{"id":4430,"date":"2020-09-24T19:22:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T19:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/?p=4430"},"modified":"2020-09-24T19:24:23","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T19:24:23","slug":"why-are-jews-liberals-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/2020\/09\/24\/why-are-jews-liberals-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are Jews liberals? (part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taken from <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/R4VOA-0D62g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/article\/are-these-antifa-blm-riots-a-jewish-coup\/#comment-4163631\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I previously posted this video of America\u2019s Rabbi, Shmuley Boteach, interviewing a special guest, NYT\u2019s columnist Bret Stevens. The topic to be debated was:\u00a0<i>Is President Trump good for the Jews?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R4VOA-0D62g?feature=oembed&amp;rel=0&amp;autoplay=1\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Bret goes to great lengths to explain to the small group of his conservative coreligionists in attendance that they should be careful not to get over enthusiastic over Trump just because he is implementing the following policies that are favourable to Israel:<\/p>\n<p>1. The embassy move<br \/>\n2. The Iran deal withdrawals<br \/>\n3. Not condemning the murder of 168 and the wounding of over 15,000 protesters<\/p>\n<p>He points out that they must not be fixated with these gains. He becomes visibly frustrated as he is heckled by those loyal to Trump. He goes to great lengths to explain to his short-sighted comrades how things work.<\/p>\n<p>While Trump has done positive things for Israel and, as a result, for Jews who reside in the villa, he still represents a threat to the Jews of the diaspora.\u00a0<b>And that\u2019s because he\u2019s a populist and uses populist phrases such as \u201cMake America Great Again\u201d and \u201cAmerica First.\u201d<\/b>\u00a0Stephens reminds his audience the history of these phrases and how Jews suffered under fascism.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll let Bret speak for himself, starting @ 10:02:<\/p>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"more\">\n<blockquote><p>SB: What about with respect to the Jews?<\/p>\n<p>BS: Well, the second thing is\u00a0<b>Jews I think have only really thrived and are only really safe in the world when liberal values are the dominant, prevalent values<\/b>. And by liberal values I don\u2019t mean Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren.\u00a0<b>I mean liberal in the classic sense of respect for pluralism, emphasis on tolerance, emphasis on individual liberties.<\/b>Those panoply of values which are the DNA of what we call liberal democratic society. Now, the Trump Administration, in a way that is similar to populist movements in Europe \u2013 like Marine Le Penne, the Vlaams Belang in Belgium, Geert Wilders in Holland, the AfD in Germany, the Northern League in Italy, Orban\u2019s party in Hungary, the party that\u2019s in power in Poland, and so on \u2013\u00a0<b>Trump Administration represents a substantial and dangerous regression from those values<\/b>. I think the comments, the attitude of this Administration towards immigration \u2013 Mexican immigration, Latin American immigration \u2013 is a scandal. You want to know something? In all of history, no Muslim terrorist has ever come across our border with Mexico. We\u2019ve had one Muslim terrorist come across a land border and that happened to be with Canada. Why aren\u2019t we building a wall with Canada?\u00a0<b>This worries me because to be anti-immigrant strikes me as antithetical to the liberal values that have been so good for us as Jews<\/b>. Had a Trump Administration been in power in 1950, there\u2019s no way my mother \u2013 a displaced person with $7 and no means to support herself and no skills \u2013 would have ever been admitted into this country. And yet, a generation later her son is the elitist snob at the New York Times, paying manifold in taxes what it cost the United States to bring us here. Each of you is one, maybe two, generations away from some poor schlemiel who came from like my grandfather from Bessarabia, or Galicia, or one other country\u2026 and I bet they didn\u2019t come with Ph.Ds, and with great skills. I bet they didn\u2019t speak a word of English. I bet many Americans here thought of them as smelly Jews with Bolshevik politics. And in my case, many of them did have Bolshevik politics, I\u2019m sorry to say. Thank God we didn\u2019t have that kind of political order when we were arriving in the 1890s, and so on.\u00a0<b>This turn away from liberalism<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 and it\u2019s not just with respect to immigrants, it\u2019s with respect to attitude toward the media\u2026 it\u2019s with the coarsening and assault on fundamental institutions of government \u2013\u00a0<b>is in the long term, I believe, dangerous for the Jews<\/b>. Because I\u2019m hard pressed to think of illiberal orders in the past that haven\u2019t eventually turned on the Jews. And I\u2019m hard pressed to think of populist orders in the past that haven\u2019t eventually turned on the Jews.\u00a0<b>And so we engage this kind of politics, I think, at our peril<\/b>. Now, he\u2019s the president. We want the best to happen, obviously, as Americans\u2026 and we want a good outcome.\u00a0<b>But, I would just say to all of you who are tempted to say \u201cTrump is the best thing to happen to the Jews,\u201d caveat emptor\u2026 caveat emptor<\/b>. Because the style of politics he is bringing with him, in the long term, has never paid dividends for us as a people, never mind for us as individuals\u2026 and I\u2019ll stop there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taken from here and here I previously posted this video of America\u2019s Rabbi, Shmuley Boteach, interviewing a special guest, NYT\u2019s columnist Bret Stevens. The topic to be debated was:\u00a0Is President Trump good for the Jews? Bret goes to great lengths to explain to the small group of his conservative coreligionists in attendance that they should &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/2020\/09\/24\/why-are-jews-liberals-part-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Sigue leyendo <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why are Jews liberals? 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