This Is BAD NEWS For Israel...
US public opinion has turned sharply against Israel, bad news for Israel and its supporters in Washington but a sign of shifting politics.
- Israel's net favorability with Americans is now negative across every major poll, a huge swing from strongly positive eight years ago.
- The shift is broad, not just among Democrats โ independents and much of the general public have soured too.
- The war in Gaza and Israel's strikes around the region, spread widely on social media with fewer filters, are driving the change.
- Anger over money and jobs at home feeds resentment that so much US aid and attention goes to a foreign war.
- Most of the world polls negative on Israel too, and even inside Israel only a third see Netanyahu as the best leader.
Outlook: Support keeps sliding, but Trump has two more years and the US stays tied to the Iran conflict, so policy is unlikely to change soon.