Australians have more negative view of Israel than of China, Guardian Essential poll finds

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/03/australians-more-negative-view-of-israel-than-china-guardian-essential-poll-ntwnfb

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unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 25 pts · 53d (4 replies)

I mean yeah, China does genocide on the side and tries to hide it, Israel does it as its main job and is proud of it.

Seagoon_@aussie.zone · -3 pts · 52d (3 replies)

How many tens of millions have China killed?

Wataba@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 52d

Destroying an entire culture is genocide, regardless of the body count.

Einskjaldi@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 52d

At this point you can't really blame people in China currently for the old 60s great leap forward famine, it's been a long time.

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 52d

Wot?

TheLunatickle@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 53d (2 replies)

In before someone equates not liking Israel to hating jewish people.

hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 52d (1 reply)

you mean like legislation in many Aussie states ?

TheLunatickle@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 52d

Exactly.

ForgottenUsername@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 52d (1 reply)

Not to downplay what Israel is doing. But we surveyed 1000 people out of 28mil and determined Australia

What a clickbait BS title. It's sad that this is what passes for media in Australian these days.

Tenderizer@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 51d

1000 people is generally enough provided it's a representative sample.