I live in Europe and according the common media outlets, the US absolutely, totally, forever support Israel. "largely" is too weak of a word here.

And now honnest question: why is this support so strong in the US ? are the ties with the jewish/israely community so deep between these two peoples ?

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kj4211cash 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

You and the other replies focus too much on the Jewish community within the US. Support for Israel is very strong in the US, particularly among Republicans, because of the rise of Evangelical Christians. Evangelicals have ... religious reasons for supporting of Israel. They also strongly identify with Europe and people with European backgrounds. They have an inability to identify with Palestinians.

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Hikikomori 4 days ago | parent [-]

When it comes to the democratic parties loyalty to Israel I think it's mostly the work of AIPAC that is responsible.

	▲	kj4211cash 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		There's some truth to this but it's also an anti-semitic trope. There are a whole bunch of Jewish people on the Left that don't support the current Israeli regime.

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cmrdporcupine 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The real story here is the way Zionism has so deeply and intensely and succesffully managed to tie Jewishness to Israel-iness.

And so many people who are rightfully proud of their Jewish ethnicity and cultural identification -- a rich and beautiful culture that has had absolutely outsized contributions to art, science, culture in the west, with a history of being persecuted and mistreated by said "west" -- have become defacto "citizens-abroad" and advocates for Israeli positions in all things.

That combined with a deep and historical distrust of Islam in western culture...

It's the same story here in Canada. How deep the bank account for this blank cheque is, I don't know.

I should say that as a left wing critic of what happens in the middle east under Israel's banner, I am also deeply uncomfortable with some of the anti-Semitic tinge some forms of the protest take. It's a conundrum.

It is absolutely important to make it clear the criticism is of the actions of Israel, and not "Jews"

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Hikikomori 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Largely as we have people like AOC, Ilhan and Bernie. Maybe a stretch to say they're part of the party.

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twixfel 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

The only country the Americans love and worship more than their own country is Israel. I can understand brain dead nationalism for your own country, but brain dead nationalism for another country, especially one doing the things Israel is doing... it's very strange.

	▲	sjsdaiuasgdia 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		There's at least a few factors in play... Christian sects that believe the second coming of Jesus is not too far away believe that Israel's existence is critical to bring that to pass. People with anti-muslim or anti-arabian feelings see Israel as a counterweight to muslim and arabian power in the middle east. There's a lot of people who, consciously or not, equate anything other than total support for Israel with antisemitism.