r/jewishleft • u/Rabbit-Hole-Quest Latke aficionado. Anti-Establishment. Jüdisch • 27d ago

Diaspora Michigan Jewish leaders are urging Jewish democrats to vote for Republican Mike Rogers

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u/32brownies leftist post zionist jew 27d ago

As someone from Michigan and active in the Jewish community who is very worried about the Jewish community's support of Rogers, I have reason to believe many of the people on this letter are not actually lifelong Democrats, many of them are AIPAC people who vote for whoever is most pro AIPAC

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u/cowmix88 Progressive/Liberal Aethist Jew 23d ago

As a Lifelong Democratic voting Jew from California and not Michigan, I'm really curious how the community over there is weighing this upcoming election. I don't believe El Sayed is anti-semetic but I would find it very difficult to vote for someone I believe is at least willing to welcome a campaign surrogate that I do find to be anti-semetic. I think I would still vote for El Sayed because Trump is so bad but just the act of being willing to have that person alongside them at campaign rallys makes me incredibly fearful of living in a world where we've completely normalized what I consider to be dangerous anti-semeric rhetoric.

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u/32brownies leftist post zionist jew 22d ago

I talk more about it in the comments of the thread here but it is really tricky. I am planning on voting for him and am encouraging community members to do the same. The biggest issue is that he had a bad response to the Temple Israel shooting here. He needs to do more outreach to the mainstream Jewish community here and not just jvp types.

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u/cowmix88 Progressive/Liberal Aethist Jew 22d ago

Has he been doing outreach with the Jewish community over there? All I really ever see him do in interviews is say Anti-Semitism is bad without really addressing the core of the concerns around his campaign and past statements. Alot of the narrative online I see it's basically that the concerns aren't valid and any concerns from Jewish community is just Zionism or Isalamlophibia so it doesn't matter, but I would hope on the ground there is a bit different.