George Rebane
Regular RR readers may recall the many posts in which I have questioned why so many people of the Jewish tradition continue to embrace all the various forms of collectivism – e.g. liberalism, socialism, communism. This especially when all their acknowledged superior traits in the arts, sciences, and material wealth have been achieved in free market capitalist environments. It is an enduring puzzle.
This week in the 16nov23 issue of The Union, columnist Terry McLaughlin provides an excellent overview – ‘Judaism and the Left’ - of this now centuries old phenomenon. In it she also quotes several Jewish intellectuals who observe that “liberals have never done anything for the Jews.” And this goes doubly for their uncritical adulation of anti-semitic American blacks such as the constituents of political leaders such as Maxine Waters, Al Sharpton, and Louis Farrakhan.
The best that I can figure is that such racially oriented anti-semitism is a cheap price to pay for a reliable block of bought-and-paid-for votes.
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