Jewish Democrat and Campus Antisemitism Critic Endorses Trump
“I did not support Trump in 2016, I did not support Trump in 2020. Hell, I did not support Trump six months ago.”
This young man claims that his concerns have been completely ignored by multiple, high-ranking Democrat officials.
The Times of Israel reports:
Shabbos Kestenbaum, high-profile campus antisemitism critic, endorses Trump
Shabbos Kestenbaum, a Jewish Harvard alumnus who is suing the school over its response to antisemitism, announced on Thursday that he has broken with the Democratic Party and will be voting for Donald Trump.
Kestenbaum made the declaration during a speech at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual convention, saying that he had become disillusioned with Democratic leaders and their policies during his push for action against campus antisemitism.
“I did not support Trump in 2016, I did not support Trump in 2020. Hell, I did not support Trump six months ago. Nobody’s perfect,” said Kestenbaum, a registered Democrat.
“The Democratic party has taken the Jewish vote and Jewish voters for granted for far too long,” he said. “I will be supporting, I will be endorsing, I will be voting for President Trump.”
Kestenbaum’s party switch isn’t a complete surprise: He addressed the Republican National Convention in July, an experience, he told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency at the time, that felt “lonely” but that was warmly received by the crowd. In that speech, he talked about his vote in November — but did not specify which candidate he would support.
Watch:
I am a Democrat.
I support most progressive policies.
I will be voting for President Trump.
Please watch and share my speech below to understand why. pic.twitter.com/A3gpmuV4ft
— Shabbos Kestenbaum (@ShabbosK) September 6, 2024
Featured image via Twitter video.
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An interesting profile. The man is a staunch progressive… but realizes his personal ox is being gored — existentially — and comes to the proper pragmatic decision. While hardly ideal in terms of consistent principle (all the inevitable linkages he does not yet see), this is the absolute minimum computation you would expect of any rational Jew. Yet, an unconscionable proportion of others continually prove themselves incapable of such rationality, and continue to vote for their own destruction and ours.
Similar are the people that Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership have dubbed “bagel brains” — who spout “Never again!” as if it had any meaning, while they simultaneously agitate for laws guaranteeing their potential tyrants an absolute monopoly on violence.
I’ll take him over the likes of the repellent Cheney’s.
Huh. With a name like Shabbos I had assumed he was Orthodox, and therefore likely a Republican. I guess not.
Shouldn’t that be “Shabbot”?
No. There used to be a cartoon robot called “Shabbot 2000” but I can’t find any mention of it online any more.
But if his name had been “Shabbot” I wouldn’t have guessed Orthodox or Republican.
Are you thinking of Jewbot/Robobot?
No, I’d never heard of that one. There was an online cartoon series many years ago about a robot called Shabbot 2000. The creator was William Levine. It ended many years ago, and has now apparently been forgotten even by web search engines.
I guess Oct 7 really was the stick to the eye many of that group needed