unforgivable atrocities is both completely evil
(a rasha gamur) and completely stupid (a shoteh gamur).

Any Jew who continues to vote for The Democratic Party
after these unforgivable atrocities is committing a sin
worse than slaughtering a lamb on Yom Kippur,
then cooking it in its mother’s milk on Yom Kippur,
and then eating it on Yom Kippur.

YWN World Headquarters – NYC said this:

“As President Joe Biden approaches the end of his term, his administration is coming under fire for policies that punish Israel while easing restrictions on Hamas and Hezbollah.
The president, once vocal in his support of Israel after the October 7 [2023] massacre, now appears to be bending to anti-Israel pressures within his own party.”

“The controversy intensified last week when the Biden administration reversed a 2022 Treasury Department decision that barred the U.S.-based Foundation for Global Political Exchange from hosting Hamas and Hezbollah representatives at a Beirut conference. The sudden approval has drawn outrage, with critics accusing Biden of capitulating to Iran-backed terror groups.”

“Simultaneously, Biden has introduced Executive Order 14115, which establishes a sanctions program targeting individuals accused of threatening the West Bank’s “peace, security, and stability.” While ostensibly neutral, the sanctions have overwhelmingly targeted Israeli Jews, including settlers accused of minor property crimes or vandalism. Palestinian terrorist groups, meanwhile, have largely escaped sanction under existing U.S. terrorism laws, save for a token inclusion of the Lions’ Den terror group.”

“The Biden administration’s sanctions process has drawn criticism for relying on information from sources like DAWN MENA, a nonprofit linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and known for its anti-Israel positions. Critics argue the administration is imposing severe penalties, including frozen bank accounts and restricted financial access, based on unreliable and biased claims.”

“Sanctions have expanded beyond obscure West Bank farmers to include prominent NGOs and protest organizers. One targeted nonprofit, which defends isolated farms from theft and terror, has been accused without evidence of wrongdoing. Biden’s policies have even inspired similar actions in Canada and Britain, creating what some fear is an international trend of targeting Israel.”

“In a letter to the White House, 88 congressional Democrats demanded sanctions on members of the Israeli government and mainstream NGOs. Critics argue this move would punish individuals for political views and activism, without allegations of violent or illegal acts, further alienating one of America’s closest allies.”

“Observers see Biden’s actions as part of a larger effort to align with the goals of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. By imposing these measures in his final months, Biden risks damaging U.S.-Israel relations and emboldening international efforts to isolate the Jewish state.”

“U.S. citizens have already filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Biden’s sanctions. Meanwhile, President-elect Donald Trump has promised to swiftly revoke these measures upon taking office, raising the possibility of using similar sanctions against progressive groups linked to Palestinian terrorism.”

SOURCE: article titled: “Biden’s Lame-Duck Agenda:
Sanctioning Israel While Easing Pressure on Terror Groups”
by YWN World Headquarters – NYC, 2024 November 19

Yechiell, please explain to us why *** ALL ***
of these people quit the Democratic Party:

President Ronald Reagan

President Donald Trump

Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona

Representative Tulsi Gabbard

Representative Tricia Cotham

Mia McLeod (South Carolina State Senator)

Elon Musk (owner of SpaceX and Twitter)

Joe Rogan (podcaster, comedian, actor, television host)

Andrew Yang (lawyer, author, businessman, political candidate)

Nicole Shanahan (lawyer and philanthropist)

Allison Huynh (former Obama fundraiser)

Alan Dershowitz (Harvard Law School Professor)

Mr. Shabbos Kestenbaum (recent Harvard graduate)

Miss Elizabeth Pipko (founder of JExodus = Jewish Exodus movement)