Poll: New York Dems side with Mamdani on Israel, Netanyahu

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David Weigel
Jul 29, 2025, 6:03am EDT
politics

New York City’s Democratic primary voters overwhelmingly believe that Israel is “committing genocide” in Gaza and that the United States should stop arming the Jewish state, according to new polling from a pro-Palestinian group and shared first with Semafor.

Asked if the city should “enforce the arrest warrant” against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani supports, 63% of primary voters said yes.

“The dam has broken,” said Margaret DeReus, the executive director of the Institute for Middle East Understanding Policy Project, which paid for Data for Progress to conduct the poll this month. “Zohran Mamdani’s ability to energize new voters with his bold platform for Palestinian rights should be a wake-up call.”

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Data for Progress, whose polling captured Mamdani’s surge ahead of the June primary, surveyed 531 Democratic voters and asked for their views of major party figures. Mamdani was not the most popular New York Democrat in their data; 68% of primary voters viewed him favorably, compared to 75% who had a favorable view of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
https://www.semafor.com/article/07/28/2025/poll-new-york-dems-side-with-mamdani-on-israel-netanyahu


Born on the Left, Data for Progress Comes of Age in Biden’s Washington
June/2021
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President Biden mentions it in private calls. The White House reads its work. And Senator Chuck Schumer, the majority leader, teams up with its leaders for news conferences, blog posts and legislation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/12/us/politics/data-for-progress-democrats.html

Times up.

[Lovie777]

1. Sincerely I believe that Israelis, many of them are not on BiBi's side.............

But alas, right now, he's in control of the government.

Many Jews here in the USA are not on BiBi's side neither and wish a compromise can be done so that both Palestinians and Israelis can live together in peace.

Well that's what I'm hearing.

But alas, there is still Hamas and other terrorists groups still lurking.

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2. A year ago:

A new Pew Research Center survey finds that 39% of Israelis say Israel’s military response against Hamas in Gaza has been about right, while 34% say it has not gone far enough and 19% think it has gone too far.
https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2024/05/30/israeli-views-of-the-israel-hamas-war/

I understand why some are motivated to absolve Israeli's for Bibi, but the majority of his predecessors were no better.

When people are oppressed, they will fight back, even knowing it will ultimately lead to disaster. It is desperation, although still unforgivable and criminal. The United States' ironclad relationship enabled this end.

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The Selected Works of Edward Said, 1996-2006, a book of Said’s key writings that I co-edited with Andrew Rubin, both of us former students of Edward’s, has seen an elevenfold increase in sales since 7 October.

On X, a 1986 conversation between Salman Rushdie and Edward Said at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts has resurfaced in various posts. In the clip, Said describes an encounter with Benjamin Netanyahu, then the Israeli ambassador to the United States. “I was invited to a television debate with the Israeli ambassador,” Said explains, but not only would Netanyahu “not sit in the same room with me; he wanted to be in a different building, so as not to be contaminated by my presence.” Netanyahu demanded this bizarre separation, claiming that Said, as a Palestinian, wanted to kill him. “It was,” as Said notes, “really a totally absurd situation.”

Said was often alone in his analysis. History has since vindicated him
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/15/edward-said-palestine-israel-gaza