{"id":49693,"date":"2017-01-20T17:05:28","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T15:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=49693"},"modified":"2017-01-17T15:12:05","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T13:12:05","slug":"20-05-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=49693","title":{"rendered":"TRUMP\u2019S JEWS AND OBAMA\u2019S JEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>TRUMP\u2019S JEWS AND OBAMA\u2019S JEWS<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Daniel Greenfield<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Left is losing the culture war within the Jewish community.
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Seen from above, the 2016 electoral map of New York City is blue with dots of red. Trump\u2019s home district is blue, but across the water a red wedge slices into Brooklyn. Around that red wedge are districts where Hillary won 90 percent of the vote and Trump was lucky to get 5 percent. Inside it, he beat her in district after district.<\/span><\/p>\n

The voters who handed him that victory are the Chassidic Jews of Williamsburg who dress in fur hats and black caftans. Their districts, crammed in by hipsters and minorities, are a world away from the progressive activist temples whose clergy went into mourning at Hillary\u2019s loss.<\/span><\/p>\n

East of Prospect Park, in a vast sea of blue, is what looks like a red sofa. Trump won here with the Chabad Chassidim of Crown Heights. He won in the more mainstream Orthodox Jewish communities of Flatbush. He won by huge margins among the Russian Jewish immigrants of Brighton Beach who listen to a man dubbed the \u201cRussian Rush Limbaugh.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As the left-wing Forward put it, \u201cNearly every election district that Trump won in Brooklyn was in a Jewish neighborhood.\u201d But it was a certain type of Jewish neighborhood. The wrong type.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou can compare them to Rust Belt voters,\u201d a Forward source states. \u201cThey are hardworking people, not college educated.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

And then in Far Rockaway where the housing projects by the beach give way to the red Orthodox Jewish communities that extend into Long Island.<\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s a line that recurs again and again in the attacks on David Friedman; the man picked by President-elect Trump to serve as the ambassador to Israel. It\u2019s not stated openly. It\u2019s implied.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDavid Friedman, a bankruptcy lawyer from Long Island,\u201d is the sneering summary.<\/span><\/p>\n

Remnick, the New Yorker\u2019s left-wing editor, took the sneering to a new level, titling his smear as \u201cTrump\u2019s Daily Bankruptcy.\u201d Jewish identity, he declares, has never been a matter of \u201cbankruptcy law.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

To a certain class of elites, it is self-evidently absurd that a bankruptcy lawyer from Long Island be appointed to anything or be listened to about anything. David Remnick is a Washington Post man married to a New York Times woman who went on to inherit the editorship of the New Yorker and turn it into a left-wing echo chamber. He lives in a $3.25 million four-bedroom Manhattan apartment with a wood-burning fireplace.<\/span><\/p>\n

And David Friedman is the Orthodox son of a Rabbi from Woodmere who still lives there. His father was a Republican who hosted President Reagan. He might occasionally be allowed to read the New Yorker.<\/span><\/p>\n

And that\u2019s about it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet it\u2019s hard to think of anything that might recommend Friedman more to Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n

Over at New York Magazine, Frank Rich and Fran Leibowitz famously chuckled over Trump being \u201ca poor person\u2019s idea of a rich person.\u201d David Brooks, the token slightly right of the left voice at the New York Times, full of contempt for Trump, in an infamous moment, studied Obama\u2019s \u201cperfectly creased pant\u201d and came to the conclusion that, \u201che\u2019ll be a very good president.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI divide people into people who talk like us and who don\u2019t talk like us,\u201d Brooks has said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Obama spoke like one of the collective \u201cus\u201d. Trump and Friedman don\u2019t talk like \u201cus\u201d. Their voices are distinctly working class. Their New York values are those of a grittier and grimier country.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s calling card was, \u201cMake America Great Again\u201d. Obama\u2019s was a memoir about race and identity that was a hit on college campuses. Two cultures could hardly be further apart.<\/span><\/p>\n

The internal war in America and among Jews over Trump is not just about politics, it\u2019s also about class. Trump\u2019s victory was the uprising of a cultural underclass. That is equally true among Jews.<\/span><\/p>\n

The same divide exists between the slick branding of J Street\u2019s conferences stocked with self-appointed thought leaders who have never worked for a living and the hard-working Jewish communities who loathe the New York Times for its hostility to Israel. These are the Jews who have never been represented in national politics. Whom most of the left didn\u2019t even know existed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Friedman\u2019s appointment led leftists like Remnick to undertake a baffled archeological survey of Arutz Sheva: a popular pro-Israel news site that no one at the New Yorker had ever heard of. The elites of the left have suddenly had to grapple with the existence of people who don\u2019t talk like \u201cus\u201d or think like \u201cus\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

