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MosheFeingold

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3. Sadly, it's a growing group
Wed Nov 6, 2019, 07:46 AM
Nov 2019

Some of it is simple demographics: Orthodox are a growing percentage of Jewish people in the USA, both due to birth and outreach to BTs. Orthodox are overwhelmingly “value voters” and line up with Republicans. I am literally the last Democratic voter at my shul.

The second parts are economic and social— the 99% movement had lots of thinly disguised antisemtic assholes in it — as does ANTIFA. We made a strategic mistake, as a party, of tolerating that.

Finally, we’ve failed to reject the openly anti Semitic members of our party, largely because they are also members of persecuted groups. This also was a mistake.

Anyway, this is a real problem, and we had best not ignore it. We keep going like this and we will be like the Labour Party in England in 10 years.

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