This isn’t the first time progressives’ dismissal of Jewish suffering has tested political bonds.
Pro-Israel protesters hold up signs and Israeli flags during a demonstration near the White House on June 8, 1967, in response to the Six Day War. | UPI via Getty Images
We’ve been here before. If history is a guide, American Jews won’t switch their political allegiances, though Republicans have beenfor a half-century, every four years, like clockwork. But they may react in ways that reshape Democratic politics, activism and fundraising. They may cool their ardor for “progressive” causes and organizations, move more firmly to the center and urge the Democratic Party to follow suit. Certainly, their relationship with the left will never be the same.
American Jews were relieved and elated. But many of them were also angry. Most American Jews then identified as liberals. And as longtime anchor participants in a host of progressive movements — from civil rights and social welfare, to interfaith tolerance and peace — Jewish liberals recoiled at the silence or outright betrayal of former allies.
In late 1967, the American Jewish Committee reported that while “there were a number of open declarations of support from individual Christian leaders” that past June, “such public statements from Christian institutional bodies were noticeably rare.
Liberal Christian leaders “worried about Arab refugees … but not about clear pledges to exterminate and massacre the people of Israel,” observed the UAHC — arguably the most liberal of the major American Jewish religious movements. “Was the Christian conscience so ambivalent on the question of Jews that, once again, a pall of silence would hang over the specter of Jewish suffering, until later, condolences and breast-beating and epitaphs and the croak of guilty conscience would fill the air?”.
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