(And this is to say nothing of how some “pro-Israel” American Jews themselves are currently navigating what it means to support Israel. Some polls suggested that a majority of American Jews supported the Iran nuclear deal. What neither Trump seems to understand is that the vast majority of American Jews do not consider Israel their top priority when going to the polls, nor do they agree with the Trumps’ view of what’s best for Israel. In this new, updated version, American Jews who fail to see their political future wrapped up in Israel - or, more particularly, with Israel as promoted by the Trump administration - are seen as falling short as American Jews. This is a sort of evolution of the “dual loyalty” trope, which says that Jews are ultimately loyal to other Jews, and thus cannot really ever be loyal citizens to their own country.
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