Opinion :
"Polling by a multitude of institutions throughout 2024 and 2025 has consistently found that a significant majority of Jewish Israelis oppose any meaningful humanitarian aid to Gaza, support the continuation of bombing and demolition campaigns, and reject the proposition that their military has done anything wrong. In repeated surveys, a clear majority of Jewish Israelis affirmed that there are “no innocents in Gaza.” Public figures who suggested otherwise—soldiers, journalists, the rare politician—are treated as traitors.
This is not a society quietly waiting for the right novel to arrive in translation. This is a society whose soldiers post selfies in the lingerie of women they have killed and with the toys of children they’ve also killed, whose dating apps fill with profile photos depicting crimes against Palestinians, whose viral social media trends mock Palestinian thirst and hunger, who film themselves rifling through the belongings of the dead and uploading the footage for likes. The cruelty is not subtext. It is not the province of a deranged fringe. It is the documented, public, popular culture of the Israeli mainstream during a genocide its public overwhelmingly supports."
https://mondoweiss.net/2026/05/on-972-magazine-sally-rooney-and-the-centering-of-israelis-in-an-anti-colonial-movement/
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