netanyahu speaks to congress

Pollster Frank Luntz has found that although “Israel has won the hearts and minds of Republicans,” the Democrats have become more anti-Israel, calling the Jewish state “racist” and “unwilling to make peace with its neighbors.”

Luntz says he was shocked at his findings.

But didn’t he remember how “Jerusalem” and “God” were booed at the Democrat Convention in 2012?

Via Times of Israel:

Three quarters of highly educated, high income, publicly active US Democrats — the so-called “opinion elites” — believe Israel has too much influence on US foreign policy, almost half of them consider Israel to be a racist country, and fewer than half of them believe that Israel wants peace with its neighbors. These are among the findings of a new survey carried out by US political consultant Frank Luntz.

Detailing the survey results to The Times of Israel on Sunday, Luntz called the findings “a disaster” for Israel. He summed them up by saying that the Democratic opinion elites are converting to the Palestinians, and “Israel can no longer claim to have the bipartisan support of America.”

He said he “knew there was a shift” in attitudes to Israel among US Democrats “and I have been seeing it get worse” in his ongoing polls. But the new findings surprised and shocked him, nonetheless. “I didn’t expect it to become this blatant and this deep.”

….“Israel has won the hearts and minds of Republicans in America, while at the same time it is losing the Democrats,” he said….

Related:

Washington Post: Republicans, Democrats and Israel

Jerusalem Post: Candidly Speaking: No illusions concerning the Obama administration

Israel National News: Clinton: I’ll be a better friend to Israel than Obama

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  1. MACVEL says:

    What of the Jewish people in the Democratic Party? What do they think?

  2. deaves1 says:

    Democrats are following orders from the anointed one.

  3. Alain41 says:

    Dream lovers are always perfect.

    Eg, there are no Palestinians. IE, none living next door to anyone in the U.S. (or elsewhere). Can’t develop animosity toward that which you have no experience with, especially when you’re told that they exist and are being treated badly. So if there’s a problem, it must lie with the one that you see. An atheist ghost libel has taken the place of the blood libel. http://chersonandmolschky.com/2014/01/09/palestinians-invented-people/

  4. strider says:

    Shocking that “opinion elites” take pestering sensitive questions from a stranger who somehow got their personal number.

  5. Vintageport says:

    Could this be a case of “P” (political) envy (See Mel Brooks, “High Anxiety”)? After all, Israel has a much higher favorability rating among Americans (upwards of 70%) than Congress (19%). But that isn’t hard to accomplish, as Congress’ rating is also bested by both colonoscopies and root canals ( http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/276121-poll-congress-less-popular-than-colonoscopies-root-canals-nickleback ).

  6. Kitten says:

    Many tell-tale signs of this shift happening are listed in this post. Not sure why Frank is so shocked. Also, remember the stupid Dems didn’t show up for Bibi’s speech to Congress. Obummer just gave them the convenient out. This is not the Dem party of your father’s generation. These people hate America (Judeo/Christian foundation) & Israel.

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