Don’t let J Street’s attempt to distract from the embarrassing performance of its candidates in the midterms prevent you from taking a serious look at the group’s new polls. American Jews were polled statewide in Pennsylvania, in Illinois’s 9th district, and nationally (the three can be read here). The pollster was a J Street founder and doesn’t have many scruples about results-oriented polling, so take the numbers with a little salt, and certainly ignore J Street’s breathless, self-flattering analysis.

The numbers show that American Jews may be liberal, but they certainly aren’t anti-Israel. Let’s look at three numbers in particular — Obama’s approval rate, the Obama vs. Netanyahu favorability rate, and Obama’s approval rate on the Israeli-Arab conflict.