[rad-green] Poll: Is Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism? Plurality of Americans disagree with Pence AIPAC proclamation
"Sid Shniad" (via rad-green Mailing List) <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Mar 2020 17:24:13 -0700
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format... ------------=_1583886281-7785-102082 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0000000000002e36e605a08942f7" --0000000000002e36e605a08942f7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable https://www.wrmea.org/irmep-polls/poll-is-anti-zionism-anti-semitism-plural= ity-of-americans-disagree-with-pence-aipac-proclamation.html *Washington Report on Middle East Affairs * Poll: Is Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism? Plurality of Americans disagree with Pence AIPAC proclamation*Grant F. Smith* IRmep Polls *IRmep Poll:* =E2=80=9CVP Mike Pence proclaimed, =E2=80=98anti-Zionism <https://www.wrmea.org/special-topics/zionism-and-its-impact.html> is anti-Semitism.=E2=80=99 Zionism is a political movement supporting a Jewish= state while anti-Semitism is a form of bigotry against Jews. Is anti-Zionism anti-Semitism, or not?=E2=80=9D Source: IRmep representative poll of 1,790 American adults through Google Surveys <https://surveys.google.com/reporting/survey?survey=3D7kn55kdimttajc4qxvarq= cd2za> on March 5-7, 2020. Answer order randomly reversed. RMSE score sample bias 4.3 percent. Story Highlights - About half of Americans believe anti-Zionism is not a form of bigotry. - Only 30 percent align with the Trump administration policy that =E2=80=9Canti-Zionism is anti-Semitism.=E2=80=9D - Most Americans don=E2=80=99t self-identify as Zionist (70.3 percent <https://www.irmep.org/polls/content/06152017_American_Zionism.asp>). - Majorities of Americans consistently oppose U.S. aid to Israel <https://www.irmep.org/polls/>, government crackdowns on student human rights protests (58.8 percent <https://www.irmep.org/polls/content/12182019_EO.asp>) and bans on boycotts of Israel (74.9 percent <https://www.irmep.org/polls/content/02122019_Boycott.asp>), while 68.8 percent <https://www.wrmea.org/irmep-polls/sixty-eight-percent-of-americans-woul= d-reject-trumps-mideast-deal-of-the-century.html> would not personally accept the terms of the Trump Middle East =E2=80=9CDeal o= f the Century.=E2=80=9D Addressing the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference on March 2, Vice President Mike Pence proudly proclaimed <https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-vice-president-pen= ce-american-israel-public-affairs-committee-policy-conference/> =E2=80=9CIt is the position of the United States government that anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism.=E2=80=9D The line received thunderous applause <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D4iYNRd-p5As&t=3D624s>. A plurality of Americans disagree. 47.7 percent do not equate anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism while 30 percent do. Written responses <https://surveys.google.com/reporting/question?hl=3Den&survey=3D7kn55kdimtt= ajc4qxvarqcd2za&question=3D1&raw=3Dfalse&transpose=3Dfalse&tab=3Dverbatim&s= ynonyms=3Dtrue>, (22.3 percent) to the poll were mostly =E2=80=9CI don=E2=80=99t know=E2=80= =9D (6.4 percent) or equivalents (2.2 percent), as respondents grappled and responded to the question with other answers. Speakers at AIPAC last week claimed 18,000 were in attendance, but the annual gathering took place under a cloud of controversy. AIPAC had to retract and apologize for its Facebook ad campaign claiming U.S. lawmakers supportive of Palestinian human rights were =E2=80=9Cworse than ISIS.=E2=80= =9D On February 12 <https://mccollum.house.gov/media/press-releases/mccollum-statement-hate-sp= eech-makes-aipac-hate-group> Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN) released a statement that =E2=80=9Chate speech makes = AIPAC a hate group <https://mccollum.house.gov/media/press-releases/mccollum-statement-hate-sp= eech-makes-aipac-hate-group>.=E2=80=9D McCollum hit back at AIPAC=E2=80=99s opposition to her legislation to prote= ct Palestinian children from being =E2=80=9Cinterrogated, abused and even tort= ured in Israeli military prisons.=E2=80=9D Just before the AIPAC conference, McColl= um tweeted, =E2=80=9C@AIPAC=E2=80=99s agenda: Occupy & annex Palestinian land,= Dehumanize Palestinians, Imprison Palestinian Children. Promote Islamophobia.=E2=80=9D= She did not speak at AIPAC. AIPAC is facing new challenges to its longstanding claim that unconditional U.S. support for Israel is bipartisan. Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren boycotted the AIPAC gathering. Mike Bloomberg attended and praised the group, while Joe Biden and Amy Klobuchar appeared via video. Some Israel lobby operatives are stepping up a campaign of false charges of anti-Semitism to shut down prominent individuals that express valid criticism of Israel=E2=80=99s human rights record and ongoing military occu= pation of lands Israel invaded or annexed through war. Expanding the definition of anti-Semitism to include those who are not adherents of Zionism has taken on new urgency. The Israel lobby is struggling against growing public awareness of Israeli practices and their own politicians=E2=80=99 unconditi= onal support for Israel. Israel lobbyists are campaigning for U.S. government policies designed to suppress both Jewish and non-Jewish voices of those who either strongly self-identify as anti-Zionist or are simply non-Zionist. Zionism is a political movement that took hold in the late 1800s under the promotion of journalist Theodore Herzl who wanted to create a Jewish nation. After the modern state of Israel was established in 1948, Zionism came to mean support for Israel. According to the American Council for Judaism <https://www.acjna.org/acjna/articles_detail.aspx?id=3D2723>, for most of American history, anti-Zionism was the default position of the organized Jewish community. Upon dedicating the first Reform synagogue in Charleston, SC in 1841 Rabbi Gustov Poznanski declared =E2=80=9CThis happy country is o= ur Palestine, this city our Jerusalem.=E2=80=9D In 1885, Reform rabbis meeting= in Pittsburgh declared, =E2=80=9CWe consider ourselves no longer a nation, but= a religious community and therefore expect neither to return to Palestine nor a sacrificial worship nor the laws concerning a Jewish state.=E2=80=9D Wide= spread support for a Jewish state in Palestine only began to grow with the rise of anti-Semitism in Russia and Eastern Europe in the early 20th century. Most American Jewish establishment organizations didn=E2=80=99t become Zionist u= ntil the rise of Nazism and in the aftermath of the Holocaust. *Vice President Mike Pence addressing the AIPAC 2020 policy conference =E2= =80=93 Source Whitehouse.gov* Among the general population of voting age Americans, self-identification with Zionism is weak. A 2017 IRmep poll defined a Zionist as =E2=80=9Ca per= son who believes in the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel.=E2=80=9D 70.3 percent <https://www.irmep.org/polls/content/06152017_American_Zionism.asp> of Americans responded, =E2=80=9CI do not consider myself a Zionist.=E2=80=9D = Majorities of Americans also consistently oppose <https://irmep.org/polls> AIPAC=E2=80=99s signature lobbying demand: massive and unconditional U.S. foreign aid to Israel <https://www.wrmea.org/tag/us-aid-to-israel.html>. That aid, adjusted for inflation, exceeds $250 billion since 1948. While addressing AIPAC, Pence touted a string of controversial and legally dubious=E2=80=94under international law=E2=80=94actions implemented by what= he termed =E2=80=9Cthe most pro-Israel president in history.=E2=80=9D Some of the policies=E2=80= =94opposed by the American public=E2=80=94were moving the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerus= alem (56.5 percent opposed <https://www.irmep.org/polls/content/01032017_embassy.asp>) and the terms of the lopsided Middle East =E2=80=9CDeal of the Century=E2= =80=9D peace plan (68 percent rejection <https://www.irmep.org/polls/content/07292019_deal.asp>). Americans oppose bans on their free speech rights to boycott Israel (75 percent opposed <https://www.irmep.org/polls/content/02122019_Boycott.asp>). They are ambivalent about recently announced U.S. policy that international law does not apply to Israel=E2=80=99s military occupation and colonization= of the Golan Heights, West Bank and East Jerusalem. (53.6 percent neither =E2=80= =9Cagree nor disagree=E2=80=9D <https://www.irmep.org/polls/content/11272019_settlem= ents.asp> ). ------------------------------ *Grant F. Smith is the director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy in Washington, DC. For more IRmep polls, visit <https://irmep.org/Polls>https://IRmep.org/Polls <https://irmep.org/Polls>.