Israel war: Democrats agree with Joe Biden, not the Squad, on supporting Israel over Hamas
Tiana Lowe Doescher
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The recent mobs of Hamas sympathizers who have graduated from university campuses to mobbing Democratic members of Congress may be loud, but they aren’t popular. According to every available polling measure, the pro-Israel flank of the party holding the line against them is correctly seen by the rest of the country as being on the right side of history.
A full two-thirds of the country considers Hamas entirely or mostly responsible for the violence of the past two weeks and says that assisting Israel’s defense is an important American policy, according to the latest polling from Yahoo News / YouGov. Nearly 7 in 10 now consider Hamas to be a terrorist organization, and whereas in 2021, there was only a 15-percentage-point gap in terms of whether Americans’ sympathies were more with Israel than with the Palestinians, Israel now has a 34-point advantage. That’s close to a 20-point shift in Israel’s favor.
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Dig deeper, and you’ll see that the phenomenon is broadly bipartisan. According to a CBS / YouGov poll, more than 3 in 5 Democrats said President Joe Biden’s statements and actions have reflected the right amount of support for Israel, with only a quarter saying the president is expressing too much support. A Quinnipiac University poll found that three-quarters of Democrats believe supporting Israel is in our national interest, and nearly 60% support sending weapons and military equipment to Israel.
Of course, it’s not all good news. As evidenced by the age difference between the octogenarian Biden and his older pro-Israel allies versus the vainglorious immaturity of the so-called “Squad” of far-left Democrats in Congress, the most vitriolic antisemites are also the youngest. Whereas two-thirds of seniors polled by Yahoo News said their sympathies outright lie with Israel as opposed to just 3% for the Palestinians, only 27% of those between the ages of 18 and 29 sided with Israel, while 19% say they sympathized with the Palestinians. Just 6% of seniors polled by Quinnipiac primarily blame Israel for the worst one-day death toll of Jews since the Holocaust, but an alarming 19% of those 18 to 34 do. (A thin 55% majority at least blame Hamas.)
Biden and much of his party have risen to the occasion, correctly and forcefully beating back against the antisemitic scourge of its far-left flank. The broad, bipartisan consensus supporting Israel is a heartening reminder that our humanity, when needed, can overcome the debauchery of contemporary politics. But more than 80 years after the Holocaust began, our next generation shows troubling signs that “never again” is being forgotten as history recedes into the past while repeating itself once more.