10 Jun 2026

Trump Was Right: Everybody Hates The Jews

How many more will have to die just to keep the Jew Bibi 'The Baby Butcher' out of prison?

Donald Trump recently told 'The Baby Butcher' what Israel’s own propaganda machine cannot hide: Global public opinion has turned sharply against Tel Aviv. 

By Ali Abunimah: Donald Trump was being uncharacteristically truthful when he told Benjamin Netanyahu in a recent phone call that “Everybody hates Israel.”

The US president was demanding that the Israeli prime minister halt his relentless massacres in Lebanon – while downplaying their differences as “tactical disagreements.” But Trump – like his predecessor Joe Biden – has so far been unwilling to go beyond occasional harsh words.

In any event, Trump’s assessment appears accurate – even if characteristically sweeping – based on a new Pew Research Center survey of public attitudes in dozens of countries.

Tel Aviv and its panicked lobby are at a loss for how to react, with solutions ranging from spending record sums of money on propaganda to a sinister suggestion from a prominent Israel lobbyist billionaire that the spying and murder agency Mossad be turned against journalists who report on Israel’s crimes against Palestinian children.

“Across the 36 countries, a median of 67 percent of adults have an unfavorable view of Israel, while 25 percent have a favorable view,” Pew states.

In only one of the 36 countries – Kenya – does the number of people holding favorable views of Israel reach 50 percent. In every other country surveyed it is less than half.

And in only one nation – Greece – did views of Israel warm, but as Pew notes, “just 30 percent of Greeks express a positive opinion of the country today.”

The number of people holding negative views of Israel is highest in Turkey (97 percent), followed closely by Pakistan (95 percent).

Israel’s position is deteriorating

Overall, Israel’s position is deteriorating. Public sentiment toward Israel was already fairly negative last year, Pew says, but this year, “unfavorable views have become more common in 13 of the 24 countries where we have trend data.”

That is also true in countries with very pro-Israel governments like Argentina, under President Javier Milei, where a 46 percent minority held an unfavorable view of Israel in 2025, compared with a 55 percent majority in the latest survey.

“In Australia, Italy, Nigeria, Poland and the United Kingdom, the shares with very unfavorable views have also increased by double digits,” the survey finds.

German population does not like Israel

German foreign minister Johann Wadephul last week partly blamed Berlin’s hardline support for Israel for his country’s humiliating defeat in its effort to win a nonpermanent seat on the UN Security Council.

The Pew survey underscores that Berlin’s support for Tel Aviv as it commits genocide and massacres in Gaza and across the region is an elite project.

A whopping 73 percent of Germans view Israel unfavorably, according to the latest Pew survey, up from 64 percent last year. The number of Germans who view Israel favorably dropped from 31 percent to just 23 percent.

It’s a similar picture across the European Union, whose unaccountable elites remain staunchly wedded to the apartheid regime.

In Sweden, Spain, the Netherlands and Italy, three-quarters or more of the population views Israel unfavorably. In the latter three, the percentage with a “very unfavorable” view is around 50 percent.

Narrowing left-right gap

The new survey confirms a trend observed in many “Western” countries that support for Israel remains very strong on the political right, while it has collapsed on the left.

That gap remains the widest in the United States, where 83 percent of people on the left view Israel unfavorably, as compared with just 37 percent of right-wing respondents.

Similarly, in Australia, 94 percent of left-wingers hold an unfavorable view of Israel, compared with 55 percent of people on the right.

But in other countries, the gap is much narrower: In the UK, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands, the percentage of right-wing respondents holding a negative view of Israel ranges from a low of 58 percent up to 67 percent.

Pew also notes the wide generation gap, particularly in North America and Europe, where younger people have far more negative views of Israel than their elders.

Lobby panics as Americans abandon Israel

In April, Pew published the results of a separate survey focused on the United States, which found increasingly negative public attitudes towards Israel, especially among younger people.

