New opinion surveys indicate that Democratic voters in the United States have sharply shifted away from traditional pro-Israel views and now express greater sympathy for Palestinians. A February 2025 Gallup poll found Democrats siding with Palestinians over Israel by a 38-percentage-point margin, reversing a 36-point pro-Israel advantage recorded in 2013. The movement is broad-based. Pew Research Center data show that from 2022 to 2025 the share of Democrats aged 50 and older who hold an unfavorable opinion of Israel climbed by 23 points, largely erasing the party’s former generation gap on the issue. Gallup now puts Israel’s favorability among Democrats at one in three—lower than Cuba’s and only slightly higher than China’s. Survey respondents are also questioning continued U.S. military assistance. In a February 2025 Economist/YouGov poll, 46 percent of Democrats said Washington should reduce arms aid to Israel, while just 6 percent favored an increase and 24 percent preferred current levels. The rapid change in rank-and-file sentiment contrasts with the stance of many Democratic leaders, who continue to resist calls to condition aid on Israeli human-rights practices. The widening gap is expected to add pressure on the party ahead of the 2026 mid-term and 2028 presidential races.
In 2013, "Democrats sympathized with Israel over the Palestinians by a margin of 36 percentage points. Those numbers have now flipped," after a decade+ of repression. "Democrats sympathize with Palestinians over Israel by a margin of 38 percentage points." https://t.co/iHPlewfUfk
"Only one in three Democrats now views Israel favorably....That makes Israel significantly less popular than Cuba, and only slightly more popular than China." Yet the party’s leaders oppose conditioning US military aid on Israel’s respect for human rights. https://t.co/iHPlewfUfk
Support for #Israel is at its lowest rate ever, especially among younger generations in the #US. People are seeing the reality of daily violence against Palestinians and are calling for justice, says Professor John Dabeet, President of the US Palestinian Council. #WNews https://t.co/om4qCZOuXk