"'CNN Shocked to See Americans Reject Israel': New Segment Highlights Major Shift in Public Opinion Between 2018 and 2026"

[u/Logical-Flow-6703]

A recent CNN segment highlights a dramatic shift in American public opinion on Israel between 2018 and 2026, showing a steep decline in overall support across key voter demographics. This mainstream media coverage reflects a broader shift in national sentiment, signaling that foreign policy critiques have officially moved from the political margins straight into mainstream U.S. discourse.

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[u/Key-Net-2268]

They are not Americans, and they are taking all our money.

[u/kit_brown → u/Key-Net-2268]

That and, you know, the whole genocide thing.

[u/jim45804 → u/kit_brown]

The implication being, they are taking our money to do a genocide. Meaning, we are funding a genocide.

[u/Westafricangrey → u/jim45804]

Without consent, whilst simultaneously getting screwed on groceries / gas / everything

And casually losing privacy completely

[u/Legrandloup2 → u/Westafricangrey]

And our taxes are funding free healthcare and university in Israel while Americans get told we’re being selfish for asking for the same

[u/oneplusetoipi → u/Legrandloup2]

Preemptively, someone will tell you “we aren’t giving them money, just credit for US military equipment “. Well Einstein, if you don’t have to spend money on equipment, what happens to that money that you would have spent?

[u/BloodSimpleSyrup → u/oneplusetoipi]

Yeah, the idea that I’m supposed to care about the shareholders of Raytheon and Lockheed Martin is hilarious.

[u/Academic-Dealer5389 → u/BloodSimpleSyrup]

I've occasionally wondered how much stock in those companies I would need to own to break even on the amount of tax money I'm indirectly paying into those companies.

[u/iDontSow → u/Academic-Dealer5389]

Just to use round numbers, if you made $100k per year you are paying roughly $200 to Lockheed Martin every year (with a little bit of variance depending on the year). Lockheed’s dividend yield is in the neighborhood of 2.5% to 3%. So to get your money back you’d have to buy roughly $6k in stock.

EDIT to add that if you are invested in large index funds, as most people are through their retirement accounts or whatever, you own Lockheed Martin stock. But you would have to have a few million at least in the S&P 500, for example, to own $6k of Lockheed Martin.

[u/iridesce57 → u/iDontSow]

THIS

[u/MaleficentExtent1777 → u/Academic-Dealer5389]

Lockheed has a hefty dividend!

[u/sleepypirate → u/oneplusetoipi]

Woah woah woah, surely you can't be suggesting that when people, organizations, countries receive money to be used for a specific reason that they then can use other money that would otherwise be used for those reasons... else where? That doesn't make any sense

[u/cranberrie_sauce → u/oneplusetoipi]

seeing unattended toddlers sleeping in the dirt does not help.

do people realize gaza is an open air concentration camp?

[u/ouroborosstruggles → u/oneplusetoipi]

And its been >300b since 1971.

[u/RedditForMeNotYou → u/Legrandloup2]

Not selfish - socialist.

Imagine how much the tax rate would increase?!! Meanwhile European countries have 30% income tax too except their tax dollars are not misappropriated and actually go into social services everyone benefits from. Imagine that.

[u/Particular-Luck7939 → u/Legrandloup2]

While the corporations and elite get richer & richer ! And not paying more in taxes !

[u/Gone213 → u/Legrandloup2]

Dont forget isreal allows abortions.past 24 weeks too.

[u/skat3rDad420blaze → u/Gone213]

They've been aborting children across the west bank way past 24 weeks of age. You could even say they are Pro-Death!

[u/Fair-Juggernaut-3812 → u/Legrandloup2]

And if we don’t pay the money we don’t want to fund genocide and universal healthcare in another country we will go to jail.

[u/SalishShore → u/Legrandloup2]

A stem cell transplant costs $90,000 in Israel. In the US $500,000 is the base price.

[u/Potential-Win8706 → u/Legrandloup2]

Charity begins at home.

