About 3 in 10 Adults Believe Israel Has Committed Genocide

Tuesday, July 07, 2026

After decades of reliable bipartisan backing for Israel, a new AP-NORC poll reveals a dramatic erosion of support for the longtime U.S. ally, with rising opposition from Democrats and signs of division among Republicans.

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A new survey finds that American Jews are just as likely as all Americans to believe Israel is guilty of genocide, and that more American Jews approve of Mamdani than of Netanyahu. apnews.com/article/isra ...

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... 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 U.S. 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 U.S. 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%, of Jewish adults say Israel has committed genocide, although about half, 49%, say it has not. ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-07-07 01:34 PM | Reply

The other 7 are MOSSAD

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-07-07 04:31 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"...more American Jews approve of Zohran Mamdani (D) than of Benjamin Netanyahu (D and R-USA)."

"To be a Jew is to always side with the oppressed, never the oppressor."

I know someone who got jammed up. I did my best with an email to the Manhattan ADA, but interfering with the justice system is a felony, so my entreaty merely became a datapoint for the NYC Probation Dept which wrote the PSI.

Ultimately my friend received probation for the "offense."

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-07-07 05:14 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

It's not safe to speak out against Israel in America.

Our government is fully complicit in their crimes.

#4 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-07-07 05:30 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

More proof of Amerika's general global ignorance.

#5 | Posted by Angrydad at 2026-07-07 05:41 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"It's not safe to speak out against Israel in America."

Meh. It's not safe to speak out against anything that doesn't toe the party line in whatever context you're in.

#6 | Posted by sentinel at 2026-07-07 08:44 PM | Reply

We recently reunited with some friends from 30 years ago. One couple remains unrepentant MAGA, the other the wife's face is twisted with hate for anyone who dares to think Israel shouldn't be able to do whatever TF it wants.

Both women are educated and Jewish to the core.

Horrifying.

#7 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-07-07 09:02 PM | Reply

I suspect at least one NYC Jew of voting for Dummkopf Trumpf and I came across two Irishmen who were conservative Republicans(!) in the past few years.

In NYC of all places.

This is like meeting black Republicans.

Blech!

A (Jewish) woman in my bridge game asked during the 2024 Nakba: "But, what are they [the Palestinians in Gaza] going to eat?"

I replied: "Good question."

In one building I lived in years ago, I quietly observed the tattoos on the arms of some of the elderly folks whenever we occasionally rode the elevator together. I would smile politely, give the greeting of the day, and then simply look at my shoes.

#8 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-07-07 09:57 PM | Reply

8. The father of two kids I went to school with had a tattoo. Numbers on the forearm.

I asked my stepfather, a good friend of his, about it. The answer was no more than three words.

Sweet man. He passed a few years ago at age 101.

#9 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-07-07 11:48 PM | Reply

Yup. It's awful and there's nothing we could say. I don't think those folks are still alive today, as I lived in that building years ago.

#10 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-07-07 11:54 PM | Reply

His sons were on either side of me in school by a year, and we lived around the corner in the County of Kings. He would give us all rides to school some days.

I was not surprised to see this man still alive. He showed up in the news every few years until his death, although it was never bad news.

Always a smile on his face. I think he was rescued around age 12.

#11 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-07-08 12:02 AM | Reply

At age 66, I am by no means an old man these days. Nor do I feel like one.

But I remember being caught up short years ago when I realized how close my birth year of 1960 was to 1945.

And I went to college and found out that one of my friend's uncles was on the flight crew that bombed Nagasaki.

Like Ray Davies sang, "I'm a twentieth-century man but I don't want to die here."

#12 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-07-08 12:44 AM | Reply

caught up short years ago when I realized how close my birth year of 1960 was to 1945.

I remember the same thing.

#13 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-07-08 01:12 AM | Reply

When the Serbs were savaging Sarajevo in that awful siege (1992-95), an Israeli woman contacted the government to say that her family was hidden from the Ustashi the entire duration of the Second World War by a Bosnian Muslim family. She said her saviors were in Sarajevo under siege by the Serbs. (How's that for allitertation?)

The Israeli govt organized a commando team (with someone who spoke Serbo-Croatian, I'm sure), found and rescued one elderly woman from Sarajevo.

KNOCK KNOCK!

"Dobra don! Do not be afraid. We are Israeli sayeret. Please pack your valaubles and mementos. We are flying you to safety in Israel. You have an hour to pack and we will help you."

Now look at the IDF today.

"Lo, how the noble have fallen!"

#14 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-07-08 01:31 AM | Reply

The Israeli govt organized a commando team

Like the Entebbe raid. Israeli commandos flew into Uganda and saved all but 4 of the 106 hostages hijacked by Palestinian terrorists.

They lost one Israeli soldier. Yonatan Netanyahu. Bibi's brother.

#15 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-07-08 02:04 AM | Reply