AP-NORC poll: About 3 in 10 US adults believe Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians
NEW YORK: After decades of reliable bipartisan backing for Israel, a new AP-NORC poll reveals a dramatic erosion of support for the longtime US ally, with rising opposition from Democrats and signs of division among Republicans.
The survey by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research arrives at a moment when a once-consensus foreign policy issue is increasingly polarizing Americans along partisan and generational lines, driven by criticism for Israel’s conduct nearly three years after the outbreak of its latest war with Hamas in Gaza.
About one-third of US adults — including roughly half of Democrats — believe that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians during the war in Gaza, an accusation that’s been leveled by some human rights organizations and vehemently denied by Israel and the US government. About 2 in 10 Americans say Israel has not and the rest, about half, don’t know enough to say.
A similar share, 30 percent, of Jewish adults say Israel has committed genocide, although about half, 49 percent, say it has not.
