In reaching its conclusion, B’Tselem said that that the threshold for defining the Zionist regime as an apartheid regime had been met and that such a determination was reached in consideration of the accumulation of policies and laws that have been devised to entrench its control over Palestinians. It cited the 2018 so-called Jewish Nation State Law, which critics insist has formalized apartheid in the occupied territories.
Carried out by IRmep earlier in March, the poll asked whether, in light of the B’Tselem report, the Zionist regime should be a leading recipient of U.S. aid. Of those who responded, 38.1 percent said that the occupying regime should not be a leading recipient of $3.8 billion per annum aid from Washington.
The differences are starker when looked at on a regional basis: 43.4 percent of respondents from the north-east of the U.S., 39.1 percent from the mid-west and 36.2 percent from the west said that such a level of U.S. aid should stop.
The poll was carried out in advance of the annual IsraelLobbyCon conference on 17 and 24 April, which this year has the theme "End U.S. Support for Israeli Apartheid?” IRmep and the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs are co-organizing the event to "explore[s] the latest research, innovations and tactics for countering the Israel lobby’s damaging policies in the U.S. and around the globe.”
IRmep’s poll is the latest indication that, increasingly, American citizens appear to believe that systemic discrimination and apartheid by the settler-colonial regime should have consequences. Successive U.S. governments, however, continue to think otherwise.
Carried out by IRmep earlier in March, the poll asked whether, in light of the B’Tselem report, the Zionist regime should be a leading recipient of U.S. aid. Of those who responded, 38.1 percent said that the occupying regime should not be a leading recipient of $3.8 billion per annum aid from Washington.
The differences are starker when looked at on a regional basis: 43.4 percent of respondents from the north-east of the U.S., 39.1 percent from the mid-west and 36.2 percent from the west said that such a level of U.S. aid should stop.
The poll was carried out in advance of the annual IsraelLobbyCon conference on 17 and 24 April, which this year has the theme "End U.S. Support for Israeli Apartheid?” IRmep and the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs are co-organizing the event to "explore[s] the latest research, innovations and tactics for countering the Israel lobby’s damaging policies in the U.S. and around the globe.”
IRmep’s poll is the latest indication that, increasingly, American citizens appear to believe that systemic discrimination and apartheid by the settler-colonial regime should have consequences. Successive U.S. governments, however, continue to think otherwise.
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