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Two years ago, Senator Chuck Schumer enjoyed an 82% approval among New York Jews. In contrast to the 40% unfavorable rating among New Yorkers, only 18% of Jews disapproved.
Now he’s tied as 45% of New York Jews have come to hate Chuck.
What happened in the last two years to send his approval rating crashing from 82% to 48%?
This spring, Schumer agreed to become the public face of the Biden administration’s campaign to bring down the Israeli government, save Hamas and end the war. In a high-profile Senate speech, the lifelong politician who had spent his career pretending to be pro-Israel, equated the Israeli government with Hamas, forbade Israel to go into Rafah to pursue the terror group, claimed that “the Israeli war campaign has killed so many innocent Palestinians” and warned that the Biden administration would use its “leverage” to create a terrorist state inside Israel.
While many pro-Israel figures excoriated Schumer, he trotted out his ‘rabbi’, Rachel Timoner, a radical leftist anti-Israel activist who had taken part in anti-Israel rallies, to defend his betrayal.
According to Timoner, Schumer said “what most of us think” and “what the overwhelming majority of American Jews are saying to each other”. However what Timoner was saying, according to T’ruah, one of the anti-Israel groups she was allied with, could be summed up as, “American Jews must tell our govt we oppose this war and want an end to the occupation.”
Was Schumer saying what most American Jews were really thinking?
Schumer’s latest Siena poll numbers in New York are in. And while his total unfavorable rating in the state is only up a few percent, his numbers among Jewish New Yorkers are catastrophic. With a 48% approval rating among New York Jews, his is only 3% higher than Trump’s at 45%. And his disapproval rating is higher than that of any other statewide figure in the poll. He now has a higher disapproval rating among Jews than among blacks, Latinos or protestants.
Those are stunning numbers and they show a sharp reversal of political fortune. They also help explain why the same poll shows that 46% of New York Jews would now vote for Trump.
A Siena poll that covered the pro-Hamas campus riots found that 87% of New York Jews believed that they had crossed the line into antisemitism and 80% supported calling in the cops.
This is completely at odds with the messaging that has come from Timoner and the infrastructure of allied anti-Israel astroturf groups like J Street, T’ruah, Bend the Arc, New York Jewish Agenda, Jewish Voice for Peace, If Not Now, and Jews for Racial and Economic Justice which receive nonstop coverage from a media that pretends these extremists represent Jews.
The views of New York Jews are not actually reflective of those pushed by the JTA, The Forward and other anti-Israel leftist narrative outlets and Sen. Schumer is now paying the price.
In the months since his ill-fated speech, Schumer has struggled to backtrack his remarks, but in June he was booed at New York’s Israel parade even when he was avoiding any controversy. And there was more booing at the Jerusalem Post’s annual conference in Manhattan.
The Jewish Democratic Council of America is no longer vocally celebrating the Schumer speech or advocating for an “end to this conflict” and has instead taken to sending panicked emails with headlines like “How to Persuade Your Friends that Trump is Not the Answer”.
What that really says is that quite a few Jewish Democrats now believe Trump just might be.
Despite popular narratives about what percent of Jews voted which way in presidential elections, there is no reliable independent polling of Jewish voters nationwide.
The numbers that are thrown around usually come from Democrat and left-wing organizations.
For example, a recent rash of media stories with headlines like “Jewish people in US overwhelmingly support Biden and oppose Trump” used a poll from the Jewish Electorate Institute which is headed by Halie Soifer who is also the executive director of the Jewish Democratic Council of America. The JDCA then put out a press release announcing a “just released poll from the non-partisan Jewish Electorate Institute”. And the poll was conducted by GBAO Strategies which boasts of being 2022’s Democratic Pollster of The Year.
Siena, the pollster quoted in this article, is the one reliable independent pollster which regularly measures Jews as a part of the larger electorate. While these polls are generally limited to New York, that is also the state with the largest single Jewish population. And the Siena polls often show that the hoax polls of Jews promoted by leftist organizations are simply wrong.
