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In September, the Jewish Democratic Council of America rolled out a poll which claimed that 72% of American Jews backed Kamala, and that Jewish voters didn’t really care about Israel or antisemitism, only about “abortion”, “climate change” and the “future of democracy”.
The poll by the Democrat firm GBAO Strategies was ridiculed as rigged even by the people who have spent years repeating back the results of similar past polls claiming that 70% of Jews voted for Obama, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden. Exit polls usually don’t register Jewish voters and virtually all polls of Jewish voters are conducted by Democrat and liberal groups. And they’re just as worthless, but they fit people’s preconceptions of the Jewish vote.
The stereotype of Jews voting 70% for the Democrat candidate seeped in even as local precinct data in Jewish neighborhoods raised serious questions about whether that was really true.
And actual polling data of Jews suggests that VP Kamala Harris has a Jewish problem.
In August, a Siena college poll of New Yorkers showed that Trump was not only performing surprisingly well in the state, but was narrowly winning the Jewish vote 50% to 49%.
Siena is the only major independent pollster whose election surveys regularly include Jews. While there are many polls out there, Siena surveys Jews among the electorate rather than the vanity 70% push polls of Jews by Democratic strategists for liberal groups like the JDCA.
Rather than sensing danger from her poor performance among Jews, Kamala doubled down.
The JDCA convened a ‘Jewish Americans for Kamala Harris’ online rally consisting of anti-Israel activists and hateful figures including Randi Weingarten, the teachers’ union boss who claimed that “American Jews are now part of the ownership class” and “want to take that ladder of opportunity away from those who do not have it.”
Vice President Kamala Harris named Ilan Goldenberg, an anti-Israel activist serving as her Middle East adviser, as her ‘liaison’ to the Jewish community. Goldenberg had previously advocated for a deal in which “Hamas would retain some of its military capabilities” and argued that “half the root causes are Israeli actions, in terms of — especially just focusing on Gaza, on the blockade. And the other half is Hamas’ choice to use violence and arm itself in response.”
Kamala also named Nasrina Bargzie, her deputy counsel who had ties to anti-Israel and pro-terrorist activism, and had fought Berkeley Jewish students complaining about antisemitism in court, as her Muslim liaison. She also named Brenda Abdelall, an anti-Israel activist who claimed that Jews control America, as her Arab liaison, and refused to fire her.
Coming off the DNC convention and the debate, Kamala’s numbers should have improved.
Instead they are actually down in New York. And the drop is strongest among New York Jews.
The September poll showed that Trump had increased his narrow lead among New York Jews from 50% to 54%. And Kamala’s support had fallen from 49% to 44%. These might be some of the worst numbers ever for a Democrat presidential candidate in New York.
Had Trump made his case with Jewish voters? The September poll showed that his numbers among New York Jews had flipped from a 44% favorable and a 52% unfavorable, to a 52% favorable and a 48% unfavorable. But more distinctly, Kamala had turned Jews off.
In August, 50% of New York Jews had a favorable view of Kamala Harris while only 43% had an unfavorable view of her. By September the numbers had shockingly flipped into the negative.
51% of New York Jews now have an unfavorable view of Kamala.
The Harris campaign’s efforts to appeal to Jews by bringing out Randi Weingarten and other anti-Israel activists, and then summoning Doug Emhoff to praise his multicultural marriage to Kamala at the DNC, describing how he attends a racist church whose pastor had pleaded with his wife to stop supporting Israel and back the ‘Palestinians’ because “their struggle is our struggle as people of color who have been oppressed” had not only failed, they had backfired.
Appointing Ilan Goldenberg, an anti-Israel activist with no roots in the mainstream Jewish community, to head up Jewish outreach and relying on Sharon Brous, an anti-Israel clergywoman favored by Emhoff and Hollywood celebrities, had failed to win over Jews. There was an early warning when the Biden campaign had previously rolled out Senator Chuck Schumer to attack Israel and demand an end to its military campaign against Hamas.
A Siena poll showed that Schumer’s popularity among New York Jews crashed from 82% to 48% with 45% disapproving of Chuck. The August poll only showed a slight improvement with Schumer crawling up to a 53% approval rating among a group that used to be his base.
