Survation Jewish poll

[Devonian]

Survation have carried out a poll of British Jews asking about their views on Israeli politics

www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/131485/pre-election-jc-poll-reveals-huge-support-netanyahu-among-uk-jews

survation.com/poll-for-jewish-chronicle-shows-likud-favoured-in-israeli-elections-among-uk-jewish-population/

survation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Israeli-Elections-Poll-Tables.pdf

Q1. Normal weightings
Q1. To what extent, if at all, do you follow Israeli politics?
Base: All Respondents

Very much 18.1%
Quite a bit 31.9%
Not very much 36.4%
Not at all 13.5%

Table 2
Q2. Normal weightings
Q2. If you had a vote in next week's Israeli elections, which of the following parties and party leaders would you vote for?
Base: All Respondents

Likud 31.1%
Zionist Union 10.4%
Jewish Home 1.4%
Yesh Atid 1.3%
Yisrael Beytenu *
Kulanu *
Other Party 1.5%

Don't Know 46.1%
Would not vote 7.4%

Table 3
Q2. Normal weightings, excluding don't knows and would not vote
Q2. If you had a vote in next week's Israeli elections, which of the following parties and party leaders would you vote for?
Base: All Respondents

Likud 66.8%
Zionist Union 22.4%
Jewish Home 3.0%
Yesh Atid 2.8%
Yisrael Beytenu 1.0%
Kulanu 0.7%
Other Party 3.2%

Q3. Normal weightings
Q3. Would you prefer Benjamin Netanyahu or Isaac Herzog to be the next Israeli Prime Minister?
Base: All Respondents

Benjamin Netanyahu 42.1%
Isaac Herzog 18.0%
Don't Know 40.8%

[Andrew_S]

I'd have been interested to know how they intend to vote on May 7th.

[Khunanup]

What a voodoo poll. If you take an active interest in Israeli politics as a Jewish person in the UK then you are far more likely to have a conservative/Israel identification inclination that would put you in line with Likud's hard line. The not very much and not at all figures for how close you follow Israeli politics is very telling and the respective don't knows are extremely high! What next, ask all people of Huguenot descent how they might vote in the French presidential election?

[Deleted]

I do find the implication that British Jews should necessarily have a stake in Israeli politics to be quite troubling, but that's the JC for you.

Anyway, yeah, this is clearly a name recognition poll, nothing more.

[john07]

Mar 11, 2015 21:30:54 GMT Khunanup said:

What a voodoo poll. If you take an active interest in Israeli politics as a Jewish person in the UK then you are far more likely to have a conservative/Israel identification inclination that would put you in line with Likud's hard line. The not very much and not at all figures for how close you follow Israeli politics is very telling and the respective don't knows are extremely high! What next, ask all people of Huguenot descent how they might vote in the French presidential election?

For example Nigel Farage?

[Deleted]

Mar 11, 2015 21:30:54 GMT Khunanup said:

What a voodoo poll. If you take an active interest in Israeli politics as a Jewish person in the UK then you are far more likely to have a conservative/Israel identification inclination that would put you in line with Likud's hard line. The not very much and not at all figures for how close you follow Israeli politics is very telling and the respective don't knows are extremely high! What next, ask all people of Huguenot descent how they might vote in the French presidential election?

UMP, without much enthusiasm.