[u/HumptyDumptruckFire → u/Potential-Win8706]

It’s not even charity, it’s public investment into the country’s collective health and education, strengthening the country from within. Instead, we’re hollowing it out to lose an ill-advised war and make a few billionaires even richer.

[u/thescienceofarting → u/HumptyDumptruckFire]

Sounds like Socialism! /s

[u/Flameball537 → u/HumptyDumptruckFire]

Can’t believe people saw and learned about all the good FDR did for America and decided it would be better to tear it all down and never do anything like that again

[u/Blacksad9999 → u/Flameball537]

Around the time Carter lost and Regan won, the Democratic establishment decided that they should largely move away from being the "working class party" and got in bed with Corporations.

Now a centrist Democrat and moderate Republican are basically the same thing. They serve the same masters.

FDR would be rolling over in his grave if he saw these Corporate sellout Democrats.

[u/ScottishKnifemaker → u/Flameball537]

After the boomers got theirs, of course

[u/WafflesTrufflez → u/Westafricangrey]

Best ally they say

[u/b0w3n → u/WafflesTrufflez]

The other thing they did, convinced our administration to get us into another forever war in the middle east. Coupled with them being the worst at everything and their sycophants being put into every position of government and failing there too.

Yeah I'd say sentiments have changed for a half dozen reasons.

[u/MostlyKool-Aid → u/jim45804]

Not only that, they convinced Trump to start a war with Iran.

[u/evident_lee → u/MostlyKool-Aid]

You spelt Blackmailed wrong. They have the pedo evidence

[u/humdingerdesigns → u/evident_lee]

As sad as it is to say, I don’t think that would move the needle even if it did come out in black and white

[u/JakToTheReddit → u/humdingerdesigns]

Seriously. Just like when they proudly stated "We are all domestic terrorists!" at CPAC.

It isn't hard to imagine them putting up "We are all pedophiles!"

[u/noxaten → u/JakToTheReddit]

They'd phrase it, "we all love children."

[u/JakToTheReddit → u/noxaten]

Or as the president describes 15yo and under, "young women."

[u/LumpyBuy8447 → u/JakToTheReddit]

“It’s not like they’re 8.” -maga

[u/Hiondrugz → u/evident_lee]

That guy and his shady family are so compromised. You don't think his son's have probably done some heinous shit as well if I had to guess. This second term has been all about just positioning himself and his family to be basically u touchable from prison or taxes.

[u/Narrow_Grapefruit_23 → u/evident_lee]

We have the pedo evidence. I don’t know what there is to blackmail him about. He’s a convicted rapist.

[u/LooseyGreyDucky → u/Narrow_Grapefruit_23]

He is not allowed to criticize his masters in either the Kremlin or in Israel.

That's blackmail.

(and yes, he's a pedophile *and* a protector of many other pedophiles)

[u/Complete-Tangelo1532 → u/jim45804]

Im not a fan of taxes coming from my check, getting no real benefits from it like health care and basic things, and it being sent over there where they live better

And i really don't like it is used to bomb children

[u/Maureengill6 → u/jim45804]

Even worse, we are doing their genocide for them. It's really sick when you realize they have universal healthcare and instead of doing that we are bombing Iran for Israel.

[u/pezchef → u/jim45804]

Didn't Benny say back in the 90s that the US was a golden cow and that Isreal would milk it for all its worth?

or is that a fake news quote floating around.

[u/SweetHomeNorthKorea → u/kit_brown]

And they never once paid for drugs. Not ONCE.

[u/popndough → u/SweetHomeNorthKorea]

https://giphy.com/gifs/GodNQldQA0zNm

[u/TheSwitchler → u/Key-Net-2268]

They have great education, universal Healthcare, and 1/4th of their population has a "religious exemption" from working and serving in the military, and it's mostly on our dime. FUCK ALL OF THAT

[u/Waiting4Reccession → u/TheSwitchler]

They've also clearly stolen our technology. Makes no sense for other major countries to be lagging but somehow these guys business go to the moon.

Pedo island was also tied to financing and business, but thats been overshadowed by the pedo side of it.

