From Robert Kraft to Netanyahu, Israel’s supporters keep helping its critics | Peter Beinart
Summary
Some well-known supporters of Israel, like Robert Kraft and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, have taken actions that have upset many Americans. At the same time, support for Israel in the United States has dropped, especially among Democrats, as more people see Israel less as a democracy and more as a place with segregation issues.Key Facts
- Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots, helped pressure Ed Sheeran to remove rapper Macklemore from his U.S. tour because Macklemore said “Free Palestine” on stage.
- Benjamin Netanyahu’s party in Israel has pushed to ban Arab political parties, which critics say undermines Israel’s democratic image.
- Since 2018, Israel’s favorability among Americans has dropped by 67 points.
- Many Democrats view Israel as a state with apartheid-like segregation rather than a democracy.
- Social science studies show people often become more aggressive when they feel they are losing something they already have, a behavior called loss aversion.
- This loss aversion idea may explain why Kraft, Netanyahu, and even President Trump act more aggressively as they feel their political support or power declining.
- U.S. foreign policy makers have been found to take bigger risks to avoid losing power than to gain new advantages.
- Netanyahu and Kraft come from a time when U.S. support for Israel was mostly steady, but now that support is shifting and they have not changed their approach.
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