Unprecedented Crimes of U.S./ Zionist Forces Increase Israel's Isolation
A new global survey from the U.S.-based Pew Research Centre indicates that after 20 months of genocide against the Palestinian people, the Zionist state of Israel is increasingly isolated and viewed negatively in the international community. What is significant is that more and more people, particularly in North America and Western Europe, where Israel has received most of its financial, military and political support, have a negative view of Israel, isolating it and its enablers.
On June 3, Pew reported: "In 20 of the 24 countries surveyed,
around half of adults or
more have an unfavourable view of Israel. Around three-quarters or more
hold this view in
Australia, Greece, Indonesia, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and
Turkey."
Pew reports that since 2013, when it last conducted the survey, in seven of the 10 countries it surveyed this time around, "the share of adults with a negative view of Israel has increased significantly."
Israel was most unpopular in Turkey, with 93 per cent of respondents viewing it unfavourably. Turkey was the only country in the immediate region of Palestine to be surveyed by Pew.
Among European countries surveyed, Israel was viewed most negatively in the Netherlands (78 per cent), a notable fact in a country whose governments have traditionally been staunchly pro-Israel.
Even in Hungary, whose leader Viktor Orban welcomed Benjamin Netanyahu to Budapest earlier this year in spite of the international arrest warrant for the Israeli prime minister, 53 per cent of the public views Israel negatively.
There has been what is called a "historic shift" in the U.S. -- Israel's largest financial and military supporter, with 53 per cent of those surveyed now having a negative view of Israel, an 11-point increase since 2022. The increase is mainly among U.S. youth, in particular national minorities, but the trend is seen across the entire population.
An article by Ali Abudimah published by the Electronic Intifada notes that the criminalization of those who stand with Palestine and "the turn to heavy-handed censorship, not just in the U.S. but across Europe, is also an admission that efforts to equate disapproval of Israel's crimes with anti-Semitism, or to burnish its brand with expensive PR campaigns, can do nothing against the horrific reality streamed daily from Gaza to people's phones."
It notes that recently Ireland became the first Western
country and member of the
European Union (EU) to declare at the highest level that Israel is
engaged in genocide in
Gaza. It is pointed out that public pressure is forcing the European
Union itself to "review"
its economic relations with Israel, noting that until recently the EU
bragged about adopting its
17th sanctions "package" against Russia since 2022, but has done little
to sanction Israel.
The Electronic Intifada notes that Spain, another EU member, recently cancelled a $310 million arms purchase from Israeli weapons company Rafael, as part of moves "to reduce Spain's reliance on Israeli defense technology in light of Israel's ongoing military operations in Gaza." According to the Pew survey, 75 per cent of the Spanish people hold a negative view of Israel.
The Electronic Intifada notes that while these are small changes, none of this would have happened without the "vocal public outrage" against governments that are complicit in Israel's crimes, and concludes that these actions must continue and are more important that ever in ending the genocide.
This article was published in
Volume 55 Number 12 - June 11, 2025
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