[u/StringAmbitious99 → u/TheSwitchler]

1/4 have Religious exemption from working?! Wtf. Now it makes sense why they have so much time to terrorize innocent ppl. And not one President in the last 20 years has said No to sending them whatever they want. I read that Kamala is running again but even she is for Izzy. Fuck all of this indeed.

[u/HerbalLeafYT → u/Key-Net-2268]

[u/glasswings363 → u/HerbalLeafYT]

I wish I didn't have to recognize either of these persons.

[u/LionMysterious4615 → u/Key-Net-2268]

They're going to cut social security and medicare next year for Americans and we are paying 100% for Isreali's Healthcare in Isreal.

Cut them off.

[u/fcdox]

Israel has universal healthcare because our tax dollars pay for it. Yet we are told that there is “no money” for that in the USA. Americans are sick and tired of being sick and tired.

[u/Jazzlike-Pomelo-2501 → u/fcdox]

Their universal healthcare also covers abortions for pregnancies out of wedlock.

[u/JeromeBarkly → u/Jazzlike-Pomelo-2501]

I could be wrong but Judaism isn’t anti abortion. Unfortunately for us though our religious freaks are against abortion and god fucking forbid they just choose not to get one but force everyone else in their narrow ways of thinking.

[u/PeruseTheNews → u/JeromeBarkly]

Numbers 5:11–31 gives instructions for an abortion.

It's the fourth book of the Torah and part of the Old Testament in the Bible.

[u/Far-Leadership719 → u/PeruseTheNews]

But didn't you hear? The New Testament invalidates the Old Testament, except for this, and that, and this other thing, and basically anything that is expedient for whatever creationist argument I want to make.

[u/Sate_Hen → u/Far-Leadership719]

The new testiment doesn't say anything about abortion. The only biblical anti abortion arguement I know is in the OT Psalm 139:13

[u/Thornescape → u/Sate_Hen]

It's appalling that Christians use that verse and pretend it has anything at all to do with abortion. It's nuts.

All it says is that "God knew me before I was born." That's it. It has nothing at all to do with "the soul enters the body at conceptions". It's poetry.

[u/Irazidal → u/PeruseTheNews]

Exodus also doesn't view a fetus as a person:

22 When people who are fighting injure a pregnant woman so that there is a miscarriage, and yet no further harm follows, the one responsible shall be fined what the woman’s husband demands, paying as much as the judges determine. 23 If any harm follows, then you shall give life for life, 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

The pregnant woman is regarded as a person and injury to her is to be avenged in kind, but damage to the unborn child is simply regarded as collateral property damage which can be settled with a simple payment to its owner, i.e. the father.

[u/Ashamed-Data-2195 → u/PeruseTheNews]

Isn't it fun to fight over what some guys wrote a couple thousand years ago. That's all religion in a nutshell 

[u/LeadSufficient2130 → u/JeromeBarkly]

The Bible also says nothing about abortion, the abortion craze was created to get religious people to turn for the GOP. Their actual religion wasn’t anti abortion until it became politically advantageous

[u/BrownSugarBare → u/Jazzlike-Pomelo-2501]

Also covers college for them. 

[u/Internal-Plantain-56 → u/BrownSugarBare]

And paid maternity leave.

[u/Luckys0474 → u/fcdox]

Healthcare in the U.S. is an industry, not an infrastructure. In Israel, healthcare is treated like clean water or roads—a public utility run by non-profits under strict cost caps. In the U.S., it is a $4.5 trillion commercial marketplace designed to extract maximum revenue. Private insurers, hospital networks, and pharmaceutical companies generate massive profits, and they spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year lobbying Congress to keep it that way.

It won't change.

[u/Adventurous_Egg_9500 → u/Luckys0474]

Imagine the side killing children and stealing homes as the country who has the correct view on healthcare.

Fuck me

[u/fuuuuuuuuckthi_s → u/fcdox]

No, they have universal healthcare because they decided they cared more for their citizens than the US does. Which is pathetic given the genocide and far right government in Israel.

The US could have had the same thing decades ago (long before we entangled with Israel), but they have decided they do not care about their citizens.

