JERUSALEM (JTA) — A majority of Israelis believe that President Donald Trump will not oppose settlement construction in the West Bank, a poll new found. Some 55 percent of Jewish Israelis told the monthly Israel Democracy Institute and Tel Aviv University Peace Index they do not believe Trump will oppose settlement construction. Some 77 percent of Arab…
With all the hateful stuff being said about Jews by the “alt-right”, with a White House that somehow neglected to mention Jews on Holocaust Remembrance Day, with hate crimes spiking and even placid Jewish Community Centers on the receiving end of bomb threats, the results from a survey released today by the Pew Research Center…
(JTA) — Americans are nearly evenly divided over support for a Palestinian state, according to the latest Gallup poll. Some 45 percent of Americans back the establishment of an independent Palestinian state on the West Bank and Gaza Strip and 42 percent oppose it, according to the poll taken during the first week of February. Some 13 percent…
Even as the “alt-right” revels in the election of Donald Trump, most Americans still don’t know about the white identity politics movement, finds a recent poll from the Pew Research Center. The “alt-right” is the label preferred by contemporary white nationalists. 17% of Americans said they knew “a lot” about the “alt-right”; 54% of United…
Almost half of Israel’s Jews think the country’s political left isn’t patriotic, finds the latest poll of the Israel Democracy Institute’s Peace Index, in a survey that shows a public continuing to hold attitudes that favor the current right-wing government. According to the poll, 48% of Israeli Jews don’t believe leftists are loyal to the…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Some 83 percent of Israelis believe that President-elect Donald Trump will be a “pro-Israel president,” according to a new poll. The poll commissioned by the Ruderman Family Foundation also found that 49 percent of Israelis thought that the status of Jews in America would remain the same in the wake of the…
One casualty of the election: people’s faith in surveys. We relied on polls to help us understand the election and they seemingly failed us. Although pre-election polls came within 1-2% of predicting the national popular vote, state polls that were the basis for Electoral College predictions were far less accurate. Whether and how to use…
When he called the election in September for Donald Trump, the pundits trashed American University professor Allan Lichtman. After the Republican president-elect’s upset over Hillary Clinton, he wants the country to heed a message — do not trust polls. “Everybody told me I was absolutely wrong this time because all of the polls were telling…
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