{"id":775054,"date":"2026-07-02T21:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T21:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/775054\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T21:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T21:03:09","slug":"australians-have-more-negative-view-of-israel-than-of-china-guardian-essential-poll-finds-essential-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/775054\/","title":{"rendered":"Australians have more negative view of Israel than of China, Guardian Essential poll finds | Essential poll"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australians have a more negative view of Israel than of China, the latest Guardian Essential poll<\/a> has found, with women and middle-aged people exhibiting the least positive perception of Israel.<\/p>\n

The poll <\/a>also finds Australians\u2019 perceptions of Donald Trump have tumbled since his re-election, with fewer than a third of voters having a positive response to the US president.<\/p>\n

The poll of 1,017 people last week asked respondents for their attitudes towards a number of countries including the US, China, Iran, Russia, Ukraine, the UK, Palestine and Israel<\/a>. The highest favourability rating was towards the UK, with 53% of voters having either a positive or very positive reaction, followed by \u201cEuropean nations\u201d with 47% favourability and Ukraine with 41%.<\/p>\n

Only 29% of respondents had a favourable view of the US, with China<\/a> on 24%, Palestine on 21% and Israel on just 19%. The lowest favourable ratings went to Iran (11%), Russia (13%) and Syria (15%).<\/p>\n

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The countries with the highest percentage of negative or very negative attitudes were Iran and Russia (both 57%), followed by Israel (46%), Syria (44%) and Palestine (41%).<\/p>\n

The Australian government has had disagreements, disputes or outright conflicts with Russia, Iran and China, whereas Israel is a longstanding ally and partner \u2013 albeit amid diplomatic tensions in recent years<\/a> about antisemitism in Australia and responses to Israel\u2019s wars in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran.<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s government has been criticised by the Albanese government<\/a> over the alleged abuse and taunting of activists, the military assault on Lebanon<\/a>, and the death of the aid worker Zomi Frankcom<\/a> after an IDF strike on an aid convoy in Gaza.<\/p>\n

The questions did not exactly reflect those put in previous surveys, so it is unclear to what extent attitudes to all the countries have changed over time.<\/p>\n

Just 14% of women said they had a positive attitude towards Israel. People aged 35 to 54 were the least favourable towards Israel, with 18% having a positive view. Those aged 18 to 34 were at 19%, and those 55 and over at 21%.<\/p>\n

Only 23% of women said they viewed the US positively, with those aged 18 to 34 giving the most favourable response (35%), followed by those aged 35 to 54 at 29%, and 55 and over at 25%.<\/p>\n

Australians have become more unfavourable towards Trump since he retook office. The poll found only 28% of respondents had favourable or very favourable views of the US president, down from 36% in June 2024. Trump\u2019s favourability among Australians reached its all-time low of 21% in November 2020.<\/p>\n

He is much more popular among Australian men (37% favourability) than women (20%). Among Australians aged 55 and over, only 23% viewed Trump favourably, compared with 31% of 18-34s and 33% of 35-54s.<\/p>\n

Those who said they were voting for One Nation had the most positive attitude towards Trump, with 45% viewing him favourably. That compares with 34% of Coalition voters, 24% of Labor voters, 11% of Greens voters and just 8% of people saying they would vote for a minor party or independent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australians have a more negative view of Israel than of China, the latest Guardian Essential poll has found,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-775054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}