cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/45299674

Mar 31, 2026

Nearly two-thirds, or 63%, of poll respondents agreed that concerns about Iran’s nuclear program were best solved through diplomacy and sanctions; only 37% agreed they were best addressed with military action. Meanwhile, 58% of respondents agreed that U.S. military action against Iran weakens the U.S., rather than strengthening it.

As members of J Street’s leadership point out, the findings indicate that most Jewish Americans want peace.

“This data is a wake-up call for anyone claiming to speak for the American Jewish community while beating the drums of war,” J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami said.

Notably, the poll also showed broad support among American Jews for conditioning aid to Israel, with 44% saying that weapons sales must comply with U.S. law and 26% saying the U.S. should cut off aid entirely.

  • kreskin@lemmy.world
    11·
    4 hours ago

    Jewish Americans are only around 2% of the total voters. Thats split between republican and democrats, so like 1% each? I dont know why anyone cares much what they think. I think we’ve agonized over this tiny religious groups’s political opinions much more than we should have already. The youth vote is huge. Maybe dems would win more often if they started caring more about that instead.

    • Pommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.org
      21·
      3 hours ago

      I dont know why anyone cares much what they think.

      Jews are currently attacked all around the world, for the actions of the Netanyahu regime, which has barely anything to do with them (unless they support it).
      It’s important to shout from the rooftops that simply being a Jew doesn’t make you complicit.
      And this article shows that.

      • kreskin@lemmy.world
        12·
        31 minutes ago

        oh no, “attacked”? How many actual casualties dead and wounded are we talking about here?

        People are entitled to their political opinions whether you like them or not.

        Tell me, do you support the existence of the state of Israel? And do not engage in dodging hyperbole and conflate the states existence with the Israelis lives-- we’re not talking about killing people we are talking about the state and its basic laws/constitution. Israelis can be governed peacefully by another state, they just dont want to be.

        Of those Jewish people “attacked” (you mean verbal attacks-- people simply disagree with them and so they screamed that they are being “attacked”, like you just did) around the world, the vast vast vast vast vast majority of them support the existence of the state of israel, which has always been since before day 1, genocidal and ethnic cleansing. 80 solid years of it, whereas before that the Ottoman empire ruled the area with Jews and muslims in peace side by side for something like 800 years. There is no past or future concept of a non-genocidal non-expansionist israel, and its been a shitshow since it started. To support the existence of israel is to support continued genocide, brutality, and war crimes-- and yet, global jewery overwhelmingly supports it.

        They dont get to kick everyone out just because their holy book claims that land is all theirs. Its not theirs.

        so again, tell us who you are, if you have a moral backbone: do you support the existence of the existence of the state of Israel?

  • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nz
    57·
    2 days ago

    (Not even) 2 out of 3 is not a ‘vast majority.’ 9 out of 10 is a vast majority. What this article says is, the difference between Jews being 50/50 on the war is only 13%. So, there really is huge support from Jews on the war, just not the majority.

    • Pommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.org
      1·
      4 hours ago

      Does anyone have a good recommendation for an app that lets you tag people?
      This one has earned an “actual antisemite” tag with what they posted in the past few days.

    • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      2 days ago

      The “vast majority of poll respondents say that Trump has no clear plan for the conflict” in the submission text is referring to this:

      "77% of respondents do not believe President Trump has a clear plan and mission for the war in Iran.

      • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nz
        24·
        2 days ago

        I was going off the headline ‘Most american Jews oppose the war’ and using the stat for that.

        So for the stat you mentioned, 1/4 of respondents somehow think that Trump has a plan, and a clear one at that.