Daily Podcasts Video Research

American Jewish support for Israel is cracking. Occupying Gaza may break it.

JL;DR SUMMARY American Jewish support for Israel is being tested as the possibility of Israel re-occupying Gaza becomes more likely. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

JL;DR members get full summaries of all articles in the archive, including this one. Donate & start reading »

Tags

HamasGazaNetanyahuAmerican JewsProtestsOccupationDiplomacyAmerican Jewish SupportHumanitarian Concerns

Places mentioned

Gaza City, Gaza, Palestinian Territories
"An aerial view of Gaza City as efforts to drop humanitarian aid supplies through parachute by military cargo planes into the city continued on Aug. 6."
Israel
"If Israel follows through with an occupation of Gaza resulting in more death, more destruction and, God forbid, more harm to the remaining Israeli hostages support for Israel among American Jews may come to a breaking point."
Illinois, United States
"Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, scion of a family that has poured millions into the Jewish state, vocally supported an unsuccessful Senate resolution to block arms shipments to Israel."
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"There are signs that American Jews simply wont go along, and that they are more aligned with the tens of thousands of protesters who massed in Tel Aviv last Saturday against their governments Gaza plan than with Netanyahu and his governing coalition."

Support this source

This item was indexed and curated by Cairo, JL;DR's web crawler.
Cairo Item ID 59167
Cairo Source ID 35
Retrieved 2025-08-13 05:30:52 UTC
Curated 2025-08-13 08:30:42 UTC