Opinion | Israel’s favorability rating takes a bipartisan hit in the U.S.

A new Pew Research report showing plummeting public support for Israel in the United States confirms a trend since the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attacks on Israel. The paradox of Hamas’s rampage is that it triggered an Israeli counteroffensive, from Gaza to Lebanon to Iran, that left Israel’s rivals dramatically weakened but also extracted a real political cost for Israel in American and world opinion.