TIMES OF ISRAEL
by Matthew Rudolph
July 27, 2015

….Iran’s confident and proud anti-Semitism is likely second to none since Nazi Germany. Nevertheless, according to last week’s Los Angeles Jewish Journal poll, 49% of American Jews support the Iran Deal, compared to 28% of Americans at large. Avoid the nuances of the Deal for just a moment and fully digest the results: non-Jewish Americans are quicker to scrutinize an agreement with Tehran than American Jews. The Iran Deal has even terrified prominent Israeli doves like Isaac Herzog and Ari Shavit and unified all major political parties.  At the same time, 78% of Jewish Israelis say the Iran Deal “endangers” the country, in what Daniel Gordis, one of the more revered Diaspora affairs commentators, referred to as “another chasm,” when contrasting this with the LA Journal poll of American Jews. Within the context of Herzl’s prophecy, I see only one way to reconcile this apparent contradiction. To most American Jews — most noticeably to the Third Generation — Israel is a bothersome reminder of the past. READ MORE