But VP Kamala Harris, surrounded by anti-Israel radicals, chose to believe that they represented the Jewish community. She chose to embrace anti-Israel politics to win over Hamas and Hezbollah supporters in Dearborn, Michigan, while occasionally making sympathetic noises about the hostages, outsourcing Jewish outreach to anti-Israel activists like Ilan Goldenberg and widely hated figures like Randi Weingarten with a history of making ugly remarks about Jews, while believing she would still do well with Jewish voters. But that’s not working out.
The JDCA rigged poll was a transparently desperate attempt at damage control. Its only intended audience is the Harris campaign echo chamber looking for evidence that discarding Jewish concerns about Israel and antisemitism is the best way to win over Jewish voters.
As VP, Kamala had taken the lead in criticizing Israel for the Biden administration. After the coup that put her at the top of the ticket, she occasionally pivoted to assuage the concerns of a few high-profile donors like former Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg, but continued to pressure Israel to surrender to Hamas. Reports about Kamala’s private meetings with the Dearborn mayor who had spoken at a pro-Hamas rally only further alienated the Jewish community.
Her rhetoric about giving Israel “what it needs to defend itself” was rightly seen as a backdoor endorsement for an offensive arms embargo. Her recent boast that “one of the things that we’ve done that I’m entirely supportive of is the pause that we put on the 2000-pound bombs” that Israel needed to fight terrorists confirmed previously suspicions about Kamala’s backing for an incremental arms embargo.
But above all else as the Jewish community faces record rates of antisemitism, especially at colleges, Kamala failed to condemn campus antisemitic riots and harassment, and continued praising the perpetrators, describing them as “showing exactly what the human emotion should be” While the Biden-Harris administration occasionally denounced ugly incidents, including the assault on the Adas Torah synagogue in Los Angeles, it did not speak out against those behind it.
And some American Jews were paying attention.
Kamala’s sharp drop and growing unpopularity among New York Jews shows how badly she turned off Jewish voters in a short time. And while New York’s Jewish community (at least outside Manhattan) tends to be more conservative and traditional, it is likely that these numbers will at least partly reflect a larger trend in swing states like Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida.
By embracing anti-Israel policies and rhetoric, while failing to stand up to antisemitism from her base, Vice President Kamala Harris alienated many Jews. And her numbers show it.
After a presidential term full of antisemitism and pandering to Islamic terrorists, including aiding the Islamic takeover of Iran, Carter took in only 45% of the Jewish vote in the 1980 election.
In New York, Kamala is already down to 44%.
“…Kamala failed to condemn campus antisemitic riots and harassment, and continued praising the perpetrators, describing them as “showing exactly what the human emotion should be” Oh, so murderous, genocidal anti-Semitic hatred is ” what the human emotion should be.” Good to know. I am a Jew. Any Jew who votes for Harris is insane. If you don’t like Trump you don’t have to vote for him. But voting for Kamala is like turkeys voting for Thanksgiving. And what she means by favoring Israel’s right to defend itself is that Israel would be allowed to swat at each and every missile once fired at it but not to attack the storage depots, launchers, transporters or suppliers. This would require Israel’s defenses to be perfect, inexhaustible, and incapable of being evaded or degraded. She’s either a fool or malevolent. Those are the only possibilities
Malevolent x 1000
Yes, as all leftists are.
Never underestimate Jewish liberals. Many of them would willingly board trains to death camps if they were told abortion on demand would be available when they got there.
Sad but true. I’m friendly with an older couple…the husband is the son of Holocaust survivors. Both are Ivy-educated. They refuse to vote for Trump, primarily because he is “against women’s rights to control their bodies” ie eliminate the consequences of unprotected unplanned sex with someone unsuited to be a father.
When did abortion become the holy sacrament for Jewish women???
Many women seeking abortions are married or in stable relationships and already have several children.
