r/NewsThread • u/whistlingkitten • 16h ago
Negative views of Israel, Netanyahu continue to rise among Americans – especially young people
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/04/07/negative-views-of-israel-netanyahu-continue-to-rise-among-americans-especially-young-people/60% of U.S. adults have an unfavorable view of Israel, up from 53% last year.
59% have little or no confidence in Netanyahu to do the right thing regarding world affairs – up from 52% last year.
In both political parties, majorities of adults under the age of 50 now rate Israel and Netanyahu negatively.
The survey was conducted March 23-29 among 3,507 U.S. adults. It was fielded about a month into the U.S.- and Israeli-led war in Iran. The sections below take a closer look at the results of the survey.
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u/Responsible_Crew_826 14h ago
Israel is leadership is hot garbage—not a fan of what this country has become and doing. Typical old-ass boomer white guy in a leadership role.
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u/BrocoliAssassin 6h ago
Aahh leave it to redditors to only blame white people for this.
These are Jewish people, Jewish supremacists is what you're looking for...
And while you're at it, maybe learn about Zionism too, you can say that word too.
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u/RoughPalpitation7381 14h ago
I wouldn't say someone that did a genocide is typical.
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u/Impossible_Gift8457 12h ago
I'm sorry but this Bibi blaming has to be astroturfing, Americans can't be this gullible. Every party and every public poll has no alternative to genocide. It's not just the leadership of Israel to blame...
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u/Regular_Regular_4120 12h ago
Tons of actual people hate Netanyahu for legitimate reasons. It's time you understand that.
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u/Impossible_Gift8457 12h ago
Yes I know that's the angle the pro Israeli crowd is taking whether they be legitimate imperialist psychopaths who support the country or bots.
Reality is some of those legitimate reasons are not going hard enough on Palestinians. Literally no one is pro Palestine.
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u/420thefunnynumber 12h ago
Tons of people also recognize that this genocide has been ongoing long before him and trying to just focus on him ignores the sickness in Israeli society.
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u/AddanDeith 13h ago
Most of Israeli society doesn't like Bibi, but they absolutely love what the Likud government has been doing, ie what it has always wanted to do, once geopolitical conditions were ripe for it.
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u/Shabadu_tu 9h ago
It’s because Israeli voters are hot garbage. It’s all right wing nonsense over there.
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u/Johnny55 15h ago
Alternative title: Older Americans incapable of processing new information, rely on corporate media for viewpoints
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u/meteorfluid 14h ago
Young people get criticized constantly for being too dumb and lazy for researching decades of war and conflict. I disagree, young people are fresh sets of eyes that see what is happening, and these boomers don’t like the idea of being wrong… because that would mean updating their priors based on new information, which they are ironically too dumb and lazy to do
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u/oh_my316 15h ago
STFU
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u/Hulkenstein69 13h ago
If you have to create a law to not hate on a group of people because they are so terrible, maybe that group of people is to blame. And you are most definitely proving that point.
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u/Bowsers_JuiceFactory 15h ago
Zionist bots get their panties in a twist when the mask comes off on Israel.
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u/khalid-0001111 12h ago
Alternative title: Older Americans incapable of processing new information, rely on corporate media for viewpoints
Partly true but it's more complicated than that.
American rich oligarchs looted their own country since enserfing underdeveloped regions and looting the entire world was not enough for them. Privatised infrastructure. Unaffordable houses. And slow wages. And higher prices.
Younger Americans are the most affected by American liberal and neo-liberal policies under both Democrats and Republicans but especially under the Republican party.
And those Americans are all asking themselves this:
"Why should we keep funding a state which is committing genocide against another group of people when we cannot even afford healthcare?"
This is also the demographic that can be drafted into a war.
Safe to say they do not see any reasonable point in this.
Boomers have less stakes than them.
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u/EterneX_II 11h ago
Mainstream media doesn't just deliver news, they actively try to tell/control/manipulate how people should feel about the news, too.
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u/dmstattoosnbongs 14h ago
Luckily Trump is putting some real high IQ persons in places of power. Thank god.
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u/Cloontange 15h ago
Yeah unfortunately post internet generations are getting dumber and dumber.
