Another good reason for the difference between American Jews and Israeli Jews is, American Jews don’t have Hamas breathing down their backs.

It all depends on what you mean by “Jewish.”

This week, the Pew Center released its study on Israeli Jewish identity. The survey (read my colleague Lauren Markoe’s report) was conducted in-person with 5,601 Israeli adults. It revealed a very complex, and in some ways disturbing, portrait of what it means to be Jewish in Israel.

Here is the bottom line. Israeli Jews are not like American Jews. Israeli Jews think differently. The report showed that a near majority of Jewish Israelis advocate expelling or transferring Arabs out of Israel. MORE