As I have written about before, I was raised in a house full of Democrats. My father was well know for beginning a political judgment with the phrase “Right thinking people know that ….” and then express his opinion on the subject at hand. He was a good man, my father, but he had his opinions and in his own words, “Even when I’m wrong, I’m right.”
So I was brought up to believe that the Democrats were the good guys and the Republicans? Well, not so much.
American Jews today are facing a growing quandary. How to continue to support the Democrats, when they are increasingly showing anti-Semitic bias? When Democrat Congresswoman from Minnesota Ilhan Omar declared that American Jews suffer from what she called “dual loyalty” because they support the state of Israel, she was not censured for her remark, even though she herself could be accused of the same thing, given her outspoken support for what she calls “Palestine”.
And when she charged fellow Congressmen, the Jewish ones, with financially supporting the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee, (“It’s all about the Benjamins, baby”), the House began to craft a bill against anti-Semitism. It began with good intentions, but by the time it was brought to the floor for a vote, it had added bias against “African-Americans, Native Americans, and other people of color, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, and immigrants.” It was a total evasion, because it didn’t address the core issue...........To Read More....
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