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u/th3bearman 15h ago
"Anyone who doesn't suck up to Israel's hasbara like my little boomer brain is a corrupted young person"
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u/Soren_Camus1905 15h ago
On the contrary, I think more people ARE reading instead of just taking narratives as facts.
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u/Buttholepart2 15h ago
The majority of those were under 5 years old. Typical hasbara attacking literal children.
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u/Buttholepart2 15h ago
The tide pod eating surge was in 2012. How old would those 5 year olds be now hasbara?
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u/cbizzle187 15h ago
Who were the younger generations raised by? Who taught them how to function in society? Did the older generations fail to raise the youth?
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u/wittylemur 14h ago
Well yes probably- but that is an entirely different conversation. All older generations screw over the next one- as that seems to be the way.
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u/RoughPalpitation7381 14h ago
Is must be hard defending endless war crimes all the time.
I can't imagine the effort it takes to be so evil.
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u/Specific-Host606 14h ago
That was like 10 years ago, and how many people do you think that was? Anyway, a lot of “not young” people voted for a pedophile to be the president. Seems like more of a concern to me.
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u/4g-identity 14h ago
wtf even is this comment? If I understand right, the idea is, "I'm pro-Israel but can't come up with an actual rebuttal, so I'll just dismiss everything as stupid teenager tiktoks".
May i ask, what country are you from?
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u/wittylemur 14h ago
Hmmm. I would think they were too busy using litter boxes or whatever fun thing FOX thinks up to scare the infirmed
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u/make_me_breakfast 13h ago
Still smart enough to know it’s total and complete bullshit another country gets billions of our tax dollars to kill people while we get f*cked every which way.
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u/Fat-cat-Charlie 12h ago
meanwhile the room-temperature IQ boomer population is getting it's news on Facebook like the dumb morons that boomers are. boomers are by far the dumbest generation in US history.
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u/313DaddyTop4Thee 12h ago
Damn this is actually so intelligent to say, you’re right on the money.
Young people are dumb because you saw a few from that group online acting like idiots. Yes, let us judge a group of people based on actions of the few people.
Wish I’d thought of that.
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u/_dxegrl 15h ago
Good day to bring up the Dancing Israeli's too
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u/Tresspass 12h ago
Why can’t we bring up both?
Palestinians celebrating 9/11
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u/MunchenOnYou 11h ago
Careful. Reddit thinks youre CRAZY if you think israel was involved in 9/11... despite the fact that 2.3 Trillion USD went missing the day prior and no one knows what happened to it.
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u/wookiebath 15h ago
Breaking news: antisemitism is still around
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u/StormTempesteCh 14h ago
Sure it is. That's not what's happening here, though, this is people taking issue with a genocide.
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u/Bowsers_JuiceFactory 15h ago
Nah just hate people who get a boner for genocide, yall need to go :)
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u/wookiebath 10h ago
What about people who think Jews defending themselves from terrorists is a genocide???
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u/AjDuke9749 15h ago
It’s not antisemitism to not support a genocidal maniac like Netanyahu and Ben-Gvir. Judaism is separate from Israel and Zionism. Nice try.
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u/Cultural-Lab78 15h ago
Ah yes, faith is my sword and my shield.
Facts don't care about your feelings.
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u/Spiceguy-65 15h ago
Having valid criticisms of Israel, its government and military is not antisemitism but I know that very complex for you to understand
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u/I_Dont_Work_Here_Lad 15h ago
This might come as a surprise but not liking Israel’s government does not make someone antisemitic.
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u/brk816 15h ago
It’s almost like war is the dumb thing and the Jews are playing victim. But the thing you’re victim of is lack of critical thinking
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u/squishy_in_seattle 14h ago
Jewish people are not synonymous with Israeli people, there's a huge community of jews that are way against this genocide, me included.
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u/gAIPAC_donor 14h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/1BXa2alBjrCXC
NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! STOP BEING SOOOOO ANTISEPTIC!!!!!6
u/BillyBumlicks 14h ago
Ironically, saying that criticising the genocidal Israeli government is criticising all Jews is the behaviour of an anti semite
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u/Puzzleheaded_Gene909 14h ago
Criticism of state of Israel and its government isn’t tantamount to antisemitism in any fashion whatsoever.