I don’t believe for a second the overwhelming amount of Jews will still vote Democrat upwards of 70%. No matter the evidence presented to Jews about the Democrat policies they will still vote overwhelmingly Democrat. I have Jewish friends who are conservative and pull the hair out of their head because their entire families are liberal.
Based on her choices for advisors and whatnot, she’s malevolent. Not to mention her policies and comments.
I’d say both — stupid and malevolent. A veritable witch’s brew of characteristics.
I do believe she is both. She is also mentally ill. The eyes and that cackle are a dead giveaway. I can hardly look at her.
And probably something of an alcoholic.
In my experience, a neighborhood which has 20% homosexual residents is considered a *gay mecca*, and a neighborhood which has 10% Jewish residents is a *Jewish neighborhood*.
OTOH, a neighborhood needs 40% hispanic residents to be considered *Hispanic* and 50% or more black residents to be considered *Black*.
If pollsters bother to crunch those numbers (being aware of them does not necessarily mean taking them into account), then there is this further and final **street** label: most of the neighborhoods I have ever lived in have been considered *Bohemian* because of their mix of ethnicities and proclivities.
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This article, if accurate, would seem to indicate that pollsters massage in us Jews into our surrounding neighborhoods.
To get an accurate poll of Jews, pollsters need to go synagogue by synagogue, and then account for the ratio of Jews who never go to shul to those who sometimes do to those who go a lot, and then factor in the elderly shut-ins who are having Jewish social services bring help to them.
I personally can report for a fact that Jimmy Carter alienated MY family when he ran for reelection, while (strangely imo) Barack Obama did not.
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Daniel Greenfield knows all this (save for the part about my family), so I assume he is being either coy or polite in not mentioning it. 😉
“I personally can report for a fact that Jimmy Carter alienated MY family when he ran for reelection, while (strangely imo) Barack Obama did not.”
The vast majority of American Jewish voters considered Obama America’s first black president so he got their pity vote and their “How beautiful that we’re not a racist society anymore” vote, plus he was more polished and charming than Carter.
Charming is not an adjective but a verb. Charmers charm you intentionally for some reason of their own, sometimes the charming of you is harmless and benevolent, and sometimes the charming of you has a devious intention behind it.
Just what we need, an abstract explanation from a non-Jew on why Jews voted for Obama. This coming from the guy who hates Jews a little less than he hates Christians.
You couldn’t find the correct explanation with two hands and a flashlight.
Did you get more stupid on your 3 week sabbatical?
“Charming is not an adjective but a verb.”
It’s both.
English words can change speech parts quite fluidly, and often the same word is used in the same form as both adjective and verb, depending on where it occurs in a sentence.
Interesting take. Although Peanut Dhimmi Carter is just as Jew hating as Barack Hussein Osama.
My pet peeve is every hater and gullible person online railing against what they think the Jews’ vote is all based on media (& Democrat pollsters). It’s just another opportunity to blame the Jews. There are some leftwing Jews but many less as recent events have unfolded.
Things have changed. Even the percentages cited above seem too small for the change I see. I recently attended 2 events of a certain Jewish organization that I used to avoid due to past naive and left leaning bias. Now no one in those rooms was a Harris voter. All were pro Israel. 10/7 and the campus “ riots” and anti Semitic chants that followed have had an effect.
Antisemites on the right continue their blood libel–“80 percent of Jews vote for Democrats”–as though Jewish voters are the only voters that matter. At 2.7 percent of the population, Jews are almost a mere footnote.
In 2022, DeSantis won 45 percent of the Jewish vote. Jewish women led the abandonment of the antisemitic Women’s March. And Jews led the way in bringing down the Corbyn Labor Party.
Jew-haters have hijacked the Democratic Party, but are making inroads in the GOP.
Correction: I wrote 2.7 percent of the population. It’s 1.7 percent.
That sounds more accurate.
I differ regarding people on the right and their attitudes toward traditionally Democrat voters. They are suspicious of all lefty groups equally. They do not have a special issue with the Jews. They say this about any group that has historically voted Dem. Many of them cannot believe that any Dem could change preferences based on observed events. They simply see them as stuck on stupid. I have seen it many times when a prominent Democrat registers as a Republican and changes sides. Conservatives are very suspicious by nature and imagine them to be switch-hitting on behalf of the Democrats. They do not readily embrace them. New Republicans must prove they are not duplicitous
criminal scumbags before they can win over most conservatives.
