>Why is the US in particular tolerating Israel

We all know why.

Imagine the uproar if there were half as many powerful people in America's media, politics, finance, etc who had dual-Senegalese citizenship or ancestry, and spent more time defending the Senegalese government, complaining of anti-Senegalese sentiment, and advocating for material support for the Senegalese people than they ever bothered with Americans.

Downvoted because people don't like to admit that pro-Israel factions of the US have a lot of sway in Washington.

OK, they're probably OK with the way I worded it, but as soon as you admit that many of those pro-Israel factions are of one religious background in particular, it's a no-no.

Which is stupid. It's not stereotyping to admit powerful people care about their own subgroups. It's stereotyping to insist it's only one group that's like this, or that everyone in that group is like this.

Is the religious background you're thinking of evangelical Christianity, because if it's not I suspect you're mistaken.

it's not stereotyping but its only relevant if you're trying to make a point about that religious background, and if you are then you have to consider that the vast majority of people of that background aren't members of pro-Israel factions that dominate the government so what's the actual point of bringing up the religious background? To muddy the waters, of course, and to try to paint more people with the same broad brush. After all, we don't hold Christendom responsible for everything bad any Christian has ever done.

+1 for differentiating between country and the ethnicity

People seem more accepting of the concept than you might expect. Compare the song "My Uncle Dan McCann", which you can hear here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_puzpI03Xcs

I found me uncle Dan McCann

A very prosperous Yankee man

He holds a seat in Congress

And he's leader of his clan

He's helped to write America's laws

His heart and soul in Ireland's cause

And God help the man who opened his jaws to me uncle Dan McCann

As far as the song is concerned, this is admirable behavior. Of course, the song is written from the perspective of an Irishman visiting from Ireland to look for his uncle. But it's marketed to Americans. The question "is it a good thing to have American legislators whose purpose in life is to work for the benefit of Ireland?" never seems to come up.

Though I recognise the similarity, a Irish song about a relative who emigrated to America in the 19th century, fought in the Civil War, becomes a politician and advocates for Irish Independence isn't really on the same scale as what the Israel lobby is being accused of.

And a double reminder that it's an Irish song that tells an Irish perspective,not an American one.

> And a double reminder that it's an Irish song that tells an Irish perspective,not an American one.

No, it's an American song that tells an Irish perspective. It was written in America to be performed for American audiences.

Why do American audiences appreciate it?

It was apparently written by Irish musician Shaun O'Nolan and popularised by another Irish musician Mick Moloney. I don't see a source for the year and location of it's authoring. Maybe you could provide one?

And audiences in America isn't the same thing as American audiences. There was and still is a very large Irish diaspora in the United States. I'd also appreciate a source for the claim that it was intentionally written for American audiences.

There has been a concerted effort to tie Jewish identity to the modern state of israel. It certainly doesn't help that the birth of said state came in the wake of the Jewish people nearly being wiped out by an industrialized genocide. Add to that the previous 1000 years or so of systematized antisemitism and it's easy to see why the proposition can be very appealing to a Jewish person who had (and sometimes still has) very material reason to fear for their safety.

This was leveraged (some might say exploited) by unsavory actors in the creation of a reactionary, settler-colonial ethno-state. This should not be too surprising, given that zionism arose in the same sociopolitical milieu that gave us modern nationalism and pan-nationalist ideologies.

Imagine if we sent Senagal $10M per day in tax payer money and questioning it led to your own politicians labeling you as "anti-senagalese" and being ousted from every political party.

Because Israel managed to pull of a wildly successful operation to capture the American politics by very aggressively promoting the notion that being in any way, shape, or form against anything Israel does is rabid anti-Semitism, and then using that as a cudgel (backed by a lot of money) to beat any candidate who might want to say something about it.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIPAC, which is an obvious foreign agent that's blatantly operating in violation of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Agents_Registration_Ac... for >70 years now.