Posted by
J-GOP on Tuesday, November 13, 2007 1:55:44 PM
A recent article on the Israeli newspaper website, Haaretz.com entitled, "Jewish Republicans as an oppressed minority", shows that the Left still doesn't understand the reality of Republican Jews. The author points out something that we have known for quite some time, namely that there's a sense of dissonance and even discomfort in the idea of the Jewish Republican.
The article points out an example of the rank anti-Semitism that many on the left (including Jewish Liberals) hold dear when they hear that there are Jews that choose to become Republicans:
"If you're a Jewish Republican, the level of stupidity is beyond belief," humorist Lewis Black, a Daily Show commentator, told the Los Angeles Jewish Journal. He was answering a question which itself betrayed no small animosity toward the Jew who votes R. The question was "A higher percentage of Jews are voting Republican. Do you think Jewish Republicans are visionaries or blind? t's like being a gay Republican or a black Republican," Black replied. "Do you need your money protected that badly?"
When a liberal equates Jewish Republican motivation to money, the comment doesn't register on the liberal media rictor scale. But if a Republican had said the same thing about a liberal Jew, there wouldn't have been enough newspaper print space or air time to adequately cover the story.
And of course, what good liberal writer can't dredge up the past with prior negative Republican comments about Jews:
"The most familiar of these, of course, is an observation by the first president Bush's secretary of state, James Baker,who was widely quoted as having told a colleague prior to the 1992 elections: "F--k the Jews, they don't vote for us anyway." But Baker's irritation with the Jews pales when compared to the level of grand old anti-Semitism revealed by Oval Office audio tapes of Richard Nixon."
While many liberals have to resort to digging up 20 year old examples of Republican Anti-Semitic statements, they seem to be blind, deaf, and dumb when it comes to current examples of anti-Semitic or anti-Israeli statements on the left. How about Jimmy Carter saying that Israel is an "apapartheid state"? Or the U.N.'s vote on Zionism being Racism? Or even Ward Churchill's comment on "Little Eichmanns" of 9-11? No, once again, those stories aren't on Brian Williams short list for the NBC Nightly News.
The article ends on a good note:
"Perhaps, in this era which enshrines bonfires of a range of vanities, we have left the underclass to sink in its morass of unsafe and unsupported public schools, its plagues of drugs and despair and darkness. Perhaps the Republican way has begun to suit us, after all."
Yes indeed. Maybe there's hope for Liberal Jews to finally see the light after all.