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MosheFeingold

(3,051 posts)
5. Never understood this
Mon Oct 24, 2016, 04:21 PM
Oct 2016

The "Democrats are anti-Israel" theme gets its wind because there is a small, but noisy, group of Democrats that are anti-Israeli. The Republicans, to their credit, have largely purged that, kicking their Pat Buchanons and James Bakers to the curb.

Most notably, among African-Americans (a much more important group to getting elected than our little Tribe), anti-Semitic beliefs are rampant, for reasons I've never figured out. The booking of Israel one DNC convention back still makes me sad.

Our leaders, wanting to get elected, fail in their obligation to call black leaders out on this. (Remember "Hymietown Jackson" and Al Sharpton, to led what was effectively a pogram in Crown Heights, just for example.) For similar reasons, they fail to rebut the nonsense and double-standards applied against Israel.

It's a logical choice, in the short term. But this failure opens up our leaders, rather fairly, to accusation of being anti-Israel.

That said, I'm not a one-issue voter, either. It is problematic, however, and I do look to leaders with strength and wisdom on such issues among the Democratic candidates for whom I vote.

dude has no idea what he's talking about, for starts. Warren DeMontague Oct 2016 #3
HRC is not bad for Israel. EllieBC Oct 2016 #4
Never understood this MosheFeingold Oct 2016 #5
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