Dusk falls as children play at a temporary tent camp for displaced Palestinians in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, Monday, Oct. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
A student wrapped in an Israeli flag listens to Pro-Palestinian protesters gathered on campus at the University of Texas at Austin, April 30, 2024, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
Israeli troops walk through the Gaza Strip as seen from southern Israel, Thursday, Dec. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly two years after the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks in Israel and the country’s ensuing invasion of the Gaza Strip, Americans are more divided on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict than they were before the war – and concerns are mounting about the safety of Jewish communities at home.
The partisan split in public opinion on Israel predates the current war with Hamas, but recent polling suggests that some Americans have lost sympathy with the Israelis over the course of the war. Even as Israel and Hamas begin indirect talks over a U.S.-proposed peace plan that’s drawn international support, these shifts in public opinion could outlast the current conflict.
