Religious Beliefs, Elite Polarization, and Public Opinion on Foreign Policy: The Partisan Gap in American Public Opinion Toward Israel

Cavari, Amnon

doi:10.1093/ijpor/edr053

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“…Thus, media outlets in different countries make use of similar data from a conflict, but their frames differ in ways that correspond to their respective cultures and governments. The strong support for Israel expressed by US administrations and the American public explains the traditional bias in favor of Israel in the US media (Cavari 2013). But where the media outlets rely heavily on official views, as we find for local news in the US, the framing is likely to be even more consistent with the position of the government, in this case, to be highly supportive of Israel.…”

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confidence: 68%

Coverage of Foreign Events on US Local Television News: The 2006 Lebanon War

Cavari¹,

Gabay²

2014

Israel Studies Review

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Local television news is the most-watched news source in America, yet we know very little about how local channels cover foreign events. In this article, we examine and compare the news coverage of the 2006 Lebanon War on local and network news channels in the United States. Applying Entman's framing functions, we find that the local news coverage of this war was significantly more supportive of the Israeli position compared to the coverage of the same event on network news. We suggest that this difference is due to features of the local newsroom, including economic and institutional constraints, as well as newsroom routines that result in the tendency of the local media to comply with the positions of the US authorities.

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confidence: 68%

Coverage of Foreign Events on US Local Television News: The 2006 Lebanon War

Cavari¹,

Gabay²

2014

Israel Studies Review

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“…5. Shared Political Values —Israel enjoys widespread support by the American public and the political elite on both the left and the right, although this sentiment is weakening among liberals (Baumgartner, Francia, and Morris 2008; Cavari 2013; Gries 2015). A Gallup poll conducted in 2018 showed that Americans' stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is as strongly pro-Israel as at any time in Gallup's three-decade trend.…”

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confidence: 99%

Why Do Evangelicals Support Israel?

Inbari

Bumin

Byrd

2020

Politics and Religion

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This study considers the sources of evangelical support for Israel, utilizing an original survey of 1,000 evangelical and born-again respondents. The results show that the three strongest predictors of evangelical and born-again Christian support for Israel are (1) age (older respondents are more supportive); (2) opinion of Jews; and (3) socialization (frequency of hearing other evangelicals talking about Israel). Our results also show that evangelical support for Israel is driven by respondents' beliefs rooted in evangelical Christian theology on eschatology and Biblical literalism. Thus, the most significant ideological statements that were found in the research were that the “State of Israel is proof of the fulfillment of prophesy regarding the nearing of Jesus' Second Coming” and that “Jews are God's chosen people.” Another important finding is that there is less support toward Israel among young evangelicals (ages 18–29).

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“…There is little research on the relationship between partisanship and antisemitism, focusing instead on how partisanship structures attitudes toward Israel (Cavari 2012). Insofar as attitudes toward Israel may generalize to Jews, partisanship may be related to antisemitism.…”

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From Antisemitism to Philosemitism? Trends in American Attitudes toward Jews from 1964 to 2016

Cohen

2018

Religions

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This paper uses the feeling thermometer toward Jews on the American National Election (ANES) surveys from 1964 through 2016 to track trends in Americans' attitudes toward Jews. The feeling thermometer is one of the longest continuous time series studies in which Americans are asked about their attitudes toward Jews, and there are items on the ANES surveys that can be used to partially correct for social desirability response effects. The analysis compares several demographic groups, an important focus of extant research. Findings indicate a modest warming trend for most groups, with older Americans and the least educated displaying the greatest warmth increases. In contrast, Catholics have become slightly cooler. Analysis suggests that the immigration of Catholics from Latin America, nations that lack the religious tolerance tradition, may account for this counter-trend. The conclusion offers suggestions for future research and discusses the implications of the rising proportion of Hispanic immigrants into the US for future levels of antisemitism in the US.

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Religious Beliefs, Elite Polarization, and Public Opinion on Foreign Policy: The Partisan Gap in American Public Opinion Toward Israel

Cited by 25 publications

References 11 publications

Coverage of Foreign Events on US Local Television News: The 2006 Lebanon War

Coverage of Foreign Events on US Local Television News: The 2006 Lebanon War

Why Do Evangelicals Support Israel?

From Antisemitism to Philosemitism? Trends in American Attitudes toward Jews from 1964 to 2016

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