AP-NORC surveyed 1,022 Jewish adults in the United States, including people who identify as Jewish by religion and those who identify through culture, ethnicity or family background, a common denominator that reveals a constituency divided within itself rather than delivering a single political instruction. [1]

That result complicates the paper's July 16 account of a failed House amendment that still won support from most Democrats, because a congressional caucus vote measured lawmakers while this poll measures attitudes, and neither changed military aid or opened a Gaza crossing.

Among religiously affiliated Jewish adults, about eight in 10 called Israel's immediate response to the October 7 attack justified and about half said the same of continuing Gaza operations, while among Jewish adults without a religious affiliation support fell from about half for the immediate response to about two in 10 for the continuing campaign. [1]

The divisions extend beyond the war, with about six in 10 calling prejudice against Jewish people an extremely or very serious national problem, roughly one-third feeling safe, one-third unsafe and three in 10 neither, while about half said protesting a pro-Israel event is not antisemitic and roughly four in 10 said it is. [1]

No verified X post was recovered, so platform slogans cannot fill the gaps among questions with different denominators, and the useful finding remains narrower than either monolithic-bloc or total-realignment claims: shared identity does not erase disagreements about Gaza, safety, protest or the parties seeking Jewish votes.

-- SAMUEL CRANE, Washington