Print this post.American Jews have always been prominent in progressive movements in the United States, and only the emergence of a right-wing Israel, firmly allied to and complicit with US foreign policy, has shifted the attitudes of some. Still, the muck of Zionist disinformation about the State of Israel cuts deep and affects many.
An important survey of Jewish opinion by the LA Jewish Journal says that American Jews are overwhelmingly for the Iran deal, even though they believe it endangers Israel. Here are the numbers. Incredible; they are a lot like the Iraq war, which the Jewish orgs supported but the Jewish street was against.
Jews support the deal 49 percent to 31 percent, while all Americans are only 28 to 24 percentin favor of the deal. (Notice the low number of general respondents; people are ill-informed.)
Here’s the headline. Should Congress vote to approve the deal? Jews say Yes, 53 percent to 35 percent. The overall American numbers are only 41-38.
Broken out by ideology and party. Liberals are for the deal 72-18. Democratic Party members: 70-20. Hear that, Chuck Schumer? You voted for the US to invade Iraq, when your Jewish constituents were against that.
And asked, Have you been to Israel?, even the visitors to Israel support the deal, 48-44 percent, compared to the ones who haven’t been there, 58-30.
Shmuel Rosner says it’s Jew versus Jew, America and Israel, and brings in the numbers saying the deal endangers Israel:
The two largest Jewish communities cannot agree on a major world development that could significantly change the state of the Jewish state.
Israel will discover today — much to many Israelis’ surprise (because they don’t much understand American Jews) — that it cannot count on the majority of American Jewry to fight the battle against the agreement alongside it… American Jews are just like Americans, as sociologist Steven Cohen, who oversaw the survey, writes: They are all skeptical about the deal, but their politics dictate the way they ultimately see it….
“Does the agreement make Israel safer or more endangered?” Cohen asked his Jewish-American respondents. And they have an answer for him: It endangers Israel.
So here, presumably, you have it all, encapsulated in one question: American Jews support the deal, even though they are skeptical about its outcome, and even though they understand that by supporting the deal, they contribute to making Israel less safe.
By the way, the Times of Israel reports that world Jewry is trying to tiptoe away from Israel because of all the civilian casualties and the endless settlement project, etc.
World Jewry is finding it increasingly difficult to support Israel due to its ongoing conflict with the Palestinians, leading many communities to shun discussing the Jewish state altogether, a new major study has found.
The trend is eroding the Diaspora’s support for the Jewish state, warns the report by the Jewish People Policy Institute think tank, to be formally published next week.
While most Jews sympathize with Israel’s needs to wage war in self-defense and believe that its army acts according to high moral standards, there is growing discomfort with some Israeli policies they believe unnecessarily perpetuate conflict, according to the 100-page report by the JPPI, which was made available to The Times of Israel.
Diaspora Jews are not convinced that Israel is doing enough to prevent military conflicts and are troubled by the number of civilian casualties they often produce, though they generally blame Israel’s enemies for the bloodshed.
Bottom line: the issue is going to break out in next year’s Democratic primaries, because American Jews are giving Americans permission to criticize the Jewish state. The issue is going to surprise establishment Dems the way that #BlackLivesMatters has and income inequality. Who will ride the wave?
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Yes, I believe, and hope it is true, that the world and many in America, especially the campuses are awakening to the genocidal crimes that the Zionists who control Israel have and are committing in Gaza and the West Bank. After reading Max Blumenthal’s stellar work, “Goliath, Life and Loathing in Greater Israel” one realizes the depth of the deception that Netanyahu has used to claim self defense, while all the time laughing at the gullible people of all nations that buy such an Orwellian cover for what is, in reality nothing more than a vicious land grab and ethnic cleansing of a people reduced to defending themselves with rocks. The tide is turning, evidenced in the flow of Jews from Israel to the US and Germany where they aren’t subjected to watching a state murder and destroy an occupied people. Netanyahu’s blackmail demand that the US pay him billions for the pseudo danger the Iran treaty would pose, is a mind boggling display of a tyrannt who, when his toady does not bend to his every demand, tries to extract money for the brave act of being no longer a stool pigeon for fascism. One can only hope this isn’t the last act of independent thought and action from the US, or we will suffer the ultimate global hatred when the crimes against humanity are finally brought before a world court and the US’s supplying of money and munitions is brought to light, showing America was an enabler of such evil acts.