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US Jews, reconsider support for left
Jews must be constantly on guard to oppose anti-Semitism wherever is rears its ugly head, even in places where we least expect to see it
Published: 11.03.06, 07:44
In an attempt to explain why most Jewish Americans are liberal and vote Democrat, a friend of mine sent me Philip Roth’s award-winning book entitled The Plot Against America (2004).
The Plot Against America is an alternative history novel, in which, at the presidential election of 1940, Democratic presidential incumbent Franklin Delano Roosevelt is defeated by isolationist and mildly anti-Semitic right-wing Republican candidate Charles Lindbergh.
The novel follows the Roth family during the right-wing Lindbergh presidency, under which anti-Semitism becomes more accepted in American life and Jewish–American families like the Roths are persecuted. If indeed this book is representative of Jewish–American fears about the Republican Party in 2006, I am rather perplexed.
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Jews must be constantly on guard to oppose anti-Semitism wherever is rears its ugly head, even in places where we least expect to see it
Published: 11.03.06, 07:44
In an attempt to explain why most Jewish Americans are liberal and vote Democrat, a friend of mine sent me Philip Roth’s award-winning book entitled The Plot Against America (2004).
The Plot Against America is an alternative history novel, in which, at the presidential election of 1940, Democratic presidential incumbent Franklin Delano Roosevelt is defeated by isolationist and mildly anti-Semitic right-wing Republican candidate Charles Lindbergh.
The novel follows the Roth family during the right-wing Lindbergh presidency, under which anti-Semitism becomes more accepted in American life and Jewish–American families like the Roths are persecuted. If indeed this book is representative of Jewish–American fears about the Republican Party in 2006, I am rather perplexed.
ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3322915,00.html