Political Sorting Undermines Americans’ Support for Israel

Analyzing a recent survey of attitudes toward the Jewish state within the U.S., Samuel J. Abrams and David L. Bernstein note two major trends: first, that American sympathy for Israel remains very high and, secondly, that the younger the respondent, the more likely he or she is to be indifferent or hostile to Israel. Abrams and Bernstein also detect a larger pattern relating to the changing face of American politics, and in particular to what they term “political sorting.”