Netanyahu has never been very popular. He's just good at making backroom deals. Remember that Israel has a bunch of political parties, so it's always about coalitions and he's been really good at getting everyone in the right-wing parties on his side. Now he's working on putting laws in place that will make him dictator for life.

And you don't have to believe me on that last part, ask his former best friend: https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-798324

They have been for a while. There were huge protests all last year. For that matter there were protests in Palestine last summer against Hamas. Frankly this entire war was very good for both Netanyahu and Hamas.

Hear, hear! This is fantastic. The people who can change the state of Israel are the Israeli people. I hope their voices are heard.

They should ship the NYPD or Texas Rangers over there to crush this dissent.

The self hatred is strong in them /s

I think Israeli apologists have become a little too conditioned to jump to weaponised charges of antisemitism. It's been so easy and effective to deploy for so long that it's a bit of an addiction, and they're just going to keep slamming that button expecting it to keep paying out even though it's not working any more.

There's already Jewish groups in the protest crowds.

They already just lump them in as Anti-Semitic. The ADL even complained that a Jewish led protest had the temerity to march past a synagogue.

I'm not sure that can ever happen. the student protests:

1. a lot of people don't really have an idea what's going on. Maybe they just wanna feel part of it after years of isolation during Covid, but they're not interested in the Protest and the Topic itself. Endorsing such a "fake" protest would discredit the Israeli protest
2. there are people on these student protests who are hardline radicalized and want the entirety of Israel removed and also deny the Hamas attrocities as "zionist propaganda". They aren't interested in a Solution invoving Israel. only if they are removed from the Protests can the two groups work together.

I think it'd work better if the Student Protests endorsed the Israeli Protest. This way it would show the World that they're interested not in a destruction of Israel but in a peaceful end to this War. This way they would also force all the radical People out of the Student Protests and thus give them more credibility and even pave the way for the Israeli Protests to endorse the Student ones.

Your comment just seems like a good one to add this to. It is not any form of commentary on you or you comment

So the word Semite refers to pretty much everyone who lived in the now middle east. It is a pretty old and mostly outdated word. That was surprising enough created by some white Europeans, who were busy categorizing the world from their safe office of their learned institutions.

Here is a map of the languages that are considered semitic as a rough idea the people that could fall under this term

Obviously antisemitism is used to refer to Jewish people, though it is really being used incorrectly. It should be used in a way that someone hates both Jew and Arabs, and a few other groups too.

Anyway you all have a little bit of useless knowledge.

I'm Jewish, so I can say it though?

Do you think pointing out a genocide is like the N word or something?

Bingo!

Without knowing Israel's political landscape, I'm inclined to agree, but I don't think 'a referendum on our policies' is part of the right-wing playbook

Israelis will be lucky if Netanyahu ever calls an election again until he dies.

It would be easier to get trump to respect the gag order he’s under in his court cases

The whole reason Netanyahu won’t stop this war is because the second he does he’s removed from office by their courts.

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But Dana would never!

If the polls are meant for propaganda instead of informing anyone of the truth. It's not hard to stack polls even if you accept all responses. Just add the bias to the study population selection.