Source: @imleslahdin Twitter

Whether one supports the Israelis or Palestinians or Russia or Ukraine is a tribal political marker. Generally pro-Israel and pro-Ukraine is the establishment position, including neoliberals and neocons, pro-Palestine and pro-Ukraine are normie progressives/woke libs, pro-Palestine and pro-Russia are Third Wordlists, such as Tankies as well as Third Positionists, and pro-Israel and pro-Russia are primarily MAGA, or perhaps Russian Israelis.

Source: @TradNorm

The pro-Palestinian side includes anti-globalists and anti-imperialists but also normie woke liberals, such as Al Jazeera, AOC and MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan. Obviously Black Lives Matter and Antifa types supports the Palestinians. The Russia/Ukraine issue is what divides the two camps. There are woke Zionists as well, like the ADL, which has become an Alt-Right meme. The split between the centrist liberal totalitarian humanists and left-wing anti-imperialists/Third Worldists over Gaza might have significant political ramifications.

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A lot of the Alt-Lite wing of MAGA are pro-Israel while sympathetic to Putin, as well as to Assad in the Syrian civil war. However, plenty of MAGA have fairly normie Republican views. Basically very pro-Israel while tepidly pro-Ukraine. Independent populist former congresswoman, Tulsi Gabbard, has gotten flak from the Left for her pro-Israel stance, while also getting accused of defending Russia and Syria’s Assad regime by both Neocons and the mainstream Left. Tulsi Gabbard is a non-interventionist, but also views both the secular nationalist, Baathist regime in Syria and Netanyahu’s Israel, as battling Islamic extremism, which is a consistent stance.

Source: @OregonBlueDog Twitter

A lot of the dissident right are broadly neutral while a lot of the pro-Palestinian White Nationalist types have drifted in a more Third Wordlist direction. I have noticed that European identitarians tend to be neutral, as Ukraine and Russia are both European, while they view both Israel and Palestine as non-European, a stance that I can respect. However, Israel is at least partially Western, and Israel being more Western and White is a factor for the mainstream Right’s support for Israel. To Leftists, Palestinians represent people of color while Israelis represent White Supremacy, settler colonialism and Western Imperialism.

MAGA does not necessarily worship Putin, but for the purpose of this article, I have to oversimplify and stereotype. Republicans generally favor Israel over Ukraine, with a lot of MAGA Republicans, who support Israel but want to throw Ukraine under the bus. A CBS News Poll shows that 43% of conservatives support sending military aid to Ukraine while 67% support sending aid to Israel. For liberals, it is the inverse, with 74% for Ukraine and 49% for Israel. In contrast with the Alt-Right, which is Eurocentric, mainstream conservatives, including much of MAGA, care more about the Biblical significance of the Holyland than their European heritage.

The pro-Israel side ranges from center-left Jews in the Democratic Party to MAGA and rightwing Evangelical Christians. Generally support for Israel comes from Republicans, and Boomer White Democrats, with younger people and people of color being more pro-Palestinian. Stances on these conflicts don’t match political polarization, along the left-right divide. For instance, Trump and the ADL are on the same side for Israel while Nick Fuentes/Groypers and Black Lives Matter and Antifa are on the same side against Israel. Since being pro Palestine and being pro-Israel are left and right-coded, this conflict is ironically pushing many cosmopolitan liberal Jews into doing something right-coded. On the political spectrum, pro-Russia and pro-Palestine are at the far ends, though Russia support leans right and Palestine support leans left. Support for Ukraine is peak center-left while support for Israel is peak center-right.

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