Thursday, November 24, 2011

The Myth of an Israel-Centered Jewish Vote

I highly recommend this article by Allan C. Brownfeld, editor of the American Council for Judaism’s publication Issues.  The gist:

The fact is that there is no Jewish vote — only the votes of millions of individual Jewish Americans. These ballots are cast on the same basis as are those of Americans of other faiths. It is a dangerous challenge to our democracy to try to divide voters on the basis of religion, and to do so on the basis of a false picture of U.S. Middle East policy is harmful to all — to Israel, to the Palestinians, to American interests in the region and, perhaps most important, to the truth itself.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

the essential qualifications of a politician is lying.

Anonymous said...

The truth is that Zionist lobbies, especially the known AIPAC, doesn't play on the effect of Jewish votes (which constitutes very little percentage, not proportionate with the lobby's real weight), it depends mostly on its network of relations with fat cats who happens to control the economy.