American Jews back Obama on Israel [View All]

* POLITICO
* Ben Smith
April 09, 2010

Do you approve or disapprove of the Obama administration's handling of U.S.-Israel relations?

A new, annual survey of American Jewish public opinion by the American Jewish Committee finds that Jews, by and large, continue to approve of Obama — 57 percent say they approve of the job he's doing — and also back his handling of Israel.

The 55 percent who approve of Obama's Israel policy is a slight improvement on the finding in the same survey last year, while the disapproval number has ticked up slightly more.

The survey is a reminder of what surveys of American Jews regularly find: They're still overwhelmingly Democratic, and many self-identified Jews responding to polls are more liberal, and less focused on specifically Jewish issues, than the communal leadership.

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ALSO: Confusingly, only a slightly slimmer majority approves of Netanyahu's performance, and a solid majority opposes dividing Jerusalem.

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