Brutal new polling from NBC News shows views of Israel among Americans have declined across all age groups in the past several years.
pic.twitter.com/F6LDMtgxWk— a newsman (@a_newsman) March 16, 2026
Posted on 03/16/2026 9:12:59 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Support for Israel has declined among all age groups since 2023, with the sharpest decline taking place among those aged 18-34, almost two-thirds of whom expressed a "negative" view of the country, according to a recent NBC News poll.
In what the outlet described as a "sea change" regarding voters' opinions on Israel and the Palestinian territories, the poll of 1,000 registered voters conducted from Feb. 27 to March 3 found that 63% of voters under age 35 have a negative view of Israel, compared to just 13% who have a positive view and 23% who hold a neutral view.
The numbers show a steep drop-off of support for Israel among young voters compared to a similar survey NBC News conducted shortly after Hamas' terrorist attacks against Israel in October 2023, when 26% of voters under 35 years old viewed the nation positively, 37% viewed it negatively and 37% were neutral.
Views toward Israel were least changed among those aged 65 and older, though even that age demographic saw a decline from 64% viewing it positively in 2023 to 55% this year.
Brutal new polling from NBC News shows views of Israel among Americans have declined across all age groups in the past several years.
pic.twitter.com/F6LDMtgxWk— a newsman (@a_newsman) March 16, 2026
The poll also found that growing antipathy toward Israel is most evident among Democrats and independents, with almost 60% of Democrats and almost 50% of independents viewing it negatively this year; in 2023, the negative views were 35% and 22%, respectively.
Among Republicans, 63% expressed a positive view of Israel in 2023, compared to 54% this year.
The poll comes as President Donald Trump's political base is fracturing over the war in Iran and other issues in the lead-up to the 2026 mid-term elections.
On Sunday evening, Trump released a lengthy defense of Fox News opinion host Mark Levin after the political commentator, who opposed Trump in 2016, has been engaged in a heated public feud with other conservative pundits such as Megyn Kelly and Tucker Carlson over their divergent foreign policy views regarding the Middle East.
The poll also comes as the number of young American Evangelicals who support Israel and see it as crucial to the End Times had been steadily declining even before the war in Gaza, according to a series of surveys laid out in the 2023 book Christian Zionism in the Twenty-First Century: American Evangelical Opinion on Israel.
Authored by professors Kirill M. Bumin, Ph.D., and Motti Inbari, the book examined the religious beliefs and foreign policy attitudes of Evangelicals in the U.S. and found that 33.6% of young Evangelicals under 30 expressed support for Israel in late 2021, compared to 67.9% in 2018.
Experts who spoke to The Christian Post in 2024 had varying explanations for such a trend, ranging from the antisemitic influence of cultural Marxism in American universities to the internet offering wider exposure to Christian eschatological views that differ from premillennial dispensationalism, which emphasizes the role of modern Israel.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth acknowledged during a recent interview that there is a religious aspect to the war in Iran, which comes amid concerns regarding what role Christian, Jewish and Islamic eschatologies are playing in the conflict.
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This is what happens when you let the Manson Family take over the public schools.
I never trust polls or surveys
End Times Update. You can be on the side of God or on the side of the world.
I am less influenced by current polls and more influenced by The Bible when the topic is Israel.
A perfect illustration of “With age comes wisdom.”
My support for Israel hasn’t declined. Why has Israel bombing Iran made juvies and young people up their anti-Semitism? Everyone knows Iran wants to kill all Jews in Israel. Bomb away!
We should be celebrating Israel’s contribution to ending this evil regime rather than blaming them for dragging the United States into the fight. Preventing these 7th century savages from getting nukes is in the interest not only of the United States but of most of the Civilized World. Israel is getting most of the blowback as well.
This what you get when Iran saturates their social media with antisemitic propaganda.
Scary if really true.
I have personally found that many young people are being brainwashed into believing that all of the worlds ills are the fault of Israel. They are getting on social media and they are believing it. It is very scary to think that someday in the not too distant future the US could actually attack Israel. Of course the bible speaks of the day when the entire world will come against Israel, and attack it. The attack will have appeared to destroy Israel, But when they hear that Israel is still kicking they will turn back to it. But in the end the attacking armies will face the wrath of God, And Israel will be win. That attacking armies will be wiped out.
Once again the Bible prophesy is shown to be true!
I’m surprised anyone in that age group even knows where Israel is.
Proof positive that wisdom comes with age.
The end times are right on schedule.
Fake agenda driven poll. There is a group of new Christians who do not know the Bible.
We won’t attack Israel. We won’t stop other countries from doing it though. Israel will be on their own.
24/7 brainwashing by the Marxist media is major contributor.
Uh oh, the kids are not chanting the propaganda from the Synagogue of Satan, better send them to the re-education camps!
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