Baited Ron Coleman “Conservative” Orthodox Jewish Lawyer
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American Jews are overwhelmingly left-wing and overwhelmingly pro-Israel.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/rather-than-drifting-away-over-two-thirds-of-us-jews-feel-tie-to-israel-poll/
American jews are majority left-wing, and "pro-Israel" has to be more specific:
Which is what I'm talking about. Plenty of Leftist jews are sympathetic to the "Pro-Palestine" movement; while most Leftist non-jews are just explicitly Pro-Palestine. Leftist jews are going to balk at calling Israel an apartheid state, while Leftist non-jews are going to straight up claim Israel's committing a genocide.
Honestly, a good breakdown of that infighting can be seen in the UK Labour Party's Antisemitism investigation which documents the same splits, but within the UK.
Weaker doesn't mean they aren't supportive. Look at their reasoning. Hating Trump is the biggest reason.
It's still a continuation of the same problem. Netanyahu is the part of the Orthodox and Nationalist coalitions in Israel. He even got cited in that Jew vs. Jew book I mentioned as a serious concern for American jews which are more Globalist, Socialist, and Leftist. All of those issues that concern them are on exactly the same spectrum that align with Orthodox jews agendas in Israel. It's not a surprise that Orthodox jews also started turning out for Trump in NYC, after Leftist American jews allowed BLM to target them with hate crimes, and the Dems further targeted them with Covid measures they refused to take against Muslims. It's also what led to Orthodox jews in NYC voting as a block for Zeldin.
They don't want Israel as it is, and as it has been for decades. They want to fundamentally break Israel into something more: Leftist.
I don't see how any of that makes them not nationalist. Even left-wing Jewish orgs like that ADL do things to help Israel, like getting AirBnB to reverse its boycott of Israeli settlements.