BREAKING: New Palestinian public opinion poll released by PCPSR — the first since October 7th. Main findings:
🔸️72% support the 10/7 massacre
🔸️Support for Hamas triples in West Bank (82% supported the massacre)
🔸️Support for "armed struggle" rises ten pts to +60%
🔸️Only 10% of Palestinians think Hamas committed war crimes. Relatedly, 85% did not see any of the footage released from 10/7.
🔸️When asked about their own preferences for the party that should be in control in the Gaza Strip after the war, 60% (75% in the West Bank but only 38% in the Gaza Strip) selected Hamas
🔸️For the Arab/regional actors, the highest level of satisfaction went to Yemen (80%; 89% in the West Bank and 68% in the Gaza Strip), followed by Qatar (56%), Hizballah (49%), Iran (35%), Turkey (34%), Jordan (24%), Egypt (23%), UAE (8), and finally Saudi Arabia (5%).
🔸️If new presidential elections were held today and only two candidates, Mahmoud Abbas and Ismail Haniyeh, the voter turnout would be only 53%, and among those who would participate, Abbas would receive 16% of the vote and Haniyeh 78% (compared to 58% for Haniyeh and 37% for Abbas three months ago).
On October 17, +50 faculty and staff from Northwestern University's Qatar campus (@NUQatar) signed a letter condemning Israel's "75-year regime of settler-colonialism and apartheid as the root cause of the violence."
This letter, endorsed by notable Palestinians denouncing Abbas's antisemitism, is a transparent attempt to divert attention away from their own Jew-hate.
🧵 with facts about some of the signatories. Feel free to contribute additional info about them and others.
Ubai Aboudi is a PFLP member who has been repeatedly arrested for security offenses and “was responsible for recruiting additional activists to the [PFLP]... as well as strengthening the organization’s infrastructure in the area."
The group says anti-Zionism isn't antisemitic, supports conditioning US aid to Israel, backs people like Rashida Tlaib + Ilhan Omar, and collaborates with groups like @BtSIsrael.
.@jstreetdotorg has even hosted the Holocaust denying PA President Mahmoud Abbas at their events, giving him a platform to directly indoctrinate American Jews.
She may have blocked me, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't find out that @FranceskAlbs spoke today via video at a conference organized by Hamas’s Council on International Relations.
Funny, I don't recall her promoting this event on Twitter 🤔.
Speakers include Senior Hamas Official Basem Naeem and Hamas Spokesman Abd al-Latif al-Qanou.
Haven't yet been able to identify the other panelists or find a recording of the event. If anyone can read their name cards feel free to let me know who they are.