Dennis Prager Show - Why Do Jews Vote Left?
Aired: 2025-08-18
Duration: 06:48

[00:00:00]  Gail in Los Angeles, California, why are so many American Jews Democrats?
[00:00:05]  A Jewish friend once told me it was because, one, they were for the underdog and Israel isn't the underdog.
[00:00:13]  Two, they are pro-abortion.
[00:00:16]  Three, they don't really care about Israel.
[00:00:19]  What do you think?
[00:00:23]  Well, I could spend the entire hour on this question.
[00:00:32]  So I'll have to be brief, but I do want to address it because it's extremely important, certainly to me as a Jew, as an American Jew specifically.
[00:00:44]  I left the Democratic Party in the early 80s.
[00:00:51]  I stopped voting Democrat.
[00:00:53]  Well, I did vote for Jimmy Carter the first term.
[00:00:56]  That was the last Democrat I voted.
[00:01:00]  So I understand the almost primal affinity of American Jews to the Democratic Party.
[00:01:12]  And that is most American Jews, the most means more than fifty percent.
[00:01:19]  So please understand that doesn't mean all by any means.
[00:01:23]  But most American Jews associate right wing with the inevitable downhill slide to Nazi or Nazism.
[00:01:38]  That's right wing it's a Pavlovian response in most American Jews.
[00:01:45]  Right wing leads to Hitler.
[00:01:48]  By the way, even the question was Hitler right wing or left wing is a very by the way, it's not an illegitimate question.
[00:01:55]  The left has brilliantly convinced everyone that Hitler and the Nazis were rightists.
[00:02:05]  But in fact, a lot of the opposition to Hitler came from conservatives.
[00:02:11]  Also, some came from communists.
[00:02:13]  There's no question.
[00:02:14]  I just want to note both.
[00:02:16]  Both are true.
[00:02:19]  But Hitler hated capitalism.
[00:02:22]  And Nazism stood for National Socialism.
[00:02:25]  Socialism.
[00:02:28]  That's not exactly right-wing.
[00:02:40]  Socialism is not a right-wing doctrine.
[00:02:44]  Racism is not a right-wing doctrine.
[00:02:46]  By the way, it's not a left-wing doctrine.
[00:02:48]  It's sui generis.
[00:02:50]  It's its own unique evil.
[00:02:54]  Racism is neither right-wing nor left-wing.
[00:02:59]  But the left has effectively identified racism with right-wing and Nazi with right-wing and And that has stuck.
[00:03:13]  Stalin called Trotsky, the father of the Red Army, the father along with Lenin of Soviet communism, he called him a fascist.
[00:03:25]  And it works, that's how it works.
[00:03:28]  The left sort of rules our vocabulary.
[00:03:34]  So American Jews seared by the Holocaust, even if they lost no relatives in it, believing that right wing leads to Nazism will just always vote anti-right, which is the in American terms, the Democratic Party.
[00:04:00]  So that's one reason.
[00:04:03]  Now, that's the biggest.
[00:04:07]  For an American Jew, and I know this because I'm an American Jew, and I remember when I first voted Republican.
[00:04:18]  This will sound bizarre to all of you, but I give you my word it is true.
[00:04:24]  I felt that I was sitting.
[00:04:27]  against the Jewish people and Judaism.
[00:04:32]  That's how hard it was to vote Republican.
[00:04:40]  But as I said then, and I was right, I did not leave the Democratic Party.
[00:04:44]  The Democratic Party left me.
[00:04:46]  And now, if it is not obvious that the Democratic Party has left American Jews, it will never be obvious.
[00:04:54]  There's no excuse to vote Democrat by any decent person.
[00:05:03]  You gave these choice that they're for the underdog.
[00:05:06]  That's what they believe.
[00:05:07]  But if you're for the underdog, you vote Republican because the Democrats are the party of the wealthy.
[00:05:13]  But in any event, they were for the underdog and Israel isn't the underdog.
[00:05:16]  Of course, Israel is the underdog.
[00:05:20]  It's unbelievable.
[00:05:21]  Israel is surrounded by hundreds of thousands There is no such hatred on the face of the earth.
[00:05:32]  The Iranian regime on the doorstep of nuclear weapons announces its greatest goal is the eradication of Israel and its Jewish inhabitants.
[00:05:45]  And the same with Hamas, the same with Hezbollah, and the same with ISIS, and the same with any of the other radical Islamic movements.
[00:05:57]  But Israel is not the underdog.
[00:06:00]  Israel is the size of New Jersey, surrounded by by Muslim countries who want to eradicate it in most cases.
[00:06:12]  Israel is the underdog that has figured out how not to get destroyed.
[00:06:18]  That's it.
[00:06:18]  That's all it is.
[00:06:21]  It's really David and Goliath.
[00:06:24]  Who is the underdog?
[00:06:25]  Goliath because he got killed by David?
[00:06:29]  Is that how it works?
[00:06:32]  The loser is by definition the underdog.
[00:06:39]  They are pro-abortion.
[00:06:41]  That's true.
[00:06:41]  True, secular Jews are pro-abortion, most American Jews are secular.
[00:06:48]  That's correct.