A new Gallup poll has found that fewer than half of all Americans are now sympathetic to Israel.

The percentage of Americans overall who sympathise with Palestinians, thirty-three percent, is at its highest recorded level. Of Democrats, 59 percent sympathise more with Palestinians compared to 21 percent of Democrats who sympathise more with Israelis - the lowest recorded level.

“Although Americans remain more likely to say their sympathies in the Middle East situation are with the Israelis rather than the Palestinians, the 46% expressing support for Israel is the lowest in 25 years of Gallup’s annual tracking of this measure on its World Affairs survey,” the report said.

“The previous 51% low point in this trend of Americans’ sympathy for Israelis was recorded both last year and in 2001.”

  • conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    Tbh, I had previously tried a few times to disentangle the propaganda and understand the Israel-Palestine conflict. Each time, I spent a few hours getting nowhere through decades of “NUH UH”, “NO U”, “UR MOM”. Well, the aftermath of 2023 October 7 changed all that in two parts:

    • I got on Lemmy and expressed how I wished that Hamas had tried non-violent disobedience and protest instead, and somebody showed me that the last time that was tried (and it was tried fairly recently), the IDF just laughed and killed/injured a fuckton of non-violent protestors. The more I disagreed with people on here, the more I was given very clear evidence that Palestinians are facing extinction at the hands of an ethnostate whether they resist with violence or not.

    • Basically everything Israel has done since then.

    I think I have a much, much clearer picture of the situation now, and it is not favorable towards the government of Israel. I still have zero problem with Jewish people, Jewish people are my homies as much as any other group of people on this planet; my problem is with the government of Israel. They’re evil bastards, and if there’s any justice in the world, they’ll end up in the Hague at some point.

    • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I got on Lemmy and expressed how I wished that Hamas had tried non-violent disobedience and protest instead, and somebody showed me that the last time that was tried (and it was tried fairly recently), the IDF just laughed and killed/injured a fuckton of non-violent protestors.

      For those unfamiliar: Gaza’s Great March of Return protests explained

    • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOP
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      2 days ago

      Thank you for outlying what changed your mind and what your previous concerns were. It is very informative to know what caused people to change their mind about stuff.