{"id":60053,"date":"2014-11-13T08:36:37","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T16:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=60053"},"modified":"2023-09-17T06:20:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-17T14:20:36","slug":"is-israel-decisive-for-jewish-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=60053","title":{"rendered":"Is Israel Decisive For Jewish Voting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reading an <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2014\/11\/are-democrats-losing-the-jews\/382665\/?single_page=true\">Atlantic article<\/a> and the following stuck out to me: &#8220;For Jews in particular, it&#8217;s usually assumed that Israel is a decisive factor in influencing voters&#8217; decisions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is taken for granted by the conventional wisdom that Jews in America vote on what is good for the Jewish state, but most American Jews don&#8217;t care much about Israel. <\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.cis.org\/articles\/2001\/back1301.html\">Stephen Steinlight wrote in 2001<\/a>: &#8220;That America has largely tolerated this dual loyalty \u2014 we get a free pass, I suspect, largely over Christian guilt about the Holocaust \u2014 makes it no less a reality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The article concludes: &#8220;But it may be that, as a people as much as a voting bloc, Jews are becoming less influenced by their Jewishness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>True. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reading an Atlantic article and the following stuck out to me: &#8220;For Jews in particular, it&#8217;s usually assumed that Israel is a decisive factor in influencing voters&#8217; decisions.&#8221; It is taken for granted by the conventional wisdom that Jews &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=60053\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60053"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152162,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60053\/revisions\/152162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}