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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
ANALYSIS
The Rightwing Factor:
What Price Do We Pay?
Does fundamentalist support for Israel
justify looking the other way on issues
like church-state?
VICTOR M. BIENSTOCK
Special to The Jewish News
W
hat price should
American Jewry pay
for rightwing, fun-
damentalist support of the
State of Israel? How far
should American Jews go in
sacrificing those long-held
positions on such issues as
separation of church and
state, which they believe are
the bulwarks of their liberty
and equality in the land?
Those questions assume
mounting importance as fun-
damentalists and evangelists
intensify their exhortations
to the American people to
make America truly a Chris-
tian nation by electing can-
didates they consider fully
committed to Christ and im-
posing their religious beliefs
on the law of the land.
The National Republican
Senatorial Committee did not
hesitate to make blatant
Christian religious appeals in
a desperate effort to elect
their senatorial candidates in
the Bible Belt in the Novem-
ber 4 elections. They failed in
four states. So did 11 of the
12 candidates for the House
of Representatives who based
their campaign appeals on
right-wing religious themes
and calls for Christian
solidarity.
So did the Florida can-
didate whose chief argument
against the reelection of Rep.
Larry Smith, a Jew, was that
his views made him "the anti-
thesis of what the Christian
community in the district
would prefer."
It is not enough that we are
browbeaten and threatened
by the extreme right which
tries to put a religious colora-
tion on the American poltical
process and would make its
own religious beliefs the law
of the land. We are also beset
by a small but very powerful
and influential element in the
Jewish community which tells
us that, for Israel's sake, we
must abandon dearly held
beliefs as to the very nature
of the democratic process and
adopt those of the political
reactionaries like Jesse
Helms, and the social views
and moral positions of the
Robertsons, Falwells, Swag-
gerts, LeHaSrs and others
who, on the basis of their
social views, must be seen as
dinosaurs straddling the con-
temporary world.
This element is represented,
among others, by the Na-
tional Jewish Coalition
which, despite its name, is
less a coalition and more a
group of wealthy Jewish Re-
publicans, many of whom,
beyond any doubt, are
dedicated to the wellbeing of
the State of Israel and some
whose primary concern in the
Republican Party and its
political, economic and social
objectives.
Their line of argument is
that if we want the defense
establishment, the right-wing
politicians and the Bible-
pounding fundamentalist and
evangelist television preach-
ers to support Israel, we must
give them some quid pro qua
That would translate into
support of Republican candi-
dates, Star Wars, the contras
in Nicaragua, prayer in the
schools, anti-abortion legisla-
tion and the whole right-wing
agenda.
There are those Jews —
many, in fact — who do not
go along with this and feel
that Israel, in the long run,
will receive far greater and far
more dependable support
from a fully democratic state
which recognizes no distinc-
tions among its citizens on
the grounds of religion and
accords the Jewish religion
complete equality. These —
the Jewish majority — also
firmly believe that the Jewish
future will be more secure in
a state in which all people
have complete freedom of
religion and no particular
brand of theology dominates
the political process.
Elliot Rothenberg, who is
identified as president of the
North Star Legal Foundation
of Minneapolis, complains
that the American Jewish
Committee is emulating the
religious right and using
theology as cover for a
secular political agenda. He
strongly disapproves and has
taken his fight to the editorial
page of The Wall Street
Journal.
Rothenberg, described as
former national law director
of the Anti-Defamation
League and vice president of
the Minnesota chapter of the
American Jewish Committee,
condemns the plan he says
the AJC has to launch an
advertising campaign "to
counter the evangelical Chris-
tian presence on radio and
television."
Why should that question
for discussion within the
Jewish community be aired in
the nation's largest circula-
tion newspaper? It can be ex-
plained only by the writer's
desire to reach and deter the
maximum number of potential
contributors to the war chest
he says the AJC is putting
together.
A letter signed by Theo-
dore Ellenoff, AJC president,
and David M. Gordis, ex-