Just an additional thought (to as yet unapproved comment below). Those Republicans you are accusing of antisemitism strongly support Israel and oppose violence against Jews in America. These people are not your enemies.
Yes, I’ve never believed those left-wing based figures.
Thanks Daniel! That shifting of the Overton Window gives some glimmers of hope.
OMG only 50% to 49% in favour of Trump v those jewicidals in favour of the Kackler?
And as for Rancid Weingarten:
…“Further, taxpayers will bear nearly the entire cost of Weingarten’s eventual pension benefits. Tier IV members must contribute 3 percent of their salary to the pension fund until they accumulate 10 years of service credit. Assuming Weingarten was paid $240,000 in wages during her time as a New York City school teacher ($60,000 for her time as a substitute and an average of $60,000 for each of the three years employed as a regularly appointed teacher), her total contributions would have amounted to only about $7,200.
Of course, as a full-time UFT and now AFT officer and employee, Weingarten is also generously compensated at her members’ expense and will receive a union retirement, as well. AFT’s 2020 tax return discloses that Weingarten was paid $543,562, including $57,000 in “retirement and other deferred compensation,” that year alone, while UFT financial disclosures to the U.S. Department of Labor suggest Weingarten likely received a union retirement for her time as a UFT officer, too.“
So that’s what she thinks of the people who pay her pension(s)!!
The childless Weingarten (who is married to a female “rabbi”) is responsible for the lockdown of schools which helped destroy kids’ education – and will have left damage for years. She is worse than a “cat lady” – she is just a terrible self-hater who also hates kids. As for her wife Sharon – a big YUCK to this fake rabbi.
He wrote it is now, according to a September poll, 54 for Trump to 44 for the Kackler. That’s a significant change. Jews are 7% of the NY population. Maybe that’s not enough to swing NY to Trump, but it will be a big help.
Most leftists consider Jews like Doug Emhoff (who has no Jewish children- his daughter by a previous marriage to a Swedish woman is a pro-Hamas apologist) to be representative of Jews. They may eat lox and bagels and they subscribe to The New York Times (not only anti Israel, but none of the living members of the Sulzberger-Ochs clan who founded that rag are Jews) but otherwise indistinguishable from other guilt ridden, virtue signaling whites. Communities of committed Jews in places like Boro Park, Midwood, Riverdale or Monsey are invisible to them, and Jews who have the temerity to seriously challenge the anti Israel, pro Hamas and Hezbollah narrative such as Alan Dershowitz become anathema. This is not new- over 20 years ago Susan Sarandon shrilled “You’re just saying that because you’re a Jew!” at actor Ron Silver when he dared express support for the War on Terror after 09/11.
Sarandon recently expressed her Jew hatred publicly.
Good for her. That must have felt cathartic.
What percentage are JINOs… Jews in Name Only.
I’d say Jewish Voices for Peace is 100% JINO. I met one here in Albuquerque years ago and then recently talked to her again at an encampment at UNM. I pretend to be one of them, I can speak their language and there she felt comfortable to say it: “HAMAS DIDN’T DO ENOUGH!” There you go! At another protest, seven people admitted they supported HAMAS, but their leaders in ANSWER and The Party for Socialism and Liberation (led by Joel Marcos Gallegos/FB Marxist-Leninist and Bob Anderson, a long-time Communist leading many groups.) told them not to say that. (Surprisingly, their large banners were against Biden and Democrats who were funding Israel.)
Then you have Ahmad Assed, the President of the Islamic Center NM who organized a protest in support of HAMAS, openly, about ten years ago during the last war. (I called our local media to interview him and if he still supported Hamas! I’d also like to know if the FBI has investigated him to see if he funded, directly or indirectly, a TERRORIST GROUP! Okay.. that’s an LOL!) Jewish centers here in Albuquerque need to know where he stands and if he’s inciting members, especially THE sleeper cells!)
