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Any explanation in a forum post would probably be oversimplifying, but it's a couple things. For decades in the American public conscious the concept of supporting/defending Israel policies has been conflated with defending the Jewish people and their right to exist, and "anti-semite" is (rightly) a death sentence label in US politics and everyday work life. Savvy lobbyists, activists, etc put together AIPAC, a bipartisan lobbying group that is hugely successful and influential at making sure that US congressmen are loyal to Israeli policy by funding them. Then there's the whole Evangelical factor: there is a swamp of Americans who believe they are biblically obligated to serve the nation of Israel no matter what and defer to its judgment.

And when it comes to someone like Bernie, he was basically putting forward that there are genuine geopolitical reasons to give Israel the military aid we do, and that other states in the region also believe Hamas needs to go. And none of that is completely false, but the issue is Israel is conducting collective punishment on a civilian population in advancement of its longstanding plans to completely remove a people from that land and settle it with Zionists.