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Understanding Jewish Self-Hatred
Bruce Bawer
November 14, 2025

…To be sure, even in FDR’s time, Jewish loyalty to the Democrats didn’t always make sense. During World War II, FDR chose not to bomb the railroad line to Auschwitz and strictly limited immigration by Jewish refugees. By contrast, the 1944 Republican platform was strongly pro-Zionist and took FDR to task for not pressuring the UK to let European Jews enter the Holy Land, then under British control. And where did America’s Jewish establishment stand? Mostly with Rabbi Stephen Wise, head of the American Jewish Committee, who was adamantly pro-FDR and called the GOP’s criticism of FDR “utterly unjust.” And why weren’t Wise and other American Jewish leaders more concerned about Jewish refugees? Simple: they worried that making too much noise about the subject would spark antisemitism. Yes, there were American Jews who labored tirelessly during the war to rescue Jewish refugees – but few of them were members of the Jewish establishment, whose resources and connections would have aided their work immeasurably. READ MORE

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