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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20911849

By Umar A Farooq in Washington
Published date: 30 September 2024 11:01 BST

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[–] Frog@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (9 children)

I'm going to be blunt and straightforward about this.

According to Wikipedia, Islam is the third largest religion at 1.1% at about 3.5 million people. Compared at Judaism is at 2.07% at about 7.5 million people.

On the issue of supporting Israel for their horrible acts on the regions surrounding them, morality aside and by just looking at the numbers, if you get 100% of the Muslim American support, you would need about 2 million Jewish Americans to break even.

Which I think is more doable than ignoring the Muslim American population and hoping 47% of the Jewish American vote offsets the 3.5 million Muslim American vote.

Also if they have to appease the corrupt war companies that fund the party, just send the weapons to Ukraine.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 15 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Remember that many of those Jewish Americans are either anti-zionists or don't care either way. Meanwhile almost every single Muslim American cares about the issue and will likely vote Democrat if they do anything but actively cooperate with genocide.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 9 points 11 months ago

100%, Dems are throwing the election.

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