America to Jews: Ya'll Okay

It must kill the ADL to admit this:

JTA — Despite a rise in anti-Semitic violence in recent years, the proportion of Americans holding “intensely” anti-Semitic views remains small, according to a new poll. The poll, conducted by the Anti-Defamation League and published Wednesday, asked 11 questions of United States adults regarding traditional anti-Semitic stereotypes, using a protocol the organization developed more than 50 years ago. While 61 percent of respondents said they agreed with one or more of the stereotypes, only 11% said they believed in a majority of them. That number is consistent with the ADL’s surveys over the past 25 years. 

That 61% of respondents agreeing with a few Jewish stereotypes is actually hilarious. We live surrounded by Indians and Chinese and are on occasion told that we make great movies and are good with money. Indians think, 'Well of course Jews are good with money. They're like Gujarati people back home;' That's a state and language group famous for its entrepreneurial class. So it seems natural to them. Our Chinese neighbors are grateful that our god seemingly requires us to eat Chinese food on Christmas. 

As for this slight uptick in Juden Hass attacks, well, the assailants fit a certain, ahhh….demographic profile and if we went any further into it our own HR department would send us to sensitivity training hell, so...

The great Tucker Carlson said the other night, this is a nice country filled with nice people. And he can't be cucked. Can't cuck the tuck. Tuck to cucks: drop dead.

In all history there has never been a better place for Jews, and that includes Israel. God bless the USA.

Trump, Israel, Jews

My latest piece over at Inforos:

After Prime Minister Netanyahu’s government barred Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) from entering Israel last week, President Trump said, ‘I think any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat, I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty.’ Trump later explained that he meant Jews were being disloyal to Judaism and Israel.

Trump is a friend of Israel and Jews, which should be obvious to anyone who watched the president these last two and a half years...

Click on over for the rest.

Liberal Jews to Bibi: Drop Dead

Yet another article on the growing schism between Israel and American Jews. This time liberal Jews oppose Israeli annexation of West Bank settlement blocs:

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s election victory risks deepening the divide between Israel and Diaspora Jewry, US Jewish leaders have said in the campaign’s aftermath, especially if he follows through on his election-eve promise to annex West Bank settlements.

Such a move would alienate the Jewish state from most American Jews, who overwhelmingly lean left of center, and divide the American Jewish community on Israel’s moral standing, the heads of several powerful Jewish organizations told The Times of Israel.

It must be embarrassing to have to explain to the jet set in Los Angeles and New York that while you're Jewish you don't support 'that man'.

We here at William Stroock dot blogspot dot com are amused by liberal Jew's unconscious assumption that Israel should take security risks just to make them comfortable. Has it ever occurred to these people that they're the ones who are wrong?

Eighty percent of American Jews voted for Barry and Hilary!

So yeah, no. It hasn't occured to them.

No annexation. Also, bring back the Iran Deal.

We kid but they don't.

Israelis vs Diaspora Jews

A fascinating poll on Israeli attitudes about Diaspora Jews. The poll finds Israelis generally don't know how many Jews live in the Diaspora and vastly overestimate how many American Jews are Orthodox with some Israels saying the number is as high s 50%.

What's up with that?

The Post notes:

Shira Ruderman, director of the Ruderman Family Foundation, which works to strengthen Israel's ties with the Jewish community in the United States, noted that most Israelis do not know any Diaspora Jews.

"The greatest challenge of our generation is connecting Israeli Jews with Diaspora Jewry in general and to the Jewish community in the United States in particular,” Ruderman said. “Israel's leaders have two important roles: responsibility for the citizens of Israel, and a commitment to the Jewish people. In elections, when the government looks for public trust, they must tell us how they see the relationship between Israel and the Diaspora, and how they plan to work to strengthen that connection the day after the elections.”

There are tens of thousands of Hasidic Jews* who despise Israel for a whole host of reasons and millions of American Reform Jews who are embarrassed by Israel's bellicosity and Prime Minister Netanyahu's instransigence before the international community.

The chasm widens.

*Some of whom we are related by marriage.

Israelis eat Breakfast 300 Yards...

...From a hundred million Arabs who want to kill them.

Ynet tells us of the chasm between American Jews and Israeli Jews:

The survey of the American Jewish Committee showed 77 percent of Israelis approved of the president's handling of US-Israel relations, while only 34 percent of American Jews did. Fifty-seven percent of US Jews disapproved, while only 10 percent of Israelis did.

This should surprise no one. Israelis have become a hyper-nationalist lot where everybody serves in the military and each generation has its war. They've fought five conflicts in the last 15 years and live with the constant threat of rocket and missile attack. The Israeli left staked everything on the so called 'Peace Process'. of the 90's. They failed spectacularly and the great Israeli Labour party, once the nation's natural ruling party, is a rotting husk. The political contest in Israel is between the center and the right. Essentially in Israel there is no left. Also, there are over 1 million Russian Jews living in Israel. They may be Jews, but they are still Russians. So they believe the solution to a foreign problem is to find problem and crush it beneath treads of tanks.*

American Jews tend to be the roly-polly sort. Earnest liberals, mostly secular. Israel and Netanyahu can be embarrassing. These people loved the so called 'Peace Process'. American Jews are kitschy and guilt ridden, almost ashamed that Israel wins wars. Ezra Levant does a fine job describing them here:

One should think back to A Few Good Men. American Jews are the roly-poly prosecutor Sam Weinberg**, who just doesn't get it. Israelis are Jack Nicholson.

*See Putin's war in Chechnya, or Aerial Sharon's (PBUH) war against the Second Intifada.
**Played by Roly-Poly Kevin Pollack