{"id":314200,"date":"2026-02-28T05:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T05:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/314200\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T05:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T05:24:07","slug":"americans-more-sympathetic-to-palestinians-than-israelis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/314200\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans more sympathetic to Palestinians than Israelis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another major poll has found that sympathy has surged among Americans for Palestinians<\/a> and now exceeds support for Israelis.<\/p>\n

Gallup, one of the country\u2019s most respected polling outfits, found that 41% of Americans say they sympathize more with the Palestinians, compared to 36% who sympathize more with the Israelis. A year ago, a Gallup poll showed a 13-point advantage for the Israelis.<\/p>\n

The poll comes nearly six months after a national poll found that Americans\u2019 sympathies had flipped for the first time. In a New York Times and Siena University poll released in September, 35% of registered American voters said they sympathized more with Palestinians compared to 34% with Israel. Prior to the war in Gaza, 47% of respondents said they sympathized more with the Israelis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Both pollsters have asked about voters\u2019 sympathies in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for decades. They each said the sympathy gap in their latest polls was not statistically significant, but that the trajectory of sentiments was.<\/p>\n

Between 2001 and 2018, the Gallup poll found that Americans<\/a> were more sympathetic to the Israelis by an average margin of 43 points. The gap began narrowing the following year, but did not flip until now.<\/p>\n

In both polls, the stark recent shift was driven by a sharp shift in sentiment among Democrats. The Gallup poll found that voters under 55 prefer the Palestinians by a wide margin, while older voters remain more sympathetic to the Israelis. The New York Times poll found that older, college-educated Democrats had seen their sentiments shift most harshly.<\/p>\n

The polls add to the data points showing a sharp drop in sympathy for Israelis since Hamas\u2019s October 7, 2023, attack<\/a> and the subsequent war in Gaza, for which the United States brokered a ceasefire in October. The Gallup poll is the first to demonstrate post-ceasefire sentiments among Americans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another major poll has found that sympathy has surged among Americans for Palestinians and now exceeds support for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12711,111,16607,42,74,43,2200,17154,58,40,38,41,39,2586],"class_list":{"0":"post-314200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-americans","9":"tag-antisemitism","10":"tag-antizionism","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-israelis","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-palestinians","15":"tag-poll","16":"tag-the-october-7-massacre","17":"tag-top-news","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-topnews","20":"tag-topstories","21":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}