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CNN data guru Harry Enten broke down the latest polling in the Democratic Party on views toward Israel and the Palestinians on Wednesday and marveled at the massive shift in attitudes, declaring he’s “rarely” seen anything like it in his many years of looking at polling data.

Enten spoke to anchor Kate Bolduan in the context of Zohran Mamdani’s sweeping victory over ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo in New York City’s Democratic Party mayoral primary last week.

"What are we talking about here? All right, who do Democrats sympathize more with: Israelis or Palestinians? In 2017, the Democratic Party was a pro-Israeli party. Look at this. They sympathized with the Israelis by 13 points—more with the Israelis than the Palestinians. But look at this sea change. Now, Democrats sympathize more with the Palestinians by 43 points.Oh my God! That is a change in the margin of 56 points over the course of just eight years. So all of a sudden, it’s the pro-Palestinian position that actually reigns supreme in Democratic politics, not the Israeli position. And that is part of the reason why Mamdani was able to do so well in this primary, because those attacks over Israel, simply put, did not ring true for Democrats"

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[-] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

People finally realized the entrenched "democrats" aren't good people. They are poloticians just like the Republicans. We need a new party.

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[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Genocide will do that

[-] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Genocide isnt necessarily a bad thing, depending on who is being genocided. Take Nazis and white supremacists, for example....

[-] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 months ago

Races and cultures get genocided. You don't genocide ideas. You are talking about the extermination of people who don't think like you. This is not part of the paradox of intolerance. Re-education is the only solution barring becoming the monster you are trying to destroy.

[-] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Didnt seem to work for fascism or the confederacy; why do you think it will work now?

[-] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Israel is the world's largest and oldest concentration camp for Jews. The citizens are mostly trapped there. Someone like Netanyahu isn't living your average life of an Israeli citizen, either. It's not zero sum. They are all being enslaved and they are all in extreme danger, Palestine much more so and much more urgently as of right now, but the Israeli people are also in danger as well

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[-] rumimevlevi@lemmings.world 2 points 3 months ago

What a point even mean in this context? Why not giving percentage of who sympatisze with palestinians

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