In August, the New York Times interviewed 5 people and claimed that “Many Jews Support Mamdani”.

The Washington Post worked slightly harder than that for its headline “Many American Jews sharply critical of Israel on Gaza, Post poll finds”.

How does WaPo define Jews?

“The sample includes adults who identify as Jewish by religion as well as those who identify as adults with no religious affiliation but Jewish ethnically, culturally or through their family background — and either were raised Jewish or have a parent who is Jewish.”

So umm anyone who is related to anyone Jewish pretty much. The numbers are revealing of whom the Post was sampling.

The Post didn’t provide its actual numbers. Instead it appears to have conducted its own ‘survey’ and then, bizarrely, compared those numbers to previous Pew surveys to claim that Jews are now more anti-Israel.

A whole lot of the respondents answered that being Jewish is not at all important or very important which would suggest that these people don’t really see themselves as Jewish.

And probably aren’t.

People who said being Jewish was important generally supported Israel. Those who didn’t, well didn’t.

The Post’s poll doesn’t show what it claims to because what it really did was sample a whole lot of people who don’t even see themselves as Jewish by their own admission, and found that they don’t like Israel.