Jews for Jewish Genocide.
On October 18, Hamas supporters stormed the United States Capitol and rallied in the Canon rotunda against the Israeli campaign to stop the Islamic terrorist group. While many of the insurrectionists were Islamist and non-Jewish leftist activists, the event was linked to two veteran anti-Israel organizations: Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow.
There has always been a pro-terrorist fringe among American Jews exemplified by organizations such as these two, along with others such as J Street, the Israel Policy Forum, the New Israel Fund, Jews for Racial & Economic Justice, T’ruah and other anti-Israel groups. And while they have generally boasted more organizations than members, a new poll raises the question of what percentage of American Jews supports Hamas and the killing of Jews.
The answer in one poll is deeply troubling.
Cygnal polled Muslims and Jews in America. It found that 57% of Muslims believed that Hamas atrocities against Jews were justified. But a less widely reported result found that 11.5% of American Jews also agreed that Hamas was justified.
3.6% of American Jews “strongly agreed” that Hamas was justified while another 7.9% “somewhat agreed.”
While the vast majority of American Jews, 88.5% disagreed, there is a distinct minority of people who were born Jewish that supports killing Jews.
And supports Hamas.
Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh enjoys a 7.2% favorability rating among American Jews.
When asked if knowing that “Hamas is nothing but a proxy for Iran and is funded and supported by Iran. Would you be more or less likely to vote for a political candidate who supports releasing billions of dollars in frozen assets for Iran to use any way it chooses”, 10.8% of American Jews would be more likely to vote for such a candidate.
1 in 10 American Jews supports the murder of Jews. Not to mention the rape, torture, kidnapping and dismembering of Jews. That is the JVP, IfNotNow, J Street, T’ruah demographic.
Polls are flawed and Cygnal dramatically oversamples Reform who make up 44.7% of the poll, but only 37% of American Jews, and Orthodox and Conservative Jews barely make up a quarter of the respondents, but the poll likely does reflect some percentage of American Jews.
They are the ones who rallied for Hamas in the Capitol and who, like Anna Epstein at Boston University, can be seen tearing down the posters showing the kidnapped women and children.
Anti-Israel groups over the years have claimed that they don’t support terrorism. Even the IfNotNow and JVP rallies operate under the false flag of calling for a ceasefire. Their allies from J Street to JFREJ to T’ruah use similarly misleading language. Some even claim to be advocating for the hostages. This is often enhanced by theatrical performances inappropriately using borrowed Jewish rituals such as a shofar, a tallit and the recitation of Kaddish, the mourning prayer, for Islamic terrorists.
In reality, IfNotNow’s first statement after the Hamas rape, torture, kidnapping and murder of Israelis asserted that, “we cannot and will not say today’s actions by Palestinian militants are unprovoked. Every day under Israel’s apartheid system is a provocation.” It made no mention of Hamas, but only claimed that the “blood is on the hands” of America and Israel.
But what the poll really lays bare is the worldview of Hamas supporters with Jewish last names. It does so without any of the dishonest language, the equivocation, the changes of subject that form the essence of their anti-Israel arguments. Asked if they support Hamas, they do.
It’s that simple and it was always that simple.
There is a percentage of American Jews whose leftist politics are so extreme that they back Hamas and the mass killing of Jews. We don’t know exactly what percent it is, is it really 11.5% or 7% or 3.6%. What we do know is that members of this group routinely lie and mislead about what they believe. They talk about peace when what they’re after is war. When they advocate for a ‘ceasefire’, what they really want is the unrestricted ability by Hamas to kill Jews.
They are not just opposed to the policies of a “right-wing Israeli government” or any Israeli government, they have a favorable view of Ismail Haniyeh: the leader of Hamas, who had bragged that the Islamic terror group would win because it loved death while “the Jews love life more than any other people, and they prefer not to die”.
They aren’t actually advocating for a deal with Iran, they just want an end to all sanctions on Iran even if it supports Hamas and even in the absence of any actual deal to end its nuclear program.
What does the anti-Israel fringe of the Jewish community support?
Israel released a recording of a Hamas terrorist excitedly calling his parents to tell them, “Father, I killed 10 Jews! Check your WhatsApp! I sent you the photos! Father, I killed 10 Jews! I killed 10 Jews with my bare hands. check your WhatsApp. Father, be proud of me!”
How did we get to the point where any percentage of American Jews supports Hamas?
Another poll, from Harvard/Harris, found that 16% of Americans side with Hamas and 24% agreed that “the Hamas killing of 1200 Israeli civilians in Israel can be justified by the grievances of Palestinians.”
