Posted on 01/16/2017 6:09:47 PM PST by ErikJohnsky
...Pew's new data also show unprecedented polarization when it comes to another top foreign policy issue: Israel. Similar numbers of Republicans and Democrats have sympathized more with Israel than with the Palestinians dating back to the late 1970s. Today, though, 74 percent of Republicans sympathize more with Israel, while just 33 percent of Democrats do the same.
And perhaps most notably, for the first time this century — if not ever — Democrats are now about equally split between sympathizing more with Israel (33 percent) and with the Palestinians (31 percent).
The change across the political spectrum is clear when you look at the chart below. The biggest shifts over the last 15 years have occurred among conservative Republicans, who have drifted toward a more pro-Israel view, and liberal Democrats, who have drifted more toward the Palestinians. The most politically polarized are driving the change.
While conservative Republicans favored Israel by a 44-point margin in 2001, the margin is now 70 points. And while liberal Democrats favored Israel by 30 points at the turn of the century, they now favor the Palestinians by 12 points.
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Just as in UK and Canada, Jews stayed centre-left until the camel's back broke and went right, its gonna happen here.
Democrats have been anti-semitic since the Klan.
for the first time? i don’t think so... they are just flat out admitting it now...
Ping.
these losers never heard of the quote “dance with who brung ya.” We’ll take those donors, thank you very much!!
Ping
To show this data to liberal Jews would not change their party loyalty.
As so often before, today’s liberal Jews have internalized the stereotypes of current Jew hatred.
Andrew Young got in trouble during Jimmy Carter’s Administration. The Post doesn’t lie well at all, and now their favorite party has Keith Ellison.
keeping the pro-Palestinian number in aggregate voters from going up is a big reason I’m excited for a TOTAL AND COMPLETE SHUTDOWN OF MUSLIMS ENTERING AMERICA!!!
I bet you $100 he couldn’t feel anything in his face.
‘Botox’.
Slightly incorrect. Most of the Jews that left the Democrat party during the Obama years refused to join the Republicans because they get the same dreck from the far right (but from a different angle). They became independents instead.
The socialists are still in the Democrat party and I don’t see any kind of epiphany going off in their heads anytime soon. They abhor Israel, even though Israel has many socialist religious and secular socialists in its government. They don’t even want to be identified as Jews.
That’s their problem and they can stay with the Democrats preaching against Torah as far as I’m concerned. Nothing will get through to them.
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