How any real Jew can vote for any Democrat… is beyond me!
Jews 4 Jesus is .more jewish…
I remember years ago (in the 1970s) a pro Palestinian group had its national assembly in Albuquerque and then issued an apology claiming a scheduling glitch led to scheduling the event on Yom Kippur and regretted “our Jewish friends were unable to attend”. Of course mot of the members of “Jewish Voices for Peace” are no more Jewish than Doug Emhoff’s non Jewish daughter who’s a shill for Hamas.
It’s almost as bad as a Jew voting for Nazis or Hamas.
Unfortunately 44% apparently still want to commit suicide.
They will abort themselves out of existence.
Reminds me of a passage from Proverbs I read today. Proverts 8:36: But he that shall sin against me, shall hurt his own soul. All that hate me love death.
if you’re Jewish and don’t vote for Trump you ain’t Jewish! (who said that about blacks?)
I’m a lox and bagel junkie
I think blintz are funkie,
When I get to heaven I will have 72 lox, bagel, cream cheese mit tomato and slice of onion. Ummmmm……
A never ending line of lox bagel and cream cheese – won’t get fat, won’t raise cholesterol
I am in constant prayer vigil that POTUS Trump is elected November 5 and whenever the hell they release the results that I pray the voting will overwhelm all cheating odds!!!!
In Yeshua Messiah’s Precious Name!!
Your 72 bagels reminds me of Homer Simpson in that episode where he’s in Hell, and force-fed an assembly line of hamburgers.
Harris is an Obama puppet-Obama has marginalized the Jewish community and Israel and in his zeal to appease both Islamic terror and the woke left.Obama combines both woke ideology and Chicago ward politics at its worst
He should only go back to Chicago and his antisemitic church. And take his shiksa wife with him.
NOBODY is a Bareback Hasbeen Osama puppet.
If Israel ceased to exist, anti -Semitism would be over the top in this country, like it is in much of Europe. President Trump is a big supporter of Israel, and he has committed acts which prove it. Cackela Harris is controlled by Hussein Obama and his group of Islamic advisers. How any Jew could vote for her is beyond me. She will do everything possible to end U S support for Israel militarily. She cannot think on her feet, and will be no match for Putin, Xi, the Ayatollah, or the overgrown petulant teenage ruler of NoKorea.. Doug Emhoff is a lot like Chuck Schumer, a JINO.
I sure hope the “liberal” Jews will wake up from their delusional love affair with the leftist movements in this country and gain some common sense before November, 2024. If not, we are doomed.
Heels Up Harrus is controlled by the same people who are Alzheimer Joe’s handlers. She’s obviously tightly controlled. There’s a reason she only makes appearances and gives comments on a limited basis, and it’s not because she’s smart enough to realize she’s a liability to itself.
“Liability to herself.”
Those tyrants in power in Iran want Kamala Harris to become the next US President should be of no surprise to any well informed person. The reason why this is so is because those in power in that Islamic tyranny of Iran will do everything they are able to interfere in the process on the 2024 national election in order to have that Jewish hating pro-Islamic radical far -left, wing Marxist Kamala Harris ,who is part of the Reed/Green alliance, in the White House as President.
For if those Muslim dictators of Iran would have Kamala Harris as the next US President, that would ensure that they would have a friend in the Oval Office of the White House granting them everything that they demand.
Looking all this from the view of those despots of Iran. It’s like in the insidious sense, they would think “Why shouldn’t we meddle in the US general election, again, ? We did before in 2020 and it worked [1] ,we got our useful idiot Joe Biden , in the White House who conceded to all our demand. For our cunning stealth jihad strategy worked for us so then, we should do it again.”
The sly and effective influence by those in power in the hostile America hating Islamic tyrannical regime on the 2024 US Presidential election should not be underestimated.
[1] TRUMP CARD the video documentary by Dinesh D’ Souza
All of America’s enemies want Heels Up Harris because she’s a weak surrender monkey, and they all fear Trump.
