• mar_k [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Really seems to be no evidence to even support Jewish Americans are any more likely to support Israel than non-Jewish Americans

      Roughly 25% of American Jews overall and 40% of American Jews under 40 believe Israel is an apartheid state (and 13% of US Jews over 64). That lines up with a lot of polling on Israel for Americans as a whole. I’d extrapolate that to say if you looked at Jewish people under 30 or 25, it’d be a majority calling it apartheid. Also, 1 in 3 (back in 2021) Jewish people under 40 believed Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians

      From other polls I’ve looked at, I think you could reasonably assume Americans overall (and definitely Christians) would be equally if not less likely to call Israel is an apartheid state than Jewish people

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        They are less likely to support Israel, because American Jews who do support Israel move there and join their favourite settler colony where they get to be the upper class.

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          The vast majority haven’t left for Israel tho, it’s something like 0.04% of American Jews that leave every year, or 2% across the last 50 years. US Jewish population has actually grown in size way more than its shrunk

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            Huh, I had no idea it was only about 2% across the last 50 years, I would’ve thought it was much higher than that. I might be thinking of general immigration statistics and not those focused on specific groups.

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              Yeah Israel’s immigrants come from a bunch of countries, American immigrants make up barely 10% of them. They get roughly just as many immigrants from France as America, and twice as many Russian Jews as American Jews every year