Liberal US Jews

Though I live in a suburb of Los Angeles, I believe that Israel is the beating heart of Judaism, which might not have survived the Holocaust if Israel hadn’t miraculously risen from the ashes to rally the Jewish spirit. Even today, thousands of threatened Jews from Europe are making aliya.

So I am appalled that the Democratic Party in the United States is increasingly hostile to Israel – and worse, that many Jewish Democrats are putting party loyalty above support for Israel.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is just a front for the Muslim Brotherhood and an apologist for anti-Israel terrorism. (Members are reported to have served in the Obama administration.) Students for Justice in Palestine bullies Jewish college students, shouts down pro-Israel speakers and calls for Israel’s destruction.

Yet Jewish liberals still support these and similar groups. Even as antisemitism rises in Europe with Muslim immigration, American Jewish liberals join demonstrations supporting more Muslim immigration here. Many of your columnists, like the great Caroline B. Glick, are warning world Jewry about this, but I believe, sadly, that many Jewish liberals are no longer really Jews; their “religion” has become leftism.

Though I fear the result of a dangerous gullibility among Diaspora Jews, I also feel sorry for them. Their children will resent them, cease to be Jews or, worst of all, become antisemites.

The radical Left that they seek to be a part of is increasingly antisemitic. How long can they continue to associate with it before this starts to seep in?

RUEBEN GORDON

Calabasas, California