ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes demographic differences in support for Israel across five dominant demographic cleavages in the United States: gender, age and generational cohort, race, educational attainment, and religion. It focuses on literature about foreign policy attitudes in general and on Israel more specifically. The chapter examines longitudinal trends of support for each demographic group and estimate the independent effect of each group on support for Israel using several regression models. It provides the reader with an updated rich, and systematic analysis of group variation in support for Israel on a wide range of issues relating to Israel and the Arab-Israeli conflict over time. Gilboa suggests that as a political minority with a history of exclusion, women are sometimes more likely to side with the weaker side to a particular conflict, which is evident in greater sympathies toward Israel. Race represents one of the most pervasive cleavages in American society, which is evident in diverging preferences on most national issues.
