On 28 June 1969, patrons at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village, fought back against the police harassing them. This was the signal event in the formation of the modern Gay Rights Movement. More than half a century later, homosexuality, then illegal, is now an accepted part of American Life.
On October 7, 2023, savages murdered, raped, and kidnapped 1,200 Israeli citizens. American Jews reacted by voting for the Democrats.
This November, blacks, Hispanics, gay and straight Americans decided they’d had enough of Government corruption, incompetence, malversation, contempt, and crime and voted for a return to common sense and the protections of the Constitution. They forsook identity politics, save to identify themselves as Americans. Absent from the roll call of groups rebranding themselves as citizens were the Jews.
The Obama-Biden-Harris regime coddled Iran, the sponsor of World Terrorism; they admonished Netanyahu to exorcise “restraint”, not to go into Gaza, nor to bomb Iran. Not only did Harris “cut” him in his visit to Congress, she arguably cost herself the election, sucking up to supposed Muslim voters by bypassing Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro as a running mate. She chose instead a grotesque nonentity, who’d abandoned Minneapolis to rioters.
Christian and Muslim citizens, across the country, rejected the Democrats and voted as Americans, for American power, and for peace.
They saved the Jewish State.
A Democrat victory would have signalled Israeli isolation. Iran would have escalated, compelled Israel to strike, and brought about a World War. They had made it plain that the United States looked with disfavour on the right of the Jewish State to survive.
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SubscribeWell said, David Mamet. Couldn’t agree more. Sent this article to a long time Democrat theatre friend now in her 80s who has never had an upgrade in knowledge. She is chauvinistically Jewish, meaning, scornful of Christianity and disdainful of Israel. The good and bad news is that she is the only one of my leftist Jewish friends from the 60s and 70s who does not suffer from TDS so we can actually have great, even keeled conversations. Maybe because she’s from Chicago, the home of Saul Bellow.
You answered your own question in the article. Jews were the only group that didn’t reject identity politics at the polls. Ergo, they support identity politics.
Very enlightening, David. Great article! I have wondered this about American Jews for a while now. Even this article doesn’t provide an answer. My empirical observation in the Boston area, however, is that my Jewish friends are among the most indoctrinated TDS Leftists that I know. Perhaps it’s because they’re among the best educated (i.e., indoctrinated) in the area. Coincidently, so were the Bolsheviks.
Best educated, that is now a debatable point given the poor quality of university courses and teachers, you cannot educate stupid.
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I am Jewish in a very liberal synagogue. It is the same in Chicago, but I would say “credentialed” rather than “educated.” Or maybe “indoctrinated.”
Of course, all education must be refuted and also any leaning towards the Left.. so that only indoctrinated idiots hold sway.. in my long life’s experience the bulk of Jews are appalling but a small minority are the finest people on planet Earth.. and I’ve always wondered why? Perhaps one of the latter (obviously not the former!) will enlighten me??
Utterly bizarre comment. Probably the only people you’d (dare?) to make such a racist comment about would be the Jews and the Brits! Tolerance for people who think and believe as I do, which unfortunately is particularly true of progressive Leftists, much more so than anyone on the modern anti woke Right.
Mirrored by the cliche of the Irish anti-Semite…
Your post, Liam, reminds me of an anecdote.
A brash and decidedly vocal American traveled to Paris for business in the late 1980s, and, with one day to spare, decided to book a tour of the Musée d’Orsay.
Throughout the tour, the American loudly critiqued the art being displayed: Van Gogh, Monet, Degas, Renoir, Seurat, Manet, and so forth, weren’t really as good in person as he had heard or expected. He’d seen better art work displayed at the county art fair in his home state, he triumphantly exclaimed to certain members of the group.
At the end of the tour, the professional tour guide turned to the American and said, “Perhaps you misunderstand … the value and importance to the world of this art collection is not in question … your personal judgment, however, is.”
Along the same lines, I cannot begin to explain back to you your bigoted and boorish beliefs. Perhaps they might be best explored with a therapist?
Based upon my reading, it appears that Jewish people typically hold socialist views of how societies should operate, even though their business dealings are based on capitalism. One example comes from the book A Village In The Third Reich which mentions German Jews actively supporting communist efforts to subvert and take over the German government in the years prior to Hitler becoming chancellor in 1933. So it shouldn’t surprise that US Jews voted for Harris more than Trump.
Now do some reading on Hungry and Russia, start with Russia
A very informative article in The Tablet (a US magazine which is largely Jewish) confirms my instinct that there’s a strong correlation between voting patterns and the extent to which Jews practise their religion: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/jewish-vote-elections-2024. I’m not sure whether David Mamet is adequately taking that into consideration.
I have a close Jewish friend and I can assure you that Judaism is not his religion. Political liberalism is. And he goes to temple. So Jews vote their religion.
“We’re here; we’re queer…@ was NOT a slogan of the civil rights movement for gay people. I became involved in 1970 , and we never said that.
