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MalaspinaGold
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« on: July 05, 2015, 06:39:27 PM »

If there is a shift in Jewish political support for Israel it won't be happening because of Israel, but because of high intermarriage and low growth rates among non religious Jews, coupled with low intermarriage/high growth rates among non-haredi Orthodox Jews skewing the demographics. In other words, while there are far more left-leaning Jews than right-leaning Jews, the children/grandchildren of right-leaning Jews are far more likely to be Jewish than those of left-leaning Jews. Haredim of course are a completely different case rather unique in the Jewish community.

The only things that could likely change this pattern are:
a) a "national revival" among secular Jews whereby they preserve both their Jewishness and their leftism (unlikely, but certainly possible)
b) a  mass secularization of Orthodox Jews (unlikely, and may backfire; modern Orthodox tend to be far more pro-Israel than Haredim),
c) Israel becoming left-wing again (peace + socialism/social democracy)
d) the Republicans adopt some anti-semitic attitudes (the religious right already are, they just screen it behind their pro-Israel rhetoric; if Israel becomes left-wing, then expect anti-semitic imagery to increase.)

So prognosis is of course bad for left-wing Judaism, but in the long run not for reasons directly relating to Israel, but rather due to the changing demographics of American Jews.
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MalaspinaGold
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« Reply #1 on: July 06, 2015, 03:11:57 PM »

It wasn't a treatise. It was far from it. It reads like something in a YouTube comments section. You didn't provide a coherent explanation, you lambasted an entire political ideology as being childlike and naive. You're a bomb thrower. Nothing more and nothing less.

And my beef isn't with Israel, it's with Netanyahu and the Likud government. Do you seriously think any of us oppose Israel's right to exist? And doesn't Palestine have a right to exist as well?

I am practiced at the art of saying much while typing very little.
How about going for an infinite saying:typing ratio? That way you can say all you want except we won't have to read anything. Works well for all parties.
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