Thread by @GREENESJ333

Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "HA’ARETZ PUBLISHED AN ARTICLE BY JOHNATHAN TOBIN ABOUT THE DIVIDE IN THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMUNITY BROUGHT ABOUT BY AMERICAN POLITICS.
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İt was basically a quite good article. I question one point made by Tobin, and another part of what he wrote needs a further look.
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A. Tobin assumes that Jews overwhelmingly voted for Biden, based on some informal surveys. The 60-77 % figure he used comes from surveys done based on membership lists, & membership list use heavily weighs results to over representation of Reform and liberal Jews.
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My estimate would be closer to 50% if adjusted to sampling issues.
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B. Tobin notes that the core response of why Jews rejected Trump was the belief that Trump was antisemitic, & that belief was based, when people were asked, on the claim that Trump’s statement about Charlotte Virginia, saying that there were “fine people on both side”....
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referred to the Nazis & KKK. The problem is the Democrats, including Joe Biden, kept repeating that lie that was created by CNN & MSNBC by editing the statement and cutting off the send part of it.
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That second part was Trump emphasizing that he did not mean the Nazis and KKK which he hated. So one can conclude that Trump lost Jewish votes because of a lie by the media and the Democrats.
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C. Tobin noted the cultural difference between Jewish Biden voters & Trump voters, the former committed to Universalism, wanting to see their Jewishness in universal terms as much like that of any other religion,...

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while Trump Voters saw their Judaism as something owned by the Jewish people, not universal.
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In short, on the left, Jews chose, like Jews who have always assimilated & lost their Jewish identity over generations, to want to be part of the greater world, maybe for safety, maybe for acceptance.
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One would also find a much higher proportion of intermarriage and assimilation on the left. But on the right, a lower rate of assimilation and intermarriage with Gentiles, and more of a dedication to things traditionally Jewish - from education to Israel.
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So on the left we see Jewish youth supporting BDS against Israel. Not on the Right.

Think about it."
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