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(NewsNation) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu connected Monday called President Donald Trump the "greatest friend" Israel has ever had, but the praise comes arsenic American enactment for Israel has plummeted since the war successful Gaza began.
More than 2 years aft the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attacks connected Israel, Americans’ skepticism of Israel’s cognition and its authorities has shifted dramatically successful the United States.
Support for Palestinians climbs 15%
According to a New York Times/Siena College poll, enactment for Israel among American voters has declined from 47% 2 months pursuing the onslaught to 34%.
Sympathy for Palestinians has risen from 20% to 35%, marking the archetypal clip successful 2 and a fractional decades that a New York Times canvass recovered much enactment for Palestine than Israel.
The displacement coincides with increasing disapproval of Israel’s handling of the war. The canvass recovered that 40% of Americans judge Israel "intentionally" killed civilians successful Gaza, which Israel has denied. That fig is astir treble the fig of voters who expressed the aforesaid sentiment successful 2023.
Those concerns person been underscored successful protests crossed the U.S., peculiarly connected assemblage campuses.
Sinking support for Israel among Americans
According to a Pew Research Center survey, 39% of Americans judge Israel has gone excessively acold successful its subject cognition — up from 31% a twelvemonth agone and 27% successful precocious 2023. Fifty-nine percent present clasp an unfavorable presumption of the Israeli government, up 8 points from aboriginal 2024.
While 16% judge Israel's attack has been "about right," 10% accidental it hasn't gone acold enough.
Views of the Trump administration’s handling of the struggle are divided. The canvass recovered 42% of U.S. adults disapprove of the administration’s response, 30% approve, and 27% stay unsure.
For galore of Israel’s supporters, it’s a troubling infinitesimal — 1 that suggests that adjacent if the warring ends, Israel’s lasting among Americans whitethorn beryllium hard to rebuild.
