Companies are selling homes in illegal settlements and individuals are fundraising to buy weapons for Israeli soldiers in Gaza.
Companies are selling homes in illegal settlements and individuals are fundraising to buy weapons for Israeli soldiers in Gaza.
You are underestimating support Israel has among general public
Just BC Lemmy and Reddit don’t like the genocide it doesn’t mean that normal American also doesn’t.
There are parts of the country where they celebrate it.
That’s American, Jewish voters surveyed last fall. 68% support land swaps, an independent Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders, Palestinian return from the diaspora, and financial/population restitution.
A lot of regular people get swept up into the default of supporting the concept of Israel and protecting the lives of the 6-7 million Jews living there, but the topic has so many land mines and risks of misunderstanding that people don’t delve into the topic openly. But if you look for it, there’s a lot of silence from folks who are uneasy about the direction Israel is headed.
Well that silence enables the genocide…
Never again but here we be 🤡
this is the terrifying thing about hegemony. the ruling class uses it to convince people to think things are normal that aren’t. racism is only 400 years old. across the globe societies had trans and non binary people until colonialism arrived in their place. so called “barter” societies that predated currency weren’t using resources in inefficient systems of trade, they were just sharing with eachother because compassion and love for our neighbors is far more default and natural to us than religious leaders want you to think.
i know there are. that doesn’t change the fact that only 46% of americans support israel. not a majority. i’m not using lemmy as my basis, i’m using the best most up to date data available, and that indicates a majority of americans do not support israel
Where did you get the 46% percent from?
https://news.gallup.com/poll/657404/less-half-sympathetic-toward-israelis.aspx
Gallup get 46% Israeli support in response to the question “In the Middle East situation, are your sympathies more with the Israelis or more with the Palestinians?” Palestinians get 33%.
Thanks for sharing!
It actually surprises me to see 46/33. Gut feel, I would have put it closer to 60/20.
Depends how you phrase the question. If you ask people “do you think the nation of Israel has a right to exist” (are you a Zionist) it probably would be closer to 60%.
Plenty of “Zionists” (in the non-slur sense) are sympathetic to both parties. It’s just that internet discourse on the subject has become so radicalized and binary that it gets lost in the conversation.