This was an opinion held by 31% of Democrats and 36% of self-described liberals. People with college degrees (29%) were more likely to support Hamas atrocities than people with only some college (21%). Urbanites (40%) were far more likely to believe that the murder of Israeli women and children was justified than suburban (17%) or rural (13%) residents. Those making $75,000 or more were more often Hamas supporters (33%) than those making less (19%) and blacks (33%), Hispanics (28%) justified the murder of Jews more than white people did (21%).
The poll didn’t assemble the percentage of Hamas support from urban (40%) liberals (36%) with college (29%) degrees, but it’s a good bet that it’s between a third and a half of them.
That also is a good description of a sizable percentage of American Jews.
Honeybabe
{Did you know that Oliver Hardy’s nickname was “Babe”, no one called him “Oliver”??)
You should learn your history if you are going to talk of historical “facts’
The Jews were very prominent in the Revolution since they were by far the most persecuted by Tsarist Russia.
{The Jews spoke Yiddish to one another-they knew NO Hebrew. Because Yiddish was written in Hebrew characters they could pray like champions but had no idea as to what the meanings of the prayers were.}
The first Duma after the Revolution was reputed to have had a
67% Jewish content. (but only the first)
The reason Bronstein changed his name was because he felt that Russian Goyim,, fanatically Orthodox Christian, would not easily follow a Jew, however brilliant a leader he was.
Felix if Trotsky never gave up his Jewishness, why did he change his name? Communism is the very antithesis of Judaism.
In the US the majority of “Jews” are Extremist Lefties. Tikkun Olam for them is vote Communist.
Will these Jews learn from October 7? Most likely not. They will continue to oppose American’s right to own guns which is stunning because the Left in Israel has disarmed his own people creating a new Holocaust of their own making.
As an American I support my country and I support the great country of Israel but I clearly see who our enemies are. Strat with the Jews in Biden and Obama administration. They are all people not to be trusted.
Israel, as a people, have always had their Erev Rav.
Thank you, Ed Davis
I don’t know if I’ve ever seen it that way: The problem doesn’t have to do with Judaism per se, but with being angry at God for how He made us. Jewish, male, rich, poor, whatever.
There have always been Jews who do not want to be Jews. Some do so by assimilation, some by abandoning traditions and heritage and, unfortunately, some by become “self hating Jews.” The last category involves a disconnect from reality in which the individual feels that they are somehow enlightened and have “transcended” above the rest. That false sense of superiority is prevalent in those who have embraced the ideas of the left.
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/why-do-so-many-jews-hate-jews/
EvRe1
Leon Trotsky born Bronstein was the greatest political figure ever lived, hence the greatest Jew also
Yet you write
“There will always be people who are Jews by virtue of the Jewish religion of their mother but who do not identify as Jewish, do not care about the Jewish people, do not invest any time in religious learning or study, and who, if anything, identify more with the enemies of Jews. They have a negative identification with Jews, a hostility towards whatever it is that Judaism represents for them.”
PLUS
They see in Jews the unwanted qualities of being scapegoats, weak, and vulnerable to the whims of others and reject all Jews for these unwanted qualities.
PLUS
By the way, this is a common psychological determinant of antisemitism in general.
(THESE ARE QUITE SOME STATEMENTS)
So explain Leon Trotsky
He was a Jew. He never gave up his Jewishness.
He believed in no supernatural
He based his political life on atheism aka the philosophy of dialectical materialism
All his life he was at the forefront of opposing Antisemitism
Which all tends to make your categories as garbage…ready for the trash can
Sebastian Zorn Marx was a fool and those who follow him are also fools.
EvRe1 Soros renounced Judaism
Soros is a Jew too. He benefitted from helping the Nazis steal items from the homes of deported Jews in Hungary. AND he said he feels no guilt at all about it. I actually saw him on video stating this with a straight face.
There will always be people who are Jews by virtue of the Jewish religion of their mother but who do not identify as Jewish, do not care about the Jewish people, do not invest any time in religious learning or study, and who, if anything, identify more with the enemies of Jews. They have a negative identification with Jews, a hostility towards whatever it is that Judaism represents for them.
For example, they may have a feeling that the Jewish part of themselves is weak or vulnerable, but they disavow that the weakness is in themselves. They see in Jews the unwanted qualities of being scapegoats, weak, and vulnerable to the whims of others and reject all Jews for these unwanted qualities.
By the way, this is a common psychological determinant of antisemitism in general.
Sebastien
Every such phrase by Marx, or of anyone needs something like
What was the forerunner?
Then the context?
Understand the distortions because many hate the man
In the case of Marx this often becomes complex
So much for Marx’s “idiocy of the countryside.”