The major debate tearing apart the American Jewish community on this particular Wednesday is whether or not the 45th president of the United States just accused them — us — of disloyalty to Israel and the Jewish people or of disloyalty to the Republican Party and the man who has remade it in his image. ...So Trump is the most pro-Jewish President we have ever had, lots of Jews are pro-Trump, the Democrat Party is being taken over by anti-Semites, and Jews don't trust non-Jews for anything.
I’ve been around enough tables with pro-Trump Jews to strongly suspect ...
If 2,000 years of diasporic living has taught the Jews anything, it’s that an existence that is contingent upon the kindness of strangers is never too safe or too long lasting. ...
The Jews of America are in the midst of a political crisis, sped along at breakneck speed by a president asking us, bluntly, to choose. Vote for a party whose base seems increasingly in thrall with newbie politicians who are unapologetic supporters of the B.D.S. movement, a new face of old anti-Semitism, even as the party’s leadership remains pro-Israel. Or vote for the party led by [Trump] ...
To preserve all that has ever made American Jews — and America — great, we cannot allow this man to tear us apart.
But Jews have to stick together, and that means opposing Trump.
Of course this does not really explain why so many influential Jews hate Trump so much. I am just posting it as the NY Times Jewish explanation.
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