{"id":515936,"date":"2026-06-29T02:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T02:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/515936\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T02:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T02:37:09","slug":"young-republicans-turn-against-israel-as-long-standing-party-support-fractures-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/515936\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Republicans turn against Israel as long-standing party support fractures \u2014 report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">Among Republicans aged 18 to 49, that figure rises to 57 percent, while one in four Republicans aged 50 and older hold a negative view. <\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">A Quinnipiac University poll this month found that one in five Republicans said the US is too supportive of Israel \u2014 three times the level recorded after October 7.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">A University of Maryland Critical Issues poll also showed that less than half of Republicans, 46 percent, believed Israel&#8217;s genocide in Gaza was justified as \u201cself-defence\u201d. <\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">Among Republicans aged 18 to 34, only 22 percent backed Israel&#8217;s actions and war.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">The backlash has been fuelled by high-profile &#8220;America First&#8221; anti-interventionist voices, including Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly and former Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who have criticised US support for Israel. <\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">US Vice President JD Vance also criticised Israeli officials who opposed the Iran deal. <\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">&#8220;If I was in the Cabinet of the Israeli government, I might not be attacking the only powerful ally that I have anywhere left in the entire world,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Among Republicans aged 18 to 49, that figure rises to 57 percent, while one in four Republicans aged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-515936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515936","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=515936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}