Another poll, taken in November by the Marquette Law School, challenged respondents to take sides. It asked: “When it comes to Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza, should the U.S. support Israel, support Hamas or not take a position?” Only 5 percent of registered voters said the United States should support Hamas, but 16 percent of under-30s chose that answer. Twenty-three percent preferred to support Israel; 61 percent said the United States shouldn’t take a position.
Hamas’s favorability ratings are in the same ballpark. In a Wall Street Journal/Ipsos poll taken less than two weeks after the October 7 massacre, 13 percent of under-30s expressed a favorable view of Hamas. Weeks later, after a lot more carnage in Gaza, a mid-November Yahoo/YouGov poll found that 18 percent of under-30s expressed a favorable view of Hamas.
The most alarming numbers have come from surveys taken by HarrisX for Harvard’s Center for American Political Studies. Unlike other pollsters, the Harvard-Harris team has reported cross-tabulations not just for Americans under age 35 or 30, but specifically for those between the ages of 18 and 24. Among these under-25s:
60 percent said “Hamas and Israel both have fairly equal just causes.” (The alternative answer was that “there is no moral equivalency between the terrorist murders of Hamas and the actions of Israel.”)
58 percent said “the Hamas killing of 1200 Israeli civilians and the kidnapping of another 250 civilians can be justified by the grievances of Palestinians.” (The alternative answer was that the killings by Hamas were “not justified in any way.”)
45 percent said they sided more with Hamas than with Israel.
These are eye-popping numbers, but there are reasons to be skeptical. The Harvard/Harris poll is somewhat sloppy, its November tables still haven’t been released, and the pollster hasn’t responded to requests for the data. Also, in the same survey in which 58 percent of under-25s said the October 7 attack could be justified, 54 percent said “universities have a moral obligation to condemn the Hamas terrorist killings.” So it’s not clear what some of these respondents are thinking.
Other polls have reported much lower numbers in this age range. In a Generation Lab survey taken a week after October 7, two-thirds of college students called the attack terrorism; only 12 percent described it instead as a justified act of resistance. Another poll, taken in late October, found that among college students aged 18 to 22, 9 percent said they sympathized “a lot” with Hamas, and another 13 percent said they sympathized “a little.”
All in all, sympathy with Hamas seems to show up, on average, in about 15 percent to 20 percent of young American adults. That’s way too high. But keep three things in perspective. First, the most reliable polls indicate that even in this age group, the vast majority of respondents oppose or at least don’t support Hamas. Second, there’s a huge gap between sympathy with Palestinians, which is quite broadly shared in the younger cohort, and sympathy with Hamas, which isn’t. And third, there’s a big gap between young people’s feelings about the Israeli government and their feelings about the Israeli people.
不过我还是觉得这属于言论自由的一部分.
美国有不少人对哈马斯持支持的态度，也没事儿啊。
网管的处理方法可以理解，删帖不封号，息事宁人嘛，。
不过有的人一蹦三尺高，叫嚷着要把网友“踢出去”，就太不厚道了，这里鄙视一下。
下面的内容摘自英文网站The bulwark：
链接：https://www.thebulwark.com/p/how-many-young-americans-support-hamas
Another poll, taken in November by the Marquette Law School, challenged respondents to take sides. It asked: “When it comes to Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza, should the U.S. support Israel, support Hamas or not take a position?” Only 5 percent of registered voters said the United States should support Hamas, but 16 percent of under-30s chose that answer. Twenty-three percent preferred to support Israel; 61 percent said the United States shouldn’t take a position.
Hamas’s favorability ratings are in the same ballpark. In a Wall Street Journal/Ipsos poll taken less than two weeks after the October 7 massacre, 13 percent of under-30s expressed a favorable view of Hamas. Weeks later, after a lot more carnage in Gaza, a mid-November Yahoo/YouGov poll found that 18 percent of under-30s expressed a favorable view of Hamas.
The most alarming numbers have come from surveys taken by HarrisX for Harvard’s Center for American Political Studies. Unlike other pollsters, the Harvard-Harris team has reported cross-tabulations not just for Americans under age 35 or 30, but specifically for those between the ages of 18 and 24. Among these under-25s:
60 percent said “Hamas and Israel both have fairly equal just causes.” (The alternative answer was that “there is no moral equivalency between the terrorist murders of Hamas and the actions of Israel.”)
58 percent said “the Hamas killing of 1200 Israeli civilians and the kidnapping of another 250 civilians can be justified by the grievances of Palestinians.” (The alternative answer was that the killings by Hamas were “not justified in any way.”)
45 percent said they sided more with Hamas than with Israel.
These are eye-popping numbers, but there are reasons to be skeptical. The Harvard/Harris poll is somewhat sloppy, its November tables still haven’t been released, and the pollster hasn’t responded to requests for the data. Also, in the same survey in which 58 percent of under-25s said the October 7 attack could be justified, 54 percent said “universities have a moral obligation to condemn the Hamas terrorist killings.” So it’s not clear what some of these respondents are thinking.
Other polls have reported much lower numbers in this age range. In a Generation Lab survey taken a week after October 7, two-thirds of college students called the attack terrorism; only 12 percent described it instead as a justified act of resistance. Another poll, taken in late October, found that among college students aged 18 to 22, 9 percent said they sympathized “a lot” with Hamas, and another 13 percent said they sympathized “a little.”
All in all, sympathy with Hamas seems to show up, on average, in about 15 percent to 20 percent of young American adults. That’s way too high. But keep three things in perspective. First, the most reliable polls indicate that even in this age group, the vast majority of respondents oppose or at least don’t support Hamas. Second, there’s a huge gap between sympathy with Palestinians, which is quite broadly shared in the younger cohort, and sympathy with Hamas, which isn’t. And third, there’s a big gap between young people’s feelings about the Israeli government and their feelings about the Israeli people.
我个人反对哈马斯，但是支持在法律许可下的言论自由。
链接：https://www.adl.org/resources/article/support-hamas-terror-anti-israel-rallies-across-us
他们之所以喜欢美国，不是因为美国的平等和自由，而是因为他们有造谣、说谎、夹带私货的自由，而且还有打击别人言论的自由。
不过还是支持网管，这样做可以减少争吵，少些是非，让坛子平和一些。