Survey: Major shift rightward in Israel since October 7
According to a series of surveys taken from August 2023 through June 2024, the Israeli population shifted significantly rightward in Israel after the Hamas massacre on October 7, 2023.
The shift was not so much ideological — leftists still professed support for socialist policies — but mostly related to security issues and attitudes towards the Arabs living in Gaza and the West Bank. For example,
According to the Agam Labs survey, 52 percent of Jewish Israelis oppose the government’s wartime facilitation of humanitarian aid to Gaza, and just 30 percent support the policy—roughly the reverse of the numbers prior to Oct. 7.
Support for direct Israeli aid to and cooperation with the Palestinians has fallen even faster and farther, down to roughly one-fifth of the public in both cases.
One former leftist is quoted in the article as follows, “They can have aid in Gaza when they give us back our hostages. That’s how I feel,” she said. “I guess that makes me a right-wing extremist.”
I would say this survey proves Israel is the perfect example of a liberal who becomes a conservative after getting mugged.
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To quote Gomer Pyle, Surprise, surprise!”
Remember, Ted Bundy was put to death for less than what Hamas has bragged about.
It isn’t just Israel:
Some in the astronomy community
https://forum.cosmoquest.org/forum/listen-learn-teach-engage/astronomy-activism/3734654-unsubscribed-from-phil-plaits-newsletter-in-protest
The “shift to the right” is very understandable. I’m pretty sure we didn’t “send aid” to Hitler’s WW2 Germany. Not sure why “sending aid” is expected now.
After the Holocaust an elderly Jewish survivor what lesson the world should learn. He replied ,”That one someone says he hates you and intends to kill you, you should take them at their word.”