And Jews should stand up and take the lead in saying so. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesConcerns about an “American Jewish-Israeli Jewish divorce,” have grown over the past decade. An in-depth 2013 Pew Research study found a decline in attachment to Israel among non-religious American Jews. Only 38% of Jewish-American respondents overall said the Israeli government was making a sincere effort to establish peace with the Palestinians. “For several decades, the Jewish establishment has asked American Jews to check their liberalism at Zionism’s door, and now, to their horror, they are finding that many young Jews have checked their Zionism instead,” the editor and writer Peter Beinart warned in an influential 2010 essay titled “The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment”.

Source: The Guardian May 16, 2018 06:56 UTC