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https://www.wsj.com/articles/democrats-take-jewish-voters-for-granted-israel-antisemitism-e963a0e3?mod=opinion_lead_pos7

American Jews increasingly feel politically homeless. Liberal Jewish voters consider President Biden a longtime friend. At the same time, they are troubled by the growing influence of anti-Israel forces in the Democratic Party. They view Mr. Biden’s freeze on sending some weapons to Israel as evidence of capitulation to a radical fringe. Sen. Chuck Schumer’s recent speech urging Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resign and call new elections was likewise disconcerting. Many American Jews would like to see Mr. Netanyahu gone, but they know that Mr. Schumer would never have given that speech had he not felt compelled to mollify his party’s hard left. Has a top American official ever called for the removal of a duly and democratically elected leader of an ally, let alone in the middle of a war?

American Jews overwhelmingly support Israel. Most consider the Jewish state an important component of their identity. They distinguish between legitimate criticism of Israel—they are often vocal critics of Israeli policies—and hatred of the Jewish state. Contrary to the impression the media often gives, anti-Zionist Jews are few, a marginal part of the American Jewish community.

Judaism hates war and American Jews share the world’s concern for Palestinian civilians. Revenge is for God, not human beings. We are prohibited even to rejoice in the deaths of enemy combatants, let alone civilians. Jewish tradition recounts God admonishing the angels on high: “Why do you sing songs of praise to me when my children are drowning in the sea?” These children of God were the warriors of Pharaoh, bent on killing every last fleeing Israelite.

Still, most American Jews understand that the West’s nearly exclusive focus on Palestinian casualties—the result of a war that Gaza’s own government launched—distorts reality. This war was imposed on Israel by genocidal forces seeking its destruction. Oct. 7 revealed what is in store for Israel if these forces win. Hamas promised more such massacres. This is the broader context. It is a struggle that involves Israel most acutely because Israel is on the front lines. But if Hamas defeats Israel, its Islamist supporters will come for us in Europe and America. Most Americans understand this and support Israel over Hamas by huge margins.

The explosion of antisemitism on university campuses is a matter of grave concern to American Jews. Simplistic binary categorizations of entire groups of people seem to have taken root in the minds of many professors and students: You are either oppressor or oppressed, racist or antiracist, colonialist or anticolonialist. These aren’t liberal attitudes; they are illiberal. They aren’t progressive views; they are regressive. The abandonment of the liberal order is never good for Jews. We will always find ourselves on the wrong side of the binary categorizations. We remain strongly supportive of Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of a society that judges people not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

https://amgreatness.com/2024/05/16/the-biden-reelection-strategy/

Joe Biden polls at or below 40 percent approval. Historically, such unpopularity has made it almost impossible for a president to be reelected.

His age advances by the hour. His voice falters, his memory fades, and his gait is reduced to short steps, with his arms, winglike and in tandem, offering balance.

Biden is not so much an octogenarian as an unhealthy and prematurely aging 80-year-old. It is America’s irony that he is fit for almost no other job in the country other than President, which apparently allows for a 3-day-a-week ceremonial role while others in the shadows run the country.

So how does Biden become renominated and reelected, as polls show he is behind in almost every critical swing state on nearly every issue?

Answer: not by campaigning, not by championing his record, and especially not by doubling down on his neo-socialist and now unpopular agendas.

Instead, his campaign is focused on four other strategies to beat Donald Trump.

First, left-wing local, state, and federal prosecutors are tying Trump up in court on crimes that have never been seen before and will never be again after the election. All the cases are politically motivated, with many coordinated with the White House.

Even if Trump is not convicted by blue-state prosecutors, in blue-state courtrooms, in front of blue-state juries, he will lose critical campaigning time.

Trump may end up paying out $1 billion in legal fees and fines. At 76, the monotonous days in court are designed to destroy him financially, physically, and mentally.

Biden and his operatives know that, in the long term, they may have fatally damaged the American legal system with such judicial sabotage. But short-term, they hope to destroy Trump before the ballots are cast.

Second, in his fourth year, Biden is suddenly selling government favors to special-interest voting blocs, or hoping to bring short-term relief to voters at the expense of long-term damage to the nation.

For elite college students and graduates, there are now billions of dollars in student-loan cancellations, despite a Supreme Court ruling declaring such targeted contractual amnesties illegal.