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TOI: Poll shows Democrats increasingly ditching Netanyahu, not Israel, experts say

January 29, 2018

A new poll showing that support for Israel is becoming an increasingly partisan issue in the US has sparked questions over the significance of the apparent divide, as well as predictable partisan warfare…

Jewish Democrats repudiated the suggestion that their party was not sufficiently supportive of the Jewish state. “I really resent the Republicans or leaders who want to exploit these kinds of stories,” Ron Klein, who chairs the Jewish Democratic Council of America, told The Times of Israel. “The worst thing anyone who is truly pro-Israel can do is make this a political, partisan issue.”