The JDCA poll promoted by every media outlet claimed to show “Biden leading Trump 72% to 22%”. How could that be possible if the split is 52% to 46% in New York?
Sen. Schumer and the JDCA know the real numbers which is why they’ve adopted a more conciliatory tone. They’ve learned the hard way that the majority of Jews are not on their side.
Each Biden anti-Israel move led to a backlash from American Jews. That’s why the Biden administration, which initially broadcast its decision to block military aid to Israel, has taken to angrily denying it and condemning Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for even mentioning it.
The formal narrative seen from the New York Times to the JTA is that American Jews chose Biden over Israel. But if that were true, why are Sen. Schumer and the JDCA so worried?
Schumer’s poll numbers are a warning that Jews oppose the leftist anti-Israel agenda.
Schumer is a shanda. He is getting people to break their voting habits by essentially saying, “If you die, you die.” Voting habits are derived locally, If you fear dying locally as opposed to in a faraway war zone, habits become more immediately expendable.
When he was betraying America most Jews approved of him. Now that he’s betraying Jews they don’t like him? WTF?
According to the election of 2020, most Americans liked Biden. WTF that. Voting habits persist through a lot of policies, many of which are not right in front of the noses of the voters. Look at how much voters put up with all around the country. Seattle, Portland, Minneapolis, etc. were examples of “betrayal.” Voting habits resist change. What has not changed is your commenting pattern.
Schumer is a JINO…. Jew in Name Only.
There are so many fake Jews, like Al Sharpton and Jess Jackson are fake Reverends, and they are that way only for $$$ and power!
Well, he didn’t fight against the JCPOA in 2015, saying he’d vote against it but wouldn’t do anything to convince his colleagues to do likewise. And now his horrible speech. He’s just a putz who will do anything for The Party. And I didn’t even get to his harangue and threats at the Supreme Court. What an awful person.
46 -54 is still horribly bad. After the genocide hard to reconcile, regardless of being far left socialist/ democrats their whole life and the general impossibility for people to change parties the aprox 50-50 split is not a sane position, since the real question is extermination or no extermination once again..
Germany wasn’t unique and history will repeat itself.
Wherever there is voting, the split looks irrational. That applies regardless of education. One example would be a Supreme Court vote of 6 to 3. If we could rely on one person being right and accepted as such, voting would not be needed. Freedom and security cannot be taken for granted. The ultimate guarantee of those is preparation for violence.
Lets Nominate Chuckie for a Foot in Mouth Award do I have a 2nd Vote?
I was raised to be a Reform Jewish liberal.
I gave up on Reform and now consider myself an unobservant Jewish Zionist.
I am praying for the many liberal Jews to WAKE UP and broaden their cultural (political (?)) horizons enough to stop hating Republicans like me, and demand candidates act sensibly.
Chucky Shmukey’s jino status should be revoked.
He’s way beyond the point of no return.
A traitor to Jews. A traitor to America. Where ARE his loyalties?
To his party and himself.
Yes. But is it really “loyalty” if it is limited to the benefits of the relationship? I tend to think of loyalty as being displayed in difficulty, risk and at great cost.
I wouldn’t overthink it. I’m just glad he’s hemorrhaging supp0rt. Not that the donks would put anyone in who’s any better.
On what planet is his position on this issue acceptable to 48%? On what planet is it acceptable to any percent?
RINO = republican in name only
JINO = Jew in name only? ? ?
It is easy to mouth platitudes, while your actions say otherwise.
He’s loyal to power, and he sees the WEF as the vehicle to grab and hold ALL power forever.
Yes. His loyalty is to no one but himself.
JPost. That part made me laugh (inside joke 🙂
Anyway, back to serious matters, great insights into New York politics !!!
Schumer when he beganhid career went to every Jewish communal function and dinner and assiduously sought the Jewish vote .but his speech and his lack of real opposition to the Iran deal showed that he has thrown the Jewish community and Israel under the bus
Schumer is as Jewish as a ham sandwich and not as bright
Jay Homnick heard him propose a scheme to get blacks priced out of an area in Midwood (subsection of Brooklyn) in 1974 – having been there at the time of the proposal.
