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One could be forgiven for having missed an important Pew poll that was
released on the same day that the doomsday clock was counting down on
Donald TrumpAs threat to destroy Iranian civilization. On April 7, the
Pew Research Center released data on attitudes towards Israel in the
U.S., and the numbers are devastating for the self-proclaimed Jewish
state. What they reveal is a U.S. public increasingly aware that the
myths spun over the last several decades justifying the U.S.- Israel relationship are false. And as these myths crumble, a significant
political shift regarding official support for Israel is happening in
centers of power in the U.S.

Pew reports that overall, 60% of U.S. adults have an unfavorable view
of Israel, up from 53% in just one year and a nearly 20-point increase
since 2022. Break down the numbers by various demographics, and the
picture becomes only starker for Israel:

Among Democrats, IsraelAs unfavorability ratings have increased from
69% to a mindboggling 80% in one year and up from 53% in 2022.
Among Republicans, overall unfavorability is 41%, but among those aged
18-49, it jumps to 57%, up from 50% last year. The unfavorability
demographic among younger Democrats was 84%.
Adding another twist is the decline in favorability among men under
50, which went from -3 in 2022 to -22 in 2025, and stands at -47
today. This is the same demographic that voted overwhelmingly for
Trump in 2024.
Beyond the bipartisan nature of the results, one major takeaway from
the poll is that Zionism has lost the young at such a dramatic pace
that there is little doubt the shift is structural and not
situational, regardless of what Sara Horwitz would have them do with
their cell phones.

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One puzzling part of the poll was a question about AmericansA
confidence in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to odo the
right thingo in world affairs. The question assumes that Americans
somehow would naturally trust the head of this foreign government. I
suspect few, if any other, international political figures are the
subject of such Pew questionnaires. Also implicit in the question is
that a change in Israeli leadership can somehow set things straight
and make the U.S.-Israeli relationship great again. But switching out
the Netanyahu deck chairs for the Yair Lapid or Benny Gantz ones on
the Titanic isnAt going to melt the iceberg Israel has been steering
toward since 1948.

In fact, the story the Pew numbers tell is of the unmasking of the
true nature of a brutal ethno-nationalist settler colony. Regardless
of the person bearing the title Prime Minister, Israel cannot and will
not, of its own volition, cease its plans to control the region by
colonial expansion, a project begun over a hundred years ago in
Palestine, and that continues today in Lebanon, Syria, and Iran.

Such a project can only be maintained through perpetual war, for which Americans are expected to foot the bill and shut up about it. But an
increasing number of Americans are deciding that shutting up may not
be in their best interest, not to mention in the interest of
Palestinians.

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