Anarcho-BolshevikMost American Jews disapprove of U.S. military action against Islamic Rep. of Iran, new poll shows
Most American Jews disapprove of U.S. military action against Islamic Rep. of Iran, new poll shows - Lemmygrad
>More than half of U.S. Jews disapprove of the U.S. war against Iran, according to a new poll by a nonpartisan polling firm. > >At the same time, an Israeli survey of “connected” American Jews found a slight decrease in support for the joint U.S.-Israeli operation against Iran since its start a month ago. > >The new poll found that 55% of American Jews oppose the U.S. military action against Iran, compared to just 32% who support it. The poll found a sharp partisan divide, in line with polling of Americans in general, with Republicans more supportive than Democrats. > >A quarter of respondents said they were “torn because while Iran is a threat to peace, this is not the way to handle it.” > >The survey was conducted online in mid-March by the Mellman Group, led until his death last year [https://www.jta.org/?p=1892712] by Jewish Democratic pollster Mark Mellman, and included 800 registered Jewish voters. > >The poll found that a large majority of U.S. Jews believe [that] President Donald Trump should have sought congressional approval for the war — including nearly a third of those who support it. And about four in 10 said [that] they opposed the war because it lacked “clear provocation and clear objectives.” > >The survey also found that more than half of U.S. Jews say [that] they are concerned that conducting the war jointly with Israel will “be a long-term problem prompting concerns about the role of Israel and American Jews in U.S. foreign policy.” > >The results add complexity to the picture of American Jewish sentiment about the war. A poll released last week [https://www.pewresearch.org/?p=295753] found that 61% of Americans overall oppose the war, suggesting that American Jews may be slightly more supportive overall — especially when considering that American Jews tend to vote Democratic. > >Still, the new poll suggests that American Jews as a whole are less supportive than the “connected” American Jews surveyed regularly by Israel’s Jewish People Policy Institute. About two-thirds of that panel supported the war [https://www.jta.org/?p=1897956] when surveyed during its first week, according to JPPI. Last week, that number was down to 62%, according to its latest results published on Sunday. > >JPPI’s first survey of U.S. Jewish sentiment during the war drew criticism because it reflected the sentiments of a relatively narrow slice of American Jews. The institute says [that] its polls reflect the sentiments of “connected” Jews because its panel, drawn from people with ties to American Jewish groups, includes fewer intermarried Jews, more Jews who are affiliated with denominations, more Orthodox Jews and more Jews who have lived in Israel than demographic data would suggest is representative of U.S Jewry overall. > >The Mellman Group’s executive vice president, Michael Bloomfield, said in a statement that his poll’s results underscore the complexity of American Jewish sentiment about the war. > >“American Jews are not monolithic. There can be difference, and in this case strongly held on both sides, with a middle group torn between mixed feelings,” he said in a statement. “In today’s political environment, partisanship is a very strong driver of views. That is true across the country across demographics, including American Jews.”
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