Iranian Jews in Calf voted for Trump, as did Armenian immigrants in Calf
Beverly Hills residents went President Trump three times. Estimates are that 70% of the 35,000 citizens are Jewish and that many of those are Persian Jews.
Oct 7th is the Jews future, that many continue to cleave to the Democratic Party that will enable even more attacks, is frankly baffling to normal people.
That many families think that surrendering to Hamas will get their family back is beyond stupid, all they will get is a body in a bag, if that.
The Democrat Party has dumped Jews for Muslims, just like the Labour Party here.
If you want people to fight/help you, then stop enabling your enemies by voting them into power. iyd’yots.
AB I think you need to look up a list of the largest donors to the Democratic Party
I can offer up one answer to the “why” question and it was provided by the many Jewish students who found themselves targeted in the aftermath of October 7. It’s because those students believed the same oppressor/oppressed binary when the left used it against whites in general, white men in particular, straight people, and Christians. They were all for the monster when it attacked “those other people,” but were shocked when it came for them.
That it would eventually come for them should have been obvious. It’s not hard to find someone hating Jews for almost anything, but these students were perplexed. Their complete lack of self-awareness reflects having been marinated in the precepts of the left and the faux compassion of verbally siding with a perceived underdog without having to actually do anything. That’s why.
WALOB
Jews support infinity immigration, so they could never vote for Trump
Trump generally wants peace with Russia, so Jews can’t support that, since they hate Russia and Putin
But don’t Hews hate everyone and everything except the Talmud? ..not all of course l, some Jrws have a heart, snd among those some also have a soul.. not many, of course but those that do are thr best of the best!
Well, I would say they just didn’t vote because they couldn’t countenance Trump. It would interesting for someone to research two issues: How many Jews just didn’t vote and why would you vote Democratic in the 2024 Election?
This is insane.. it’s woke and it’s twisted..
I find that the more religious Jews voted 80%+ for Republicans, while the less religious and secular voted almost exactly the opposite. Perhaps that answers some of this author’s question …
Like the others here, I wish David had answered the question.
Many on here (correctly) berate the left who criticise the ethnic minorities who voted for Trump for not voting the “correct” way. They also simultaneously berate any Jewish person who votes for a left wing party or doesn’t blindly support Israeli actions.
The woke and the anti woke, two sides of the same depressing coin
A large proportion of US Jews live in the east coast cities, which are politically controlled by the Democrats. These Jews chose to stay within the Democrat Party, where they have the possibility of shaping Democrat policy, rather than change sides and vote for the party that will not have a say in cities like New York.
You seem to be saying that the Jews in New York are opportunistic in that they side with the democrats because that’s the winning, powerful, side; the one with benefits. Which implies that, should the GOP come into power, the Jews would then vote for them. What about principles, beliefs, right and wrong?
The Biden-Harris regime actually coddled Netanyahu to go into Gaza.
The numbers he is quoting are wrong and the whole basic assumption of this article is off! The Jewish vote also tilted sharply towards trump – see this article in the Tablet: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/jewish-vote-elections-2024
I have seen this anecdotally with my friends and it seems to be representative (if you examine the stats correctly).
Many voted democrat because they theink they are part of the democrat tribe, except that they haven’t realized yet that the tribe no longer wants anything to do with them and have turned virulently anti-semitic (and that includes Harris husband and step-daughter who are self-hating jews).
Zionists don’t represent all Jews, and nor are all Zionists Jews. But if the author wants to know why those with Pro-Netanyahu sentiments voted for Harris, maybe that’s because it was obvious she didn’t plan on doing anything to stop him.
I don’t know what data Mamet was looking at, but of the Jewish voters in New York State, where the majority of American Jews live, 45% voted for Trump. That’s extraordinarily high for a group that voted 30% Republican in 2020. In the 1960’s American Jews voted overwhelmingly for the Democratic presidential candidate: JF Kennedy (81%); LB Johnson (90%); and H.H. Humphrey (82%). Times have changed, as has the Democrats position towards Israel, in favor the Palestinians and 2-State Solution.
There are many American Jews who are not Zionists and who don’t have an innate affinity towards Israel. That’s a shame…but, that’s why 55% of Jews voted for Harris.
My God, a proud Jew!, the ultimat answer to antisemitsm, shame so many jews internalize antisemitsm and turn to self hate.
Also a great shame how uneducated are all those lefties, jews invented the left!
Could it be that for most Jewish people, their voting pattern reflects a combination of wanting to participate in the current democrat elitism and the difficulty they have becoming fully assimilated.
This has always puzzled me, in light of how little most American Jews appear to support Israel, especially after October 7th.
Ah, yes, Mamet speaking for all Jews, yet again. What a joke.
This is total bullshit – based on wrong data (did someone say fake news…) – Jewish vote also tilted sharply towards trump – see this article in the Tablet: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/jewish-vote-elections-2024
I have seen this anecdotally with my friends and it seems to be representative (if you examine the stats correctly).
The whole assumption of this article is off! So stop treating it like the truths…