Overview

• The survey finds 35% of registered voters sympathize more with Palestinians and 34% with Israel, with 31% unsure or saying both equally.
• It is the first time since the Times began asking the question in 1998 that Palestinians hold a narrow edge in U.S. voter sympathies.
• Support for Israel fell from 47% in December 2023, when 20% sided with Palestinians, indicating a sharp change over the past two years.
• The poll reports broad negativity toward the Israeli government’s management of the conflict, which researchers link to the reassessment in sympathies.
• The NYT/Siena survey was conducted Sept. 22–27 among 1,313 registered voters with a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.2 percentage points.