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Are Most Jews STILL Zionist? One Year Later (tariqacknickulous.substack.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/51881089

Last year in August 2025, I published my article Jews are NOT Oppressed: The Myth of Systemic Antisemitism. In it, I included an exhaustive list of polling data I gathered from around the internet on the opinion of Jews worldwide towards Israel. Most of the surveys were conducted after the start of the 2023 Gaza genocide. The results showed consistent and overwhelming support for Israel among the global Jewish population, with a rough weighted total average of over 85%.

In this article, I decided to go through newer polling data released since August 2025 to see if things have changed a year after I published my initial findings. Below is a summary of results from surveys I found of American, Canadian, British and Israeli Jews in descending order of recency.

The results show that while favorability toward Israel has declined compared to previous years, it remains in the majority across all countries. A majority of Jews polled also do not even consider Israel's actions in Gaza constitute a genocide. Most importantly, the question at the core of Zionism—whether Israel should exist as a Jewish state—still commands overwhelming approval.

Israel's Right to Exist as a Jewish State • US: 72-87% support Israel's right to exist; 66-83% say denying this is antisemitic.

• UK: 81-82% support its right to exist.

• Canada: 92% support its right to exist.

• Israel: 87% say Zionism is not racist; 85% identify as Zionist; 1% as Anti-Zionist.

Attachment to & Favorability of Israel:

• US: 55-71% have a favorable view or feel emotionally attached to Israel; 63% say supporting Israel is important to their Jewish identity; 70-83% view Israeli people favorably.

• UK: 75% feel emotionally attached.

• Canada: 69% feel emotionally attached. Views on the Gaza War & Genocide

• US: 73% say Israel's immediate response to Oct. 7 was justified; 42-46% say ongoing operations are justified; 49-78% deny genocide.

• UK: 81% deny genocide.

• Canada: 70% say Israel's actions are legal/legitimate; 87-90% deny genocide; 64% do not blame Israel for famine.

• Israel: 71-92% rate the IDF highly; 68% want Israel to stay in Gaza; 61% deny famine reports.

Aid & Arms to Israel:

• US: Only 26% support stopping financial and military assistance; 59% support sending more arms.

• Canada: Only 20% support an arms embargo on Israel; 71% support increased aid to Israeli civil society. Antisemitism & Anti-Zionism

• US: 83% say too many critics of Israel use antisemitic tropes; 38-54% view certain anti-Israel actions as antisemitic; 89% say anti-Zionism is linked to antisemitism.

• Canada: 45% say calling Israel "apartheid” is definitely antisemitic; 45% say calling it "genocide" is definitely antisemitic.

• Israel: 78% say anti-Zionism is linked to antisemitism; 68% say boycotts are antisemitic.

Based on the latest polling evidence, little has fundamentally changed. While favorability toward Israel and approval of its conduct have shifted somewhat, overall support for Israel—particularly its status as a "Jewish state"—remains nearly unchanged, with the vast majority of Jews continuing to back the Zionist project, even as they express reservations about its current government.

So one must ask: given the facts presented here—nearly three years into a genocide carried out by the “Jewish state,” by Jews, for Jews, at the expense of non-Jews, with the overwhelming support of Jews worldwide—why does the Western “pro-Palestine” movement spend so much time and energy doing free PR for Jews? Why go so far as to lie on their behalf about what they actually believe? The Western left loves to talk about "centring voices." Well, this is what they've said. So why speak over them?

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    I've definitely seen leftists claim that the Assad governments were "genocidal" against Sunnis because of the high amount if Sunni casualties during the Civil War and Hafez' crackdowns. They also point to the majority Alawite leadership within the military.

    This ignores the fact that:

    A) The majority of Syrians are Sunni, and therefore a Civil War would obviously represent that in its casualties.

    B) The Sunni ideology that was being suppressed was foreign to Syria, being Wahabbi influenced imported by Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Arab states.

    C) The point about the ethnic over represetation in the military high command could also be used against Kurds in the SDF (something they won't bat an eye at). The reason for that Alawite dominance had more to do with the Assad family being overly represented, themselves being Alawites.

    Obviously the nepotism was a problem, but the alternative was a literal headchopping fundamentalist. Western leftists love to ignore Al-Jazeera's Arabic coverage of the civil war. Qatar explicitly platformed Wahabbi fundamentalists that were calling for the eradication of Shias and Alawites from Syria.

    These people were not just speaking about the nepotism and corruption of the Assad family. They held Alawites, and their Shia allies, collectively responsible as a group, and called for the exact slaughter that we're seeing against minorities in Syria today.

    It's like western leftists brains turn off for thus topic I swear. When you tell them, "if you want to know how Israel really thinks, check the Hebrew sources" they'll understand immediately. However when you use that same logic for Syria, and tell them to look into what the prominent Arabic media is saying, they'll just blank face you and say that the Assads were genocidal.

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