Also shouldn’t have signed off without thanking Dave for the mind-blowing CNN story. Keep up the good work.

If liberals – especially liberal Jews – would step out of their hermetically sealed ideological box once in a while and actually take in some new information, they would know that the world has changed since they formed their political opinions in adolescence. I say this as someone who was a liberal Democrat all my life – until the 2004 election.

An NBC/WSJ poll in July 2006 found that 84% of Republicans support Israel vs 43% of Democrats. An LA/Bloomberg poll at the same time showed that 69% of Republicans support strong U.S. ties with Israel. Democrats? Only 39%.

Read Richard Baehr at the American Thinker: The Democrats sign up with the anti-Semites. Or better yet, Omri at Mere Rhetoric, who has a question for you.

What people here don’t seem to understand is that the Democratic party strongly supports Israel, as do most of the “liberal ” Jews like myself.

There was a vote in the senate a few years ago, in support of Israel. Only 2 senators voted against it. Israel enjoys wide support from both parties.

The present administration is both corrupt, and outright stupid. I am proud of the fact that for the most part Jews in America do not support it. As far as some of the fringe Jewish Leftists, there is no greater anti-semite than a self loathing Jew.

But, overall, Jews in America lean to the left, and Jews in America have been solid supporters of Israel from its birth through present.

I find it insulting sometimes when people in blogs act like support for Israel is a left right issue. It is an issue of common sense and love of freedom.

Stan

But on the _really_ interesting question of why Jewish people overwhelmingly vote for Left Wing parties, the uncomfortable truth is that most Jews of the West are extremely bigoted, and Conservative parties — that are generally patriotic and support traditional values — are rejected by Jewish voters for their association with Christianity and (in the USA and Australia at least) Anglo-Saxons.

Policy has nothing to do with it, the average Jewish voter would rather hurt Israel than vote for ‘one of them’.

I run a large web site myself that caters to an international audience. If there’s a keystroke error in updating the information for a city, it’s quite easy for BOTH things you observed to happen: for Jerusalem to be missing its country designation, and for Jerusalem not to get filed properly when you browse for information by country.

In fact, you couldn’t much have one without the other occurring at the same time; it’s just how databases work.

So I’d cut ‘em some slack on this one, assuming they fix the problem early.

I do suspect CNN to be left-leaning at times