According to new poll, just 20% of Americans have a favorable view of Netanyahu.

By World Israel News Staff

Nearly half of American voters say the United States is too supportive of Israel, the highest share recorded by Quinnipiac University since it began asking the question in 2017, according to a new poll released Wednesday.

The survey found that 48% of registered voters believe US policy is “too supportive” of Israel, while 38% say the level of support is “about right” and 7% say Washington is not supportive enough.

The findings point to a sharp erosion in public support for the traditional US-Israel alignment, especially among Democrats and independents, and come as the Trump administration faces deep voter skepticism over the Iran war and its aftermath.

“Netanyahu gets poor marks from American voters as their appetite for supporting Israel wanes, with the share of voters who think the US is too supportive of Israel hitting a new high,” Quinnipiac polling analyst Tim Malloy said.

The poll found a wide partisan divide. Among Democrats, 66% said the US is too supportive of Israel, compared with 18% who said support is about right and 9% who said it is not supportive enough.

Among independents, 55% said the US is too supportive, 34% said support is about right and 7% said it is not enough.

Republicans remained broadly supportive of current US policy toward Israel. Sixty-nine percent said American support for Israel is about right, while 20% said the US is too supportive and 6% said it is not supportive enough.

The poll also found that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is viewed unfavorably by far more American voters than favorably.

Forty-eight percent of respondents said they had an unfavorable view of Netanyahu, compared with 20% who had a favorable view.

Another 30% said they had not heard enough about him.

The results were released one day after anti-Israel Democrats scored major primary victories in New York City. Three candidates backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani — Darializa Avila Chevalier, Brad Lander and Claire Valdez — won Democratic congressional primaries, victories that Reuters described as a political earthquake for the party’s establishment.

The Quinnipiac poll found that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is now a significant voting issue for many Americans.

Asked which issues were important to them in deciding how to vote in US House races, 41% named the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, tying gun violence and ranking above Donald Trump and AI data centers, both at 38%.

The cost of living, at 70%, and health care, at 59%, remained higher priorities.

The survey also showed broad public opposition to the US military campaign against Iran.

Sixty percent of voters said the action was “not worth it,” while 34% said it was “worth it.” Democrats opposed the war overwhelmingly, 93% to 4%, as did independents, 66% to 29%.

Republicans took the opposite view, with 75% saying the military action was worth it and 17% saying it was not.

“After months of diplomatic fits and starts, global economic repercussions and a broad loss of life in the region, a majority of voters make their feelings clear: the Iran war was a bad idea,” Malloy said.

The poll was conducted after President Donald Trump signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran opening a 60-day negotiating period toward a longer-term peace deal.

Despite that agreement, voters remained doubtful. Fifty-nine percent said they were either not so confident or not confident at all that the Iran deal would work, while 37% said they were very or somewhat confident.

Sixty-one percent of voters said they believe it is either very likely or somewhat likely that Iran will develop nuclear weapons.

The survey also found that 45% of voters believe the United States is in a weaker global position as a result of the Iran war, compared with 33% who said the country is stronger and 20% who said its position has not changed. On Iran’s position, voters were more divided: 39% said Iran is weaker, 31% said it is stronger and 26% said there has been no change.

The poll comes amid a broader decline in Trump’s foreign policy ratings. Thirty-seven percent of voters approved of his handling of foreign policy, while 59% disapproved. On Iran specifically, 34% approved and 62% disapproved.

Trump’s overall job approval stood at 38%, compared with 55% disapproval.

The survey of 1,165 self-identified registered voters was conducted from June 18 to 22 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.4 percentage points.

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Overwhelming majority of Democrats and a majority of independents believe Israel is committing genocide in the Gaza Strip, while most Republicans reject the accusation.

By World Israel News Staff

Most Americans now believe Israel is committing genocide in the Gaza Strip as US support for the Palestinians hits an all-time high, according to a new poll published on Wednesday.

