The latest Economist/YouGov Poll finds that Americans are split almost evenly on where their sympathies lie in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: 26% say more with the Israelis, 25% more with the Palestinians, and 21% say their sympathies lie equally with both sides. That's the narrowest gap between the two sides that Economist / YouGov Polls have recorded since first asking the question in 2011. A week after the Hamas attack on Israel in October 2023, 48% said the Israelis and 10% said the Palestinians. The gap narrowed to single digits by early August 2025 (29% for the Israelis vs. 26% for the Palestinians) and has stayed there for the past year.
Almost all movement is on one side of the aisle: Democrats now say their sympathies lie more with the Palestinians than with the Israelis (44% vs. 7%). A majority (56%) of Republicans say they sympathize more with the Israelis, and only 6% say the Palestinians. In October 2023, more Democrats said they sympathized more with the Israelis than said the Palestinians (34% vs. 16%); Republicans were overwhelmingly more likely to say the Israelis (73% vs. 3%).
The divide by age is nearly as wide as the one by party. Three times as many adults under 30 say they sympathize more with the Palestinians than with the Israelis (37% vs. 12%). Among Americans 65 and older, only 19% sympathize more with the Palestinians and 42% with the Israelis.
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