If I remember correctly the “Jewish” voting block has always been almost monolithic in its support for the democratic party. Now they get paid back in the coin most commonly used by that party, “What have you done for me lately?” It’s amazing that after 75 years of on again off again support, when the Israeli government tries to settle an issue that has been festering on its border, and is self-inflicted by the residents of Gaza, that we scream as a nation “What about the children?” The Gaza population chose their leaders once upon a time, the Palestinians are less welcome in every middle Eastern country than they are in Israel, due to their track record of disturbances in search of power, and easy money. They have been exiled from everywhere else, and now pissed off the last place they were allowed to make refuge.
I don’t like violence, but understand that weakness is fatal in that region, and only by being stronger than your neighbors/enemies can you survive.
Hamas leadership picked this fight, and now seems to be regretting it, kinda weird all the casualties are women and children, no uniforms, and no military aged males. Maybe we are not getting the whole story.
I am far from an expert on the correlations between partisan voting trends and class and religious beliefs of the American Jewish population. But from my own personal acquaintance I’d say that just as with white Anglo-Saxon protestants the more embedded in elitist communities and organizations they are the more doctrinaire they behave with respect to politics and culture.
And I think that religious belief is also a powerful marker. I’m not saying that atheism has a 100% correlation with leftist politics but monolithic is probably not a bad term to use.