{"id":89400,"date":"2025-08-29T10:31:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T15:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=89400"},"modified":"2025-08-29T15:03:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T20:03:25","slug":"half-of-us-voters-believe-israel-is-committing-genocide-in-gaza-poll-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/half-of-us-voters-believe-israel-is-committing-genocide-in-gaza-poll-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Half of US voters believe Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, poll finds"},"content":{"rendered":"

By PHILISSA CRAMER<\/p>\n

(JTA) \u2014 A new poll found that half of U.S. voters \u2014 including 77% of Democrats \u2014 believe that Israel\u2019s actions in Gaza constitute a genocide, in a finding that adds to mounting signals of deep public disapproval of Israel\u2019s operations there.<\/p>\n

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Smoke and dust rise over residential areas during Israeli army operations in Gaza City, Gaza, Aug. 25, 2025. (Hamza Z. H. Qraiqea\/Anadolu via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The poll, conducted by Quinnipiac between Aug. 21 and 25, also found that 60% of Americans said the United States should not send more weapons for Israel to use against Hamas in Gaza.<\/p>\n

The rate was higher \u2014 75% \u2014 among Democrats, reflecting a position being adopted at a rapid clip by Democrats in Congress, including, this week, a leading moderate on the House Armed Services Committee, Adam Smith.<\/p>\n

A month into the Gaza war in November 2023, Quinnipiac found that 39% of Americans opposed sending more aid to Israel for use against Hamas. The following month, 46% opposed sending more aid. Since then, the number has only risen.<\/p>\n

The poll also asked a question the firm has surveyed on for more than two decades: \u201cFrom what you know about the situation in the Middle East, do your sympathies lie more with the Israelis or more with the Palestinians?\u201d The latest results found a statistical dead heat, the strongest showing for the Palestinians in the poll\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

\u201cSupport for the Palestinians grows while the appetite for funding Israel militarily dips sharply. And a harsh assessment of the way Israel is prosecuting the Gaza campaign invokes a word of infamy,\u201d Tim Malloy, a Quinnipiac analyst, said in a statement summarizing the new poll\u2019s results.<\/p>\n

The poll found that 35% of respondents, largely Republicans, said they believed Israel was definitely not committing a genocide in Gaza, and 15% said they could not answer.<\/p>\n

Israel rejects the genocide charge, with multiple officials including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arguing that if they wanted to conduct a campaign of mass extermination in Gaza, they could have.<\/p>\n

An increasing number of public figures, including Holocaust and genocide scholars, have said they believe the term is appropriate to use to describe Israel\u2019s campaign in Gaza, citing widespread destruction, limitations on humanitarian aid and harsh statements by Israeli government officials. (At least one major Holocaust historian has also said he believes the term does not apply.)<\/p>\n

A poll conducted earlier in the month by the Economist found that 40% of Americans believed Israel\u2019s actions in Gaza constituted genocide, while the rest were evenly split between saying it did not and not having an answer.<\/p>\n

The latest Quinnipiac poll surveyed 1,220 registered voters and had a margin of error of 3.4 percentage points.<\/p>\n

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