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on October 15, 2026, 11:15 am, in reply to ""you have ninety odd percent of Jews supporting the racist Zionist state". Source, Ken?"
change in the Jewish community has been an increased understanding that the
label of "Zionist" is bad for online dating and making new friends. Despite only
a third of American Jews calling themselves Zionists, 88% still "support
Israel's right to exist as a Jewish and Democratic state." That overlaps almost
entirely with the 87% who believe that "Israel has valid reasons for fighting
Hamas."
Only 7% of respondents in the survey oppose Israel existing as a Jewish state.
This lines up almost exactly with the statistic stating that "94% of Jews agree
[that] the way Hamas carried out its 10/7 attack was unacceptable," meaning 6%
believe Hamas was justified. These numbers further correlate with the statistic
showing that only 7% actually identify themselves as explicitly "Anti-Zionist,"
and also with the statistic that gives us 6% "[indicating] that following
October 7th they avoided Jewish institutions more." We can pretty easily surmise
that these are the same people. 6 to 7 percent. Out of all American Jews. I'll
inform those who are unaware that American Jews account for at least 40% of the
world's Jewish population, and 75% of the non-Israeli Jewish population (these
numbers come from before Oct. 7, and are likely to be higher now). When one adds
France, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Argentina (all countries with strikingly
similar polling) to the US's numbers, this accounts for just shy of 90% of the
total non-Israeli Jewish population.
Now, if you don't at least see a problem with that, I don't know what to tell
you. What I see, though, are further questions. How many among those 6 to 7
percent are "Holy Land" types themselves? How many do not believe in unilateral
Palestinian land-back, but instead some tepid, "power-sharing" arrangement that
pretends at democracy? How many, in their heart of hearts, believe truly in the
total dismantling of the Israel state and the full sovereignty of Palestinians
over the land of Palestine? For that, I'll admit I don't have the polling data.
However, my gut and my anecdotal experience tell me that it's at least not most
of them.
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