Reporters won’t give him the time of day (kinda like their blackout on Tara Reade), but he wrote an article titled “Race to the Top” in 2006. Definitely worth a read.
Hence, for the weasel Schumer to accuse others of racism is odd, as he himself put it in practice.
Who hasn’t seen this coming for Schumer for a long time. It took the Oct 7 disaster in Israel and Schumer pushing Biden’s pro-Iran party line in response to end his lock on the Jewish vote.
I’ve been saying this for years:
“It’s been a little over five years since the Jew Hating Squad arrived. With open anti-semitism being mainstreamed by the Democrats and the New York Times, Palestinian gangs attacking Jews in LA and NY, and socialism surging it’s just a matter of time before the Jewish Democrats and the leadership are pushed aside and eased out, or forced out, in both houses.”
Between the latest Palestinian riots in LA against the Jews last weekend, and the lack of police response by the Mayor Bass, it looks like the secular American Jews are rapidly becoming less useful to the pro-Hamas Democrats.
That process reminds me of how Stalin’s “Jewish” accomplices were phased out of the party apparataus. After selling him their souls, they became redundant.
Good point. I hadn’t thought of that.
I suspect Schumer is even less popular among Jews than polling suggest.
The big chasm in the Jewish community is between Orthodox Jews, who actually vote mostly Republican, and who have no illusions about Dementia Joe, Barack Hussein Osama or pro Hamas rioters on campuses and JINOs like Schumer and self hating Jews and their astroturfed organizations like “Jewish” Voices for “Peace”, T’ruah (odd they choose a Hebrew word for an organization dedicated to Israel’s destruction) and J Street, which are funded by former kapo Soros and touted by The New York Times. To the extent that any polling is actually done in the Jewish Community, they ignore Orthodox Jews and assume that people like Chuck Schumer, Rob Reiner, Bernie Sanders, Sarah Silverman and Schumer’s “rabbi” represent the Jewish Community. Boro Park and Riverdale may as well be in Outer Mongolia as far as they’re concerned.
Orthodox Jews are also the primary victims of surging antisemitic violence that Soros backed DAs like Alvin Bragg abet. They know how ludicrous the happy horseshit such as Biden and Di Blasio’s assertion that antisemitic violence is perpetrated by “right wing white nationalists” is. In New York City, 57% of all hate crimes target Jews. Only 3% of the perpetrators are non hispanic whites, and no doubt most of them are wokelings shrieking about “Palestine!!”
Many Jews are stuck reading the same old script, auditioning for the same old role in the old film which will never be made again.
Rob Reiner, for example, was good in his short scene in Carl Reiner’s classic 1970 film “Where’s Poppa?”. — a film the likes of which simply could not be made today (or even 25 years ago).
Buy the 30th anniversary special edition DVD of the 1974 Mel Brooks film “Blazing Saddles” and listen to his (2004) commentary track. Twenty years ago he was complaining about the censorship of political correctness; He said then that the film simply could no longer be made.
The creators of the comedy “Airplane” have made the same wry observation.
To willingly give up his political base, as well as his place in history as a principled legislator, and defender of the Jewish people, Schumer must have received something very valuable in return. Wouldn’t surprise me if he turns out to be the next Sen. Menendez.
self loathing Jews will have no quarter with the nazzi jihad – you’re still an f’ing Jew to them, you damn fool Shoomer – You will have no quarter with YHVH which is worse you despicable piece of sh*t that bumbling carpet bagging grifter Joe Briben shuffle’s his shoes into – I see Shoomer’s face and I want to smash it – like AOC. What absolute POS, worthless for his constituents, the nation and most likely his horror of a family. I cannot imagine an anti-Semite anti-Zionist rabbi – but leave it to Shoomer and other self loathing Jews to find a rat in a rabbi clothing. I could go on and on but I have more important to do than waste anymore time on the worthless POS Shoomer and the demoncraps –
I don’t expect that die-hard liberal Jews would actually vote for Republicans.
