AP-NORC poll from January 2024<\/a> when former President Joe Biden was in office. That includes 51% of Jewish Democrats in the new poll. <\/p>\nRoughly 6 in 10 Democrats, 62%, say the U.S. is \u201cnot supportive enough\u201d of the Palestinians, up from 49% in 2024. Younger Democrats \u2014 those 45 and younger \u2014 are still more likely than older ones to say that the United States is \u201cnot supportive enough\u201d of the Palestinians, but older Democrats are catching up to their younger counterparts. About 57% of older Democrats now say the U.S. should do more for the Palestinians, up from 39% two years ago.<\/p>\n
Joy Jennik, a 73-year-old Democrat from Brookfield, Wisconsin, said she didn\u2019t have strong opinions about the U.S. relationship with Israel until after Hamas\u2019 Oct. 7 attack. <\/p>\n
Now, she believes Israel is guilty of genocide.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Gaza Strip, there\u2019s not a lot left of it. Those poor people are barely living,\u201d said Jennik, a retired home economics teacher. <\/p>\n
GOP stays behind Israel, but less so among young Republicans<\/p>\n
Just a sliver of Republicans, 13%, describe Israel\u2019s actions as genocide, although there is an apparent age gap. About 2 in 10 Republicans under 45 say Israel has committed genocide, while about 1 in 10 Republicans ages 45 and older say the same. <\/p>\n
Overall, 60% of Republicans describe the U.S. support for Israel as \u201cabout right.\u201d Only about 2 in 10 Republicans say that the United States is \u201ctoo supportive\u201d of the Israelis, although Republicans under 45 are more likely to say this.<\/p>\n
The share of Republicans overall who say the U.S. is \u201ctoo supportive\u201d of Israel has not changed meaningfully since 2024, but the share who say the U.S. is \u201cnot supportive enough\u201d has shrunk from 39% to 15%. <\/p>\n
Mike Cardona, a 70-year-old Republican from suburban Phoenix, said he\u2019s pleased with the level of support that the U.S. is giving Israel and rejects the notion that Israel has committed genocide. <\/p>\n
\u201cI wish they\u2019d gone in harder and better,\u201d Cardona, a retired industrial supply salesperson said of Israel\u2019s military action in Gaza. \u201cUnfortunately, some innocents will be hurt, but Hamas and Hezbollah never took that into consideration when they were killing children and women in Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n
Netanyahu is broadly unpopular, while views of Mamdani are split<\/p>\n
In interviews, several respondents emphasized that their criticism of Israel was focused on its leaders, especially Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is perceived as closely aligned with Trump after repeated clashes with Democratic presidents. <\/p>\n
Overall, only 20% of U.S. adults have a favorable view of the Israeli prime minister, while about twice as many, 38%, have an unfavorable view. About 41% don\u2019t know enough to have an opinion. <\/p>\n
Netanyahu is particularly unpopular among Jewish adults: about 6 in 10 view him unfavorably, while about one-third see him positively.<\/p>\n
Younger adults, regardless of party, are more likely than older adults to say they don\u2019t have an opinion about Netanyahu. But while older Republicans see Netanyahu more positively than negatively, younger Republicans\u2019 views tilt unfavorably. <\/p>\n
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has gained prominence as an outspoken critic of Israel, and 27% of U.S. adults have a favorable opinion of the 34-year-old democratic socialist. Another 28% of U.S. adults have an unfavorable opinion, while 44% don\u2019t know enough to say.<\/p>\n
Jewish adults, who overwhelmingly identify as Democrats, have a more positive view of Mamdani than of Netanyahu, with 44% viewing the New York City mayor positively, 39% viewing him negatively, and 17% saying they don\u2019t know enough to say.<\/p>\n
About half of Democrats overall have a favorable impression of Mamdani and only about 1 in 10 have an unfavorable view of him, while the rest, about 39%, don\u2019t have an opinion.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the U.S.-Israel relationship is not top of mind for many Americans as they think about the upcoming midterm elections. <\/p>\n
For people like Michael Ripka, a 34-year-old stage hand from Casper, Wyoming who typically votes Republican, the economy is by far the most important thing on his mind.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything is mad expensive,\u201d he said. The conflicts in the Middle East, he added, is \u201c100% a very big distraction.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Sanders reported from Washington. <\/p>\n
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The AP-NORC poll of 3,040 adults was conducted June 11-17 using a sample drawn from NORC\u2019s probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The poll included interviews with 1,022 Jewish adults. The margin of sampling error for adults overall is plus or minus 2.8 percentage points and the margin of sampling error for Jewish adults is plus or minus 5.0 percentage points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 After decades of reliable bipartisan backing for Israel, a new AP-NORC poll reveals a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":918876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[97,272269,1578,372,69,4526,57,18890,4527,371004,99,3462,2066,82,371001,371002,3463,371003,405,403,50,80,87645,55347,89,61,322,67,132,68,93,107,5301],"class_list":["post-918875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","category-us","tag-2024-2025-mideast-wars","tag-2024-2026-mideast-wars","tag-associated-press","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-donald-trump","tag-gaza-strip","tag-general-news","tag-genocide","tag-hamas","tag-harold-kalmus","tag-israel","tag-israel-government","tag-jd-vance","tag-joe-biden","tag-joy-jennik","tag-michael-ripka","tag-mideast-wars","tag-mike-cardona","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-polling","tag-public-opinion","tag-u-s-democratic-party","tag-u-s-news","tag-u-s-republican-party","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-washington-news","tag-world-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/918876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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