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A new poll finds majority support among surveyed Democrats for pursuing criminal prosecutions of officials from both the Biden and Trump administrations over Gaza. The finding points to demands for accountability that extend beyond party allegiance.

 

Stephen Prager

Gaza: 57% of surveyed Democrats back prosecuting Biden and Trump officials

 

The majority of Democratic voters believe Israel has committed genocide in Gaza for the past three years. And they want the American politicians in both parties who supported it to pay.

In a poll released on Monday by the Center for Strategic Politics and commissioned by the magazine Liberal Currents, 683 Democratic voters were asked whether the next Democratic administration should “pursue criminal prosecution of members of the Trump and Biden administrations for actions taken related to Israel’s genocide in Gaza”.

More than half, 57 per cent, of the Democrats surveyed answered “yes”, while only 22 per cent answered “no” and another 22 per cent said they “don’t know”.

Self-described ‘socialists’ and ‘progressives’ were most bullish on Gaza-focused prosecutions. But so were 52 per cent of ’liberals’ and even 48 per cent of Democrats who called themselves ‘moderate’ or ‘conservative’.

It is one of several questions in the poll about a hypothetical Democratic administration prosecuting its predecessors over policies considered deadly and destructive.

About two-thirds, 66 per cent, said they wanted to see Trump administration officials prosecuted for actions taken during its aggressive war with Iran, which has led to the deaths of more than 1,700 civilians and wrought economic turmoil.

Nearly three-quarters, 72 per cent, believed Trump officials should face similar accountability for their campaign of extrajudicial strikes on boats in the Caribbean and Pacific, which have killed more than 234 people in what a top United Nations official recently said may constitute “crimes against humanity”.

And more than three-quarters said they wanted to see Trump officials face legal penalties for actions committed by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), which have waged a violent mass deportation campaign that has entailed numerous documented due process violations, instances of racial profiling, and several shootings of immigrants and US citizens without clear justification.

The question about Gaza is the only one in the survey in which Democrats were asked about the prospect of prosecuting members of their own party as well as Republicans. And while fewer Democrats ultimately answered yes, it indicates that their ire toward the American politicians supporting the genocide transcends party loyalty.

The poll results come as some activists pursue accountability for the Biden administration in other ways. Last week, organisers launched a campaign to pressure universities and other prominent institutions to cut ties with what they called the ‘Genocide 20’.

These are officials like former secretary of state Tony Blinken and former national security adviser Jake Sullivan who crafted and defended the administration’s policy of unrestricted military aid for Israel despite mounting evidence that it was killing scores of civilians and enacting a campaign of starvation against the people of Gaza.

The United States provided Israel with at least $17.9 billion in military assistance between 7 October 2023 and the end of former president Joe Biden’s term in January 2025, according to Brown University’s Costs of War project. During that period, more than 47,000 Palestinians were confirmed killed, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.

Since President Donald Trump returned to office, the US has continued to provide Israel with billions of dollars in military assistance, including $3.8 billion in regular annual military aid, while the Trump administration has approved billions more in arms sales and expedited weapons deliveries. The death toll has risen to nearly 74,000, according to official figures, but independent experts have suggested this may be a significant undercount.

According to Monday’s poll, more than four in five Democrats said that “foreign policy (including Israel and Iran)” is important to them in deciding which candidates to support, compared with just 4 per cent who said it is not.

Foreign policy has been a critical dividing line in several recent Democratic primaries, in which voters have revolted against candidates backed by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).

This includes Democratic Michigan congresswoman Haley Stevens, who was defeated by Abdul El-Sayed in a contest for the US Senate despite her more than $30 million in backing from AIPAC, which helped to turn it into the most expensive Democratic primary ever.

AIPAC-backed House candidates have similarly suffered high-profile defeats at the hands of progressives calling to cut off US funding for Israel. Some of the victors include Chris Rabb in Pennsylvania, Brad Lander and Darializa Avila Chevalier in New York, and Aisha Wahab, who won a special election in California.

 

Republished from Common Dreams

https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/09/majority-of-democratic-voters-want-to-prosecute-both-biden-and-trump-administration-officials-over-gaza/

 

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no shoes....

 

Kasim Yusef

2026-09-28

Beirut – As soon as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the podium at the United Nations to deliver his speech, a cascade of delegates began to walk out of the hall. The scene was neither confrontational nor chaotic, but rather a quiet, collective exodus, which at that moment seemed to be a single, powerful message, formulated by dozens of delegations in the same language: We do not want to sit and we do not want to listen .

History has a long memory of political insults. From Muntadhar al-Zaidi’s shoe, which flew into the face of US President George Bush during a press conference in 2008, in a scene that became one of the most famous images of protest against the Iraq War, to the resounding slap that French President Emmanuel Macron received from a disgruntled or extremist citizen.

The most bizarre form of humiliation was embodied in the infamous meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron at the Kremlin following the outbreak of the war in Ukraine. The two men sat at opposite ends of an enormous table, more than six meters long. The distance alone was enough to create a historic image, encapsulating the vast chasm between Moscow and Europe, and Putin’s determination to humiliate and subjugate his neighbors.

The world didn’t hit Netanyahu with a shoe. It didn’t slap him in the face. Instead, it did something quieter and more lethal: it let him talk alone.

Extremely cruel and significant

These events, and others like them, will remain profoundly significant and impactful. They will live on for decades in the collective memory of nations and history, but they do not compare to the extraordinary and remarkable collective action displayed by the scene at the General Assembly in the face of Netanyahu. There is a vast difference between an individual deciding to exact humiliating revenge in his own way, and professional diplomats rising from their seats and leaving the hall the moment a prime minister takes the podium to deliver his speech. The former is an individual act, however famous or harsh it may be. The latter, however, is a harmonious and unprecedented display of unity.

There were no shoes thrown at Netanyahu, no eggs, no slaps, no shouting, no chaos. The demeanor was remarkably calm and disciplined, yet equally harsh and telling. Those who know how to speak, those who know how to sit at the table, those who have learned for decades that disagreement doesn’t mean leaving the room, that diplomacy begins with the ability to listen to one’s opponent, no matter how deep the disagreement, walked out. Yet, despite all that, they left.

Outrageous justice

It was precisely here that the insult transformed into a very clear political message. It was as if international diplomacy, with all its protocols, courtesies, calculations, and interests, had decided for a moment to use a logic outside its own lexicon, through a punitive act akin to slaughtering with cotton.

In law, there is a concept called gross injustice, which perfectly encapsulates the extreme oppression and violence perpetrated by Israel. Gross injustice can only be rectified by equally gross justice, and this kind of justice is not achieved through imprisonment, execution, arrest warrants, or even a shoe thrown at someone’s forehead, but rather through the collective withdrawal of diplomats who specialize in listening, dialogue, discussion, politics, and compromise.

The world did not hit Netanyahu with a shoe. It did not slap him in the face. Instead, it did something quieter and more lethal: it let him talk alone.

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https://www.theinteldrop.org/2026/09/28/the-world-is-slaughtering-netanyahu-with-cotton/

 

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