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’22-’23 Research Fellow at the Center for Antisemitism Research at the ADL, and author, “City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement”
American Jews held a “Pro-Israel” rally outside of Netanyahu’s hotel to counter the anti-judicial reform rallies (where Israeli flags are being held).
Critics also fear that the rights of LGBTQ people and minority groups could be harmed — issues that have raised concerns among American Jews.
Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/benjamin-netanyahu-ap-jewish-israeli-americans-b2301474.html
He may argue that the turn of the century era I am romanticizing was specifically anti-Zionist and may point to the new wave of neo-Bundist young American Jews who support Bernie in all his endeavors to prove me wrong.
However, voting patterns by American Jews are fairly stable: that most lean Democratic.
If one wishes to understand the fierce patriotism that has so often animated American Jews, look to this point of origin.
In 2007 he co-founded 30 Years After, a nonpartisan nonprofit that promotes public engagement among what at that time had been an unengaged population: Young adult Iranian American Jews.
Source: https://jewishjournal.com/community/362499/sam-yebri-mensch-who-loves-to-get-involved/
“I think there is a contempt for active, engaged American Jews who think it’s not just about Israel existing,” she said, “but Israel existing in a context that does include the Palestinians.”
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/us/politics/anti-zionism-antisemitism.html
On February 1, more than a hundred prominent American Jews, including former leaders of major mainstream Jewish organizations, accusing the Israeli government of “endangering the very existence of the State of Israel and the Israeli nation.”
Rabbi Sharon Brous of IKAR in Los Angeles delivers a sermon entitled “The Tears of Zion,” in which she calls for “an awakening” on how American Jews are thinking about Israel’s current crises, Feb. 4, 2023.
Salah Khalaf added a most interesting insight, “a member of the Politbureau explained that they would prefer to use moderate, even vague, so as not to offend American Jews, many of whom were active in the antiwar movement….
Sometimes it takes an unaffiliated outsider like Professor Baude to simplify the issue for American Jews so that we can directly explain it to our brothers and sisters in Israel.
The AJC found that 13% of American Jews had been “the target” of online antisemitism, like the boy in the ad.
Source: https://forward.com/news/541111/robert-kraft-antisemitism-advertising-campaign-foundation/
The gift of that insight was overlooked by most American Jews who found it uncomfortable, until the overwhelming truth of it forced them to become the kinds of “New Jews” who had no choice but to accept it.