"They sympathize with the Palestinians by 57 points. That is an over 70-point shift in the margin in just a matter of eight years!”

CNN data guru Harry Enten broke down the latest polling in the Democratic Party on views toward Israel and the Palestinians on Wednesday and marveled at the massive shift in attitudes, declaring he’s “rarely” seen anything like it in his many years of looking at polling data.

Enten spoke to anchor Kate Bolduan in the context of Zohran Mamdani’s sweeping victory over ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo in New York City’s Democratic Party mayoral primary last week.

“What are we talking about here? All right, who do Democrats sympathize more with: Israelis or Palestinians? In 2017, the Democratic Party was a pro-Israeli party. Look at this. They sympathized with the Israelis by 13 points—more with the Israelis than the Palestinians. But look at this sea change. Now, Democrats sympathize more with the Palestinians by 43 points.Oh my God! That is a change in the margin of 56 points over the course of just eight years. So all of a sudden, it’s the pro-Palestinian position that actually reigns supreme in Democratic politics, not the Israeli position. And that is part of the reason why Mamdani was able to do so well in this primary, because those attacks over Israel, simply put, did not ring true for Democrats”

  • LustyArgonian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    211·
    12 hours ago

    Israel is the world’s largest and oldest concentration camp for Jews. The citizens are mostly trapped there. Someone like Netanyahu isn’t living your average life of an Israeli citizen, either. It’s not zero sum. They are all being enslaved and they are all in extreme danger, Palestine much more so and much more urgently as of right now, but the Israeli people are also in danger as well

    • naught@sh.itjust.works
      10·
      10 hours ago

      The survey, conducted in March and published by Haaretz newspaper on Thursday, found that 82 percent of Israeli Jews support the forced expulsion of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.

      Meanwhile, 47 percent of Israeli Jews answered yes to the question: “Do you support the claim that the [Israeli army] in conquering an enemy city, should act in a manner similar to the way the Israelites did when they conquered Jericho under the leadership of Joshua, ie to kill all its inhabitants?” The reference is to the biblical account of the conquest of Jericho.

      https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/majority-israelis-support-expulsion-palestinians-gaza-poll

      • LustyArgonian@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        7 hours ago

        Yeah, they live in a giant fascist concentration camp… it’s like interviewing North Koreans. They can get hurt, beat up

        • naught@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          3 hours ago

          Why do people move there, then? They have a democracy. I think it’s more like living in the US where we elect our fascists. You don’t see South Koreans clamoring to support NK nor immigrating there.

          Plenty of Israelis do not support the war and want a quick resolution. Then there are the fascists and fanatics that have been displacing Palestinians and settling territory for years prior. Complex for sure, but a concentration camp it is not.