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An Insane Number of Gen Zers Support Hamas's Oct 7 Attack (www.newsweek.com)

submitted 1 year ago by bestagoner@hexbear.net to c/genzedong@lemmygrad.ml

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original title: 'An Insane Number of Gen Zers Support Hamas's Slaughter of Innocent Israelis'

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[–] anicius@lemmygrad.ml 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Let's go over the poll and how bias the questions are.

ISR4: Do you think it's true that Hamas terrorists killed 1200 Israeli civilians by shooting them, raping and beheading people including whole families, kids and babies or is that a false story?

This of course ignores the large number of military personnel killed by calling them civilians while also repeating the blood libel claim about babies.

ISR5: Do you think Hamas fighters are more appropriately called militants or terrorists?

Both of these words have a negative connotation in English normally you would use a neutral or positive word to gauge sentiment also the question above already calls them terrorists.

ISR7: Do you think Hamas is designated as a terrorist group by the U.S. government or is that not the case?

This is literally just a knowledge question but in the slides is presented as opinion. Bringing up the official designation just seems like an intentional attempt to bias any subsequent answers.

ISR15: Do you think the recent attack on Israel shows there is widespread antisemitism and hatred of Jews among Palestinians or does the attack reflect the actions of only terrorists and fundamentalists and not the will of Palestinian people?

These are the only two possibilities it couldn't have anything to do with fighting occupiers.

[–] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 1 year ago

Seriously, these questions are such shit. The zionists who came up with them couldn't pretend to be neutral for one poll, and yet they still didn't get the response they wanted.

[–] mar_k@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

These might be the most biased poll questions I've ever seen

ISR16: Do you think the recent attack on Israel was intended to provoke war and instability in the Middle East or not?

Wtf does this even mean? They attacked Israel simply because they want to see the world burn?

ISR24: Some people say Hamas and Israel both have fairly equally just causes. Others says that there is no moral equivalency between the terrorist murders of Hamas and the actions of Israel. Which is closer to your view?

"Terrorist murders" vs "actions" us-foreign-policy

ISR25: Do you think Hamas is supported by the majority of Palestinians in Gaza or is Hamas a terror group that rules the people of Gaza with force and fear and is not supported by them?

ISR26: Does Hamas hiding among civilians in Gaza show it has no interest in the safety and well-being of Palestinian citizens of the Gaza Strip, using them as human shields, or is Hamas being protected by the citizens of Gaza?

"Hamas are a bunch of sick twisted fucks who murder their own children for clout. Do you think they're well respected?"

ISR31: Given that US intelligence and Israeli intelligence have said and shown evidence that the hospital explosion was caused by an off-course terrorist rocket do you think the explosion was caused by an Israeli airstrike or by a terrorist rocket that went off course?

61% of 18-24 year olds here said Israel caused the hospital airstrike (compared to 10% of 65+)

ISR32: Do you think that the original declarations by Hamas that Israel bombed the hospital were true or Hamas propaganda?

42% of 18-24 year olds here said Israel caused the hospital airstrike, a 19% decline. I guess the loaded language in the previous question wasn't enough, they had to bring out the "Hamas propaganda" line