• مهما طال الليل@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Unless people are afraid to speak up, that’s what the polls say.

    Pew Research has it at 4%

    Israeli Arabs[sic]* are much more likely than Jews to say the country’s military response has gone too far (74% vs. 4%).

    https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2024/05/30/israeli-views-of-the-israel-hamas-war/

    * the term Israeli Arab is rejected by the majority of Palestinians living within the Green Line. The term purposefully erases Palestinian identity.

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      2 months ago

      Thank you for the citation. 4% is still incredibly low. After 9/11, more than 40% of Americans were against invading iraq. I am really surprised, but I could believe it. I didn’t realize how polarised it was.

      BTW your usage of [sic] here is astonishing. The asterisk alone would have sufficed.

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        2 months ago

        as the other person said, there’s threats to those who protest, but also decades of propaganda in schools dehumanizing Palestinians brainwash people from childhood to think this is normal and just.

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      2 months ago

      Also not all “Israeli Arabs” are Palestinian. There are Arab Jews and there are Palestinian citizens of Israel who do not get treated the same at all.

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        2 months ago

        All Jews in Israel including those of an Arab background are included under Israeli Jews. Itamar Ben Gvier is an Iraqi Jew and he is the most anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab politician in Israel. Israeli Arabs means one thing only and that’s Palestinians with Israeli citizenship.

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          2 months ago

          I would dispute that categorisation because that suggests that oppression of the Palestinians is because they are “Arab” rather than because they are the native Palestinian people. It’s a Zionist obfuscation I’ve heard Palestinians oppose because it means non-Palestinian Arabs end up speaking on behalf of Palestinians. The Palestinians I’ve met are quite clear on a distinction between Arab people as a race and Palestinian people as a national identity. Not to mention there are Afro-Palestinians and quite white-looking Palestinians who arguably wouldn’t normally be counted as Arab due to their race.