Re: Do the majority of U.S. Jews support Netanyahu?
I understand all of that. As does any literate person with any historical knowledge at all. However it doesn't change the fact that primarily the reasons why there are not that many Jews in the world is the fact that: 1. They were decimated during the holocaust. And. 2. They don't proselytize. No religion, persecuted or not, will grow very much if it doesn't proselytize and try to convert others.
All that is neither here nor there though because it doesn't change the fact your original premise is predicated on the notion that somehow one of the most educated demographics in America are ignorant of Jewish history.
This is what I actual posted:
"Few American Jews have any ancestry or direct linkage to the holocaust and have been safely within the USA so long they have no memory of the reason their ancestor's fled to the USA, just like many others of different ethnicity who came to the USA to escape do not."
Once again, you left off the greatest reason - the historic murdering of ethnic/racial Jews everywhere. More than 6 millions Jews have been murdered in history than the holocaust. Killing 10,000 people 200 years ago more reduces long term population growth than killing 1,000 people now.
You really do not understand the historic scope, the full count, of attrocities in world history against Jews. In all of Eastern Europe. Western Europe. Russia. The Mediterranian region. By the Greeks. By the Persians. By the Ottomans. In The Middle East and Persian Gulf region - for hundreds and hundreds of years. 10,000 here. 25,000 there. 100,000. 1,000,000. 50,000. In each region those particular surviving Jews fled from into a new area because it seems safe there numbers then would grow as populations do - and then still the next genocide would come. Every region of the world they went to decade after decade, century after century.
The holocaust was the most recent and largest singular genocide. However, the total of the holocaust does not equate to the prior totals of organized Jew-murdering. And the more recent such genocide, the less it affects what the population is now.
Just the Romans in one action killed nearly 1,000,000 Jews over 1500 years ago. How many Jews would their now be if all those 1,000,000 had children back then thru today? But for worldwide systematic killing of Jews, the Jewish population would number over a billion instead of 14,000,000 - of which 88% now are limited to the USA and Israel.
How much were the populations reduced? In Afghanistan the number of Jews is exactly 1. In most ME Muslim countries a few thousand at the most. Yet in the past there were entire Jewish cities. They did not become Muslims. Some managed to flee. Most were killed. Everywhere. Always. That meant no future population growth for those people, doesn't it?
Yet I do think most people think like you do, that it was really only the holocaust. Hell, Russians have killed - over history - around 1.5 million Jews. They then didn't contribute to population growth either, did they?
The 1st or 2nd largest Jewish population remaining (depending whose numbers you believe) in the USA are dwindling primarily by marrying non-Jews combined with have ceased to engage in the Jewish religion and Jewish rituals - and accordingly then abandoning Jewish linkage and identity in any real sense. They will say "I am Jewish" - even if only a distant relative - but that is the only way they are Jewish, in some remote technical sense only.