Question

One of the main claims many right-wing people make against the left is that, aside from their ancestry, they are not Jewish in any respect. The left, by contrast, tends to defend itself by saying that they are no less Jewish than they are, and that there are other paths within Judaism as well (such as values of humanism, equality, freedom of speech, and so on). A large portion of the right-wingers who make this claim are not religious at all, more in the traditionalist direction; some of them do not observe the Sabbath and sometimes do not eat kosher either (see, for example, Miri Regev and the shrimp abroad). The only difference between them and the left is that they identify with tradition, believe in God, and in Bibi—for some of them he is almost a savior of Israel. My question is: in what sense are they more Jewish than the atheist left?? After all, they are not fully committed to Jewish law, and aside from identifying with tradition they do not observe a large part of it. Do you think that merely identifying with tradition and with the religious public makes them different from the left, even though they are not committed and do not observe a large part of the tradition??