Be aware that every example you cite is an individual who claims to be Jewish “culturally” but not religiously. They would all call themselves secular. What makes them different from you and I is that they have chosen as their political preference leftwing fascism, which is entirely hostile to Jewish law and, we now learn from Obama, Israel itself.

I have lived with cultural leftwing Jews my whole life. I am sure you have as well. They generally know nothing of their religion, or its intellectual roots in the Old Testament, an ignorance that is sometimes appalling.

Barbara Streisand

senior Obama advisor David Axelrod

Wendy Sherman, who helped engineer a nuclear North Korea and an imminent nuclear Iran

California senator Dianne Feinstein, who thinks highly of the Iran nuclear agreement

and others.

It looks like these examples have a common theme: they essentially support, directly and indirectly, the very tyrannies that Prof. Golbert says they would culturally, historically, and theologically oppose. These examples are not stupid people. They should know better.

Yes, your analysis is correct, but it does not go far enough. The article, which will help fill your lack of knowledge (which makes it well worth your read), provides a much deeper analysis.

Note that though I am quite secular, I have a pretty good knowledge of basic Jewish philosophy, as expressed in the Old Testament. And though I have always understood its fundamental attachment to the concept of individual freedom and personal responsibility, it wasn’t until I read this article that I realized its specific significance to western civilization, which in turn explains why tyrants hate it so much.

I was thinking the same thing earlier today.

Being a minority in almost everyplace they have ever been tends to place a target for any reason anyone can think of.
Their cultural tendencies and religious demands tend to place them separate from those around them. Add that an understandable distrust of outsiders and they tend to stay closed up and don’t often invite non Jews into their lives.

I was also thinking that a new group of people is acting in a very similar way.
They have their own music.
Their own language.
Sticking to their own neighborhoods.
They are further separating themselves from those around them by adopting new made up names because their old names are connected to those other people they want to be separate from.
Insisting on new holidays separate from everyone else’s.

Will they end up being treated much the same as Jews in unfriendly nations are?