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Some do, but a majority of Jewish institutions have been captured by zionist influence.
My partner's father said his school switched from teaching Yiddish to "modern hebrew" when he was a kid. It was an effort to replace Jewish culture and heritage into a bastardized language for a state that is younger than my grandmother.
This was all by design. The zionist entity spent massive amounts of resources to influence Jewish institutions across the US to promote the zionist ideology, overall it was a success. Polling consistently shows a significant amount of western Jews (86%, IIRC) have unconditional support for the zionist entity.
This has probably dropped since last year, and anti-zionist institutions are gaining traction, denouncing zionist ethnic cleansing ("not in our name", etc.), but I have also seen a significant amount of "October 8th Jews" who became radicalized by the zionist ideology post 10/7.
Jewish individuals like Madea Benjamin, Norm Finklestein, Max Blumenthal, etc. have all been consistent with their anti-zionist rhetoric for decades, but over the past 2 years I don't think it matters what Jewish people's opinions are anyways. There are more zionist evangelicals in Amerikkka than there are Jewish. If the metric flipped, where 86% of Jewish Westerners became anti-zionist overnight, I doubt the US government would change their stance on supplying the zionist entity with weapons. Protests don't do anything, the Vietnam-War protests did nothing, the protests against the Afghanistan and Iraq wars did nothing. Non-violent protests are a pressure release valve for agitated individuals to scream their hearts out into the sky before returning to the status-quo.