I saw allot of young student voters when I went to the University of Oregon for the Democrat rally. How many college students know Orthodox leaders in Israel claim laws against abortion are an assault on the Jewish religion? How many members of the Supreme Court – know this? How many Christian leaders and members of Jesus-National know Israel does not condemn women for getting an abortion? How many Jewish Americans voted for Democrats. Wake up!

John ‘The Nazarite’

According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics report from 2004, in 2003, most abortion requests were granted, with 19,500 legal abortions performed and 200 requests for abortion denied. Reasons for termination went as follows: The woman was unmarried (42%), illegal circumstances (11%), health risks to the woman (about 20%), age of the woman (11%), and fetal birth defects (about 17%).^[8] Women who would not qualify for an abortion under the statutory scheme may seek an abortion at a private clinic, although abortion in a private clinic is illegal.

It was reported in 2012 that about half of all abortions in Israel were performed in private clinics, i.e., without committee approval. Women who undergo such an abortion do not face criminal penalties, but physicians who perform them face a fine, or up to five years’ imprisonment; however, there have been no known prosecutions of physicians for performing non-committee-approved abortions.^[9] About 20,000 abortions take place in Israel every year, with the figure remaining steady, despite a substantial increase in the population.

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AIPAC, GOP silent on Trump warning US Jews to ‘get their act together’ on Israel

Critics see ex-US president’s comment as a veiled antisemitic threat, but Republican leaders, including Jewish ones, are apparently indifferent

By GABE FRIEDMAN and RON KAMPEAS25 October 2022, 8:28 am   

Former US President Donald Trump speaks at a rally, October 22, 2022, in Robstown, Texas. (AP Photo/Nick Wagner)

JTA — When Donald Trump posted, without context or warning, that “US Jews have to get their act together” on Israel before “it is too late,” he alarmed many of his critics, who saw in his comment a veiled threat.

But few in the Republican Party have expressed concern. Just as they did when Trump made similar comments as president in 2019, Republican leaders, including Jewish ones, have reacted with indifference or, in some notable cases, with nothing to say at all.

A spokesman for Rep. Lee Zeldin, one of two Jewish Republicans in Congress, also did not comment on Trump’s comments. Instead, Zeldin’s spokesperson said the congressman, who is running to become New York’s governor, “stands by his long record of unequivocally calling out antisemitism in all forms” — while condemning antisemitic comments by the rapper (and Trump ally) Kanye West.

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A spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told JTA on Friday that he had no comment. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy did not respond to an inquiry.

Meanwhile, the AIPAC pro-Israel lobby, which has become a major financial player in political campaigns this year, declined to comment to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

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AIPAC, a nonpartisan group that lobbies to strengthen the United States-Israel relationship, normally comments on statements on that relationship from prominent US politicians. But the group reacted with similar silence to Trump’s 2019 comments, in which he called American Jews who vote for Democrats disloyal to Israel.

Many of Trump’s critics condemned his comments as antisemitic, saying that they perpetuated the dual loyalty stereotype that American Jews feel a stronger allegiance to Israel, and in past decades, to other countries, than to the United States. But Matt Brooks, head of the Republican Jewish Coalition, said the comments acted as a “Rorschach test” on how anyone feels about the former president more generally. The RJC defended Trump’s 2019 comments.

Republican candidate for New York Governor Congressman Lee Zeldin, center, speaks to reporters before marching in the annual Columbus Day Parade, Oct. 10, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

“If you hate Trump, you’re appalled, outraged and you think it’s it’s egregiously antisemitic,” Brooks told JTA. “If you like Trump and what he did on all the issues like moving the embassy [to Jerusalem] and the Iran deal, etc., you read this as what it is, which is a clarion call to the Jewish community — that there’s existential threats out there, not just due to antisemitism, but also Israel’s existence with Iran.”

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Brooks added, “Trump has the foundation of some good points to make and, you know, could probably articulate them better.”

Some Republicans have defended Trump, including the Jewish Policy Center, a conservative nonprofit. Ellie Cohanim, the deputy antisemitism monitor in Trump’s State Department, said she stood by Trump’s comments. “I stand by every word of what President Trump stated here. AND Donald Trump will go down in history as the most philo-Semitic president of the US,” she said on Twitter.

Rapper Kanye West shows then US president Donald Trump a photograph of a hydrogen plane during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House October 11, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Ben Shapiro, the Orthodox right-wing pundit who has millions of social media followers, rebuffed the idea of a dual loyalty trope involving Jews being invested in Israel.

“Trump saying I don’t understand why more American Jews don’t care about Israel is not antisemitism, that is just an observation about American Jews that happens to be somewhat accurate actually,” said Shapiro, a frequent visitor to Israel who is an emerging political celebrity there.

Fred Zeidman, a major Jewish Republican donor who has in the past contributed to Trump’s campaigns but also has criticized the former president, said in this case Trump was repeating an argument that is commonplace among Jewish Republicans and in the conservative pro-Israel community.

“I think that mainstream media and the Democratic Party have continued to totally demonize [Trump],” Zeidman said. “And I think this is a good example of it. He is not the first one to have said, ‘Why does the Jewish vote go against the Republicans, when they are the ones that have been so supportive of Israel?’ Everybody has always dealt with that and tried to figure that one out.”

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Trump, Zeidman said, had a habit of speaking in ways that got him into trouble, and not just in relation to the Jews — but the media has a habit of overblowing his every statement.

“I wish he hadn’t said it,” he said. “But I don’t think it deserves the press it has gotten.”