In a Time of Trump, Millennial Jews Awaken to Anti- Semitism. Like many Jewish families in America, the Reizes household has been deliberating in recent months what Donald Trump really thinks of them. As they celebrate the Jewish New Year this weekend in their suburban Cleveland home, the topic of discussion will once again be anti- Semitism, and whether it. Like others representing America. But millennial Jews and their juniors are another matter. Story Continued Below. The early months of 2. Jewish journalists who had published articles critical of Trump or his campaign, with all the old ugly epithets on display. Though he deleted the tweet, afterward Trump walked up to a brightly lit podium and defended the image, bellowing that the Jewish star was not a Jewish star. A dim reality descended on American Jews. Yes: Trump had broadcast the message of a neo- Nazi without apology. Then: Weeks of quiet, lasting into August. But the issue roared back into view in September, when the ex- wife of Trump. Then Don Trump, Jr., with unblinking casualness, stumbled on an odious analogy. How did Jews vote in 2016? Which demographic groups pushed Trump over the top in 2016? David Rosenberg, 09/11/16 11:32. Jews can still gather in small groups in their homes to pray. A version of this article appears in print on September 25, 2016. Even so, the Reizes family of Cleveland has been deliberating how to process such events. How soon is too soon to brush the cobwebs away from an ancient alarm bell? The father, Ofer Reizes, a soft- spoken man of Israeli heritage, wants to discern the source before issuing labels. Trump really is that he. His wife prods back: . Reizes retorts in plaintive, be- understanding tone. Last March, when AIPAC invited Trump to its annual conference, Reizes wrote an open letter to AIPAC, cautioning that the organization risked countenancing bigotry by inviting Trump to speak. The 2016 presidential exit polling reveals little change in the political alignments of U.S. Those who supported Republican candidates in recent. American Jews are also overwhelmingly Democratic. 2016, on Page A10 of the New York edition with the headline: After Kerry American Jewish voting behavior explained in 12 principles - The 2016 Election: Jews and their Politics - Steven Windmueller - Jerusalem Center. Jews for Jesus has staff and resources to share the message of Jesus (Yeshua), the Jewish messiah for all people. Discover 'why Jesus' for yourself. This year, Reizes and his peers have watched the situation deteriorate: Headshots of journalists superimposed in concentration camps; calls to Jewish reporters in the middle of the night playing Hitler. Recently, a feature by. POLITICOon white America won its author fresh opprobrium as a . Other young activists were reconsidering what they had heard for years from an older generation. But, she acknowledged, . Her provocation was an open letter, and like Zach. A new film out this month, Denial, with. Rachel Weisz and Tom Wilkinson, depicts the lawsuit in the late nineteen- nineties between historian Deborah Lipstadt and pseudo- academic David Irving, a figurehead of Holocaust denial who asserted, as just one example, that Auschwitz did not contain gas chambers. For five years, the Holocaust was essentially put on trial. One imagines that watching Denial from the perch of 2. Semitic conspiracy felt compelled to present itself in tweed jackets and book bindings. The Internet harassers of Jewish journalist have no compunctions. Like so much of civic life that has evaporated to the Internet, it. Denial is a reminder of something else: If America. In Denial, our antagonists are well over 6. Obama. But the bloodbath by 2. Dylann Roof (a white nationalist whose final manifesto also professed a desire to . They include 3. 1- year- old Andrew Aglin, founder of the Daily Stormer. In 1. 93. 5, FDR spoke of . Rumors of Richard Nixon. After he won in 1. White House tapes reveal a president speaking freely of Jewish cabals controlling the media and the IRS. He also included fairly straightforward instructions about his judicial nominees: . By 1. 97. 0, says Marjorie Feld, a professor whose research focus is on Jewish American history, . But just as the political identities of Americans and Jews were knit together, says Feld, Jewish politics itself underwent an unraveling. The catalyst for both trends was the Six Day War in 1. Jewish pride and birthed modern American Zionism. It was, Feld says, a . Central to the dichotomy were differing notions of which horizon to watch for the arrival of anti- Semitism: The left, like the American college campus, or the right. This is the warring dichotomy that white, assimilated Jewish children of the 1. As a historic debate unfolds about privilege and race, largely on campus, progressive Jews play the role of allies, not the marginalized. Complicating matters is Israel itself: The burgeoning growth of the Boycott Divest Sanctions movement, and a diminishing generational attachment to the Jewish state. A recent Pew survey finds the number of millennials sympathetic to Palestine has grown from 9 percent to 2. Israel fell from 5. Such numbers have fed the encompassing fear of the Jewish right, whose worry over college campuses is boiling near the edge of panic. In 2. 00. 2, Campus Watch was formed, a website that polices the political opinions of college professors and class offerings, ever alert for perceived anti- Israel leanings. A new project funded by Trump- supporter Sheldon Adelson, the Maccabee Task Force, is now writing grants to intervene on behalf of haplessstudents, ostensibly blind to the crisis around them. According to the LA Times, one grantee, . Young people have not overlooked the irony. They have yet to distance, denounce, or in some cases meaningfully comment on Trump. Jewish voters, who consistently vote Democratic, support Trump in numbers of around 1. Florida (compared to something closer to zero for African American respondents). Not since William Jennings Bryan in 1. American Zionists and a larger anti- Semitic constituency under the same umbrella, according to. Jonathan Sarna, a professor of American Jewish history at Brandeis. In an open letter published in Haaretz last month, public intellectual and journalism professor Peter Beinart accused the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations of dodging the question of Trump. He is the thing our tradition teaches us to resist. For one, Trump could become president. But the other clear factor is Iran; as the New Yorker reports, Trump is planning to annihilate the Obama administration. BDS is gaining momentum, and Sanders, even, is invoking some criticism of Israel. This summer, an open letter signed by 2. Jewish action groups, many on the left, called on Jewish organizations to denounce xenophobia and anti- Semitism; shortly thereafter, progressive Jewish group Bend the Arc launched a petition calling on Jewish Coalition leader Matthew Brooks to denounce Donald Trump. In June, Bend the Arc led a a protest organized in New York that saw young activists chanting . The group has since revamped the protest: Last week, Bend the Arc hosted protests across the country, and launched a new website, . But he offered a more circumspect warning, one of a coming stalemate in which both the Jewish left and right . Millennial Jews have noticed. Yes, I agree with them. As the establishment clashes, millennial Jews may still be deliberating if, and how, to take sides. To be a center- left Jew in American politics is often to internalize two suspicions simultaneously: Insufficiently moved by the plight of the marginalized on campus; and insufficiently moved for the plight of Israel at the family reunion. These people really are everywhere.
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