Juan Cole: A Majority of Americans Views Israel Negatively in Wake of Gaza Genocide
The Pew Research Center reports that 53% of Americans now have a negative view of Israel, a stark deterioration from 42% in spring 2022 before the Israeli total war on Gaza.
Zionism has lost that unanimous support in the US.
I am my own sensitive probe as I ride in my Palestine bike jersey for about 90 minutes per day, since mid January 2024, when it arrived from China as my Christmas-present-to-self.
Last year on my route I got 2 negative remarks shouted by passing drivers who kept going. That was not a very high level of negative response.
This year I have had only positive responses, twice surprising me on my bike as pretty young women rolled down a window to show enthusiastic support, and yesterday from a jogger, and last week from a passing driver who was unsure how to show approval, lightly honking, which always jolts me, then showing the peace sign out his window.
Numerous female pedestrians on my route have smiled at me last year and this year, making eye contact, 2 with head coverings, and girls with head coverings don't do that.
Granted, this is one bicyclist in Austin, Texas, for whatever that is worth, but the month of April has shown an increase in enthusiasm which people have shown to me, and they don't have to do anything.
The thing that shocks, dear sir, is that this zionist Pal Holocaust has been going on for over a century. Another thing that shocks me is how easily other wise normal, might even say decent human beings can so readily and easily embrace their own Genocide/Holocausts.
One would think that folks who have gone thru their own Holocaust would be somewhat, at least, to engaging in a new Holocaust. But that is all western, "christian" nations. All with their own Holocausts.
You do not get to decide the topics I’d like to discuss.
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In 1948, GAZA had a population of 200,000. It doubled with each new generation.
• 1968 – 400,000
• 1988 – 800,000
• 2008 – 1,600,000
• 2038 – 3,200,000
.
Due to contraception the length of a generation, (the average age of Mothers), increased from 20 to 30 years.
.
The population of Gaza reacted the same way that Muslims have for the past 1400 years. THEY ATTACKED THEIR NEIGHBORS.
.
The same thing is occurring today in NIGERIA, the Sahel Region of Africa, Northern India, and Armenia-Azerbajan. In all these situations one party is Muslim and the other non-Muslim.
.
Do you really believe that there is no pattern to all these conflicts world-wide ???
What absolutely blows my mind is just how much evidence there is that shows, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the zionists stole the lands and wealth of the Palestinian people. They started planning that genocide/Holocaust in the first decade of the 1900s.
If were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that? ---- David Ben-Gurion
Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves ... politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves... The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country. ----David Ben-Gurion
The Arabs will have to go, but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as a war. ---- David Ben-Gurion
The present map of Palestine was drawn by the British mandate. The Jewish people have another map which our youth and adults should strive to fulfill: from the Nile to the Euphrates. ---- David Ben-Gurion
We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinians] never do return. The old will die and the young will forget, ---- David Ben-Gurion
We should prepare to go over to the offensive. Our aim is to smash Lebanon, Trans-Jordan and Syria. The weak point is Lebanon, for the Moslem regime is artificial and easy for us to undermine. We shall establish a Christian state there and then we will smash the Arab Legion, eliminate Trans-Jordan; Syria will fall to us. We then bomb and move on and take Port Said, Alexandria and Sinai.
---- David Ben-Gurion
Why should the Arabs make peace? If I was an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country. Sure God promised it to us, but what does that matter to them? Our God is not theirs. ----David Ben-Gurion
You do not get to decide the topics I’d like to discuss.
.
In 1948, GAZA had a population of 200,000. It doubled with each new generation.
• 1968 – 400,000
• 1988 – 800,000
• 2008 – 1,600,000
• 2038 – 3,200,000
.
Due to contraception the length of a generation, (the average age of Mothers), increased from 20 to 30 years.
.
The population of Gaza reacted the same way that Muslims have for the past 1400 years. THEY ATTACKED THEIR NEIGHBORS.
