T. Belman.. While this belief on the part of so many American Jews is due to misinformation or propaganda, it is also due to a prevalent bias in favour of the Palestinians held by so many progressive Jews. They believe that Zionism is Racism.
A sizable minority of US Jews believe the worst accusations hurled at Israel, according to a survey commissioned by the Jewish Electorate Institute.
Pro-Palestinians demonstrators rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC, May 29, 2021 | File photo: AP
A survey of US Jewish voters polled after May’s conflict between Israel and the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip finds that a quarter believes that Israel is “an apartheid state.”
Also, 34% believe that Israel’s treatment of Palestinians is similar to US racism and 22% believe that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians.
The survey of more than 800 self-identified American Jewish voters was conducted between June 28 and July 11 by GBAO Strategies on behalf of the non-partisan Jewish Electorate Institute.
Climate change (32%) and voting rights (26%) were the top two issues respondents want US President Joe Biden to focus on, with Israel way down the list at 4% between affordable housing at 6% and Iran at 3%.
A sizable minority of respondents also do not place US financial assistance to Israel as important (25%) while a majority 58% support restricting US aid so it doesn’t go to settlement expansion in Judea and Samaria.
In a statement, the Jewish Electorate Institute described the survey as the first major poll of Jewish voters since Biden was elected president and the hostilities between Israel and Hamas ended, finding that American Jews overwhelmingly support the Democratic Party and Biden.
“The results demonstrate that Jewish Americans trust Biden more than Trump by at least a three-to-one margin on key issues including fighting antisemitism, handling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and dealing with the Iranian nuclear issue,” the statement said.
This article was first published by i24NEWS.
I understand how American Jews can feel this way, because until very recently they did not suffer from antisemitic attacks. Here in the Uk, and elsewhere in Europe, Jews have no such secure feelings. Antisemitic attacks, violence and open racist attacks on Jews are commonplace, fed by a large number of Muslims who have been taught since infancy that Jews are not really human, and that Allah wants them all killed. This is why European Jews and Jews from the United Kingdom are emigrating to Israel. They know that Israel is not an apartheid state, because many have visited it before making aliyah. And most believe they will be safer there than in the countries they have hitherto called home. If American Jews were exposed to the same daily assaults, they might think differently and actually decide to investigate these phony apartheid claims.
Absolutely appalling and terrifying. How is Israel going to cope without the support of the American Jewish community?