cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/43828737
Michelle Goldberg Feb. 27, 2026, 6:47 p.m. ET
https://archive.ph/kOzWb#selection-4499.0-4501.12
It’s been obvious for some time that Americans are souring on Israel, but a Gallup poll that came out on Friday marks a turning point. For the first time in the poll’s 25-year history, it found, more Americans sympathize with the Palestinians than with the Israelis. The shift wasn’t just among Democrats, whose opinion of Israel has been in free fall in recent years. According to Gallup, only 30 percent of independents now sympathize with Israel; 41 percent sympathize with the Palestinians. Among adults under 35, support for Israel has fallen to a record low of 23 percent. With numbers like this, bipartisan backing for Israel, long a constant in American politics, will in time become unsustainable.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel famously prides himself on his ability to shape American policy. As he said in a secretly recorded 2001 conversation, “I know what America is. America is a thing you can move very easily, move it in the right direction.” Yet he has presided over an ongoing collapse in American Zionism and could eventually go down in history as the prime minister who lost Israel’s most important ally.
$28 million dollars is a tiny fucking amount of money in terms of lobbying.
It’s also only about $50,000 per congress member.
For that same cycle, it was reported that the 117 Senate candidates received about 1.5 million dollars on average, and the entirety of congress races received something like $700 million. So AIPAC was less than 4% of all money.
Assuming that number is actually amounts given to congress, and not just lobbying or PAC stuff which has separate much higher totals.
Some individual races were in the 10s of millions.
Lobbying was a $5 Billion dollar industry in 2025.
How can you expect to be taken seriously when the amounts they’re spending are so small? How can these people be so completely bought by such tiny amounts? It entirely defies any sort of reason, especially given that both parties support Israel so they would have to spread it over EVERYONE for it to be effective.
you didn’t need to go that far, everyone already understood you were an idiot. your response to Israel spending billions of dollars over decades on buying politicians is “but those bribes aren’t big enough”.
what defies reason is that you’re able to make such arguments seriously, MAGA.
If you shout MAGA enough times, I hear it summons a direct connection to the Truth.
You have no proof, your assertions aren’t backed up by any sort of actual logic.
There are groups like META who spent MORE than AIPAC in 2025, and congress is still handing them their asses, so clearly just funneling money to congresscritters isn’t sufficient to directly buy them off.