European Jews understand the meaning of being the target of Jihad. American Jews don’t.

Emmanuel Navon writes @ i24 News:

[...]  In Britain’s 2015 elections, 70 percent of the Jews voted conservative. So did 52 percent of Jewish voters in Canada’s 2011 elections. In Australia, most Jews have abandoned the Labor Party for Tony Abbott’s Liberal Party (a conservative party despite its name). French Jews massively supported the conservative Nicolas Sarkozy in the 2007 and 2012 presidential elections.

Why have American Jews become the exception rather than the rule? One possible explanation is that American Jews, as opposed to their European brethren, do not need the army’s protection in order to go to synagogue. The massacres at the Jewish school in Toulouse, at the Jewish museum in Brussels, and at the Jewish supermarket in Paris did not happen in America. Like Israelis, European Jews understand the meaning of being the target of Jihad. American Jews don’t.

Another explanation is that US public opinion is strongly pro-Israel while European public opinion is not.   Therefore, no political party or media outlet can thrive in America on an anti-Israel agenda. The very opposite is true in Europe. America’s political culture and discourse still enable liberal Jews to be supportive of Zionism. The same cannot be said of Europe and of Canada, where liberal Jews feel that they have been betrayed by the left, and have therefore crossed the political line.  More.