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Half of US voters believe Israel committing genocide in Gaza, poll says

The share of US voters who believe a genocide is taking place in Gaza includes 77 percent of Democrats and 51 percent of independents, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released on Wednesday.

A large majority of Republicans – 64 percent – do not think Israel is committing genocide, according to the poll, whereas 20 percent do.

Six in 10 US voters also oppose Washington sending more military aid to Israel, according to the poll, the highest share since Quinnipiac began asking the question in November 2023.

Voters are almost evenly split in their sympathies for Palestinians and Israelis, according to Quinnipiac, with 37 percent saying they are more sympathetic towards Palestinians and 36 percent saying they feel more sympathy for Israelis.

The share of Americans expressing sympathy for Palestinians is the highest – and the share sympathetic towards Israelis the lowest – since Quinnipiac began asking the question in December 2001.

Right wing propaganda is still plenty effective but also starting to lose ground.
 
77% of democrats vs 20% of Republicans believe Israel is committing genocide. Echo chambers and mainstream media at work as I do not believe Republicans are any dumber or more heartless than Democrats.

Sympathy should be with both sides. Most Israelis were born into this conflict just as pretty much all Palestinians alive today. The split in these polls proves how effective propaganda is and in Israel dehumanizing propaganda is all across the board from birth. Same for Gaza and the Westbank, less need for propaganda there as people live the occupation daily. 

Social media is a double edged sword. On one hand it broke the Israeli Hasbara and exposed the influence of the Israeli lobby across the world yet echo chambers keep enough people dis-informed for governments to keep supporting genocide.