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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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[–] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Presently I am intentionally minimizing my exposure to the news, and I was reluctant to touch this topic because, quite honestly, I’d rather not deal with any drama that could result, but I feel like I need to address a few points to satiate my conscience:

Let me start off by admitting that yes, these polls are probably accurate. It is disappointing for us who are interested in Jewish people for historical or cultural reasons, and given that there is a superabundance of evidence for both the IOF’s atrocities and the unsustainability of the Herzlian project, it is becoming very difficult to excuse the persistent approval of the so-called ‘Jewish state’. At this point, it is tempting to write off Jewish Herzlians as lost causes; most of them should have gotten the message by now.

The problem is comparable to how many Catholics — including Irish ones — tolerated the Fascist invasion of Ethiopia. In fact, it was overwhelmingly common for diaspora Italians to approve of Benito Mussolini:

The Italian-American press, it should be remembered, was almost 90 percent pro-Mussolini. Not until 1941 did the press completely desert Il Duce, and then the repudiation of Fascism was a result of diplomatic developments rather than political repentance.

(Source.)

Although the leadership of Italian-American labor stood unalterably opposed to Fascism, the rank-and-file Italian worker entertained ambivalent and even affectionate feelings for the “new Italy” and the charismatic Mussolini. These deep emotions surfaced particularly during the Ethiopian War when Italian labor unions, like Local 89 of the ILGWU, assailed Il Duce’s aggression only to be denounced by their own workers.

[…]

Significantly, the small number of anti-Fascists, who numbered “optimistically” a little less than 10 percent of a total Italian-American population of 4,600,000 in 1930, could never successfully attack Mussolini without incurring the stigma of being “un-Italian.”

(Source.)

I could share more, but the point is that we’ve seen almost all of this before: indoctrination, overwhelming consensus, intolerance towards the dissidents, &c. Nonetheless, sooner or later the Jewish mainstream is going to outgrow Herzlianism just like most people in the Italian diaspora outgrew Fascism. As I said, the Herzlian project is unsustainable.

While ideally trying to educate ordinary Jews about Herzlianism’s consequences is the optimistic message to take from this, I won’t hold it against you if you see that as a waste of time; they should have jumped ship a long time ago when the evidence for Herzlianism’s atrocities was more abundant than ever. In all honesty, I suspect that only a minority of Catholics and Italians loss interest in Fascism because of antifascist education; most of the disinterest was because of Fascism losing, and a similar effect is likely to happen with Herzlianism. In any event, none of that should stop us from continuing to educate others on Herzlianism’s consequences, including its consequences for Jewish people (‘counterintuitive’ though that may seem).

So yes, as disappointed as I am to say it, ordinary Jews approving of the occupation is probably accurate. The approval is likely, in most cases, an uninformed or a casual one (as was likely for many diaspora Italians regarding Fascism), for whatever that may be worth. Whatever the case may be, I reconcile this with my respect for Jewish cultures by cherishing the Jewish critics of Zionism (many of whom rightfully prioritize Palestinian voices) and by understanding that Herzlianism’s decline is inevitable, which is soon to render its popularity among ordinary Jews obsolete.

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