An Israeli opinion poll found that 32 percent of young Jews abroad sympathize with Hamas and 36 percent of them believe Tel Aviv is committing genocide in the Gaza Strip.
This emerges from the results of a survey carried out by the Israeli Mosaic United Foundation, on behalf of the Ministry of Diaspora and the Fight against Anti-Semitism, and its results were published Monday evening by the Hebrew media, in particular the private channel Channel 14 and Israel Today. newspaper, where they were described as “disturbing”.
The survey also revealed significant differences between young Jews in the United States and those living in other countries regarding their views regarding the war of extermination in Gaza and Hamas, as data showed 37% of young American Jews have sympathy for Hamas, while the percentage drops to 7%. Only among young people from other countries.
42% of young American Jews think that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, compared to only 9% of young Jews in other countries, according to the same results.
Most of them are in the United States
According to the Anadolu Agency, approximately 8.5 million Jews live outside Israel, including approximately 6.3 million in the United States of America alone, according to the latest data released by the Jewish Agency in October 2024.
The investigation comes at a time when Israel has transformed the Gaza Strip into the largest prison in the world, besieging it for the 18th year, and where the war of extermination launched by Tel Aviv since October 7, 2023 has forced around two million citizens from the Gaza Strip, which has around 2.3 million Palestinians, fled in tragic conditions, with a serious and deliberate shortage of food, water and medicine.
With American support, Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023, leaving more than 149,000 Palestinian dead and injured, mostly children and women, and more than 11,000 missing, in a context of massive destruction and of famine which killed dozens of children and the elderly.