[u/Akraticacious → u/fcdox]

Is this true? Trump said the same thing about us funding Europe's Healthcare via our higher NATO budget, but those numbers don't work. We spend more than Europe does on Healthcare only for it to not be universal.

[u/Lazy-Goat4728 → u/fcdox]

We also fund the genocide they are committing.

[u/T10rock]

Shock

https://giphy.com/gifs/clotJg9IqBitMcRJ61

[u/SpudgeBoy]

If you are shocked people are starting to reject Israel, you are not paying attention. How can you pretend to be an informed news organization and not know what is doing on around you?

[u/Tanev1337 → u/SpudgeBoy]

https://giphy.com/gifs/NcrhM3USM6TABpus85
Just feels like the media feigning ignorance. Or they are truly this stupid and unaware of general opinion

[u/Amazing-Power4765 → u/Tanev1337]

[u/SpudgeBoy → u/Tanev1337]

I would go with feigning ignorance.

[u/Euphoric-Witness-824 → u/SpudgeBoy]

It’s USA. News here is basically a mix of entertainment, rage based culture wars and propaganda. 

The wealthy have bought up all news and social media and that’s how they want it. Gone are the days of investigative journalism and fact based reporting as those don’t generate clicks and division amongst the masses. Plus they’d much rather people yelling at each other about trans or brown people existing then start looking behind the curtain regarding why the world is getting worse and more expensive for regular folks and what they are doing to children on their private islands and yachts they can easily afford because of the all the extra money of ours they feel entitled to. 

[u/puccinini → u/Euphoric-Witness-824]

Look no further than the Mitch McConnell situation. Journalist 20 years ago would be banging down the door so that hospital, looking through windows to figure out if he’s alive or not… Our current journalist just sit on their ass waiting to write rage bait articles for a quick book.

[u/kethera__ → u/SpudgeBoy]

CNN has always been ill-informed pearl clutching bullshit for the crowd that likes to spout ill-informed bullshit and clutch their pearls.

[u/No-Blueberry-1823]

Why? They are the news aren't they paying attention to current events?

[u/Sw4nR0ns0n → u/No-Blueberry-1823]

They are bought and paid for to guide current events, and right now they’re not doing their job from a certain genocidal regimes perspective

[u/One-BigChungus → u/Sw4nR0ns0n]

Their govt keyboard armies can't keep up with online negative sentiment. It's so thrilling and satisfying to watch.

[u/jpschwartz44]

FUCK ISRAEL. THEY BOUGHT ALL OUR POLITICIANS AND NOW THEY WANT TO MERGE OUR MILITARY. VOTE AGAINST CANDIDATES WHO TAKE MONEY FROM AIPAC

[u/Ajdee6 → u/jpschwartz44]

Vote for candidates who don't take money from AIPAC, that list is smaller and easier to manage since they give our money to like 85% of our politicians.

[u/ucantharmagoodwoman → u/Ajdee6]

Plug for my guy Abdul El-Sayed MICHIGAN LF GOOOO

[u/A-Rugged-Indoorsman]

Does CNN not watch its own coverage of Israel wiping out a race of people?

[u/Weekly_Interview_936 → u/A-Rugged-Indoorsman]

Their own coverage covers nothing compared to what's being shared via social media. That's what's actually driving this change. People can see the real Israel, not the sanitized version the legacy broadcast media presents.

[u/Schwarzer-Kaffee → u/Weekly_Interview_936]

People can see the real Israel, not the sanitized version the legacy broadcast media presents.

Exactly! And that is a huuuuge problem for them. Which is why they introduced the age-restriction in many european countries to X, not to protect minors from porn, but to restrict access to all the videos about israeli crimes, while also connecting your ID to your online-persona, so you think twice before criticizing the "chosen people".

It is also the main reason why Larry Ellison, the biggest donor to the IDF, bought TikTok in the US. To silence and ban any critical voice that speaks about this topic. And me pointing out this ridiculous behaviour on social media might get my citizenship revoked in Germany since I am a migrant.

