Ultimately, such Jews will turn against the Jews themselves
The chickens come home to roost. One would think that a candidate who says he is a proud Jew but welcomes the support of anti- Semitic public figures, would reduce American aid to Israel, would move the embassy back from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv, bashes Israel for defending itself and for using “disproportionate force” against its enemies, shows more sympathy for Palestinian terrorists than for Israeli victims, calls Netanyahu a racist, and refers to pro-Zionist AIPAC as an organization of bigots — that such a Jew would be branded a turncoat and would automatically lose the American Jewish vote.
One would think so — and one would be wrong. Recent polls show that despite all this, American Jews would have still overwhelmingly supported Sanders in a presidential election, had he been nominated.
How can this be? Simple. It can be so when you raise a generation without grounding in Jewishness, when you teach them that to be a Jew means to be nice to your neighbor and eat bagels and lox. No mitzvos, no obligations, no duties, no inconvenience, no Shabbos, no Yom Tov, no self-discipline.
It can be —when these un-Jewish Jews identify with the candidate who is the mirror image of themselves. Undoubtedly, they too are “proud Jews.”
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