Forward: Opinion – Jews love Israel but don’t vote on it, and other things everyone gets wrong

March 2, 2020

By Ari Hoffman

This week, the non-partisan Jewish Electorate Institute  released a poll  squarely aimed at the politics of Jewish American voters. Its conclusions offer a roundhouse refutation to the alarmists of all political stripes who insist that American Jews are a community in need of a politics of extremism.

The first major finding is that American Jews remain overwhelmingly Democratic, this despite overt Trump Administration efforts to court Jews, and even the President’s own claim that Democratic affiliation is a prescription for disloyalty.

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