American Jews Are Left-Wing!

By Matthew Yglesias

Not to get too sucked into the weeds of nonsense, but with this effort to gin up the idea that Occupy Wall Street is somehow shot-through with anti-semitism, and American media industry that’s full of Jewish people is once again somehow losing sight of the fact that Jewish Americans are incredibly left-wing. Everyone knows this. At least everyone who’s Jewish knows it. Conservative Jews in America whine about this all the time. They write long whiny books about it.

The Jewish senators are all Democrats. The Jewish House members are all Democrats except for Eric Cantor. Jews are wildly overrepresented among prominent mainstream liberal intellectuals (Paul Krugman) and far-left intellectuals (Noam Chomsky). The three Jewish Supreme Court Justices are liberals, as are all five of the former Jewish Supreme Court Justices.