* --=20 ---=20 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "= Sid-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an e= mail to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/= sid-l/CACKppczp0sJZuD6qVkdMSwUGKdyeL7zqEEG1_KN0gcTFM-CReg%40mail.gmail.com. --0000000000002e36e605a08942f7 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr"><div class=3D"gmail_default" style=3D"font-size:small"><a = href=3D"https://www.wrmea.org/irmep-polls/poll-is-anti-zionism-anti-semitis= m-plurality-of-americans-disagree-with-pence-aipac-proclamation.html" targe= t=3D"_blank">https://www.wrmea.org/irmep-polls/poll-is-anti-zionism-anti-se= mitism-plurality-of-americans-disagree-with-pence-aipac-proclamation.html</= a></div><div class=3D"gmail_default" style=3D"font-size:small"><font color= =3D"#000000"><b><br></b></font></div><div class=3D"gmail_default"><font col= or=3D"#000000"><b><font size=3D"4">Washington Report on Middle East Affairs= =C2=A0</font> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0=C2=A0</b></font></div><div class= =3D"gmail_default"><div style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:20px;f= ont-family:Merriweather,sans-serif"><h1 style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;marg= in:20px 0px 10px;font-family:"Merriweather Sans",sans-serif;line-= height:1.1;letter-spacing:-2px"><font color=3D"#000000" size=3D"6">Poll: Is= Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism? Plurality of Americans disagree with Pence AIP= AC proclamation</font></h1><b><font size=3D"4">Grant F. Smith</font></b><br= ></div><div style=3D"font-size:18px;box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:2px= ;overflow:hidden;font-family:Merriweather,sans-serif"><img src=3D"https://s= tatic.wrmea.org/images/2020/03/09/2020antizionismpollx840.png" alt=3D"" wid= th=3D"472" height=3D"202" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;vertica= l-align:middle;display:block;margin-right:25px"></div><div style=3D"box-siz= ing:border-box;font-family:Merriweather,sans-serif"><font color=3D"#000000"= style=3D"font-size:18px"><a id=3D"m_5423992764127261737gmail-startOfPage" = style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;display:inline-= block;outline:none"></a></font><h4 style=3D"font-size:29px;box-sizing:borde= r-box;font-family:"Merriweather Sans",sans-serif;line-height:1.1;= margin:50px 0px 30px;letter-spacing:-1px"><font color=3D"#000000">IRmep Pol= ls</font></h4><p style=3D"font-size:18px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0= px 22px"><font color=3D"#000000"><strong style=3D"box-sizing:border-box">IR= mep Poll:</strong>=C2=A0=E2=80=9CVP Mike Pence proclaimed, =E2=80=98anti-<a= title=3D"zionism" href=3D"https://www.wrmea.org/special-topics/zionism-and= -its-impact.html" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transpare= nt;display:inline-block;outline:none;font-weight:bold" target=3D"_blank">Zi= onism</a>=C2=A0is anti-Semitism.=E2=80=99 Zionism is a political movement s= upporting a Jewish state while anti-Semitism is a form of bigotry against J= ews. Is anti-Zionism anti-Semitism, or not?=E2=80=9D</font></p><p style=3D"= font-size:18px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 22px"><font color=3D"#0= 00000">Source: IRmep representative poll of 1,790 American adults through= =C2=A0<a href=3D"https://surveys.google.com/reporting/survey?survey=3D7kn55= kdimttajc4qxvarqcd2za" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;background-color:tran= sparent;display:inline-block;outline:none;font-weight:bold" target=3D"_blan= k">Google Surveys</a>=C2=A0on March 5-7, 2020. Answer order randomly revers= ed. RMSE score sample bias 4.3 percent.</font></p><h4 style=3D"font-size:29= px;box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Merriweather Sans",sans-ser= if;line-height:1.1;margin:50px 0px 30px;letter-spacing:-1px"><font color=3D= "#000000">Story Highlights</font></h4><ul style=3D"font-size:18px;box-sizin= g:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0px 50px;padding:0px;list-style-position:initia= l;line-height:1.85;vertical-align:text-top"><li style=3D"box-sizing:border-= box"><font color=3D"#000000">About half of Americans believe anti-Zionism i= s not a form of bigotry.</font></li><li style=3D"box-sizing:border-box"><fo= nt color=3D"#000000">Only 30 percent align with the Trump administration po= licy that =E2=80=9Canti-Zionism is anti-Semitism.=E2=80=9D</font></li><li s= tyle=3D"box-sizing:border-box"><font color=3D"#000000">Most Americans don= =E2=80=99t self-identify as Zionist (<a href=3D"https://www.irmep.org/polls= /content/06152017_American_Zionism.asp" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;back= ground-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;display:inline-block;out= line:none" target=3D"_blank">70.3 percent</a>).