Gizem Nisa Demir<\/p>\n
April 08, 2026\u2022Update: April 08, 2026<\/p>\n
Negative views of Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are rising, according to a new survey released Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The survey by Pew Research Center, conducted from March 23-29 among 3,507 US adults, found that 60% now hold an unfavorable view of Israel, up from 53% last year and nearly 20 percentage points higher than in 2022.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, 59% said they have little or no confidence in Netanyahu “to do the right thing regarding world affairs,” marking a seven-point increase from last year.<\/p>\n
Negative perceptions were especially pronounced among Americans under 50 across both political parties. Eight-in-ten Democrats reported unfavorable views of Israel, while among Republicans aged 18-49, 57% now view Israel negatively, up from 50% last year.<\/p>\n
Confidence in Netanyahu also declined across political and religious groups.<\/p>\n
Among Democrats, 76% expressed little or no confidence, while Republicans were divided, with 45% expressing confidence and 44% lacking it. Among Muslim Americans, 91% reported little or no confidence in Netanyahu, including 74% with no confidence at all.<\/p>\n
The survey also found that 55% of Americans lack confidence in US President Donald Trump to make good decisions about US-Israel relations, though Republicans remained largely supportive, with 73% expressing confidence compared to 16% of Democrats.<\/p>\n
More than half of Americans, 53%, said the Israel-Hamas conflict is personally important to them, while 77% said the same about US military action against Iran, according to the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gizem Nisa Demir April 08, 2026\u2022Update: April 08, 2026 Negative views of Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":["post-380956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-sitekeywords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380956","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=380956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}