Last year in August 2025, I published my article Jews are NOT Oppressed: The Myth of Systemic Antisemitism. In it, I included an exhaustive list of polling data I gathered from around the internet on the opinion of Jews worldwide towards Israel. Most of the surveys were conducted after the start of the 2023 Gaza genocide. The results showed consistent and overwhelming support for Israel among the global Jewish population, with a rough weighted total average of over 85%.
In this article, I decided to go through newer polling data released since August 2025 to see if things have changed a year after I published my initial findings. Below is a summary of results from surveys I found of American, Canadian, British and Israeli Jews in descending order of recency.
The results show that while favorability toward Israel has declined compared to previous years, it remains in the majority across all countries. A majority of Jews polled also do not even consider Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute a genocide. Most importantly, the question at the core of Zionism—whether Israel should exist as a Jewish state—still commands overwhelming approval.
Israel’s Right to Exist as a Jewish State • US: 72-87% support Israel’s right to exist; 66-83% say denying this is antisemitic.
• UK: 81-82% support its right to exist.
• Canada: 92% support its right to exist.
• Israel: 87% say Zionism is not racist; 85% identify as Zionist; 1% as Anti-Zionist.
Attachment to & Favorability of Israel:
• US: 55-71% have a favorable view or feel emotionally attached to Israel; 63% say supporting Israel is important to their Jewish identity; 70-83% view Israeli people favorably.
• UK: 75% feel emotionally attached.
• Canada: 69% feel emotionally attached. Views on the Gaza War & Genocide
• US: 73% say Israel’s immediate response to Oct. 7 was justified; 42-46% say ongoing operations are justified; 49-78% deny genocide.
• UK: 81% deny genocide.
• Canada: 70% say Israel’s actions are legal/legitimate; 87-90% deny genocide; 64% do not blame Israel for famine.
• Israel: 71-92% rate the IDF highly; 68% want Israel to stay in Gaza; 61% deny famine reports.
Aid & Arms to Israel:
• US: Only 26% support stopping financial and military assistance; 59% support sending more arms.
• Canada: Only 20% support an arms embargo on Israel; 71% support increased aid to Israeli civil society. Antisemitism & Anti-Zionism
• US: 83% say too many critics of Israel use antisemitic tropes; 38-54% view certain anti-Israel actions as antisemitic; 89% say anti-Zionism is linked to antisemitism.
• Canada: 45% say calling Israel "apartheid” is definitely antisemitic; 45% say calling it “genocide” is definitely antisemitic.
• Israel: 78% say anti-Zionism is linked to antisemitism; 68% say boycotts are antisemitic.
Based on the latest polling evidence, little has fundamentally changed. While favorability toward Israel and approval of its conduct have shifted somewhat, overall support for Israel—particularly its status as a “Jewish state”—remains nearly unchanged, with the vast majority of Jews continuing to back the Zionist project, even as they express reservations about its current government.
So one must ask: given the facts presented here—nearly three years into a genocide carried out by the “Jewish state,” by Jews, for Jews, at the expense of non-Jews, with the overwhelming support of Jews worldwide—why does the Western “pro-Palestine” movement spend so much time and energy doing free PR for Jews? Why go so far as to lie on their behalf about what they actually believe? The Western left loves to talk about “centring voices.” Well, this is what they’ve said. So why speak over them?
This is a good example of what I was talking about in my other comment: ignoring the institutional issue. They aren’t just getting away with it “sometimes”. Most Jewish institutions are overwhelmingly Zionist. Zionists haven’t just temporarily a little “zion washed” “some” Jewish institutions and “sometimes” people fall for it. They have captured almost all of organized Jewish religion and turned it into a weapon for fascism. Almost all the temples, preachers, publications, newspapers and other media, all the donations, inheritance and state funding of Jewish religion belong to the Zionists. It’s all theirs now. How do you expect non-zionist Jews to take their religion back, if you refuse to acknowledge it was stolen from them?
The degree is irrelevant. If a poll came out showing 80% of queer people support Target, it would not in any way justify shifting discourse away from capitalism and towards queer people. Full stop, end of story. Anything else is controversy bait at best, bigotry and stereotyping at worst.
What, specifically, did I say that led you to the conclusion that I “refuse to acknowledge it was stolen from them?” Yes, it’s fucked up that mainstream Judaism is so supportive of Zionism, no, that still isn’t going to make me consider for one second shifting my focus away from Zionism, which is the core issue.
Zionism is an ideology. You’re being idealist by focusing only on that. The underlying base is the institutions spreading this ideology. Talking only about Zionism and never specifically about christian or Jewish Zionism is one way to sweep two issues under one rug: cultural and material capture of very different institutions with very different ways of reproducing themselves, requiring different strategies from our side. Jewish Zionism is institutionalized as such and so requires critique of specifically Jewish cultural institutions.
In medieval times, you would have had to criticize how specifically the Catholic church as an institution supports feudalism. In our time, you have to criticize how specifically almost all the Jewish institutions support fascism.
Zionism is not only an ideology, but also a political system that materially exists, which is what I believe we should be focusing on. That’s like saying capitalism is an ideology and that critiquing it is idealist.
Jesus Christ, again, where did I say anything remotely like this? You keep arguing against positions I don’t hold at all.
I don’t have a problem with that. I have a problem with completely abandoning any political critique in favor of outright racism!
I literally said I completely oppose the genocidal, apartheid state of Israel, but that I don’t have a problem with Jewish people existing, and they responded that I was “supporting Zionism.” This is an obvious attempt to co-opt an actual leftist movement that’s focused on opposing genocide, into reactionary bullshit about Jews being inherently evil.
It’s almost unbelievable to me how anyone running around trying to pass themselves off as a Marxist would fall for this. This is not, as you say in the other comment, “two positions that both have some merit,” this is one position that is correct and another that is completely wrong, and frankly shouldn’t even be tolerated. “Hating people based on their ethnicity” is not a position that has merit, it is not something that you need to find a “synthesis” with, it is something that needs to be rejected, completely and thoroughly.
I swear to God, the only reason for any of this is because you can’t stand the fact that anti-Zionism has gotten so popular and now you don’t get to feel special anymore. The martyr complex is so bad that you’d rather lose doing things the wrong way than to succeed doing it right.