In Private Fundraiser, Keith Ellison Said Israel Controls US Policy

[ericson00]

44. well given how Jewish voters/mover & shakers are the effin engine that

funds a considerable portion of the major political party you (presumably) most closely align with, as well as having been the non-blacks who played the most outsized role in the Civil Rights movement, tossing them under the bus would not only hurt the party in the short run, but set the stage for vengeance in the long run.

see:
http://www.jpost.com/US-Elections/US-Jews-contribute-half-of-all-donations-to-the-Democratic-party-468774

Jewish donors contribut(e) a whopping 50% of funds received by the Democratic Party

http://www.jta.org/2011/06/07/news-opinion/politics/democrats-launch-major-pro-obama-pushback-among-jews

estimates over the years have reckoned that Jewish donors provide between one-third and two-thirds of the (Democratic) party’s money

or see this

Many in the Jewish community supported the Civil Rights Movement. In fact, statistically Jews were one of the most actively involved non-black groups in the Movement. Many Jewish students worked in concert with African Americans for CORE, SCLC, and SNCC as full-time organizers and summer volunteers during the Civil Rights era. Jews made up roughly half of the white northern volunteers involved in the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer project and approximately half of the civil rights attorneys active in the South during the 1960s.
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so you don't need to genuflect, but you probably should show honour.