Differences in Opinion between US and Israeli Jews on Israel
We already went over some appalling statistics about the views of Israeli Jews in a prior post. Now let’s look at US Jews’ opinions and compare.
Ethnic cleansing of all Gazans
Support Oppose
Israeli Jews 96 4
US Jews 20 80
~80% of US Jews oppose the ethnic cleansing of the Gazans. Only 4% of Israelis disapprove of it. So if you don’t like the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians, don’t blame US Jews for it since they’re against it. This also shows that Trump’s Israel policy isn’t even backed by most US Jews. Instead he is following the dictates of a small group of pro-Israel Jewish fanatics who have probably given lots of money to his campaign. Either that or he simply supports whatever the Israeli government wants to do. There’s also the possibility that he’s fulfilling the vision of his Christian Zionist supporters, but this seems less likely as they have no pro-Israel Lobby.
Although it has not been polled in Israel, no doubt they all support the policy of throwing legal immigrant demonstrators out of the country for protesting against Israel. However the results in the US are different:
Deport legal immigrants for anti-Israel protests
Support Oppose
US Jews 20 80
~80% of US Jews oppose throwing immigrants out of the country for protesting against Israel.
Some US Jews want to cut off aid to Israel. The number of Israeli Jews who support that is probably near zero.
Here are some more surveys. The problem with all of these is that they are rather dated, but I don’t have any more up to date ones.
Cut off military aid to Israel Support OpposeUS Jews 21 79 Favor Palestinians over Israel Support OpposeUS Jews 19 81Favor Hamas over Israel Support OpposeUS Jews 13 (!) 87
US Jews under 18 34 (!) 66It’s pretty incredible that 13% of US Jews support Hamas! The figure for Jewish youth is even harder to believe. Hamas should not be anti-Jewish per se. Some Jews are literally supporting them. Also the Palestinians should not be anti-Jewish because 21% of Israelis are with them and want to cut off military aid.