Newsom, state leaders stay mum about pro-Palestinian protest at UCLA

[Wingnut]

Gov Greaseball is hiding.

Member of the UC Regents, including Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis and California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmon – both running for governor – declined NBC Los Angeles’ requests for comment. State Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas also declined to offer a statement on the campus protests.

While Republicans put on the pressure, denouncing antisemitism on campuses, Newsom and his Democratic colleagues have a good reason to tip-toe around the issue, according to Jack Pitney, a political science professor at Claremont McKenna College

“If I were a Democratic party politician, I’d want to stay as far away from this as possible,” Pitney said. “If they support the students, there could be a demonstration with antisemitic references … If they support a removal of them from campus, it could result in over policing and be a very bad image.”

When anti-war protests took place on UC campuses decades ago, Gov. Ronald Reagan, a Republican, had a different approach: He famously sent in the National Guard to UC Berkeley.

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/national-international/newsom-state-leaders-stay-mum-about-pro-palestinian-protest-at-ucla/3503133/

[PeteS in CA]

Shades of the late 60s ... except California's then-governor dealt decisively with "anti-war protesters" at SF State and UC Santa Barbara. Will current anti-Semitics hurt LIEden the way the "anti-war protesters" hurt LBJ?

[PeteS in CA]

“If I were a Democratic party politician, I’d want to stay as far away from this as possible,” Pitney said. “If they support the students, there could be a demonstration with antisemitic references … If they support a removal of them from campus, it could result in over policing and be a very bad image.”

That is exactly the "reasoning" D goobernors are following. The problem is that many voters notice that inaction fosters violence and destruction almost as effectively as actively backing the anti-Semites.

[Wingnut]

That is exactly the "reasoning" D goobernors are following. The problem is that many voters notice that inaction fosters violence and destruction almost as effectively as actively backing the anti-Semites.

What is that old saying, Silence is compliance?

[DB]

Will Democrat Jews still vote for the Dems after all this?

Nothing seems to wake them up.

[Wingnut]

Will Democrat Jews still vote for the Dems after all this?

Nothing seems to wake them up.

My guess is if this doesn't do it, it's probably too late for them.  4 more years of Biden would open the floodgates on Jew hate, and people will die.

[PeteS in CA]

What is that old saying, Silence is compliance?

Or "Silence gives assent".

Will Democrat Jews still vote for the Dems after all this?

Nothing seems to wake them up.

Jewish people in the US are not homogeneous. IIRC, ~70% of Jewish people vote "D" in elections. My guess is that the current paroxysm of anti-Semitism will bring that % down into the 40s, with much/most of the change being among Orthodox and Conservative Jews (the religiously observant). Change among Reform and non-religious Jews will probably be slight at most.

That said, a 25%-30% shift among Jewish voters, like a 10%-20% shift among black voters, should be a matter of concern for the Dems.

[Fishrrman]

DB wonders:
"Will Democrat Jews still vote for the Dems after all this?
Nothing seems to wake them up"

Yes, they will.
It's literally baked into them.

I would expect a small minority will see the light and break away from their ingrained leftism, but this will comprise no more than 4-6% of the total "Jewish vote".

For the rest of them, nothing has changed.
They won't "vote right", because... they CAN'T.

I'd like to be proven wrong, but that's how I'm callin' it...