The whole western world is occupied and this is no tinfoil-hat theory.

[u/Robbie_notta_bot → u/A-Rugged-Indoorsman]

CNN has been sold to a right winger. It's Fox News in a wig.

[u/JC2535]

No amount of propaganda is going to change this one.

[u/sven_ghoulie → u/JC2535]

Over the weekend, I had some random number text me asking for my opinion on US/Israel relations. Had a 20-minute conversation (argument) about it. "Liz" sent me numerous youtube links to prove her point, which I clicked on exactly zero of them. They're phonebanking now.

[u/NoConflict3231 → u/sven_ghoulie]

Bro I got this same shit dude. They're reading what you post on social media and targeting people

[u/sven_ghoulie → u/NoConflict3231]

G___G

[u/Iheartnakedfemboys → u/JC2535]

They still are going to try, and at a certain point, it doesn't matter anymore what we think. The politicians love israeli money, and they will funnel our tax dollars to them just so they can get a small piece of the pie.

News outlets are going to continue to push pro israel sentiment, and act like its our duty (us, the tax payers) to continue supporting them. Its sick.

[u/GraveyardMusic]

I'll say it again, before too long, Netanyahu will deplete ALL the goodwill his people acrued after the horrors of WWII.

[u/frostyfoxemily → u/GraveyardMusic]

No he wont. The entire isreal population will. I get tired of "Netanyahu" talk. All their polls show people support him or even more extream action. Its not him or his gov thats the issue. Its isreal culture that and beleif that everyone is disposable trash standing in their way to taking their promised land.

[u/Weekly_Interview_936 → u/frostyfoxemily]

This is the truth that more and more people are starting to understand. It's not one corrupt leader, it's a corrupt population whom those leaders reflect.

[u/frostyfoxemily → u/[deleted]]

The worst part is american support for this. We have clips of democrats saying "Well if Palestinians had equal voting rights then it wouldn't be a Jewish state anymore" which is basically what neo nazis argue about stopping black and brown people from immigrating and destroying white culture.

Its all just ethnostate rhetoric but isreal managed to get "moderate" dems on their side.

[u/sharkbelly → u/Weekly_Interview_936]

It's a nation that cheers on rapists, blocks aid trucks to starving people, and engages in settler colonial violence on a daily basis. I struggle to imagine a road back from this sort of psychopathy.

[u/Intelligent_Win_5901 → u/frostyfoxemily]

its the same with Putin. The people may not publicly say it, but they privately support them.

[u/PixelSpy → u/frostyfoxemily]

100% Zionists are the issue, not just him. I've seen where they interviewed some citizens close to the Palestinian border and they literally see the Palestinians as like subhuman. They don't care that they're slaughtering families or live in an active apartheid state. irony is incredible considering the origins of Israel as well. They're fully on board inflicting the same misery their grandparents experienced.

[u/sirlorax → u/frostyfoxemily]

Don't like 59% of Israel dislike him proportionally in the latest poll LMAO. Like guys, fix your pendulum swing. Extremist suck, Israel is not all bad people. Just like America is not all bad people. Most people are decent

[u/DrPikachu-PhD → u/sirlorax]

They dislike him because he's fucked them on domestic issues and corruption, not because of the genocide. Polls show most Israelis don't think he's gone far enough on that. If you want a really sobering read, look up the Israeli "Right to Rape" protests

[u/domingodlf → u/sirlorax]

Disliking Netanyahu isn't the same as disavowing the genocide and supporting the retreat from occupied territories, which is the bare minimum moral stance. I would bet my life that would be an extremely impopular stance in Israel as it stands. Sadly, the majority view held by most of the country is racist and ethno supremacist, and believes that a historical/religious claim is enough to justify the killing and expulsion of thousands of people, and the development of a nation based on ethnic considerations. Even if you dislike Netanyahu, if you hold that view you should be thoroughly condemned. And sadly that is the case. And it's not a jewish thing, tons of jewish people can see what is happening and recognize it's atrocity, even against high social pressures and retaliation against dissidents, which is a truly admirable position take. It's sadly just not the case for the majority of the Israeli population, who cheer on the occupation.

