As Israel’s devastating war against Gaza enters its third year, the opposition is not only global – but within the Jewish community. A growing number of US Jews condemns public Israeli’s actions such as war crimes and genocide that mark a significant breach of what was once thought to be unwavering diaspora support, The news reported.
This shift reflects a broader global calculation with Israel’s long -term military assault launched after Hamas’ attack on October 7. From Washington to Sydney turns public opinion. A recent study of the study found that 42% of US adults reject the Trump administration’s handling of the conflict, while in Australia there is increasing support for sanctions against Israeli leaders. Even within Israel, a majority now believes the Gaza war should end.
According to one Washington Post Voting Many American Jews strongly rejects Israel’s behavior of the war in Gaza, with 61% saying that Israel has committed war crimes and approx. 4 out of 10 who say the country is guilty of genocide against the Palestinians.
The study found that most Jewish Americans who were investigated believe that Israel has committed war crimes in the strip, and almost a third say the United States is too supportive of Israel. But the respondents were evenly divided into their views of Israel’s total military campaign there. More than two -thirds have a negative view of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s leadership of Israel.
At the same time, the vote found that most American Jews are emotionally attached to Israel, believes that Israeli’s existence is crucial to the Jewish future, and support continued US military aid to Israel. Almost a third said they are not feeling safe in the United States.
The study also found that 80% or more of us Jews are concerned about civilian deaths in Gaza, the Israeli hostages that Hamas had, the threat of Israel constituted by the resistance group and Israeli soldiers’ security in Gaza. Majorities said that Israel, Hamas, Netanyahu and the United States all bear the responsibility for the continuation of the war.
According to the vote, US Jews reject the Prime Minister, with 68% assessing his leadership of Israel negatively, including 48% calling the poor. In contrast, 32% of Netanyahu’s management approves.
A PEW Research Center study finds that almost two years in Israeli’s military operation in the Gaza Strip, Americans’ skepticism about Israel’s operation and its government is higher than on previous points in the conflict. It suggests that about six-in-ten now has an unfavorable view of the Israeli government, with an increasing proportion that says Israel ‘is going too far’.
39% now say Israel is going too far in its military operation against Hamas. This increases from 31% a year ago and 27% at the end of 2023. 59% now have an unfavorable opinion of the Israeli government, up from 51% by the beginning of 2024. 16% say Israel is taking the right approach to the conflict and 10% say it is not going far enough. One -third of adults say they are not safe. Large shares of Americans continue to express uncertainty across several questions about the ongoing war in the Middle East and the US government’s response.
A new national study from the Pew Research Center, performed on September 22 to September 28, among 3,445 adults, finds that 42% of American adults reject the Trump administration’s response to the conflict between Israel and Hamas, while 30% approve. About a quarter (27%) says they are not safe. Republicans are far more likely than Democrats to approve Trump’s handling of the conflict and say he strikes the right balance between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But the shares that say Trump favors the Israelis too much have risen in both Partisan coalitions.
One -third of adults (33%) say the United States provides too much military assistance to Israel. In comparison, 35%say the United States does not provide enough humanitarian help to Palestinian citizens in Gaza. Eight-in-Ti Americans say they are at least somewhat concerned about hunger among Palestinians in Gaza, Israeli military strikes killing Palestinian civilians and the remaining Israeli hostages who are not returning to Israel.
While more Americans reject (42%) than approve (30%) of Trump administration’s response to the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. About a quarter (27%) says they are uncertain.
And 36% of Americans say President Donald Trump favors Israel too much in the conflict (up from 31% in March), while 23% say he beats the right balance. Few (2%) says he favors the Palestinians too much. More than a third – 38% – say they are not safe.
A YouGov vote ordered by Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) shows that most of Australians want Israel to end his attack on Gaza, where 69% agree – 53% “strong” Agree – Netanyahu’s military campaign to stop. 14% disagreed.
Australians support placing harsh sanctions against Israel and its leaders for their role in attacking Gaza, with a new vote finding more than half of the voters, agree that the federal government should expand sanctions located in Russia to Israel. The study of 1,500 voting-related Australians suggests that the public largely supports the government, which plays a more crucial role in terminating the bloody two-year war.
According to a voting by the Israel Democracy Institute, a majority of Israelis believe that the time has come to end the war in Gaza, with the greatest reason to go hostage. The survey found that 66 percent of Israelis say the time has come to end the war – a Figure 13 -point higher than the result of a year ago when respondents were asked the same question – compared to 27%thinking or sure that time is not yet in, and 7%that is uncertain. The supreme reason why both Jewish (50.5%) and Arab Israeli (34.5%) respondents gave the war to end is to danger to the hostages.
“The One Thing That Everyone Could Be Sure Of As The Events of October 7, 2023, Unfolded Was That Israel Would Emerge From The Hamas Attack A Changed Country. It Was Not Just The Immediate Trauma of the Roughly 1,200 Dead and 250 Hostages, But Also How Much It Upset Israelis had made in the years before — that the country was more safe and secure than any time in its history, that the Arab world was slowly accepting the inevitability of a Overvejende jødisk stat og forberedt på at skubbe bekymringer over palæstinensernes fremtid, og at Israels højteknologiske dygtighed ikke bare kunne skabe velstand, men også sikre sikkerhed, “Promotions an analysis in the foreign policy magazine.
“A last calculation of such a cataclying event will take years to emerge. Meanwhile, the most serious predictions – Israel being bound in prolonged, deadly and destructive wars with Hezbollah and Iran; a tanking economy; and a deeply crisis of confidence – have failed to realize.
Israeli genocide war against Gaza has claimed over 67,000 lives in the last two years after Hamas’ attack on October 7, which the Palestinian group insisted was a “historical answer” of Israel’s actions against the Palestinians.
“We confirm that the al-Aqsa flood on October 7 was a historic response to attempting to eradicate the Palestinian case,” Fawzi Barhoum, a senior Hamas official, said in a television speech. According to Israeli officials, the attack resulted in the death of 1,219 people.
The United Nations Secretary -General Antonio Guterres said he repeated his previous appeals “with even greater urgency: Release the hostages, unconditionally and immediately.”
“Complete the suffering for everyone … put an end to the hostilities in Gaza, Israel and the region now. Stop getting civilians to pay with their lives and their futures.” After two years of trauma, we have to choose hope. Now.”
Israeli Foreign Ministry said, “Two years ago, Israel was facing the darkest day of his story … We ask for the return of the hostages still held in Gaza and we are united against terror,” “Hamas must be dismantled to end this war,” the ministry said at X. “Light will rise above the dark.”
In addition to calling for the hostage’s release, British Prime Minister Keir Stormmer Pro-Palestinian protests planned for the anniversary of “” The horrible day “was disrespectful.” This is not who we are like a country, ”Premier wrote under four in the hour.
“It’s non-British to have so little respect for others. And that’s before some of them decide to start singing hatred against Jewish people again.”
