Poll finds 39 percent of American Jews listed Benjamin Netanyahu’s support for Donald Trump as one of the most important reasons they feel less connected to Israel
, “Jews who identify with liberal streams feel that the relationship is weaker than their counterparts.”
Other reasons listed were Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, its settlement policy in the West Bank, and its disenfranchisement of non-Orthodox Jews. Traditionally, American Jews have been proponents of a two-state solution to the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict that, according to Haaretz, would include “at least a partial dismantling of the West Bank settlements.”
Less observant Jews were more likely to reply that their connection to Israel had weakened: 28 percent of Reform Jews said it had weakened in contrast to 21 percent saying it had strengthened. But Carlstrom’s observation comes with a caveat: “Yet the same polls find that Americans are attached to anCarlstrom goes on to list issues that are of concern to American Jews and Israeli Jews and highlights the vast contrast between them.] asked both groups of Jews to name Israel's biggest long-term challenge. Fully two-thirds of American Jews said security and terrorism. Just 38 percent of Israeli Jews agreed.
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