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As of January 2018, about 73-79% of Republicans affirmatively support Israel over Palestine, while only 6-11% primarily sympathize with and support Palestinians.
Among Democrats, 27-31% affirmatively support Israel, while 27-31% primarily sympathize with and support Palestinians.
Like most policy issues, these partisan difference represent a stark departure from very comparable percentages c. 1970. That is, like issues of taxation and race relations, Democrats and Republicans were similarly divided in the past, but are now increasingly polarized.
http://www.people-press.org/2018/01...urther-apart-in-views-of-israel-palestinians/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/74-republicans-33-democrats-back-israel-over-palestinians-poll/
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-the-gop-became-a-pro-israel-party/
The polarization has, of late, more noticeably affected the Democratic Party. While support for Israel and disdain for Palestine has been steadily creeping up for Republicans since 1980 and have only slightly increased in yearly gains during the Obama administration (which the right-wing American media framed as anti-Israel and by extension anti-American), the attitudes of Democrats have undergone more recent changes. As new-wave libertarian Democrats, headed ironically by Jewish-American lawmaker Bernie Sanders, have entered the political fray, opposition to Israeli occupation has not only become a burgeoning issue, but has also become an increasingly important litmus test for the morality of Democratic lawmakers.
However, it's unknown how this developing opposition to Israel and solidarity with Palestine will affect the party electorally. Specifically, this is because (a) Jewish Americans tend to support Israel and also tend to vote Democrat, and (b) a new wave of antisemitic rhetoric has taken hold in the grassroots of the American right and Holocaust denial and conspiracy theories over Israeli/Jewish economic control has become a bit more prevalent.
So, my question to American centrists and conservatives, and particularly young members of the right-wing, how does a Democratic rejection of Israeli hegemony affect, if at all, your opinion of the party?
Among Democrats, 27-31% affirmatively support Israel, while 27-31% primarily sympathize with and support Palestinians.
Like most policy issues, these partisan difference represent a stark departure from very comparable percentages c. 1970. That is, like issues of taxation and race relations, Democrats and Republicans were similarly divided in the past, but are now increasingly polarized.
http://www.people-press.org/2018/01...urther-apart-in-views-of-israel-palestinians/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/74-republicans-33-democrats-back-israel-over-palestinians-poll/
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-the-gop-became-a-pro-israel-party/
The polarization has, of late, more noticeably affected the Democratic Party. While support for Israel and disdain for Palestine has been steadily creeping up for Republicans since 1980 and have only slightly increased in yearly gains during the Obama administration (which the right-wing American media framed as anti-Israel and by extension anti-American), the attitudes of Democrats have undergone more recent changes. As new-wave libertarian Democrats, headed ironically by Jewish-American lawmaker Bernie Sanders, have entered the political fray, opposition to Israeli occupation has not only become a burgeoning issue, but has also become an increasingly important litmus test for the morality of Democratic lawmakers.
However, it's unknown how this developing opposition to Israel and solidarity with Palestine will affect the party electorally. Specifically, this is because (a) Jewish Americans tend to support Israel and also tend to vote Democrat, and (b) a new wave of antisemitic rhetoric has taken hold in the grassroots of the American right and Holocaust denial and conspiracy theories over Israeli/Jewish economic control has become a bit more prevalent.
So, my question to American centrists and conservatives, and particularly young members of the right-wing, how does a Democratic rejection of Israeli hegemony affect, if at all, your opinion of the party?
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