{"id":309900,"date":"2025-06-06T06:24:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T06:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=309900"},"modified":"2025-06-08T08:00:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T08:00:29","slug":"erase-amalek-poll-reveals-mass-israeli-support-for-expulsion-genocide-of-palestinians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=309900","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Erase Amalek\u2019: Poll reveals mass Israeli support for expulsion, genocide of Palestinians"},"content":{"rendered":"

TRT Global \u2013 May 26, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

A new poll published in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz<\/em> reveals <\/a>that genocidal rhetoric, once confined to Israel\u2019s extremist settler fringe, has now moved into the mainstream, with overwhelming public support for ethnic cleansing, mass killings, and biblical revenge.<\/p>\n

Conducted by the Geocartography Knowledge Group for Penn State University in March 2025, the survey of 1,005 Israeli Jews paints a chilling picture of a society increasingly radicalised by religious nationalism and emboldened by war.<\/p>\n

The poll found that 82 percent of Jewish Israelis support expelling Palestinians from Gaza and 56 percent back the expulsion of Arab citizens of Israel \u2014 up from 45 percent and 31 percent, respectively, in a similar poll in 2003.<\/p>\n

To the question, \u201cDo you support the idea that the IDF [Israeli army], when conquering an enemy city, should act as the Israelites did under Joshua in Jericho \u2014 by killing all of its inhabitants?<\/em>\u201d, almost half of the respondents said yes.<\/p>\n

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Altogether, 47 percent endorsed replicating the biblical conquest of Jericho, in which all residents of an enemy city \u2014 in this case, a reference to Palestinians \u2014 were slaughtered.<\/p>\n

Every 2 in 3 Israelis (around 66 percent) believe that a modern version of Amalek \u2014 a biblical enemy of the Jewish people \u2014 exists today, and of those, 93\u00a0 percent believe the biblical command to annihilate Amalek still applies.<\/p>\n

The poll arrives at a time when Israel\u2019s war on Gaza has left 54,000 Palestinians dead, most of them women and children. Israeli leaders have repeatedly invoked \u201cAmalek\u201d to describe Palestinians, and military rabbis have framed the war as a biblical obligation.<\/p>\n

What is Amalek?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Amalek is a \u201cbiblical enemy of the Israelites\u201d, described in the Hebrew Bible as a nation that attacked them after the Exodus from Egypt.<\/p>\n

In the Book of Deuteronomy, God is believed to command the Israelites to \u201cblot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven\u201d and \u201cnot forget\u201d \u2014 a call historically interpreted by some as a divine mandate for total annihilation.<\/p>\n

While many Jewish scholars interpret Amalek symbolically \u2014 as the embodiment of evil \u2014 far-right religious leaders like Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh claim Amalek exists today in the form of Palestinians. This belief fuels religious justification for violence, casting \u201cerasing Amalek\u201d as a sacred duty.<\/p>\n

In modern usage, the term has become a theological weapon \u2014 a way to frame war, revenge, and extermination not merely as political or military aims but as divine commands.<\/p>\n