WASHINGTON President Obamas status among American Jews remains unaffected despite recent tensions with Israels government, according to a Gallup Poll.
Obamas approval rating among US Jews was 60% in June, the polling company said, consistent with earlier months.
Also, Jews still consistently approved of the presidents performance at an average of 14 percentage points above the general public, Gallup said in its release Tuesday, July 5. Obamas overall approval rating in June was 46%.
Approval of Obamas performance among Jews had spiked in May at 68% and overall at 50% in the wake of the killing of terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden, but settled in June.
There was no statistically significant change in the wake of Obamas May 19 Middle East policy speech in which he called for talks with the Palestinians to resume based on 1967 lines with land swaps, Gallup said.
Sixty-five percent approved of him for the April 1-May 18 time period, and 62% approved from May 19-June 30, it said. The speech had earned Obama an angry rebuke from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Gallup tracks approval of the president in daily telephone interviews.
Approval rates among Jews tend to vary to a greater degree because of the relatively small sample size of about 350 with a margin of error of seven percentage points, as opposed to two points for the 21,000 interviews among the wider population.
