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Hope for Change?

Why are the Jewish people in the U.S.A. overwhelmingly Democrats? I have struggled with that question for a long time, and I must tell you, I remain flummoxed. For instance, last year 79% of Jews backed Democrats for Congress. Is there any hope for change? Perhaps, as it appears more and more, here lately, that the Democratic Party is taking the Jewish vote for granted. A recent Wall Street Journal article pointed out that in the Palestinian-Israeli dispute, sympathy for Israel among Democratic Party members has dropped from about 45% in 2010 to 26% in 2018, while among Republicans sympathy for Israel ha increased from about 65% to 77% over the same length of time. Likewise several members of Congress, all Democrats, are supporting BDS, a movement to boycott, divest, and sanction Israel over its treatment of Palestinians.(Which side typically is the first to launch rocket attacks against the other?) Similarly when a Democratic member of the House, Rep. Ilhan Omar, made recurrent anti-Semitic comments, the Democrats in the House could not get together and condemn anti-semetism! Talk about a lack of hutzpah . . . and by that I mean that they were gutless! Likewise when the far left MoveOn called for a boycott of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac), which is allied with Israel, six of the Democratic presidential contenders made up lame excuses and did not attend.

On the other hand, in December, 2018 President Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and ordered the relocation of the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. He did this while presidents over the last 20 years had refused to do the same and instead had exercised a waiver. Likewise, in late March, 2019, President Trump signed an executive order recognizing the Golan Heights as being territory of Israel. This is of critical importance as it takes bargaining over the Golan Heights off the table in any future Israel Palestine negotiations, and can only be viewed as an extremely pro-Israel position. In October, 2018, President Trump went to Pittsburgh to pay his respects to the victims of the anti-Semitic synagogue attack, and in his recent State of the Union address he mentioned two Holocaust survivors including one who survived the Pittsburgh shooting. So despite the Washington Post recently basically preaching to Donald Trump as to why American Jews will not be joining him and the G.O.P., I am seeing some hope for change.

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