No one of the observers doubts that we are living this period, a wave of real, sharp and unprecedented transformations in Western public opinion towards Israel, especially after more than twenty months have passed since the extermination war witnessed in the Gaza Strip in full view of the world.
These transformations are witnessed primarily by the young generation in Western countries. It is even if it shows in the past an initial sympathy with the Palestinian issue in a way that exceeds the older generations, but this sympathy today turned into an explicit and declared wave of hostility to everything that Israel and its upcoming project in the region, until the matter reached the unprecedented scene that the Glasonbury party witnessed in Britain, when thousands of British youth chanted behind the rapper Bob Filan: Israeli.
This call exceeded the idea of general sympathy with Palestine in the known calls in the West, such as: “Palestine is free” or “from the river to the sea … Palestine will be free”, which was not explicit in showing its hostility to the Israeli project, despite the repeated Israeli attempts to criminalize these calls, so that the new call turns into an explicit hostility with the Israeli occupation army that reaches the word “death”, with all that it includes from Meanings and dimensions.
What is remarkable about these developments in the recent calls is that she was keen to commit to declaring hostility specifically to the Israeli occupation army, which has now represented the narrative of absolute violence and war crimes whose smells in the whole world, despite Israel insisting that these recent calls include all Israeli, and here the Israeli paradox lies in this matter.
Israel is currently in a state of real panic that goes beyond what we knew about in the past decades from permanent attempts that are married to reviewing the role of the victim under the name “hostility to Semitism”, as the narrative of Israeli injustice in the last century was hidden even in the Zionist media propaganda behind the addresses of success and the Israeli excellence as the “only democracy in the Middle East” and “a bright spot in the vicinity Dark. “
And other slogans that were not at the time reflecting a real Israeli concern about their place in the Western world as peoples and governments. The occupying state had thought that it had succeeded over the years in changing Western popular convictions about Israel through its strength and massive media.
However, the recent developments have already affected Israel, because today it sees the entire media system that it built for seven decades that collapse and collapse in a few months, and with the same tools that Israel excelled and its arms in its use, which is the media.
With one difference this time, which is that the media that we are talking about today is no longer the directed media that can only be achieved by spending millions of dollars and through specific companies and institutions, but rather free open social media that has become a tool that affects Israel in killing.
Therefore, we see today a good number of research and media centers affiliated with Israel directly or indirectly, suffering from a state of panic, while publishing the data of the new image of Israel in front of Western peoples.
In this regard, we see important studies centers such as the Harris Institute for Market Studies and the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University in the United States, working continuously to measure American public opinion regarding Israel and the American people’s view of it.
These results, which are reflected immediately in the Israeli media, are constantly publishing with deep analysis.
For example, the study conducted by the two institutes at the end of October 2023 on the eve of the beginning of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, which showed at that time that Israel’s general support among the American people was 84 % compared to only 16 % for Hamas.
Although this result is generally satisfactory to the Israeli politician, the Israeli media that dealt with this poll ignored this percentage to focus on the result of the American youth, which was very different from the general total of all groups of the American people, as this percentage was 52 % in support of Israel compared to 48 % in support of Hamas, and this percentage was considered by the Jerusalem Post newspaper a dangerous warning at that time.
What raised the horror more in Israel during the past few weeks was significantly shrinking the difference, as the poll carried out by both institutes at the end of last June increased the increase in the general support rate Only.
The question here is: How does Israel view these results and polls and how do it deal with them?
In fact, Israel views all its components with the utmost seriousness of these fundamental changes in the view of Western peoples. This seems to have necessitated the Israeli propaganda from defense to attack everything that could indicate, even in a transient, to support the Palestinians in this conflict.
Therefore, we saw a “anti -Semitism” stick raising a provocative manner, as it has become the mark of any person who criticizes Israel as a “anti -Semitic” thing that is common in the Israeli official and media circles, even if this critic is one of the strongest defenders of Israel in the aftermath of October 7, as is the case with the well -known British journalist Pears Morgan, or even if this is an organization. Nations or a prominent figure of its leaders, as in UNRWA, or the Secretary -General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, or the United Nations Human Rights Resolution in Palestine, Franceska Albanese, and others.
Israel explains this increasing hostility to Western societies as an extension of the state of ancient hatred that the Jews suffered during The twentieth century In Europe, during the second World War period.
This explains the exaggerated Israeli reaction against this wave, and this proves that it sees that the wave of hostility to Israel today is not just a passing wave, but rather reflects a deep strategic shift among Western society, which indicates to him the report of the Zionist World Organization and the Jewish Agency at the beginning of this year, which went further; Half of adults in the globe was stigmatized with a portal of Seamia, in an extensive study that the countries of the world dealt with detailing the two bodies to the Israeli President Herzog.
It is noteworthy here that this study reached a conclusion that hostility to Zionism hides a hostility inside it, and thus the study mixed the concepts of Judaism, Zionism, Semitic and Israeli to make it one thing, which made it see that the solution is the pressure to classify the hostility of Zionism as a hostility to Semitism, just as it considered that the call: “Death to the Israeli Defense Army” does not refer to the occupation army but rather to society The Israeli as a whole.
In that, Israel and its government fall today in a strategic error that will cost a lot, as it is at this level of panic that it shows from any sharp criticism or call against it or against its army, but it proves that Israel is not a state that has an army, but rather an army that owns only a state, and thus its people are stripped of the adjective of “civil” in terms of not knowing, this first.
Israel also falls into the trap of stinging, as the frequent accusations of the “hostility to Semitism” made the Western peoples began to overcome their ancient patient fear of this accusation, motivated by boredom.
A phrase such as: “Death to the Israeli Defense Army”, and unprecedented, found strong voices in Western societies that defend and reduce them in contrast to Israeli propaganda, as did the British broadcaster James Operation and British journalist Jeremy Vin, and others who reduced directly and indirectly the importance of this call in exchange for the seriousness and large war crimes committed by the occupation army in the Gaza Strip.
This can also be observed in the spread of this call in many videos of different European capitals in which the call appears written on the walls, whether actually or artificial intelligence, in reference to the boredom of Western peoples from the ancient methods that Israel has long used to intimidate and suppress its opponents in the Western world.
Just a quick review of the materials published in Israeli media or through Israeli media, political or research platforms, shows us the extent of panic that Israel is experiencing today because of the clouds of rug from under its feet among Western peoples, Israel realizes that the strategic transformation of the popular mood in the West is the key to changing policies towards various issues, by making comprehensive changes through the elections, which may turn in the end. To results that Israel does not want to see.
Perhaps the victory of Zahran Mamdani – who is accused by Israeli propaganda of anti -Semitism – of the nomination of the Democratic Party for the position of mayor of New York City is one of the stark examples of what the coming months and years can result.
Therefore, the Israeli confusion in dealing with this issue should be a key to defenders of the Palestinian issue, especially from the Arab and Muslim communities in Western countries, to reach new segments that were not known in advance of what is going on in the Palestinian territories, not even where it is, which is the duty of time.
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