Glenn Greenwald: New poll reveals how unrepresentative neocon Jewish groups are

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New poll reveals how unrepresentative neocon Jewish groups are

(updated below)

A new survey of American Jewish opinion, released by the American Jewish Committee, demonstrates several important propositions: (1) right-wing neocons (the Bill Kristol/Commentary/ AIPAC/Marty Peretz faction) who relentlessly claim to speak for Israel and for Jews generally hold views that are shared only by a small minority of American Jews; (2) viewpoints that are routinely demonized as reflective of animus towards Israel or even anti-Semitism are ones that are held by large majorities of American Jews; and (3) most American Jews oppose U.S. military action in the Middle East -- including both in Iraq and against Iran.

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http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/12/12/ajc_poll/index.html

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

1. Thanks for posting this, but all this should be obvious to most people with a LICK of common sense,

or who actually know a lot of Jewish people who don't work for The Weekly Standard or the Bush Administration.

Clueless Bush sycophants and right wing Bible Belters who don't really know many Jews are probably the main people who think that folks like Kristol are in any way representative of Jewish people as far as politics go.

They're about as representative as Alan Keyes or Condi Rice are of African Americans.

[Zynx]

2. I'm glad you posted this.

I'm not Jewish, but a lot of posts I see here often allude to some kind of right-wing, war-mongering Jewish consensus that simply does not exist in any way, shape, or form.

[villager]

4. well, I *am* Jewish, and I'm glad to see some myth-busting facts posted here

Even in DU, people would preface comments with "the Jews...," assuming a blanket consensus, harkening back, one assumes, to cultural images gleaned more from the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" than anywhere else...

[Occam Bandage]

3. Absolutely. It's jackasses like Kristol that feed the anti-semitic myth of the warmonger Jew.