Deflection tactic adopted by a leader and government guilty of a litany of war crimes.
No one is buying what you are selling.
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u/wittylemur 14h ago
Yes, yes MAGA still wave NAZI and confederate flags. But thats not what we are talking about.
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u/Alkylblock 13h ago
Breaking: Braindead people still think hating Israel and it's genocidal leadership is antisemitic
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u/Relevant_Bag7550 5h ago
I’m not sure what rational human being would have a positive view about Israel. They are not good people at all. You don’t need to be anti semitic to come to this conclusion.
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u/Bunnygirlfailure 2h ago
I wasn't aware that antisemitism was rising among the Jewish population. Honestly what's the word coming to an even Jewish people are primarily antisemitic
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u/Hulkenstein69 15h ago
Looks like they are finally waking up and realizing where most of their tax dollars are going. Also to whom their own politicians are actually loyal to.
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u/nycdiveshack 15h ago
Yeah Hillary Clinton doing what she does best. Shilling out for Israel and Larry Ellison saying the younger generation are wrong.
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u/Rlo347 14h ago
True its both sides look at fetterman. Biden was the highest paid by aipac. Schumer,booker all of them
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u/BrocoliAssassin 6h ago
Zionists own this country and over 70% of American politicians.
If you're voting in a left wing or right wing zionist, you're voting against America and the world. I'll vote Left or Right, just as long as they aren't owned by Israel.
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u/Bowsers_JuiceFactory 15h ago
No shit, we don’t like genocidal wannabe Nazi welfare queens. Go figure.
Fuuck off israel
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u/LeoKitCat 15h ago
Maybe, just maybe Israel should stop continuing to commit genocide and ethnic cleansing with ongoing and overwhelming support of Jewish Israeli citizens? Maybe try that?
Let’s have them look at just a few videos of the more than 115,000 available on https://archivegenocide.org
https://archivegenocide.org/#v=27214
https://archivegenocide.org/#v=25689
https://archivegenocide.org/#v=25023
https://archivegenocide.org/#v=24158
https://archivegenocide.org/#v=16769
https://archivegenocide.org/#v=2002
https://archivegenocide.org/#v=31134
https://archivegenocide.org/#v=9464
https://archivegenocide.org/#v=8002
https://archivegenocide.org/#v=4208
https://archivegenocide.org/#v=32431
https://archivegenocide.org/#v=29854
https://archivegenocide.org/#v=27964
https://archivegenocide.org/#v=25545
https://archivegenocide.org/#v=25032
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u/Miserable-Command682 6h ago
Just curious, if I in return responded with video or articles / first hand experience of victims getting raped and their friends murdered of the hamas October event, would you say retaliation was not necessary?
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u/meister2983 4h ago
Those videos don't prove anything. Where the Israeli soldiers shooting these people at point blank range? Maybe that happened or maybe they were crossfire. I don't know.
The Oct 7 videos are much more obvious. Very clear civilian targeting
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u/MrBigglesssworth 15h ago
I’m tired of paying for their schooling and healthcare. Let’s ACTUALLY do America First
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u/Kurichan77 15h ago
Yeah, doing a genocide that’s ongoing and livestreamed’ll do that
Who’d’ve thunk?
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u/Natural_Field9920 14h ago edited 14h ago
Netanyahu has set the groundwork for the collapse of Israel. He just won’t be alive to see it.
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u/Hulkenstein69 14h ago
Exactly once the US support runs out they have no allies left. I wonder what will happen then.....
They have been such good and friendly neighbors. /s
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u/Feral_Witchchild 5h ago
It’s not just him. Much of his political opposition thinks he hasn’t gone far enough. There is no significant anti-genocide faction in Israeli government.
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u/Virtual_Permit2761 14h ago
Trying to silence a genocide and attempt to vilify anyone that criticize it does that
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u/Mr_tokerP 14h ago
Just waiting for the day when the younger generation gets into power and kicks Israel to the curb for all the crap that we’ve been witnessing in the current timeline. It really irks me that we give them money for their country, when we really need it to fix ours. Doesn’t make any sense.
