[Jpost] The unadulterated hatred on display at pro-Palestinian and pro-Hamas rallies worldwide, from Sydney to Warsaw and London to New York, has Jews around the world furious, frightened, and frustrated.
It makes the blood boil to watch a Cornell University professor say he was "exhilarated and energized" by the October 7 massacre, to see signs reading "keep the world clean" with a picture of a Star of David on a garbage can at a Warsaw protest, and to hear people chant "gas the Jews" outside Sydney’s iconic opera house, that symbol of culture and civilization.
But as awful as those images are, as unsettling as is the hatred on display, there is a silver lining: Reasonable people are seeing this Jew-hatred as well, and some are undoubtedly drawing conclusions.
"Oy vey, what have we done! We are lost!"?
The battle for public opinion is difficult, and those involved in it know that the target is not the true believers on any side of an argument — they will support their cause regardless of the facts. The battle is for the vast majority in the middle who have not yet made up their minds.
If these protests, including a major anti-Israel rally in Brooklyn and London Saturday night, are meant to win adherents to their cause, chanting antisemitic slogans is unlikely to do the trick.
Always worked before.
ISRAEL WINNING IN THE COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION
"Israel is clearly winning in the court of public opinion," Lee M. Miringoff, director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, said in a statement on October 13 as his organization released a poll together with NPR/PBS NewsHour.
According to this poll, taken on October 11 among 1,313 respondents, 65% of the public said the US should publicly support Israel, while only 8% said it should publicly criticize the Jewish state.
In a Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll on October 20, 84% of the 2,116 registered voters said they sided with Israel, while only 16% said they sided with Hamas.
If only USA was still a republic. 
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