.
The same thing is occurring today in NIGERIA, the Sahel Region of Africa, Northern India, and Armenia-Azerbajan. In all these situations one party is Muslim and the other non-Muslim.
.
Do you really believe that there is no pattern to all these conflicts world-wide ???
Tony, you no doubt experienced pain from the Zionist attack dogs...You also earned justified retribution to those that harmed you. I hope your court case is very successful ! We all know how powerful these zionist funded orgs are. May God grant you your justified reward.
No court case underway. But the whole matter remains unresolved in my mind. There is very little for any proper resolution of these matters through court procedures given the Lobby's oversize influence.
You do not get to decide the topics I’d like to discuss.
.
In 1948, GAZA had a population of 200,000. It doubled with each new generation.
• 1968 – 400,000
• 1988 – 800,000
• 2008 – 1,600,000
• 2038 – 3,200,000
.
Due to contraception the length of a generation, (the average age of Mothers), increased from 20 to 30 years.
.
The population of Gaza reacted the same way that Muslims have for the past 1400 years. THEY ATTACKED THEIR NEIGHBORS.
.
The same thing is occurring today in NIGERIA, the Sahel Region of Africa, Northern India, and Armenia-Azerbajan. In all these situations one party is Muslim and the other non-Muslim.
.
Do you really believe that there is no pattern to all these conflicts world-wide ???
I wonder if anybody wants to poll Canadians:
Juan Cole: A Majority of Americans Views Israel Negatively in Wake of Gaza Genocide
The Pew Research Center reports that 53% of Americans now have a negative view of Israel, a stark deterioration from 42% in spring 2022 before the Israeli total war on Gaza.
Moreover, in just 3 years the percentage of Americans with very negative views of Israel has nearly doubled, from 10% to 19%. That is nearly one in five Americans. https://scheerpost.com/2025/04/13/juan-cole-a-majority-of-americans-views-israel-negatively-in-wake-of-gaza-genocide/
Massive election polling here with Poilievre starting to move out ahead as Carney's cheating comes into focus.
I hope they don't pull a Romania...
See, for comparative purposes, Dr Day,
Talking to a Wall : Palestine in the Mind of America By KATHLEEN and BILL CHRISTISON
Posted on May 25, 2008
https://www.palestineremembered.com/Articles/General/Story9786.html
May 25, 2008 was a long time ago, now...
Zionism has lost that unanimous support in the US.
I am my own sensitive probe as I ride in my Palestine bike jersey for about 90 minutes per day, since mid January 2024, when it arrived from China as my Christmas-present-to-self.
Last year on my route I got 2 negative remarks shouted by passing drivers who kept going. That was not a very high level of negative response.
This year I have had only positive responses, twice surprising me on my bike as pretty young women rolled down a window to show enthusiastic support, and yesterday from a jogger, and last week from a passing driver who was unsure how to show approval, lightly honking, which always jolts me, then showing the peace sign out his window.
Numerous female pedestrians on my route have smiled at me last year and this year, making eye contact, 2 with head coverings, and girls with head coverings don't do that.
Granted, this is one bicyclist in Austin, Texas, for whatever that is worth, but the month of April has shown an increase in enthusiasm which people have shown to me, and they don't have to do anything.
The thing that shocks, dear sir, is that this zionist Pal Holocaust has been going on for over a century. Another thing that shocks me is how easily other wise normal, might even say decent human beings can so readily and easily embrace their own Genocide/Holocausts.
One would think that folks who have gone thru their own Holocaust would be somewhat, at least, to engaging in a new Holocaust. But that is all western, "christian" nations. All with their own Holocausts.
You are egalitarian, as am I.
The people who do these things are not egalitarian, but see that we are, and couch things in terms devised to manipulate our sense of fairness.
what a horrible thing to have gone through. There's no revenge I can even think of against zionism. Its beyond earthly capacity to get even with them.
You do not get to decide the topics I’d like to discuss.
