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1942 - 2019

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exceptions. President Jimmy
Carter’
s share of the Jewish vote
plummeted from 64 percent
in 1976 to 45 percent in 1980.
Despite having brokered Israel’
s
first-ever peace treaty with
an Arab state, Carter’
s hostile
relations with Prime Minister
Menachem Begin, exemplified
by the American vote for a
U.N. Security Council resolu-
tion critical of Israel just weeks
before the election, were seen as
playing a major role in Carter’
s
loss of Jewish support.
Four years later, Sen. Charles
Percy, a moderate Illinois
Republican, lost in an upset to
Democratic Rep. Paul Simon in
part because Percy had pushed
hard for the sale of advanced
radar aircraft to Saudi Arabia.
Illinois Jews were seen as key to
handing the seat to Simon.
Of course, there are Jews who
clearly do rank Israel highly —
and some of them have a lot of
money. Sheldon Adelson, the
casino magnate who gave mil-
lions to Republicans in the 2016
election cycle, has said Israel
is his principal policy concern.
So has Haim Saban, the Israeli-

American entertainment mogul
and major donor to Democrats,
who has said that he cannot
support Sanders in part because
of differences over Israel.
And in swing states with
a substantial Jewish popula-
tion — Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Michigan, Georgia, Nevada,
Arizona and Florida, among
them — even the relatively
small percentage of Jews who
consider Israel first can be
enough to determine the out-
come in a close election.
Political action committees
associated with partisan Jewish
groups are set to spend big
to promote their message to
Jewish voters in those states.
The Republican Jewish
Coalition’
s PAC has said it will
spend $10 million, and the
Jewish Democratic Council of
America is ready to spend at
least $1 million.
A spokeswoman for the
Democratic Majority for Israel,
the pro-Israel Democratic
group launched earlier this year,
said it is prepared to spend
“millions” to elect pro-
Israel Democrats.

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Attorney General
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happening to Donald Trump.
God bless Bibi, and may he
continue for many years as
prime minister of Israel.

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Addressing Wayne
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Wayne State University
Board: I totally agree
with this editorial. Every
board member should be
completely focused on his
or her obligation to forward
the university’
s mission
and protect its brand and
accreditation. I stand ready
at any time to work to bridge
any artificial divide on our
board. Our love for the
university should bring the
board together.

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Correction:
In “It’
s a Floyd!” (Dec. 12, page 48), Kyle Hoff’
s last
name was misspelled. The JN regrets the error.