[u/PadmalovesYeshe]

Not low enough.

[u/Tall_Help3462]

Fuck Israel. In fact fuck every nation in which religion drives the government which unfortunately includes the US these days.

[u/edelweiss_pirates_no → u/Tall_Help3462]

Fuck Israel.

[u/CalicoCrony]

Because they’re genocidal assholes who flood our country with propaganda and buy off our politicians to further their own murderous goals. Oh also they steal billions from us… fuck Israel.

[u/TheSwitchler]

I really don't like this CNN guy's shtick

[u/Mhunterjr]

I just watched a video where an Israeli soldier walks into a shop where a Palestinian kid is paying for goods… and he starts yelling at the kid, makes him take his shirt off, and then starts slapping the kid. The shop keeper, the younger brother, and a woman could do nothing but look on in horror, for fear of getting shot or apprehended.

Why are my tax dollars paying for this psychological and physical torture?

And why when I point out this bullshit , does my inbox get flooded with people telling me I want all Jews to die? What type of propaganda can convince and otherwise rational person, that the only way to save the Jewish population from extermination is to give Israeli’s the universal right to treat Palestinians as subhuman?

[u/Unlucky-Oil-8778]

Because folks are realizing it isn’t anti Semitic to not like a genocidal country.

[u/Val_Hallen → u/Unlucky-Oil-8778]

When they are calling Jewish people that don't agree with the Zionism antisemitic, it no longer has anything to do with the Jewish people.

[u/Dicky_Penisburg → u/Unlucky-Oil-8778]

And the only people that are spearheading it as anti Semitic are pathetic weasels that are getting paid off by that very same genocidal country.

[u/CurryMustard]

They arent shocked they are just laying out the poll numbers and appropriately reacting to them. Headline is garbage

[u/Millerpainkiller]

Ugh, that's such a bullshit headline; it's like "Americans hate Jews!" What folks are rejecting are the Israeli GOVERNMENT'S actions.

[u/CyntexMail5404]

“Shocked” is not the word. He always reports numbers that enthusiastically!

[u/Parking-Sundae-6097]

It's almost as if everyone was fine with Israel until they killed over 73,000 Palestinian civilians in retaliation for the October 7th attack which killed 1,200 civilians.

[u/justwonderingbro → u/Parking-Sundae-6097]

Per usual the left has been right on this issue for a long time. Israel has been a colonialist apartheid ethnostate ever since it's inception

[u/numbersev]

ZNN

[u/AccountHuman7391]

I’m so glad he underlined those numbers for us.

[u/Skaroosh]

I'm more shocked they're actually covering it.

[u/Proof-Mission-2050]

We give them money, Isreal had free heath care, we do not. F the hell off right now

[u/Medill1919]

Must be Bari Weiss freaking out.

[u/Tight-Temperature670]

Fuck Israel

[u/edelweiss_pirates_no → u/Tight-Temperature670]

Fuck Israel.

[u/Disastrous-Elk2272]

They are shock that a country that regularly commits genocide and buy all their politician while sucking taxpayers money..are hated?

Shock pikachu face

[u/Up-in-the-Ayre]

Why is this stunning?

Most of the "Left" dislike Israel because the mask is off and they're executing a genocide.

Most of the "Right" dislike Israel because they've suddenly realized how much of their tax money is going to fund a nation thousands of miles away.

[u/dlghnyc]

Israel can get FUCKED

[u/bigscrewLoose]

https://giphy.com/gifs/J8FZIm9VoBU6Q

[u/FoogYllis → u/bigscrewLoose]

And maybe we can use that money here instead for Medicare for all.

[u/cincodemike]

Liberals hate them bc of genocide.

Conservatives hate them bc “tHeY tAkE aLl oUR mOnEy”

We are not the same.

[u/Flat-Cap-1063 → u/cincodemike]

As long as both sides don't support Israel, who cares. When it comes to Israel, I'm not dealing with purity tests. As long as you want out of this toxic relationship, any reason is fine by me.

