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Poll: New York Dems side with Mamdani on Israel, Netanyahu (www.semafor.com)

submitted 4 months ago by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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New York City’s Democratic primary voters overwhelmingly believe that Israel is “committing genocide” in Gaza and that the United States should stop arming the Jewish state, according to new polling from a pro-Palestinian group and shared first with Semafor.

Asked if the city should “enforce the arrest warrant” against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani supports, 63% of primary voters said yes.

The mayoral race might play into those numbers. Fifty-seven percent of New York Democrats said they would be “less likely” to support any congressional candidate next year who did not endorse Mamdani for mayor. And 72% favored candidates who would vote to “withhold U.S. weapons to Israel.”

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[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The IMEU’s Policy Project, founded in 2024, has paid for several studies of the Democratic electorate’s Israel views, previously conducted by YouGov. During that year’s election, they found that then-nominee Kamala Harris could win votes by supporting an “arms embargo” on Israel, which the nominee did not do. In January, they found that 29% of voters who backed Joe Biden in 2020 abandoned Harris over her “administration’s support for Israel’s genocide.” (The group switched from YouGov to DFP because of DFP’s experience polling New York City specifically.)

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Remember when we were all bots, or schills, or tankies (for some reason) when we were desperately trying to communicate that Biden (and then Harris) needed to pivot on Israel to win the election?

She could have pivoted as late as October and still won.

And some of you shamed yourselves so extremely during that period, I hope you have the shame to keep your heads down next time.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 12 points 4 months ago

We do not live in a functional democracy, this certainly underlines that.