Democrats are increasingly supportive of the Palestinians, while support for Israel declines

July 7, 2026

Overall support for Israel has remained relatively stable, with 40% of Americans saying the U.S. is too supportive, similar to the 37% who said the same in early 2024. However, partisans have shifted in opposite directions. A majority of Democrats now say the United States is too supportive of Israel and is not providing enough support to the Palestinians, reflecting a significant shift in party sentiment since early 2024. Republicans have shifted in the opposite direction, with a majority now saying U.S. support for Israel is about right.

Fifty-eight percent of Democrats say the U.S. is too supportive of Israel, up from 45% in January 2024. The increase comes as debates over U.S. policy toward Israel and the Israel-Palestinian conflict have intensified within the Democratic Party.

Most Republicans – 60% – are now inclined to regard U.S. support of Israel as about right. In January 2024, 33% said the U.S. was providing the proper amount of support to Israel, and 39% said the U.S. wasn’t being supportive enough.

Among Jewish adults, 38% say the U.S. is being too supportive of Israel and 32% say it is not being supportive enough. Twenty-eight percent think U.S. support is about right. However, partisan divides persist. Fifty-one percent of Jewish Democrats say the U.S. is too supportive and 45% of Jewish Republicans think it is not supportive enough.

The pattern is similar when it comes to support for Palestinians in the conflict. About 6 in 10 Democrats overall (62%) say the U.S. is not supportive enough of the Palestinians, up from 49% in January 2024.

Forty-two percent of Republicans said the U.S. was too supportive of the Palestinians in 2024. Today, 56% say the U.S. is giving the right amount of support to the Palestinians.

While Democrats under 45 are more likely than their older counterparts to say the U.S. is not supportive enough of the Palestinians (68% vs. 57%), older Democrats have moved considerably in this direction—rising from 39% in 2024 to 57% in 2026.

Overall, 43% of Jewish adults say the U.S. is not supportive enough of the Palestinians and 24% say it is being too supportive. Again, Jewish Democrats and Republicans have very different views. Fifty-eight percent of Jewish Democrats say the U.S. is not giving the Palestinians enough support, while 43% of Jewish Republicans think Palestinians are getting too much support.

About 3 in 10 adults (31%) say Israel’s military actions in Gaza constitute genocide, while 2 in 10 say it has not, and roughly half (49%) say they don’t know enough to say.

About half of Democrats (52%) say Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians during the war compared with 13% of Republicans. Overall, 30% of Jewish adults say Israel’s actions in Gaza amount to genocide, 49% say they do not, and 21% say they don’t know enough to say. Among Jewish Democrats, 45% say Israel carried out genocide in Gaza while only 3% of Jewish Republicans agree.

The public is split on the justification for various actions in the Israel-Hamas war, though about 4 in 10 say they don’t know enough about each to have an opinion. Half say Hamas’ October 7, 2023 attack on Israel was not justified, and just 7% call it justified.

Forty-three percent think Israel’s immediate military response to Hamas’ attack was justified, but only 22% say Israel’s ongoing military operations in Gaza are justified. Hamas’ refusal to disarm after the October 2025 ceasefire draws more condemnation. Forty-four percent say this was not justified, and only 10% consider it justified.

Jewish adults are less likely than others to say they have no opinion. Seventy-three percent say Israel’s immediate military response to the attack was justified, and 42% think the ongoing operations in Gaza are justified. Among Jewish adults, 79% call the October 7th attack unjustified and 69% do not think Hamas is justified in refusing to disarm after the October 2025 ceasefire.

The nationwide poll was conducted June 11-17, 2026, using the AmeriSpeak® Panel, the probability-based panel of NORC at the University of Chicago. Online and telephone interviews using landlines and cell phones were conducted with 3,040 adults. The overall margin of sampling error is +/- 2.8 percentage points. Jewish adults were sampled at a higher rate than their proportion of the population for reasons of analysis. The overall margin of sampling error for the 1,022 interviews completed with Jewish respondents is +/- 5.0 percentage points.