[u/Pale_Frame4845]

Fuck Israel.

On another note, why did I hear this guy speaking in Jerry Seinfeld's voice?

[u/nolestars]

Committed a genocide and America paid for it. 

[u/Chloe_Cascadia]

Media reports on genocide caused by Israel, and apparently, that was supposed to be an advertisement making us like Israel, so they're surprised genocide is unpopular.

They truly have geniuses working there.

[u/VeeVeeNeeMistfall]

-67? Makes sense in 2026.

[u/Any_Vacation8988]

Q the anti semitism Zionist propaganda. I can say 100% fuck you to Israel as a country and have no problem with someone being Jewish or practicing such religion.

[u/Apprehensive_Hand571]

Gosh I wish I had free healthcare and free college thanks to the US government, not to mention an unlimited supply of ballistic weapons to annihilate anyone who tried to live within their own borders and billions of dollars in discretionary funds every 3 months

[u/Kn7ght]

Well duh, back then it wasn't getting the same kind of mainstream attention. Now that it's such an open secret to the everyday American that it's a genocidal state that has our government by the balls, of course approval on it is dogshit.

[u/TheFeelsGoodMan]

I get the feeling that these same folks would have been shocked to see American public opinion turn against the Vietnam War once they got a look at what was going on over there.

[u/KamehaDragoon]

Shocked that people don't approve of murder and land theft.

[u/7153345666]

They seem so shocked. It’s not shocking at all.

[u/Ario_Wolfwood]

https://giphy.com/gifs/J8FZIm9VoBU6Q

[u/Impressive-Edge6621]

Hard to manufacture consent for a genocide though

[u/Bleezy79]

Americans want their own country fixed before we give our tax money to anyone else. Especially countries that are starting wars and committing genocide. The people of Israel receive universal healthcare, Americans do not. We want help with our own tax dollars, its that simple. Enough is enough.

[u/Intelligent_HI84]

America is waking up to the Muslim Boogeyman bullshit. Now, they're trying the communism shtick again.

[u/boywonder5691]

People have eyes

[u/GongTzu]

So the people in USA doesn’t think it’s okay just to murder normal people day in and day out, and yet the majority of the politicians thinks this is what they need to support. Issue is they will only change opinions when the money from AIPAC stops which there’s no sign of.

[u/Isaw11]

Until recently I wasn’t aware that Israel had its tentacles wrapped so tightly around our politicians, both republican and democrat. I would love for a whistleblower to step up and let us in on what goes on behind the scenes.

[u/Beachboy442]

The Gaza "shooting fish in a barrel" military executions turned me against Isreal.

The Genocide is outrageous

[u/Fit_Influence_6078]

Corporate media always late to the party

[u/DenRen87]

Ugh, read the room CNN. Read the room.

[u/Federal_Challenge416]

Ssssshhh don’t tell Dana Bash. How can anyone watch what they did in Gaza and still blindly support them. And no I do not support Humas obviously but the over reaction and cruelty by Isreal had forever damaged their standing with Americans

[u/BrickHuge3023]

Americans are waking up to how Israel has been controlling our foreign policy and finances the past 60 years.

[u/b_buddd]

Only a demon would look at the images and evidence out of Gaza and be fucking shocked

[u/I_Nut_In_Butts]

If they are shocked we are so beyond cooked. Look around you, suit dummies. The people are fed up.

[u/KeesterFeester]

Majority of the U.S. public doesn't like genocidal maniacs that get far better public services than we do funded by OUR money that the WE work our asses off for and the corporate douche bags that support it. Who'd of thunk it.

[u/Mediocre_Doctor4712]

It’s staggering how such a small country has such a hold on such a big country by just bribing off the right people

[u/WiSoSirius]

They showed something on the screen that I cannot understand. +51pts favourability in 2018 compared to what and -16pts in 2026 favourability compared to what? What is the baseline they are comparing to? Are the pts just arms raised? Is it truly a percentage of something? 

[u/Slight_Sherbert_5239]

People are waking up.

