Jews have been cozying up to the Republican Party for its ‘support of Israel’. Meanwhile, that Party has been busy cozying up to bigots and racists for their votes.
The election of President Trump made racists and bigots feel completely validated. The jump in public demonstrations of anti-Semitism is one result of that perceived validation.
Though spiritual, in dealing with material existence Jews have penultimately employed rationality. At least since the Diaspora, to paraphrase Blanche Dubois they have always depended on the rationality of strangers. Irrationality is the enemy.
For Jews, helping the political right in any way is irrational. All that is there (anymore) is an irrational hatred of liberalism. Don’t take my word for it. Listen to right-wing radio — and especially ‘Christian’-based right-wing political radio, where to be a liberal is routinely characterized as being a follower of Satan. Seriously. Those are the exact words I have heard used. (To equate criticisms of Israel as a nation-state with the anti-Semitic attitude of racists and bigots is also irrational.)
No ideology is an exemplar of rationality — they are all based on secular beliefs — but, rationally, there is a difference between non-rational and irrational. At least political liberalism is not the latter.
As it happens, I have developed a strictly rational ethic of justice: mutual respect in effecting choices. It follows from the observation that human beings have no choice but to effect choices (which I got from Warren J. Samuels). Anyone who ‘self-identifies’ as a human being experiencing a material existence with other human beings must accept the applicability of that ethic to all human beings, including oneself. If it should come to it, to verbally claim an exemption on the basis that others were not ‘really’ human, to interact with them as human beings (via language, etc.) would falsify that claim. I call it “real justice.”
One thing real justice accomplishes is to reinforce political democracy by making it more intellectually coherent. It would no longer itself be a product of ideology. Within rationally democratic political processes political ideologies, based on beliefs, would still exist, but real justice would be there to govern the process and its outcomes. Real justice would not usher in a Utopia, but it would be great a advance in justice and human society.
If curious, a brief (“5 min read”) summary of the ethic is here in Medium.