The evidence is mounting: John Hagee is not a very popular person among American Jews.
A new poll commissioned by J Street, the pro-Israel lobby that advocates for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and diplomacy rather than military intervention with Iran (see TAP's interview with founder Jeremy Ben-Ami here), found that 51 percent of respondents had a negative impression of Christians United for Israel (CUFI) -- and that's of the 70 percent who had heard of it. While 65 percent of respondents had name recognition of Hagee personally, only 7 percent gave him a favorable rating. Fully 80 percent of respondents said that Jewish organizations and leadership should not form alliances with CUFI or Hagee, all demonstrating, as pollster Jim Gerstein put it, that Hagee "is very well known, and very disliked."
--Sarah Posner
