A recently released Gallup poll based on surveys taken during February of this year, indicate a landmark transformation of the American political landscape when it comes to Israel.

In a word, more Americans now sympathize with Palestinians than with Israelis. The shift marks the first time since Gallup began tracking the issue in 1967 that Israel has lost its long-standing lead in US public opinion.

We Jews should not be surprised at the shift.   One only needs to recall that on October 8, 2023, while our people were still being rounded up and shot during the Hamas invasion of Israel and subsequent massacre of 1,250 Jews and others who had the bad luck of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, demonstrators against Israel were already on the streets of the US protesting against Israel and in support of the perpetrators of the massacre.

Those protests were clearly not spontaneous. The demonstrators were well equipped with professionally prepared posters in support of Hamas.  In addition, paid organizers were busy declaiming their anger at Israel with prepared talking points while masses of trained agitators were fanning out across the country generating anti-Israel rallies both within cities and on university campuses.

Follow up investigations since that day have shown that Qatar and Saudi Arabia were funding the training of protestors for years as well as preparing associated materials so........

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