Sixty percent of Americans now hold negative views of Israel, up from 53 percent last year – and a surge of almost 20 points since 2022.

Among those between the ages of 18 to 49, majorities in both the Democratic (84 percent) and Republican (57 percent) parties view Israel unfavorably.

It is no wonder that the Israel lobby is spending record amounts of money to oust politicians seen as critical of Israel.

AIPAC’s successful effort to unseat Republican Congressman Thomas Massie came after the most expensive primary campaign in history.

Massie has been a rare but prominent elected Republican to criticize US funding for Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Amid the long-term trend of support shifting away from Israel, it is fair to ask how long the lobby’s financial brute force can defy political gravity.

Last year’s election of longtime Israel critic Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City by an absolute majority of voters – in the face of massive spending by billionaires and special interest groups to back his opponents – is a sign of things to come.

Billionaire lobbyist calls for “furious” response

Israel lobbyists stubbornly insist that Israel merely has a branding problem.

Billionaire Ron Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, told a conference in New York recently that Israel needed a billion-dollar marketing campaign.

“There should be a brigade of young and attractive Israelis whose faces and voices should be recognized around the world,” Lauder said.

“The Arabs may have oil, but I know Israel has an abundance of smart, handsome young men and women. Their presence and their work are just as important as a squadron of F-35s,” Lauder added.

Paul James Kearns, who describes himself as a “political journalist” and “an Irishman born in Dublin, now an Israeli living in Tel Aviv,” also recently shared tips on how to improve Israel’s image with better propaganda.

“Too many Israeli spokespeople sound like they’ve just stepped off a flight from London, Melbourne or Cape Town,” Kearns lamented in a recent Times of Israel column. “That polished English often reads as imported and over-coached. A heavier sabra ‘Yisraeli’ accent with rough edges can feel more grounded and more important, more local.”

This is the opposite of the standard advice, which emphasizes English fluency for a global audience.

But Kearns appears to be acknowledging a real phenomenon, even if he doesn’t express it in these terms: Settlers from other settler-colonies or the British mother country only reinforce the understanding that Israel is a European settler-colony violently implanted in, and alien to, the region.

Those thick Israeli accents, Kearns must forlornly hope, may finally succeed in convincing people that the Jewish settler-colonial population is truly indigenous to Palestine.

That may be laughable, but Kearns at least recognizes that most of Israel’s standard propaganda lines range from “largely ineffective” to “downright useless.”

“Fewer and fewer are listening for ever-increasing good reasons,” he concludes.

Still, not even Lauder appears confident that slick PR delivered by “attractive Israelis” will be enough to turn the tide.

He also called on Israel to “go on the offensive” with a “government operation” involving the Mossad and Shin Bet spying and assassination agencies to fight those who spread “lies” about Israel.

One example of those “lies,” according to Lauder, is that children were starved in Gaza as a result of Israel’s genocide and blockade.

“When Israel is hit with lies, Israel should hit back twice as hard,” Lauder said. “It’s response should be furious. It should counterattack every single hour of every single day, and no institution should be spared.”

Israel quadruples hasbara budget

Israel appears to be heeding advice from the likes of Lauder. Its recently adopted 2026 budget includes around $730 million for hasbara – official propaganda – more than four times what it spent the previous year.

This comes with the creation of “a dedicated public diplomacy unit inside the foreign ministry, headed by a director equivalent in rank to the ministry’s top political official,” according to The Jerusalem Post.

The newspaper reported that the “unprecedented expenditure” came on the heels of the April Pew survey that showed American public support for Israel sinking.

But even the Post cast doubt on the plan. “Ask the people who study public diplomacy for a living whether any of this will work, and the answer is, overwhelmingly, skeptical,” the newspaper stated.

“No amount of messaging can outrun entrenched rejection by its target audiences of Israel’s armed response to conflicts with its neighbors,” The Jerusalem Post added, citing public diplomacy experts.

That is putting it far more mildly than Donald Trump did.

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