Jewish Voters Beware
You cannot escape history.
By Phil Orenstein
FrontPageMag.com
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study of history is the study of human nature. We
learn from the past in order to protect ourselves
from the present. Voters need to take heed, and
looking into our history, American Jews in
particular, beware. You cannot escape history.
Jews thought they would be perpetually safe enjoying
the high life on top of German society before the
rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party, just as Jews
today enjoy freedom, prosperity, and safety in
America. Jews were Germans first and believed in the
Fatherland. They were Germany’s bankers,
industrialists, soldiers, scientists, factory
workers, and teachers. The German Republic was a
representative democracy that upheld the rule of
law, the courts, police protection, and a Bill of
Rights that guaranteed freedom of speech and
religion, and equality under the law for every
German citizen.
Before the worldwide depression hit Germany in 1929,
the Nazis were a minor political party and
anti-Semitism was not as prevalent. The Nazis
capitalized on the widespread unemployment and
severe economic depression that decimated Germany,
without which they never would have come to power.
The country was bitterly divided, and Hitler seized
the opportunity to blame the crisis on the Jewish
capitalists and financiers. In three short years
Hitler was appointed German chancellor and soon came
to control every aspect of German life, the laws,
the courts, the police, and before long the Jews
were doomed to the death camps.
Human nature has never changed in the past 5000
years. Historically these are the same as the
Egyptian Pharaohs who enslaved the Hebrews, the same
Babylonians that destroyed the First Temple, the
same Romans that destroyed Jerusalem and the Second
Temple, the same Venetians of the Renaissance that
put the Jews in Ghettos, the same anti-Jewish mobs
in the Russian Empire that led violent pogroms, and
the same Palestinians who seek a “free
Palestine from the river to the sea,” which is the
destruction of Israel.
Now they have morphed into Black Lives Matter,
Antifa, the lawless mob, and the socialist wing now
controlling the Democrat Party. It’s not about
racial justice or the new civil rights movement.
Just as the Nazis did in 1929, they are capitalizing
on the pandemic to push their socialist, defund the
police agenda, in order to seize power. They are
actively working with Palestinian activists such as
Linda Sarsour, promoting the Boycott, Divest,
Sanction (BDS) movement to economically destroy
Israel, the only other country besides America where
Jews are safe. Their aim is to overthrow America,
wipe Israel off the map, and take over.
Jewish voters still believe the Democrat Party is
the same Party of decades past - the party of FDR,
Truman, and JFK. That Party is now dead. It exists
only in their minds, not in reality. But Jews
have a deep-rooted century-long alliance with the
Democrat Party, which is hard to break.
Around the turn of last century there was a mass
migration of Jews to America from Russia,
Poland and other Eastern European lands controlled
by Russia, seeking a new life free from persecution
and want. They crammed into the teeming tenements of
New York’s Lower East Side and other Eastern cities.
They brought with them the legacy of the
downtrodden, European socialist politics from the
Old World, which made for a natural fit with the
Democrat Party and the Labor Union movement.
Succeeding generations moved up, worked hard,
studied diligently to make the American Dream a
reality for a people still plagued by pervasive
anti-Semitism in their new homeland. Seeking
acceptance and involvement in their communities,
they flocked to the Democrat Party in their
neighborhoods, which was controlled by the Irish
Democrats of Tammany Hall. With time, the Democrat
machine embraced the Jews as a huge voting bloc,
inviting them to be active in politics and run for
public office.
Ultimately, the Jewish people moved out of the Lower
East Side to the suburbs and entered the Middle
Class. But they never abandoned their legacy as the
poor, the downtrodden and the underdog, as they held
on to the politics of the Democrat Party. Jews
soon climbed the ladders of success, prospering in
the business world, serving in the military in both
World Wars, with love of country, supporting Israel,
believing in liberty and all things that tied us
together as Americans. These were the tenets of the
liberal Democrat Party, until two years ago.
Recently the Party took a hard lurch to the left,
becoming the Party of AOC, and the Squad - the Party
of socialism, the Party of anti-police,
anti-America, and anti-Israel agendas.
Congressman Eliot Engel, a 32-year incumbent just
lost the Democrat Primary to the AOC-backed
radical insurgent Jamaal Bowman, in a
liberal Jewish district. Moderate Democrats are
running to the left to save their political careers.
When AOC or Rep. Ilhan Omar speak out against Israel
and Jews, Democrats
remain silent. City Councilman Barry
Grodenchik, a so-called moderate Jewish Democrat,
just voted to defund
the police by $1 billion, as did many
other moderate Democrats.
Joe Biden recently accepted endorsements from
anti-Semites Linda Sarsour, Rep. Ilhan
Omar, Keith Ellison, and other Palestinian activists
and Farrakhan supporters at the “Million Muslim
Votes Summit.”
The socialist and anti-Semitic wing of the Democrat
Party has taken over, and Democrats have forfeited
their long cherished American liberal values and are
running scared. Everything the Jews fought for and
stood for over the past 125 years, the new Democrat
Party is against.
The Republican Party champions all the values that
American Jews hold dear, love of America and Israel,
love of democracy, our military, free speech,
religious freedom, law and order, equal protection
under the law, and the American Dream. Today the
Republican Party is the natural home for Jewish
voters. It’s time to squarely look at the history of
the Jewish obsession with the Democrat Party, make
the final Exodus, and kiss the new Democrat Party
goodbye.
Phil
Orenstein is the president of the Queens
Village Republican Club. Established in
1875, it is America’s oldest Republican
Club. Historian, Jerry Matacotta, founder of History
Seminar Series at Queensborough Community College,
was the advisor for this article.