It would be interesting to get your take as a jew scaramouche(I think?), what happened to the liberal left to cause them to more or less turn on the Jews and Israel, when they were more or less the force that helped the Jews overcome anti-semitism in Christian North America, back in the day.

My theory is they are always championing the group they preceive as the powerless minority, the underdog, at any given time. Since Jews are not only not a powerless minority in North America any longer, but the powerful majority in Israel. In addition, the liberal left tends not to make value judgements. So if a less powerful minority targets the more powerful majority's civilians in suicide attacks, that's forgiven as a  necessary necessity  to fight against what they see as the majority"s oppression.

JR

I'd say your analysis is bang on. Other factors--the Left's self-loathing which gave rise to lots of really bad ideas (multiculturalism, moral relativism, "Orientalism," etc.); one should never discount the enormous appeal of bad ideas that allow one to feel virtuous.