ISRAEL HAYOM
by Richard Baehr
June 13, 2014

Ever so gently, the New York Times and other journalistic organs on the Left are floating a phony story that the defeat of Eric Cantor in the Republican primary for U.S. House District 7 in Virginia on Tuesday may have been at least partly attributable to his Jewishness. That this nonsense is appearing now is not surprising.

The narrative on the Left and among Democrats is that the Republican Party has become increasingly narrow-minded and out of touch with “rising America” (a group consisting, naturally enough, of those who are not generally Republicans, including members of minority groups), and that the Republican Party’s core is increasingly a collection of white male Christians from rural America.

Cantor’s rise to majority leader, the second-highest ranking Republican in the House of Representatives, was an inconvenience for the narrative, much as Republican Senators Tim Scott from South Carolina (an African-American), Ted Cruz of Texas and Marco Rubio of Florida (both Hispanic), and Republican Governors Susannah Martinez of New Mexico and Brian Sandoval of Nevada (both Hispanic) have been similarly difficult to process for those convinced that Republicans practice exclusionist policies and operate from a limited voter base.

…..The attempt to suggest that Cantor went down because he was Jewish has a corollary that Jewish Democrats, who comprise about three dozen Senators and House members, are naturally going to be more supportive of Jewish issues and Israel than Republicans are. Several of the people I spoke to said this was nonsense, that while there were some very good Jewish Democrats on Israel-related issues, some of the toughest resistance to measures supporting Israel (or sanctioning Iran) came from Jewish Democrats, with Senators Carl Levin (Michigan) and Diane Feinstein (California) regulars in making life difficult for achieving the bipartisan consensus on Israel-related issues that has been common in Congress…..

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