Facing record opposition to Israel's genocide in Gaza, America's elites are seizing control of news and tech companies to suppress criticism and rescue a crumbling narrative
Public support for Israel in the United States has reached historic lows.
A Gallup poll in July found that 32 percent of Americans approve of the Israeli campaign in Gaza, while 60 percent disapprove, a 10 percent drop in support from the previous September.
Pew Research Center findings showed that a third of American adults (33 percent) say the country sends Israel too much military aid, a larger portion of the population than those who say the US provides the right amount (23 percent) or not enough (8 percent).
A majority of Americans hold a negative view of Israel and report being "extremely" or "very" concerned about its military strikes killing Palestinian civilians and about starvation among Palestinians in Gaza.
A New York Times/Siena poll revealed that there are slightly more Americans who sympathise with the Palestinians than those who sympathise with Israel.
Israel's popularity crisis is particularly acute among young Americans, with only nine percent of those aged 18 to 34 backing Israel's military action in the Strip. Forty-two percent of those in the 18 to 29 cohort say the US grants Israel too much military aid, compared to 21 percent whose opinion is that the US is giving the right amount or too little.
One influential ghoul after another - from Hillary Clinton to wealthy tech investors and members of Congress - has attributed this shift to TikTok, as if American youth are incapable of independently concluding that it is wrong to repeatedly set fire to tents filled with displaced persons.
Amid the decline in pro-Israel sentiment, which is functionally the same as a decline in support for US imperialism in and beyond the Middle East, the US ruling class is aggressively asserting control over powerful media organs. (more...)
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