For the first time in recent history, more Americans now sympathize more with the Palestinians than the Israelis, a Gallup poll has found. According to the survey, sympathy for the Israeli cause has fallen a record 10% in the last year.
The poll, which was published on Friday, found that 41% of Americans say their sympathies lie “more with the Palestinians” than the Israelis, up from 33% last year. 36% say they sympathize “more with the Israelis,” down from 46% last year. The remainder either have no opinion or do not favor one side over the other.
Israel was still waging a war on multiple fronts when last year’s poll was taken and had killed 62,000 Palestinians in Gaza by early February 2025. Since then, Israel waged a 12-day war against Iran in June and struck a ceasefire deal with Hamas in October, which it has been accused of violating hundreds of times.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has acknowledged Israel’s declining support among Americans, which he partly blames on “anti-Semitic” content shared on social media. Israeli social media influencers, he argued in September, are “the most important weapon… to secure our base in the US.”
Public opinion in the US has favored Israel since Gallup first began tracking the topic in 2001. This year’s poll marks the first time in 25 years that sympathy has shifted in favor of the Palestinians.
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