The Jewish Vote in 2024

I have to read the Jewish press to learn what the Jews are up to.

Jewish Commentary magazine reports:

A survey commissioned by the Jewish Electorate Institute, an organization led by prominent Jewish Democrats, found that 34 percent of Jewish respondents agreed that “Israel’s treatment of Palestinians is similar to racism in the United States.” The division within the Jewish community is particularly sharp among younger Jews, where the survey found that 38 percent of those under 40 believe that Israel is an apartheid state. ...

And where the Jews go, so too go the Democrats. ...

Before jumping into the data, it’s also worth asking why anyone even cares about the Jewish vote, given that American Jews number less than 2.5 percent of the total population. To be sure, Jews vote in much greater percentages (approximately 80 percent) than the rest of the American public (about 66 percent). But the Jewish role in American politics goes well beyond the ballot box. In 2016, the Jerusalem Post reported on a study showing that Jews donate 50 percent of all funding to the Democratic Party and 25 percent of all funding to the Republican Party. This past year, in a truly astounding statistic, Forbes revealed that the top 15 donors to the Kamala Harris campaign were all people who identified as Jewish. ...

Fox News and the Associated Press then published their own exit polling results, which found that 66 percent of Jews voted for Harris and 32 percent voted for Trump. ...

While the data from the recent election show a move to the right by Jewish voters, it was not nearly as significant a shift as many Republicans had hoped for, given the prevailing political winds post–October 7. ...

As the rest of the traditional Democratic coalition has been heading for the exits, American Jews have been remarkably resolute in their embrace of the Democratic Party. Over the last half century, going back to the 1968 election, Jews have favored the Democratic candidate by about 71–29 percent. ...

More than 85 percent of American Jews (who are neither ultra-Orthodox nor Modern Orthodox) are solidly in the liberal camp and show little sign of abandoning the Democratic Party. ...

It is only in the ultra-Orthodox communities that Jews voted overwhelmingly for Trump.

It is hard to say that Jewish support for Democrats is religious, when the most religious Jews vote Republican. But it is not coincidence that the seculoar Jews support Democrats. Obviously even the secular Jews have a belief system, whether you call it religion or not, that ties them to Leftism and the Democrat Party.

If you want to know what Judaism is all about, you can read the Torah or listen to rabbis. Or you can look at what the members believe in. Apparently the orthodox ones believe in Israel and Trump, while the other ones are leftist Trump-haters, and are responsible for much of the craziness of the Democrat Party. They brought us DEI, illegal aliens, LBGTQ+ politics, etc.

Likewise, you might say that the Episcopal Church believes in the Gospels, but it has specialized in LGBTQ+ inclusion. It has become anti-white, anti-straight, anti-male, anti-cisgender, and anti-Trump, because that is who its members have become.

Update: From another Jewish site:

A group of 70 rabbis, clergy and liberal Jewish groups are calling on New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul to resist President Donald Trump’s mass deportation orders, drawing a parallel to the biblical story of King Pharaoh’s decree to kill Hebrew boys in ancient Egypt.

“We read in the Book of Exodus of how a new Pharaoh arose over Egypt who scapegoated and marginalized the Israelites, spinning a narrative that they were a threat and needed to be suppressed and ultimately enslaved,” the 70 rabbis wrote in a letter addressing New York governmental leaders. The group compared themselves to the Egyptian midwives who refused to comply with Pharaoh’s decree.

In Exodus, the Israelites end up with a plan to murder the Egyptian children. We have a lot of historical evidence for Egypt, but none for these Exodus stories.

There are other religions that also support this invasion of illegal aliens. Not just Jews. The Catholic bishops are suing for more refugee resettlement money.