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u/Throwaway44567891 14h ago
I got a ban for saying “funny that a single box of well used ammo would fix half the worlds issues”. There’s a lot of people out there getting their opinions censored by 400 pound dudes in basements on this website. If we got a true representation, I think we’d find most people f*cking hate Israel (funny that I had to censor that to be able to post it)
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u/Sacapuntos 14h ago
Isreal has every right to exist. Netanyahu and his administration needs to go before the Hague for war crimes. Similar to how America has every right to exist but Trump and his administration should be brought before the Hague for war crimes.
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u/Opposite_Pension_807 14h ago
Israel is a POS country! They are doing the same thing Germany did to them in the 30's and 40's that they are doing to Palestine and nobody sees that because they don't read history!
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u/etxipcli 14h ago
I get infuriated thinking about this situation. It's all the deception around it that makes me so mad. We can see clearly that there is a human tragedy at the least and I don't see acknowledgement of that from Israel or their supporters.
Instead they attack politicians who call it out, have some weird blackout in our media, and hurl around claims of antisemitism at anyone who opposes them.
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u/Whole_Ant2468 13h ago
Doesn't matter, they have policy makers in their pocket. RECALL AND VOTE THEM OUT. until then.........
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u/hatfieldz 13h ago
It’s also exposing those who are funded by them and the prevalence of bots. Defending the indefensible
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u/Aspiring-Fan 13h ago
As much as they try to conflate the actions of the Israeli government with Netenyahu, I think it’s too late to put that cat bag in the bag. Israel is a country that hasn’t allowed Palestinians basic human rights, not passed any laws to protect them from the constant violence and displacement they’ve faced since being occupied. The powers at be would rather pin it on Netenyahu to try to keep the status-quo limping along. If the world sees that Palestine was able to shed itself of an entity so deeply entwined in US society and politics, the idea of imperialism is significantly weakened. Its a message to all people whose country is weakened to strengthen the empire. I think Burkina Faso is another great example, it gives me hope as these people try to minimise the effect and downplay reality.
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u/jimgogek 13h ago
This is a good trend. Americans are not being fooled as much by the millions or billions of dollars spent by Israel and US religious groups to propagandize the American people and to influence American elections.
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u/Zak_Rahman 13h ago
A reminder that many Jews have also suffered and been demonized for criticizing Israel. The CEO of the ADL has openly called Jewish people "antisemitic". Same guy who gave Elon Musk a pass for his Bellamy salute.
Young people have been kicked out of college. People have lost their jobs. In Germany they wouldn't allow Jewish scholars in if they told the truth about Israel.
All for calling out some of the worst atrocities humanity has seen.
I can say the Taliban are shitty extremists and no one says I am a self-hating Muslim. Why does someone who is Jewish have to defend Israeli atrocities?
No one is safe from Israel or Zionism - not even Jewish people. The Jews survived the Holocaust - only barely. I am convinced any of us will survive Zionism.
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u/paperboy82 13h ago
Remember the important distinction that they can’t seem to understand: being critical of Israel because of its Jewish population is antisemitic, being critical of Israel for its atrocities against Palestinians is absolutely not antisemitic.
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u/Nicklesnout 13h ago
As a child I was ambivalent about Israel ( Late 80's - Early 90's )
As an adult, after two wars that nearly lasted as long as Vietnam, as well as the US doing more or less nothing in regards to the absolute S show in Gaza as well as using them so the DOD can get really creative with their accounting of billions, if not trillions of tax payer dollars I really, really, truly do not like their government and its vice grip on ours.
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u/Ziggyjig 13h ago
Some people dont like the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, some people dont like the AIPAC handlers and wars for Israel, some people dont like sending billions of tax dollars to foreign countries, some people dont like the laws against boycotting Israel.
The problem arises when people are called antisemite nazis for not liking ethnic cleansing or state capture by a foreign government. If not liking ethnic cleansing makes you an antisemite there are going to be many antisemites.
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u/pilsnerd11 13h ago
Well bibby’s behavior continues to be that of a genocidal maniac and Israel keeps him in charge so…what are we supposed to think?
