no president ever found himself positioned, at a key juncture in
history, to do more on behalf of the Jewish people—and did less. This,
too, is well known to those who’ve cared to look, historians and
presidential confidantes alike. Indeed, FDR’s betrayal of the
Jews—there is no other word for it—is even the basis of a superb
novel, City Journal contributing editor Stefan Kanfer’s Fear Itself.
[. . .]
Hoover bravely took up the cause of Europe’s Jews.
[. . .]
along with such other leading Republicans as Wendell Willkie and Clare
Boothe Luce, [Hoover] embraced the cause of Jewish statehood,
resulting in a pro-Zionist plank in the 1944 Republican platform.
[. . .]
in 1944, 90 percent of Jewish voters went for FDR.
[. . .]
Harry S. Truman was also strongly anti-Semitic, and in fact expressed
himself on Jews in even coarser terms than his predecessor. He
referred to New York as “kike town,” for instance, and reacted to
pressure from American Jews as he wrestled with whether to recognize
the soon-to-be-born Jewish state by snapping: “Jesus Christ couldn’t
please them when he was here on earth, so how could anyone expect me
to have any luck?”
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HARRY STEIN
The Democrats’ Jewish Problem
A new book revisits an uncomfortable—and ongoing—history.
23 October 2012
Herbert Hoover and the Jews: The Origins of the “Jewish Vote” and
Bipartisan Support for Israel, by Sonja Schoepf Wentling and Rafael
Medoff (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 238 pp., $15)
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