And that for many voters, non-Jewish and Jewish, encompassed the thrill of Trump. Voting for Trump forced the elites that had ignored them out to acknowledge their existence for the very first time.<\/span><\/p>\n

The split is as real among Jews as it is in the rest of America. Trump\u2019s victory allowed Jewish communities that had been shut out of the national dialogue to have a voice. The divide over Israel is not only about policy, but about culture and class. The divide between readers of the Jewish Press and the Forward is as real as the yawning gap between country music listeners and the NPR audiences.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump and Obama both have inner circles filled with Jews. But they are as different as David Remnick is from David Friedman, as Jan Schakowsky is from Boris Epshteyn, or as J Street\u2019s Jeremy Ben Ami is from Jason Greenblatt, a Trump advisor who performed armed guard duty while studying in Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n

Obama is legitimately baffled by accusations of anti-Semitism. His inner circle of left-wing Jews agree with him that the Jewish State is the problem and aiding Islamic terrorists is the solution. His echo chamber elevated marginal left-wing organizations like J Street or Yeshivat Chovevei Torah into representatives of American Jews. Meanwhile his people, like ADL boss Jonathan Greenblatt, took over already liberal Jewish organizations and turned them into lobbies for his anti-Israel agenda.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now suddenly the President-elect is surrounded by a very different breed of Jews. Instead of tenured academics, progressive journalists and irreligious clergy for whom Jewish values, like American values, mean appeasement and surrender to terrorists, a very different kind of Trump Jew is now on the rise.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s Jews are scrappy businessmen and tough lawyers. They live in traditional suburban communities instead of hip urban neighborhoods. They are more likely to be religiously devout and have large families. And they don\u2019t look or sound like the \u201cus\u201d of the leftist elites. They don\u2019t have the \u201cperfectly creased pant\u201d. Instead they look like the suburban dads and granddads that they are.<\/span><\/p>\n

They believe that you have to work hard to get ahead. They know that you have to be tough to succeed. And they\u2019ve learned to get ahead without caring what the liberal elites think of their manners and style.<\/span><\/p>\n

In that they\u2019re a whole lot like Trump. And a whole lot like the stereotypical Israeli.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just the substance of their message, pro-American, pro-Israel and pro-work, that horrifies the Remnicks of the left. It\u2019s the conviction that they\u2019re part of a social underclass that doesn\u2019t belong on stage. The Remnicks have worked hard to ape the manners and attitudes of their progressive betters. There was a time when his ilk dared to be pro-Israel. But when the liberals went left, they went with them. They justified their betrayal by blaming Israel for \u201cmoving to the right\u201d and alienating them.<\/span><\/p>\n

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But Trump\u2019s Jews, whether it\u2019s his advisers, who look like every other professional or small businessman in Long Island or Teaneck, or the Chassidic and Haredi Jews of Brooklyn who voted for him, make no apologies for who they are. They pray toward Jerusalem, not Martha\u2019s Vineyard. They do not cringe inwardly when Israel takes out a terrorist. They are not politically correct. They are Biblically correct.<\/span><\/p>\n

They are not ashamed of their Jewishness. And now their voice is being heard.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the fall of \u201984, President Ronald Reagan showed up at the home of a Long Island Rabbi for a Sabbath meal. David Friedman\u2019s mother spent three days shopping and prepared stuffed chicken cutlets, apricot noodle pudding and an apple crumb cake. Reagan toasted her as \u201ca woman who makes a meal better than a state dinner.\u201d Meanwhile outside, left-wingers protested hysterically against the visit.<\/span><\/p>\n

At Rabbi Friedman\u2019s synagogue, President Reagan declared, \u201cthe so-called anti-Zionists that we hear in the United Nations is just another mask in some quarters for vicious anti-Semitism. And that’s something the United States will not tolerate wherever it is, no matter how subtle it may be.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The United States has tolerated it for far too long from Barack Hussein Obama.<\/span><\/p>\n

When Rabbi Friedman passed away, Donald J. Trump, a future Republican president, drove to Long Island through a snowstorm to pay a condolence call to his son. Trump has chosen the man who sat at the table with President Reagan, that \u201cbankruptcy lawyer from Long Island\u201d as ambassador to Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n

The left is so angry because it senses that it is losing the culture war within the Jewish community. The future does not belong to David Remnick. It belongs to David Friedman.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Daniel Greenfield,<\/strong> a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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