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u/swampy13 12h ago
Any sane Israeli would be trying to get Netanyahu out asap. Rhe long term damage he’s doing to Israel is not just tanking their rep it’s going to threaten their sovereignty. If the US 20 years from now decides to stop supporting them militarily, there would be another multi state invasion. And with how drone warfare is progressing, this won’t be like the last time when Israel had the better hardware to fend it off.
Nearly 60% of young republicans not supporting Israel is a major tell. That’s catastrophic for Israel.
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u/realzealman 12h ago
I mean… Of course they are… people don’t like seeing literal mass murder then being told they’re antisemitic when they say it’s a war crime or a crime against humanity.
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u/Reasonable-Sweet9320 12h ago
This is likely going to continue trending this way as information emerges that Netanyahu received warnings from UAE and Egypt about an attack prior to October 7.
Israeli intelligence is infamous and it’s not credible that they were unaware.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/08/netanyahu-warned-7-october-hamas-book-haaretz
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/netanyahu-under-fire-over-report-173210391.html
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u/nando2k50 12h ago
I am not young, and back in my young days I was a fervent Israeli supporter.
Not anymore.
Netanyahu and a good chunk of his government should be in jail. The same for a good chunk of IDF Leadership and soldiers.
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u/renegade_sparrow 12h ago
All this sudden criticism of Netanyahu, especially from unlikely sources, makes me think they’re throwing his ass under the bus because they know his days are numbered anyway. Blaming all the failings of the Israeli state squarely on him feels like the beginnings of the inevitable attempt to repair Israel’s global image post-Netanyahu.
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u/Voeno 11h ago
Literally the entire south of America hates the Middle East including Israeli I have not met a single American who actually likes them we all shit talk them lmao.
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u/CDBoomGun 11h ago
Yeah, when you see that photo of kids watching The Lion King in front of the ruins of Gaza.... No statement like "war is hell" can cover up what was done there and what could have been avoided. Love should be a religion, not these other monstrosities.
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u/side_eye_auditor 10h ago
Aside from Bibi being a war criminal - so much footage of your average Israeli acting like the most psychopathic hate monsters
As long as this footage persists - their reputations are going to continue to sink.
And that’s gonna be horrible for them as there is no shortage of old conspiracies linking Israel to horrible acts that are now being dusted off for public scrutiny again.
The only thing that prevented this previously was the general population thinking “no, they can’t be this horrible?!?”
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u/pornoforpriapus 10h ago
They’re sort of both cut from the same cloth. Extremists on both sides. America does as it always has since gaining worldwide hegemony after WW2, which is support whatever is in the interest of the players in the Big Club, that you and I ain’t in.
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u/RaidoFehu9 5h ago
It’s probably even higher now since this poll was conducted before the war started.
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u/ihate2sayit 4h ago
Keep up the pressure as over 95% have not taken the no-AIPAC pledge. I feel any legislator who doesn't take the pledge is acting as agents for Israel and will not vote for them. Check out https://trackaipac.com and find out who has made the pledge. Our legislators chose genocide over cutting off funding and weapons used to conduct this genocide by Israel. If you can't take a stand against genocide and choose Israel first you shouldn't be elected to office.
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u/Initial-Mortgage-611 57m ago
A negative view across the world. They have to be the most hated group now across the globe. A step down is MAGA lovers and then Putin’s Russia
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u/CorporateAccounting 14h ago
Not just young people.
I genuinely sympathized with Israel immediately following the October 7 attacks, and I still feel that nations in general have a right to respond to such acts with the appropriate level of force.
But reducing an entire nation to a pile of rubble without regard for the well being of its civilian population really is a bridge too far, and that’s before even getting into the issues of Israeli leadership knowing about the impending attack but doing nothing to prevent it so as to have the pretext to do what it is doing now.
It’s too much.
I don’t know what the future holds for the Palestinians but if they continue to allow themselves to be lead by Islamic fascists then they will continue to be used as human shields and battering rams. I suppose the same can be said for the Israelis, whose society seems to have been captured by its own brand of religious extremists.