Nearly one in three Democrats and nearly half of young people support Hamas over Israel. Let that sink in. ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Friday, February 28, 2025

Nearly one in three Democrats and nearly half of young people support Hamas over Israel. Let that sink in.

Yesterday I wrote about a Gallup poll that showed historic highs for Democratic support of Palestinians and record low support for Israel.

In case you think that this is simply sympathy for Gaza - it isn't.

A new Harvard/Harris poll shows a great deal of sympathy for Hamas - not Palestinians, Hamas - among Democrats, with 31% more supportive of Hamas than Israel.

Among those aged 18-24, 46% support Hamas over Israel.

These results aren't an indication that the respondents truly support Islamist terror, or rape as a weapon of war, or burning babies alive. Most of these people would not say that they support ISIS or Al Qaeda.

Much of this is just ignorance - blindly associating Hamas with all Palestinians and therefore showing sympathy that way.

But a significant part of these results point to how antisemitism works today.

No one outside the far-Right wants to admit that they are antisemitic. But Jew-hatred still exists and is growing quickly, as we see in the huge increase of hate crimes against Jews. Its increase is directly tied to how people perceive the Gaza war. Denying that is denying reality.

People who define themselves as liberal cannot handle the cognitive dissonance that they also hate Jews. They are progressive - they consider antisemitism is a right wing thing, a thing of the past. They are convinced that they only hate Israel, not Jews.

But when asked the question more elliptically, for many of them, antisemitism shines through.

The poll question was constructed as an either-or choice - which side do you support more? So the conclusion is that many of the Democratic and young respondents hate Israel more than they hate terrorists murdering Jews.

Yes, there are some on the fringes who deny Hamas atrocities. But a significant number know about them, and would nominally condemn them - except when they are against Jews. In that case, terror becomes justified and the Jews deserve to be stabbed, shot, burned, raped and kidnapped.

They would deny up and down that they are antisemitic. But if the exact same question was asked between terror group and every other country on Earth, no one would support the terrorists. No one supported ISIS over Iraq or Syria no matter how bad those regimes were. No one supports Islamist insurgents in Egypt.

Only when the terrorists attack Jews do they become sympathetic.

One they become sympathetic, then the newly-converted supporters of Hamas have to support them all the way.