</font></li><li style=3D"box= -sizing:border-box"><font color=3D"#000000">Majorities of Americans consist= ently=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.irmep.org/polls/" style=3D"box-sizing:bor= der-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;display:inli= ne-block;outline:none" target=3D"_blank">oppose U.S. aid to Israel</a>, gov= ernment crackdowns on student human rights protests (<a href=3D"https://www= .irmep.org/polls/content/12182019_EO.asp" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;ba= ckground-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;display:inline-block;o= utline:none" target=3D"_blank">58.8 percent</a>) and bans on boycotts of Is= rael=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 (<a href= =3D"https://www.irmep.org/polls/content/02122019_Boycott.asp" style=3D"box-= sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;di= splay:inline-block;outline:none" target=3D"_blank">74.9 percent</a>), while= =C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.wrmea.org/irmep-polls/sixty-eight-percent-of-a= mericans-would-reject-trumps-mideast-deal-of-the-century.html" style=3D"box= -sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;d= isplay:inline-block;outline:none" target=3D"_blank">68.8 percent</a>=C2=A0w= ould not personally accept the terms of the Trump Middle East =E2=80=9CDeal= of the Century.=E2=80=9D</font></li></ul><p style=3D"font-size:18px;box-si= zing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 22px"><font color=3D"#000000"><br></font></p= ><p style=3D"font-size:18px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 22px"><fon= t color=3D"#000000">Addressing the American Israel Public Affairs Committee= (AIPAC) policy conference on March 2, Vice President=C2=A0<a href=3D"https= ://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-vice-president-pence-ame= rican-israel-public-affairs-committee-policy-conference/" style=3D"box-sizi= ng:border-box;background-color:transparent;display:inline-block;outline:non= e;font-weight:bold" target=3D"_blank">Mike Pence proudly proclaimed</a>=C2= =A0=C2=A0=E2=80=9CIt is the position of the United States government that a= nti-Zionism is anti-Semitism.=E2=80=9D The line received=C2=A0<a href=3D"ht= tps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D4iYNRd-p5As&t=3D624s" style=3D"box-sizi= ng:border-box;background-color:transparent;display:inline-block;outline:non= e;font-weight:bold" target=3D"_blank">thunderous applause</a>.</font></p><p= style=3D"font-size:18px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 22px"><font c= olor=3D"#000000">A plurality of Americans disagree. 47.7 percent do not equ= ate anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism while 30 percent do.=C2=A0<a href=3D"ht= tps://surveys.google.com/reporting/question?hl=3Den&survey=3D7kn55kdimt= tajc4qxvarqcd2za&question=3D1&raw=3Dfalse&transpose=3Dfalse&= ;tab=3Dverbatim&synonyms=3Dtrue" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;backgro= und-color:transparent;display:inline-block;outline:none;font-weight:bold" t= arget=3D"_blank">Written responses</a>, (22.3 percent) to the poll were mos= tly =E2=80=9CI don=E2=80=99t know=E2=80=9D (6.4 percent) or equivalents (2.= 2 percent), as respondents grappled and responded to the question with othe= r answers.</font></p><p style=3D"font-size:18px;box-sizing:border-box;margi= n:0px 0px 22px"><font color=3D"#000000">Speakers at AIPAC last week claimed= 18,000 were in attendance, but the annual gathering took place under a clo= ud of controversy. AIPAC had to retract and apologize for its Facebook ad c= ampaign claiming U.S. lawmakers supportive of Palestinian human rights were= =E2=80=9Cworse than ISIS.=E2=80=9D On=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://mccollum.hou= se.gov/media/press-releases/mccollum-statement-hate-speech-makes-aipac-hate= -group" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;display= :inline-block;outline:none;font-weight:bold" target=3D"_blank">February 12<= /a>=C2=A0Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN) released a statement that=C2=A0<a href= =3D"https://mccollum.house.gov/media/press-releases/mccollum-statement-hate= -speech-makes-aipac-hate-group" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;background-c= olor:transparent;display:inline-block;outline:none;font-weight:bold" target= =3D"_blank">=E2=80=9Chate speech makes AIPAC a hate group</a>.=E2=80=9D McC= ollum hit back at AIPAC=E2=80=99s opposition to her legislation to protect = Palestinian children from being =E2=80=9Cinterrogated, abused and even tort= ured in Israeli military prisons.=E2=80=9D Just before the AIPAC conference= , McCollum tweeted, =E2=80=9C@AIPAC=E2=80=99s agenda: Occupy & annex Pa= lestinian land, Dehumanize Palestinians, Imprison Palestinian Children. Pro= mote Islamophobia.=E2=80=9D She did not speak at AIPAC.