.
In 1948, GAZA had a population of 200,000. It doubled with each new generation.
• 1968 – 400,000
• 1988 – 800,000
• 2008 – 1,600,000
• 2038 – 3,200,000
.
Due to contraception the length of a generation, (the average age of Mothers), increased from 20 to 30 years.
.
The population of Gaza reacted the same way that Muslims have for the past 1400 years. THEY ATTACKED THEIR NEIGHBORS.
.
The same thing is occurring today in NIGERIA, the Sahel Region of Africa, Northern India, and Armenia-Azerbajan. In all these situations one party is Muslim and the other non-Muslim.
.
Do you really believe that there is no pattern to all these conflicts world-wide ???
.
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.
.
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What absolutely blows my mind is just how much evidence there is that shows, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the zionists stole the lands and wealth of the Palestinian people. They started planning that genocide/Holocaust in the first decade of the 1900s.
Palestine Remembered /// https://www.palestineremembered.com/
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https://www.azquotes.com/author/6023-David_Ben_Gurion
If were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that? ---- David Ben-Gurion
Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves ... politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves... The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country. ----David Ben-Gurion
The Arabs will have to go, but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as a war. ---- David Ben-Gurion
The present map of Palestine was drawn by the British mandate. The Jewish people have another map which our youth and adults should strive to fulfill: from the Nile to the Euphrates. ---- David Ben-Gurion
We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinians] never do return. The old will die and the young will forget, ---- David Ben-Gurion
We should prepare to go over to the offensive. Our aim is to smash Lebanon, Trans-Jordan and Syria. The weak point is Lebanon, for the Moslem regime is artificial and easy for us to undermine. We shall establish a Christian state there and then we will smash the Arab Legion, eliminate Trans-Jordan; Syria will fall to us. We then bomb and move on and take Port Said, Alexandria and Sinai.
---- David Ben-Gurion
Why should the Arabs make peace? If I was an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country. Sure God promised it to us, but what does that matter to them? Our God is not theirs. ----David Ben-Gurion
You do not get to decide the topics I’d like to discuss.
.
In 1948, GAZA had a population of 200,000. It doubled with each new generation.
• 1968 – 400,000
• 1988 – 800,000
• 2008 – 1,600,000
• 2038 – 3,200,000
.
Due to contraception the length of a generation, (the average age of Mothers), increased from 20 to 30 years.
.
The population of Gaza reacted the same way that Muslims have for the past 1400 years. THEY ATTACKED THEIR NEIGHBORS.
.
The same thing is occurring today in NIGERIA, the Sahel Region of Africa, Northern India, and Armenia-Azerbajan. In all these situations one party is Muslim and the other non-Muslim.
.
Do you really believe that there is no pattern to all these conflicts world-wide ???
.
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.
.
Tony, you no doubt experienced pain from the Zionist attack dogs...You also earned justified retribution to those that harmed you. I hope your court case is very successful ! We all know how powerful these zionist funded orgs are. May God grant you your justified reward.
No court case underway. But the whole matter remains unresolved in my mind. There is very little for any proper resolution of these matters through court procedures given the Lobby's oversize influence.
You do not get to decide the topics I’d like to discuss.
.
In 1948, GAZA had a population of 200,000. It doubled with each new generation.
• 1968 – 400,000
• 1988 – 800,000
• 2008 – 1,600,000
• 2038 – 3,200,000
.
Due to contraception the length of a generation, (the average age of Mothers), increased from 20 to 30 years.
.
The population of Gaza reacted the same way that Muslims have for the past 1400 years. THEY ATTACKED THEIR NEIGHBORS.
.
The same thing is occurring today in NIGERIA, the Sahel Region of Africa, Northern India, and Armenia-Azerbajan. In all these situations one party is Muslim and the other non-Muslim.
.
Do you really believe that there is no pattern to all these conflicts world-wide ???
.
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.
.
. . .