WITHIN INTERNATIONAL humanitarian law, wars of national liberation have been expressly embraced through the adoption of Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 as a protected and essential right of occupied people everywhere….
Polls
Americans would cut aid over growing apartheid in Israel
In January of 2021, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, B’Tselem, issued a damning report titled “This Is Apartheid.” B’Tselem is based in Jerusalem and documents human…
Americans Oppose U.S. Recognition of Israeli Annexation
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu campaigned promising to annex large swaths of the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Annexation is included in the new unity agreement between the governing coalition—Likud and Blue and White—in…
Is Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism?
Plurality of Americans say “no.” Addressing the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference on March 2, Vice President Mike Pence proudly proclaimed “It is the position of the United States…
Despite Trump executive order, majority still opposes attempts to silence & defund campus critics of Israeli human rights abuses
The Israeli government and many of Israel’s U.S. lobbying organizations strongly support the ongoing annexation of Palestinian lands and expulsion of their native inhabitants. They are irritated by the Palestinian Civil Society…
Only 19.7% of Americans share State Dept. view that international law doesn’t apply to Israeli settlements
Most American adults of voting age don’t appear willing to reject the applicability of international law to Israel’s ongoing colonization of occupied territories in East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Golan Heights….
“Visit your district, not Israel” 65.7 percent of Americans tell Congress
IRmep Poll: 41 House Democrats are now visiting Israel during the Congressional recess on a trip funded by a tax-exempt pro-Israel charity linked to the U.S. Israel lobby group AIPAC. Source: IRmep…
68% of Americans Would Reject Trump’s Mideast “Deal of the Century”
On June 25-26 Jared Kushner orchestrated the “Peace to Prosperity” economic workshop in Bahrain. Kushner is President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and his senior adviser on negotiating a Middle East peace. The White…
Only 5.7% of Americans say Israel is the top meddler in US elections, but nearly half skeptical of “lobbying for foreign government relationships”
Mainstream news coverage of foreign government influence on U.S. elections has been extensive since allegations first surfaced about Russian interference in the 2016 presidential race. According to a new poll, a solid…
41% of Americans want their representatives to visit Palestinians
One of every three members of Congress boarding a jetliner on a privately-funded all-expense paid trip overseas has Israel as their final destination. Only one out of a hundred ever visits Palestinian…
75% of Americans oppose outlawing boycotts of Israel
New legislation passed in the Senate seeks to legalize the right of individual state governments to force American companies to certify they won’t engage in economic boycotts of Israel as a condition…
34% of Americans Believe US Elites Exploited 9/11 for Gain
Brown University’s Cost of War Project released a November 14 estimate that half a million have died and that the spent and obligated cost of post-9/11 US wars through fiscal year 2019…
Americans would limit aid to nuclear Israel
Most Americans would place limitations on U.S. aid to Israel under laws triggered by its nuclear weapons program. When told the CIA believed Israel has nuclear weapons, 54.8% of Americans agreed that…
Americans Oppose Investigating the Gaza Massacre – Because most never heard about it or were misinformed
Most Americans would oppose any Trump Administration support for an International Criminal Court investigation into Israel’s use of lethal force against Palestinian protesters on May 14. This is because they either never…
Americans are not as sympathetic to Israel as Gallup claims
Pollster Gallup has claimed since the year 2001 that the majority of Americans (on average 59%) hold much greater sympathy for Israelis than for Palestinians (18%) “in the Middle East situation.” Gallup…
Americans oppose excessive, lobby-driven U.S. aid to Israel
When informed of its relative size, and why it is given, the majority of Americans year after year consistently say that US aid to Israel is too much. For this February survey,…
Americans oppose cutting foreign aid to countries that condemn US Jerusalem policy
The Trump administration threatened to end billions of dollars in US foreign aid to countries opposing recent US recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. On December 21, 2017 despite US…
Americans Would Cut Middle East War Spending
When presented with a list of expenditure categories, and polled about which should be the single top priority for budgetary cuts by Congress, “US military actions in the Middle East” was far…
Americans Would Cut Middle East War Spending
When presented with a list of expenditure categories, and polled about which should be the single top priority for budgetary cuts by Congress, “US military actions in the Middle East” was far…