RUTHFULLY YOURS

Jewish leftists keep threatening to break up with Israel. They deliver a list of their demands, scribble nasty things about the Jewish State on social media and even write entire books in which they threaten to break up with it for good, but they never actually move on to stalking some other country.

Peter “Crisis of Zionism” Beinart, Jeffrey “Chickens__t” Goldberg act like jealous boyfriends constantly warning Israel that they are about to break up with it.

But the break up never happens. It can’t.

Stalkers use their victims to prop up their shaky identity. Without Israel, Jewish leftists who call themselves liberals become indistinguishable from the generic left.

They can hate Israel, but they can’t let go of it.

Jewish “liberal” support for Israel isn’t fading. The Jewish liberal is becoming less liberal and less Jewish. He is becoming a leftist with a Jewish last name and no amount of Israeli concessions to terrorists will convince Jewish leftists to put their Jewish identity ahead of their leftist politics.

Israel can’t do anything to reverse that trend. Banning more Jews from living in Jerusalem, the latest demand of Obama and J Street, won’t save them from themselves.

This isn’t an Israeli crisis. It’s a crisis of American Jews.

J Street churns out editorials urging Jewish groups to connect with young Jews by bashing Israel. And who better to lecture us on connecting with Jewish youth than an astroturfed organization backed by an 84-year-old Nazi collaborator who called his own mother a Jewish anti-Semite.

The left’s hatred for Israel predated its existence. The left doesn’t hate Israel because of its policies. It hates Jews.

“What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money,” Marx said.

“The Jew is the enemy of the human race. One must send this race back to Asia or exterminate it,” said Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, the Socialist economist and “Father of Anarchism.”

“Until they are prepared to assimilate and abandon the Chosen People idea altogether, their troubles are bound to intensify,” H.G. Wells said, as the Holocaust was underway.

“When we speak of Jews, we mean the Jewish spirit, the spirit of profit, of lucre, of gain, the spirit of commerce,” said Pierre Leroux, who coined the term “Socialism.”

“Every government having regard to good morals ought to repress the Jews,” said Charles Fourier, who coined the term “Feminism.”

None of these thought leaders of the left had ever seen an Israeli soldier in the West Bank.

Political extremism aligns with anti-Semitism. As American liberals become leftists, they are more likely to become anti-Semitic. A quick look at Europe shows us that this is true. There is nothing except reason and decency that prevents Jews from being anti-Semites and reason and decency are the first casualties of the political extremism of the left.

Marx could denounce Jews as the embodiment of filthy capitalism because he did not have a Jewish identity. There are plenty of Marx’s out there smashing the windows of Jewish stores, chanting hate outside synagogues and supporting genocidal terrorists despite their facial features or genetic markers.

The fake liberal Zionists warning Israel that it’s alienating them are selling the myth of a Jewish liberalism that will turn anti-Israel and yet go on existing.

It’s an empty threat because the demographics are against them.

In the last election, Jewish support in New York City for Obama was down to 51 percent. The odds that the city’s growing Orthodox population, most of whom have relatives living in Jerusalem, will join in with the Obama cry of “Jews get out of Jerusalem” is somewhere between zero and zip.

Why hasn’t Obama openly and vocally turned on Israel instead of leaking nasty quotes to his media pals? Why are the phone booths filled with spurned liberal Zionists, who are neither liberal nor Zionists, calling up Israel and breathing heavily into the phone before passing on something nasty that some anonymous person in the White House supposedly said.

The political connection between Jews and the Democratic Party has become tenuous over the years. Unlike other minorities, Democrats don’t actually meet the needs of the Jewish community. Their agenda of high taxes punishes Jews financially. Their hostility to religion has made it harder for Jewish families to provide a religious education for their children.

They plow plenty of money into non-profits with a Jewish label, but those organizations mostly benefit the same urban minority populations and leftist staffers as other leftist non-profits.

Subtract Israel from the equation and the linkage between Jews and the Democratic Party suddenly becomes very shaky. Democrats have a basic rule of thumb. They mention Martin Luther King at black events, Israel at Jewish events and immigration at Latino events.

That’s why the Democratic Party’s political establishment frantically warns against making Israel into a partisan issue. The last DNC convention showed that its delegates hate the Jewish State, but it can’t allow Israel to become a Republican issue because then it loses its only tangibly Jewish position.

Subtract Israel and the Democratic Party is reduced to making Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s argument that abortion is a fundamental Jewish issue. That may still play in her district, but Jewish support for abortion has been steadily falling. Last year a poll in New York showed that nearly as many Jews as White Catholics wanted to make abortion illegal.

Without Israel, the Democratic Party’s appeal to Jews becomes a hard litmus test over increasingly controversial social issues even as the demographics favor socially conservative Jewish communities.

The Democratic Party and its leftist hag riders want to avoid a crackup like that at all costs. Obama may secretly threaten and disparage Israel, he may implement flight bans and weapons cutoffs and sell out Israel at the United Nations, but a public break risks fragmenting his own political base.

The ranks of the Jewish left will continue to expand. New generations with weaker Jewish identities who have been indoctrinated on hatefilled campuses will be much less likely to support Israel. But this is a reality, that like leftist and Muslim anti-Semitism, exists entirely apart from anything that Israel does.

The American Jewish consensus is coming apart. American Jews, like Americans in general, are splitting into a left and a right. But the demographics of the Jewish left have no staying power when it comes to having children or staying Jewish. The left got ahead of the problem nationally by changing the country’s demographics, but they can’t turn millions of illegal aliens Jewish the way that they can amnesty them.

This isn’t a crisis of Zionism. It’s a crisis facing American Jews.

Beinart, Goldberg and the other jealous boyfriends threatening the Jewish State have no cards to play. The larger social trends at work in Israel and America will not be altered by what happens in the West Bank. Their real argument is not with Israelis, but with Americans.

American Jewry is refighting many of the same battles that tore apart Russian Jews along the fault lines of tradition, religion, socialism and radical social change. That struggle climaxed with the Jewish left’s repression and mass murder of Russian Jews under the USSR before the Communist butchers of the Jewish Section who had shut down synagogues and murdered Rabbis were themselves put down.

Zionism is one of the issues at stake in the battle between traditional Jews and the radical left, but it’s not the only issue. And Israel can’t determine the outcome of that battle. Only American Jews can.