{"id":331,"date":"2005-12-02T10:21:13","date_gmt":"2005-12-02T10:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/02\/disturbing-poll-about-american-jewish-support-of-israel\/"},"modified":"2005-12-02T10:21:13","modified_gmt":"2005-12-02T10:21:13","slug":"disturbing-poll-about-american-jewish-support-of-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/02\/disturbing-poll-about-american-jewish-support-of-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Disturbing Poll About American Jewish Support of Israel &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1132475665720&#038;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\"><strong>US Jews Support Israel, Don&#8217;t Speak Up<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Excerpts;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>US Jews are strong supporters of Israel but usually tend to refrain from defending Israel publicly. <\/strong>This is one of the main conclusions of a new poll that surveyed the views of American Jews.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>While the support for Israel seemed solid, pollster Luntz warned from &#8216;disturbing signs that support could shift in the wrong direction&#8217;.<\/strong> He noted that <strong>one in five American Jews does not support Israel in questions concerning its conflict with the Palestinians. &#8216;Every day people are dying and in this conflict I would like to see 90% backing Israel&#8217;<\/strong>, he added.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But <strong>even with significant support rates for Israel in the American Jewish community, the poll finds a problem in translating this support to an active pro-Israeli discourse in the American society. When asked if they engage in conversation about Israel or defend Israel while talking to non-Jews, most of the participants replied negatively. Only 29% talk about Israel frequently, while 61% almost never do so.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Jews Support Israel, Don&#8217;t Speak Up Excerpts; &#8220;US Jews are strong supporters of Israel but usually tend to refrain from defending Israel publicly. This is one of the main conclusions of a new poll that surveyed the views of American Jews.&#8221; &#8220;While the support for Israel seemed solid, pollster Luntz warned from &#8216;disturbing signs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}