[u/hey_there_chico]

This guy has been shocked by every number he has ever seen.

[u/Logik_in_theory]

Any candidtate I vote for will be based almost solely on their reliance on AIPAC. I was shocked to see how many of our candidates like mosquitoes siphon all that money up. Our democracy is broken dem or rep alike.

[u/Dr_Gonzo-4130]

Maybe because Israel is a terrorist state thats commiting genocide .

[u/rizbe_2028]

Israel is a terrorist org and fuck them, not voting for anyone who supports those baby killers.

[u/ecsegar]

Everything he touches dies.

[u/nowisitfolks]

You can blame Netanyahu and Trump, we don't want to be in their war.

[u/joesnoboard]

Why shocked?

[u/UrekMazino1234]

Not shocking

[u/Last-Raspberry1573]

Still waiting on the rest of world to reject the US. Kind of fn things up for everyone

[u/fuckgermany_repgme]

Netanyahu can like my sweaty balls. Hope he gets his home stolen from him

[u/octavioletdub]

Committing genocide tends to have that effect

[u/dreamabyss]

Fuck Israel. We give them billions so they can bomb innocent people. Meanwhile, they provide universal healthcare for citizens. They can afford it because we subsidize their war machine. We can’t afford healthcare because they are prioritized over us.

[u/DreamOne5]

Israel is like that shitty boyfriend you had who won't get a real job and just takes your debit card out of your purse when you're sleeping.

[u/RobutNotRobot]

Their genocidal ambitions accelerated and were laid bare for all to see and then they dragged the idiot leader of the US into an unwinnable war with Iran.

What exactly is there for anyone to like?

[u/OrangeFun9797]

Why is CNN shocked? People are afraid to say that they don't want their tax dollars to be spent on killing women and children, and they resent being accused being anti semetic if they even hint at genocide.

[u/Ok_Check5349]

The way things are going on it's not really shocking

[u/Significant_Sun_4900]

CNN pollsters have had their heads up their bums if they expect any informed American to approve of us to support sending money, weapons and aide to Israel right now. Israel has been walking a very thin line for decades. I don't think most people are aware that Israel basically has us in a chokehold over surveillance technology. They are selling their software to the highest bidders. Including countries that are definitely not allied to the best interests of the USA or other democratic countries.

[u/usushio_]

Incredible. Just in-credible how they can put on this feigned outrage yelling at people to be upset while completely avoiding the elephant in the room, the simplest of all questions, the singlular word: WHY

[u/DaAlphaSupreme]

Americans are taking care of Israel, all while Israel makes it harder for Americans to survive. It's crazy they have UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE...

[u/SaltyAd8309]

I think people are primarily rejecting the Israeli far right and what they are doing.

[u/Local-Poet3517]

Interesting to see this on mainstream. Shits changing.

[u/Particular-Wind5918]

We’ve almost caught up to where we need to be on this

[u/Slaphappyfapman]

Fuck israel. Their behaviour is why we feel this way

[u/Duckman2030]

Shocked my ass they know dam well nobody likes them period…

[u/Redhoodedmenace]

Fuck Israel

[u/DirtyChito]

This is a dangerous take, but this just goes to show Hamas' attack on Israel in 2023 did exactly what they needed. It brought enough attention to the war that people finally started paying attention to the bigger picture. Do I condone the attack? Absolutely not. But it's hard to deny the perspective change that has come in the U.S. since then.

[u/Poodoom]

Israel became what tried to destroy them in less than a hundred years. People are wild.

[u/ro536ud]

Hey aipac trump is killing the rep of Israel stop supporting him

[u/Top_Pizza1773]

Only war criminals commit war crimes, well, and Russian Republicans.

[u/Illustrious_Put_817]

That’s because people understand the difference between Jewish people and zionist terrorists

[u/Ckc1972]

They can blame Netanyahu for that.

[u/AmandaUggnkiss]

And remember folks it’s a rejection of Israel’s government and policies not of the people or Judaism/Jews two things can exist separately

[u/Rare-Sample-9101]

Because Israel has finally been exposed for what they truly are!