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    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

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    Yeshiva World News HQ in in NYC said this:

    “Jewish support for the Democratic Party has fallen to its lowest level in 40 years,
    according to a poll released Friday by the Manhattan Institute.”

    “The survey shows that Vice President Kamala Harris holds 67% of Jewish
    voter support, compared to 31% who favor former President Donald Trump.
    While Harris is expected to secure a majority of the Jewish vote,
    the figure marks a sharp decline from former President Bill Clinton’s
    80% [Jewish] support in 1992, and the lowest since the Ronald Reagan era.”

    “The shift comes in the wake of the October 7 [2023 CE] Hamas massacre
    of Israeli civilians, which has left many American Jews furious with
    the mixed response from the Biden-Harris administration
    and growing antisemitism on college campuses.”

    “Despite Jewish voters traditionally leaning toward Democrats on most issues,
    the Biden administration’s fluctuating stance on Israel and its relationship
    with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has prompted
    some American Jews to reconsider their allegiance to the Democratic Party.”

    “The poll reveals that 86% of Jewish voters support Israel,
    while 62% express concerns aboaut rising antisemitism within the Democratic Party.”

    Jesse Arm, chief of staff at the Manhattan Institute, noted that
    Jewish voters now see “security, Israel, and antisemitism”
    as vulnerabilities for Harris in comparison to Trump.

    “This is evidenced by the fact that Jews are almost universally supportive of Israel
    —only 5% of Jewish voters say they do not support the Jewish state,” Arm said.
    “[Kamala] Harris’ strongest support comes from Reform, unaffiliated,
    or nondenominational Jews, according to the survey.”

    SOURCE: article titled: “Jewish Support for Democrats
    Hits 40-Year Low Amid Concerns Over Israel and Antisemitism

    2024 October 21, Yeshiva World News HQ in in NYC

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    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

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    Please watch this Youtube video about why Jews are leaving the Democratic Party:

    “Charlie Kirk VISIBLY SHOCKED when Jew says what Most are Afraid to Admit” by Rabbi Pinchas Taylor

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