Publicly funded ‘Jewish organizations’ support Israel’s violence

 

The Israeli public loves violence. Many Canadian Jewish institutions seem to as well.

Jewish Israelis strongly oppose any pause in their country’s violence. There’s been an uproar about the ‘ceasefire’ they’ve been forced to accept with Lebanon. Many have protested, calling for greater genocide and ethnic cleansing in the south of that country.

Despite being directly impacted by the fighting, only a quarter of Jewish respondents felt some degree of relief at the announcement of the ceasefire between the US and Iran. Forty percent  were unhappy. (70% of ‘Arab Israelis’ felt relieved about the ceasefire versus 12% who were somewhat unhappy.) A whopping 93% of Jewish Israelis immediately supported aggression against Iran (26% of “Arab Israelis” backed it). Incredibly, 73% of Jewish Israelis openly admitted to not caring about the suffering of Iranian civilians. Over a month into the aggression 92% of Jewish Israelis gave the country’s military high marks for its management of the war on Iran.

The New Yorker published “The Extremes of Israeli Public Opinion: Israeli voters are against a ceasefire with Iran, and think Benjamin Netanyahu has not gone far enough.” Israeli polling expert, Haaretz columnist and author of The Crooked Timber of Democracy in Israel, Dahlia Scheindlin notes in the interview, “It is almost as if Israelis don’t think or know about any other option besides war for how to achieve political or strategic security aims, because there has been a complete delegitimation and undermining of diplomacy to the point where most Israelis don’t even think that it exists.”  (more...)

Publicly funded ‘Jewish organizations’ support Israel’s violence