</font></p><p style= =3D"font-size:18px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 22px"><font color= =3D"#000000">AIPAC is facing new challenges to its longstanding claim that = unconditional U.S. support for Israel is bipartisan. Democratic presidentia= l candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren boycotted the AIPAC gather= ing. Mike Bloomberg attended and praised the group, while Joe Biden and Amy= Klobuchar appeared via video.</font></p><p style=3D"font-size:18px;box-siz= ing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 22px"><font color=3D"#000000">Some Israel lob= by operatives are stepping up a campaign of false charges of anti-Semitism = to shut down prominent individuals that express valid criticism of Israel= =E2=80=99s human rights record and ongoing military occupation of lands Isr= ael invaded or annexed through war. Expanding the definition of anti-Semiti= sm to include those who are not adherents of Zionism has taken on new urgen= cy. The Israel lobby is struggling against growing public awareness of Isra= eli practices and their own politicians=E2=80=99 unconditional support for = Israel. Israel lobbyists are campaigning for U.S. government policies desig= ned to suppress both Jewish and non-Jewish voices of those who either stron= gly self-identify as anti-Zionist or are simply non-Zionist.</font></p><p s= tyle=3D"font-size:18px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 22px"><font col= or=3D"#000000">Zionism is a political movement that took hold in the late 1= 800s under the promotion of journalist Theodore Herzl who wanted to create = a Jewish nation. After the modern state of Israel was established in 1948, = Zionism came to mean support for Israel.</font></p><p style=3D"font-size:18= px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 22px"><font color=3D"#000000">Accor= ding to the=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.acjna.org/acjna/articles_detail.asp= x?id=3D2723" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;di= splay:inline-block;outline:none;font-weight:bold" target=3D"_blank">America= n Council for Judaism</a>, for most of American history, anti-Zionism was t= he default position of the organized Jewish community. Upon dedicating the = first Reform synagogue in Charleston, SC in 1841 Rabbi Gustov Poznanski dec= lared =E2=80=9CThis happy country is our Palestine, this city our Jerusalem= .=E2=80=9D In 1885, Reform rabbis meeting in Pittsburgh declared, =E2=80=9C= We consider ourselves no longer a nation, but a religious community and the= refore expect neither to return to Palestine nor a sacrificial worship nor = the laws concerning a Jewish state.=E2=80=9D Widespread support for a Jewis= h state in Palestine only began to grow with the rise of anti-Semitism in R= ussia and Eastern Europe in the early 20th century. Most American Jewish es= tablishment organizations didn=E2=80=99t become Zionist until the rise of N= azism and in the aftermath of the Holocaust.</font><span style=3D"color:rgb= (0,0,0)">=C2=A0</span></p><div style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;font-style:it= alic;font-family:"Merriweather Sans",sans-serif;line-height:1.6;p= adding-top:4px;padding-bottom:12px;margin-right:8px;margin-left:8px;margin-= bottom:0px;max-width:100%;border-bottom:1pt dashed rgb(204,196,196);float:n= one;width:840px"><span style=3D"font-size:18px;border-style:initial;border-= color:initial"><img title=3D"Vice President Mike Pence addressing the AIPAC= 2020 policy conference =E2=80=93 Source Whitehouse.gov" src=3D"https://lh4= .googleusercontent.com/g5GoeVIODnrQ8ZeH8epJyqCzltQ8UQqLTUPuwLMtA0wKMqYY1lYp= jJlaVSCSGnAYClFXDCE5HLr3em_asaSTcJJABHOpURNLYQGp8iSmwGkTocOulBjZHiOM4t4xaNT= Vh4nuX5N_" alt=3D"" width=3D"472" height=3D"359" style=3D"box-sizing: borde= r-box; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; display: block; margin: 0px 0px= 6px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"></span><p style=3D"box-sizing= :border-box;margin:0px 8px;line-height:1.6;padding-top:4px;padding-bottom:1= 2px;max-width:100%;border-bottom:1pt dashed rgb(204,196,196)"><font color= =3D"#000000" style=3D""><b>Vice President Mike Pence addressing the AIPAC 2= 020 policy conference =E2=80=93 Source Whitehouse.gov</b></font></p></div><= p style=3D"font-size:18px"></p><p style=3D"font-size:18px;box-sizing:border= -box;margin:0px 0px 22px"><font color=3D"#000000">Among the general populat= ion of voting age Americans, self-identification with Zionism is weak. A 20= 17 IRmep poll defined a Zionist as =E2=80=9Ca person who believes in the de= velopment and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel.