I didn’t know Western Europe was mostly majority for Palestinians.
what does that stem from?
Leftist sympathies and anti-semitism.
The PLO were very closely allied with both Russian and Chinese communism.
Enemy of my enemy is my ally type of stuff.
probably a mix of Muslim immigration and traditional European totalitarian leanings (both fascism and communism incorporated anti-Semitism; Marx said the “Jew’s worldly God was money.”)
‘Auschwitz meant that six million Jews were killed, and thrown on the waste-heap of Europe, for what they were: money Jews. Finance capital and the banks, the hard core of the system of imperialism and capitalism, had turned the hatred of men against money and exploitation, and against the Jews…Anti-Semitism is really a hatred of capitalism’
— Ulrike Meinhof, Red Army Faction
They hated (still do) the Jews but recognized the Jewish contribution to that Continent by turning them to ash in WWII.
After WWII there was a collective sense of war guilt and they agreed (grudgingly) to help establish the State of Israel.
By 1976 the UN was firmly in the PLO/Nonaligned/Anti-Western camp and under the then Secretary General Nazi, Kurt Waldheim, the stage was set for anti-Israel bills, decisions, resolutions and condemnations.
Then, in 1982 Israel was blamed for the Sabra and Shatilla massacre carried out by the Lebanese “Phalange” militia. That was it, That was the deciding event that put Europe and Israel on a collision course.
Now, all the pent up antisemitism flowed out openly and when combined by the huge influx of Palestinians Arab Muslims into Europe. A new mixture of hate was now called Anti-Zionism , not antisemitism mind you.
Today, it has gotten worse. The more Europe SUBMITS, CAPITULATES and is raped by the Muslim so-called “Refugees”, the more Europe appeases the Arabs by pressuring tiny, Democratic Israel to CAPITULATE and take the Arabic heat off the Europeans. It won't work.
Israel will stand steadfast while Europe dies. The US in the meantime will hopefully elect a pro-American US President who will strengthen our ties with that tiny, beleaguered nation, Israel.
Hatred of Jews. Europe is like much of the World.
“what does that stem from?”
Anti semetism was addressed in Sir Walter Scott’s “Ivanhoe” back in 1820! They’ve been drinking the KOOLAID longer than the US, why do you think the Nazis had it so easy in parts of Europe? Anti Israel sympathies are rampant worldwide IMHO, barely concealed here in the US.
We are at the end of an era, hanging on one administration at a time. And I would qualify that as for most of the entire existence of the US.