The supreme Ayatollah of Iran ,Khamenei as well as the other Muslim clerics as the ayatollahs and mullahs along with the Muslim members of the Iranian parliament n do naturally favor having Kamala Harris in the Office of the President of the United States. This is because she would continue the policy of appeasement of Joe Biden of giving those despots of Iran everything they demand.
For Kamala Harris ,along with her many of her comrades of the Red /Green alliance that she would fill her administration with would gladly grant that anti America and anti-Israel Islamic regime all provisions that those tyrants clamor for. As the Jewish and Israel hating Islamic tyranny would then use the financial support given to it by Kamala Harris and use that money to obtain many deadly weapons to the it’s proxy jihad murder machine entities and Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad so that that those jihad groups would launch in many murderous Islamic terrorist attacks against the peaceful citizens of the State of Israel.
In addition , that “mullah regime” of Iran would also use that money to send its jihadist operatives through the porous US /Mexican borders ,created by the Biden/Harris team , to engage in future 9/11 murderous jihad affronts across the US.
So, indeed, those hostile and vicious Islamic dictators of Iran will do everything that they are able to do to ensure the Kamala Harris will be the next President of the United States.
The editor of the Jerusalem Post is absolutely right when he wrote that if Kamala Harris would become the next US President that “Would be a disaster for Israel and for the Jewish people.”
For example, the supreme Ayatollah of Iran ,Khamenei as well as the other Muslim clerics as the ayatollahs and mullahs along with the Muslim members of the Iranian parliament n do naturally favor having Kamala Harris in the Office of the President of the United States. This is because she would continue the policy of appeasement of Joe Biden of giving those despots of Iran everything they demand.
For Kamala Harris ,along with her many of her comrades of the Red /Green alliance that she would fill her administration with would gladly grant that anti America and anti-Israel Islamic regime all provisions that those tyrants clamor for.
As the Jewish and Israel hating Islamic tyranny would then use the financial support given to it by Kamala Harris and use that money to obtain many deadly weapons to the it’s proxy jihad murder machine entities and Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad so that that those jihad groups would launch in many murderous Islamic terrorist attacks against the peaceful citizens of the State of Israel.
Furthermore , that “mullah regime” of Iran would also use that money to send its jihadist operatives through the porous US /Mexican borders ,created by the Biden/Harris team , to engage in future 9/11 murderous jihad affronts across the US.
So, indeed, those hostile and vicious Islamic dictators of Iran will do everything that they are able to do to ensure the Kamala Harris will be the next President of the United States.
In addition., Kamala Harris, along with her comrades of the Red /Green alliance, are already friendly terms with that murderous jihad entity, Hamas.
Thanks for the good news!
“Kamala Loses the Jews…”
Well golly gee, you don’t say? Puh-leez!! Even Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder could see that coming! The irony is that her spouse is a Jew.
By the way, given Kamala’s “body count” (Willie Brown, Montel Williams, et al) isn’t her husband getting sloppy 18ths or 19ths or some embarrassing number? Kamala ain’t that smart so there’s no doubt that she humped her way to where she is today and thus must have a high “body count.”
I wonder if many Jews realize how history repeats itself. They need to understand if this administration gets in again, their lives could be in danger.
Since Billary Clinton, Dems have been the anti-semitic/ pro-Muslim party.
And now Kamala’s wing man, gamer parasite lawyer Doub Emhoff howls Trumper is anti-Semitic. Like, how many times has Emhoff been in temple? His real agenda, no different than Hunter BIden’s, is to rake in the pay-to-play bribes and the man is all over the place doing just that! Kamala = money!
Emhoff: ‘Anti-Semitic’ Trump Is Putting a Target on the Backs of Jewish Americans
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff said Thursday on MSNBC’s “The Last Word” that former President Donald Trump is putting a target on the backs of Jewish Americans with his rhetoric.
Emhoff said, “What really bothered me a week or so ago was when Trump got up at an event purporting to fight anti-Semitism and he said vile anti-Semitic things, long tropes that are just terrible. We have to speak out every single time when something like that happens. So I’m going to continue not to be afraid, not to be intimidated. Not to live in fear, but to live openly and proudly as a Jewish person.”