The survey was conducted by Quinnipiac University Aug. 21-25, polling 1,220 self-identified registered voters by phone.

The poll found Americans largely disapprove of President Donald Trump’s handling of the war between Israel and the Hamas terror organization, with just 34% saying they approve of his administration’s policies, compared with 53% who disapprove.

While 77% of Republicans approve of Trump’s handling of the issue, compared with 12% who disapprove, 90% of Democrats said they disapprove, along with 57% of independents.

For the first time, Quinnipiac found that Americans tend to sympathize more with Palestinians than with Israelis, with 37% sympathizing more with Palestinians compared with 36% who said they sympathize more with Israelis.

Two-thirds of Republicans said they sympathize more with Israelis, while a similar number (63%) of Democrats said they sympathize more with Palestinians.

A narrow plurality (42%) of respondents said US support for Israel is “about right,” with a significant minority (40%) claiming that the US is “too supportive” of the Jewish state generally.

Only 32% of Americans back sending more military aid to Israel, compared with 60% who oppose such a move.

Again, a clear partisan divide was found on the issue, with a majority of Republicans supporting more aid, while just 18% of Democrats support additional military aid to the Jewish state.

Fully half of respondents said that based on their knowledge of the conflict, they believe Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, compared to just 35% who said Israel is not.

Just 20% of Republicans believe Israel is guilty of genocide, compared to 77% of Democrats and 51% of independents.

Women were more likely than men to believe accusations of genocide in Gaza, with 45% of men and 55% of women accepting such claims.

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A majority of younger U.S. voters also disapprove of the Israeli response, and an overwhelming 65% oppose sending more military aid to Israel.

By JNS

Democrats disapprove (49% to 33%) of the way Israel is responding to the Hamas terrorist attacks on Oct. 7—the deadliest antisemitic attack since the Holocaust—and younger U.S. voters, ages 18 to 34, disapprove by a similar margin (52% to 32%). Younger voters also overwhelmingly oppose (65%) sending more military aid to Israel.

That’s according to a new Quinnipiac poll of 1,610 self-identified registered voters nationwide, surveyed Oct. 26-30. The results of the poll, whose margin for error is 2.4 percentage points in either direction, was released on Nov. 2.

Older voters and Republicans see things differently. Those 65-years-old and older (59% to 27%), 50-64 (58% to 26%) and 35-49 (48% to 38%) approve of Israel’s response to the Hamas attacks, as do Republicans overwhelmingly (75% to 14%). Independents also approve, by a margin of 46% to 39%.

More men (56%) than women (44%), and more white people (58%) than Hispanic (39%) and black people (29%) approved of Israel’s response to the attacks.

Republicans (65% to 30%) and Democrats (49% to 43%) support sending more military aid to Israel, while 46% of Independents support additional aid and 47% oppose it.

Age was a factor too in terms of additional aid to Israel. Those 50-64 (63% to 31%) and those 65-years-old and older (69% to 23%) support more military aid to Israel, while 50% of those 35-49 oppose additional aid, while 44% support it.

An overwhelming majority of respondents (84%) is either very (43%) or somewhat (41%) concerned that the United States will be drawn into a military conflict in the Middle East, per the poll. Republicans (52%) and Independents (47%) are likelier to be very concerned than are Democrats (30%).

“American voters watching the cauldron of the Middle East reaching a furious boiling point are fearful the war, so far confined to Israel and Gaza, will metastasize to include U.S. troops,” stated Tim Malloy, a Quinnipiac University polling analyst.

Of the registered voters polled, 75% said that prejudice against Jews is either a very or somewhat serious concern—“the highest percentage thinking that prejudice against Jewish people in the United States is a serious problem since the Quinnipiac University Poll began asking the question in 2017,” per the poll.

Sixty-eight percent said prejudice against Muslim people in the United States today is either a very or somewhat serious problem.

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