=E2=80=9D= =C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.irmep.org/polls/content/06152017_American_Zion= ism.asp" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;displa= y:inline-block;outline:none;font-weight:bold" target=3D"_blank">70.3 percen= t</a>=C2=A0of Americans responded, =E2=80=9CI do not consider myself a Zion= ist.=E2=80=9D Majorities of Americans also=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://irmep.or= g/polls" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;displa= y:inline-block;outline:none;font-weight:bold" target=3D"_blank">consistentl= y oppose</a>=C2=A0AIPAC=E2=80=99s signature lobbying demand: massive and un= conditional U.S. foreign=C2=A0<a title=3D"U.S. Aid to Israel" href=3D"https= ://www.wrmea.org/tag/us-aid-to-israel.html" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;= background-color:transparent;display:inline-block;outline:none;font-weight:= bold" target=3D"_blank">aid to Israel</a>. That aid, adjusted for inflation= , exceeds $250 billion since 1948.</font></p><p style=3D"font-size:18px;box= -sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 22px"><font color=3D"#000000">While addre= ssing AIPAC, Pence touted a string of controversial and legally dubious=E2= =80=94under international law=E2=80=94actions implemented by what he termed= =E2=80=9Cthe most pro-Israel president in history.=E2=80=9D Some of the po= licies=E2=80=94opposed by the American public=E2=80=94were moving the U.S. = Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem (<a href=3D"https://www.irmep.org/polls/= content/01032017_embassy.asp" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;background-col= or:transparent;display:inline-block;outline:none;font-weight:bold" target= =3D"_blank">56.5 percent opposed</a>) and the terms of the lopsided Middle = East =E2=80=9CDeal of the Century=E2=80=9D peace plan (<a href=3D"https://w= ww.irmep.org/polls/content/07292019_deal.asp" style=3D"box-sizing:border-bo= x;background-color:transparent;display:inline-block;outline:none;font-weigh= t:bold" target=3D"_blank">68 percent rejection</a>). Americans oppose bans = on their free speech rights to boycott Israel (<a href=3D"https://www.irmep= .org/polls/content/02122019_Boycott.asp" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;bac= kground-color:transparent;display:inline-block;outline:none;font-weight:bol= d" target=3D"_blank">75 percent opposed</a>). They are ambivalent about rec= ently announced U.S. policy that international law does not apply to Israel= =E2=80=99s military occupation and colonization of the Golan Heights, West = Bank and East Jerusalem.=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.irmep.org/polls/conten= t/11272019_settlements.asp" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;background-color= :transparent;display:inline-block;outline:none;font-weight:bold" target=3D"= _blank">(53.6 percent neither =E2=80=9Cagree nor disagree=E2=80=9D</a>).</f= ont></p><hr style=3D"font-size:18px;box-sizing:content-box;height:0px;margi= n-top:20px;margin-bottom:20px;border-right:0px;border-bottom:0px;border-lef= t:0px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:rgb(65,65,65)"><p style=3D"fo= nt-size:18px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 22px"><em style=3D"box-si= zing:border-box"><font color=3D"#000000">Grant F. Smith is the director of = the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy in Washington, DC. For mo= re IRmep polls, visit=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://irmep.org/Polls" style=3D"box= -sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;display:inline-block;outlin= e:none;font-weight:bold" target=3D"_blank"></a><a href=3D"https://irmep.org= /Polls" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;display= :inline-block;outline:none;font-weight:bold" target=3D"_blank">https://IRme= p.org/Polls</a>.</font></em></p></div></div></div> <p></p> -- <br /> <br /> --- <br /> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups &= quot;Sid-l" group.<br /> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an e= mail to <a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">sid-l+unsubsc= [email protected]</a>.<br /> To view this discussion on the web visit <a href=3D"https://groups.google.c= om/d/msgid/sid-l/CACKppczp0sJZuD6qVkdMSwUGKdyeL7zqEEG1_KN0gcTFM-CReg%40mail= .gmail.com?utm_medium=3Demail&utm_source=3Dfooter">https://groups.google.co= m/d/msgid/sid-l/CACKppczp0sJZuD6qVkdMSwUGKdyeL7zqEEG1_KN0gcTFM-CReg%40mail.= gmail.com</a>.<br /> --0000000000002e36e605a08942f7-- ------------=_1583886281-7785-102082 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> List help: <https://riseup.net/lists> ------------=_1583886281-7785-102082--