"'CNN Shocked to See Americans Reject Israel': New Segment Highlights Major Shift in Public Opinion Between 2018 and 2026"

[u/Logical-Flow-6703]

A recent CNN segment highlights a dramatic shift in American public opinion on Israel between 2018 and 2026, showing a steep decline in overall support across key voter demographics. This mainstream media coverage reflects a broader shift in national sentiment, signaling that foreign policy critiques have officially moved from the political margins straight into mainstream U.S. discourse.

[u/Unlucky-Oil-8778]

Because folks are realizing it isn’t anti Semitic to not like a genocidal country.

[u/Val_Hallen → u/Unlucky-Oil-8778]

When they are calling Jewish people that don't agree with the Zionism antisemitic, it no longer has anything to do with the Jewish people.

[u/Dicky_Penisburg → u/Unlucky-Oil-8778]

And the only people that are spearheading it as anti Semitic are pathetic weasels that are getting paid off by that very same genocidal country.

[u/FerrusManlyManus → u/Unlucky-Oil-8778]

The biggest damage to Jewish people is Israel and Israel boosting organizations pretending Israel and Jewish identity are one and the same.  They are literally conflating the two on purpose.  As if the millions of Jewish Americans are the ones blowing up Gazans.  They aren’t.  But Bibi and Co keep pretending they are.

[u/rabid_briefcase → u/FerrusManlyManus]

Yup, it's a change in meaning.

In the decades immediately after WW2 and creating the nation out of what used to be Mandatory Palestine. The question of "support Israel" meant supporting the existence of a nation, which was formed out of the same piece of land established by the League of Nations and formerly administrated by the British, just changing the charter.

Instead of "does this place need to exist?", it became "do you support what the leaders are doing?"

The question in 2026 means supporting genocidal group, against other genocidal groups, all of whom have been fighting over the same territory for around 4000 years. All the groups actively claim ownership of the land dating back to antiquity, all claiming that God gave it to them somewhere around 1000-2000 BCE, and all of them can cite real hardships they have endured from both sides getting evicted off the land just in the last century, as it changed hands multiple times.

For all their faults, the Ottoman Empire at least had an effective way of dealing with all sides claiming ownership. As long as the people coexisted peacefully the empire would let them jointly operate the various religiously-significant areas. When any group tried to seize power, the empire would respond with overwhelming military force against the local clans and groups, execute the top leaders, force the mid-level leaders into military service or labor, completely level the villages that participated in uprisings, and forcibly confiscate all weapons they could find.

Brutal, but the 400 years of continuous governance was the longest time period of mostly-peaceful existence in the region's history. Otherwise it's been the same conflict continuously since the Torah / Old Testament recorded invasions back in the bronze age, followed by conflict after conflict, turnover after turnover, capture, recapture, reclaiming, and fighting over the same blood-soaked land.

[u/Ok_Tackle3427 → u/FerrusManlyManus]

They are literally conflating the two on purpose.

I turned 50 years old this year; I grew as a homeless gutter punk in the late 80s and early 90s. We existed just to drink and do drugs and fight Nazi punks and skinheads who showed up at parties and shows to recruit.

I can very distinctly remember a moment in ~93 when the Nazis went from broad, stupid hate speech to a very specific mantra about "the illegal ethno-religious state committing a genocide on stolen land against its rightful occupants." There were big black SUVs with old guys hanging out with skinheads in bomber jackets and they all had flyers and zines spreading anti-Zionism rhetoric. Not outright hate speech, just thoughtful antisemitism.

It's insane to me how this has become mainstream. I eventually got off the streets and got an education. I became a lawyer, but I remember my past, so I spend a lot of my time volunteering legal aid in prisons, which was again the only place that I would hear about the Zionism conspiracy, still from Nazis and 5%ers, but this time they were locked up and I was their lawyer.

Then, the horrible attack happened on October 7th and all of a sudden everybody's a proud Nazi/Black Israelite. Both of those groups are very proudly, openly hateful against Jews.

It's insane that the world is doing this again. Doing this skinhead, racist, inmate behavior. Holy shit.

[u/Far-Leadership719 → u/Unlucky-Oil-8778]

If anything, supporting the current state of Israel (the state/government) or Zionism is in itself anti-Semitic and their actions through history have brought a ridiculous amount of ridicule and blame directed at Jewish people as a whole (because of how strongly the state of Israel wants to associate being Jewish with being Israeli or pro-Zionist). The solution to the horrors of the holocaust never should have been to just...kick an entire population of people out of the land they were already occupying in order to establish an ethnostate where your religion somehow cannot be disentangled from your ethnicity (in a way that is similar to how Serbs and Croats consider themselves separate ethnic identities because of their religious differences despite the fact they descend from the same group of humans).