If they vote against Dems it will likely be with their feet; they will not bother to vote at all.
The electoral math would only swing by 1/2 a vote per abstention.
The dividing line among Jews, for the most part, is socialists vs. non-socialists.
The Jewish people are indigenous nowhere except to Israel. That is our history. When we forget that, we are in danger of becoming a Schumer, of becoming technically Jewish in a certain body part, but not Jewish in brain. The Jewish diaspora lives where they live, blends in or not, mixes in or not, assimilates or not.
Israel really has the greatest ‘variety’ of Jews, though there are multiple ‘genii judi’ throughout the diaspora, particularly in New York; because, being so populous there, having the illusion of not being a minority, Jewish people can indulge in the differences.
And now, thanks to the Schumer diatribe, New York has a new species of Jewish person: Schumer Jew and non Schumer Jew.
On a related note, I don’t think that Jews who are American citizens should think of themselves as Jewish Americans or American Jews. Jews live, work, vote and participate in the American landscape.
Jewish identity, as well as any other ethnic, racial, sexual and spiritual identity, is not an adjective that should be attached to citizenship. To be simply a ‘citizen‘ in America is the ideal, the foundational ideal, after all, as expressed in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Schumer could have been a contender..
Fetterman shows us what a pro-Israel Dem looks like. Shame on Schumer.
Shmoker is one of the left radicals who supported the Clinton gang, the greatest antisemite anti-American Hussein ben Obama and his current puppet Bidon. Those Americans of Jewish origin who elected those members of Junta should be ashamed of themselves, they should study the history, remember it and not to “step on the same rakes” as did the “JEWISH Germans before Hitler came to power. At least read the memoirs/books by the Great American Jew Ruth Gruber.
For Jews and non-Jews, Charles “Schmuck” Schumer will go down in history as one of America’s greatest traitors.
It is getting real for the Democratic Party. Black people are moving away from the old jingoism. Jews who care enough about their homeland to notice fools like Schumer are abandoning the DNC. Biden’s recent debate performance didn’t help the cause.
Here’s where it will get dangerous. Between now and November should we expect a new pathogen to be released?
Let’s hope those Lefties wake up before they completely demolish the greatest country ever created.
Let us never experience this hell on earth that they are planning for us all.
If I wanted to live in an Islamic third world country, I would move to one.
What’s amazing is that he has a 48% approval rating.
To paraphrase Hamas Joe: If you vote for me, you ain’t Jewish.
Never forget that not one DrmoNazi representative attended the historic opening of our Embassy in Yerushaliyim. Not one.
It is not Trump’s Embassy; it’s the American Embassy.
Judge them not by their words of cunning, but by their deplorable deeds.
He was WHELPED from a SWINE (pig).
“DEATH TO HAMAS”
God Bless Israel.
Who will the 44+ Jews highly placed in Biden’s administration, destroying America, vote for now?
jewishvirtuallibrary. org/jews-in-the-biden-administration
Ron Klain Chief of Staff (2021-2023), replaced by Jeffrey Zients.
Janet Yellin Secretary of Treasury
Alejandro Mayorkas Secretary of Homeland Security
Tony Blinken Secretary of State
Merrick Garland Attorney General
…and many more traitors!
They are Marxists by belief, not Jewish.
Schumer channelling Benedict Arnold.
that any JEW or gentile would vote for dumbocrats is a mystery . the party of holocaust supported by the people you would think averse to holocausts of any description , ie abortion . killing on average a million a year . it has surpassed all killing fields in history and is why america has been condemned by GOD . it has now passed the point of no return unless it does a nineveh .
Most Jews in America are Democrats/Socialist/Marxist and not religiously Jewish. Although Jewish by ancestry they have no understanding of Judaism. If they even have any sense of Jewish identity left it is more tied to Marxist ideas than Jewish values since their non-Orthodox “branches of Judaism” were taken over by Marxists well over a century ago.