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On political orientations of the Jewish population - C C - May 3, 2024
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Karl Marx was Jewish in name only, and a stealth antisemite or optionally a self-hating Jew (if interpreting the situation from an ethnicity rather than beliefs standpoint).
Was Karl Marx Jewish?: He had Jewish ancestry, but he was actually a lapsed Christian. And an atheist. And an anti-Semite.
Marx as antisemite: Antisemitism scholar Robert Wistrich stated "the net result of Marx's essay is to reinforce a traditional anti-Jewish stereotype – the identification of the Jews with money-making – in the sharpest possible manner". Bernard Lewis described "On the Jewish Question" as "one of the classics of antisemitic propaganda".
Jews in Radical Politics: "Jews had learned through bitter experience how little the Communists were concerned with actual laboring and living conditions..."
But then the next generation became fascinated with the Reds again..."So it was, during these years of communism’s resurgence, that the Jewish component surfaced even more vividly than it had a decade earlier..."
That second wave of Jewish infatuation didn't feel similarly disenchanted with the far-Left until the 1960s, when it became impossible to continue rejecting certain revelations about the USSR as being capitalist disinformation distributed by the US government.Even today, American Jews are politically monolithic for the most part. With statistical sources varying from 70% to as much as 90% voting for the Democratic Party.
But due to survival pressures, Israeli Jews are more politically heterogeneous...
https://www.vox.com/world-politics/2023/2/23/23609584/israel-right-wing-young-voters-palestine
EXCERPT: Pollsters, activists, and politicians struggle to pin down exactly why Israeli youth are so out of step with often left-leaning young people in developed countries around the world. But experts say changing demographics, concerns about peace and security, the success of right-wing parties and politicians in pushing an ethnonationalist narrative through the media, and historical events and policy choices that have further isolated Palestinians all play a part.