This Time We Went Too Far by Norman G. Finkelstein

Author:Norman G. Finkelstein
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
ISBN: 9781935928447
Publisher: OR Books
Published: 2013-10-08T23:00:00+00:00

Nearly half of American respondents in a poll taken right after the flotilla bloodbath believed that the passengers were responsible for it while only 20 percent believed Israel was to blame.86 However, once Israeli hasbara no longer monopolized the media and the testimonies of passengers garnered some attention—albeit still minimal and mostly on the Internet—the polls registered a shift in American public opinion: 56 percent agreed that there was a humanitarian crisis in Gaza (43 percent believed that Gazans were starving), while only 34 percent supported the Israeli attack and only 20 percent “felt support” for Israel after it announced that the blockade would be eased.87 The July 2010 Israel Project poll found that “American support for Israel is waning.” Only 51 percent of respondents said that the U.S. needed to support Israel, down more than 10 percentage points from just a year ago.88 In what might be an aberration or a harbinger of things to come, 79 percent of Evergreen State College students in a campus-wide referendum voted in June 2010 for the school’s divestment “from companies that profit from Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine,” and later that month dockworkers in Oakland, California, refused to unload an Israeli vessel for 24 hours.89 In a vote with larger immediate implications the Presbyterian Church USA at its July 2010 convention called for “the withholding of U.S. government aid to the state of Israel as long as Israel persists in creating new West Bank settlements,” and for the U.S. to leverage its aid, making it “contingent upon Israel’s compliance with international law and peacemaking efforts.”90

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