Critics of Israel once occupied the fringes of the debate in the United States. Then, in 2007, J Street was founded as a loyal opposition to the kind of Israeli politics that received uncritical support from the U.S. mainstream. By organizing “pro-Israel, pro-peace, pro-democracy Americans” in favor of a more enlightened U.S.-Israel relationship, J Street has opposed policies of the Israeli government without challenging the foundational principles of that country.
A more radical view, however, has been taking shape, thanks largely to the extremism of the Netanyahu government in Israel and the intransigence of a succession of U.S. governments. In 2020, influential Jewish intellectual Peter Beinart published a piece <https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/opinion/israel-annexation-two-state-solution.html> in *The New York Times* that effectively renounced the notion of a Jewish state in favor of a “one-state solution” in which Jews and Palestinians live together with equal rights in a single state. Given a choice between liberalism and Zionism, many Americans are giving up on the latter. What started as a trickle has now become a noticeable stream, as Beinart writes in an article last month <https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/opinion/israel-american-jews-zionism.html> in the *Times*. The polling supports his analysis. Last year, Gallup revealed <https://news.gallup.com/poll/472070/democrats-sympathies-middle-east-shift-palestinians.aspx> that sympathy among Democrats now favored Palestinians (49 percent) over Israelis (38 percent), a reversal never seen before in the polling. The gap within the Democratic Party is sharply generational. Among Democrats under the age of 35, 74 percent side with Palestinians <https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/20/politics/polling-democrats-divided-israel-palestine/index.html> compared to only 25 percent of those 65 and over. https://www.juancole.com/2024/04/united-heading-divorce.html Cracks in Biden’s Zionist Wall: Dems admit “Genocide, Famine” in Gaza as Israeli Atrocities Continue Cracks are showing in the Iron Wall of the Biden administration knee-jerk support for the far-right, extremist Israeli government’s total war on Gaza. US AID Administrator Samantha Power <https://youtu.be/_p-2T1BkNvk?si=_Rw2rctkjFAOXzmr> admitted that Israel’s campaign in Gaza has produced a famine. And Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) admitted that Israel is committing a genocide there. https://www.juancole.com/2024/04/genocide-atrocities-continue.html -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#29885): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/29885 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/105500614/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
