Half of US Voters Believe Israel Committing Genocide in Gaza, Poll Shows
Washington (Quds News Network)- Half of voters in the United States believe Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, a new poll has found, an accusation also made by rights groups like Amnesty International and B’Tselem.
According to the Quinnipiac University poll released on Wednesday, 77 percent of the Democrats believe a genocide is taking place in Gaza and 51 percent of independents.
A large majority of Republicans, 64 percent, do not think Israel is committing genocide, according to the poll, whereas 20 percent do.
Six in 10 US voters also oppose Washington sending more military aid to Israel, according to the poll, the highest share since Quinnipiac began asking the question in November 2023.
According to Quinnipiac, 37 percent said they are more sympathetic towards Palestinians and 36 percent said they feel more sympathy for Israelis.
The share of Americans expressing sympathy for Palestinians is the highest – and the share sympathetic towards Israelis the lowest – since Quinnipiac began asking the question in December 2001.
“Support for the Palestinians grows while the appetite for funding Israel militarily dips sharply,” Quinnipiac University polling analyst Tim Malloy said in a press release accompanying the poll.
“And a harsh assessment of the way Israel is prosecuting the Gaza campaign invokes a word of infamy.”
Quinnipiac surveyed 1,220 self-identified registered voters for the poll, which has a reported margin of error of plus or minus 3.4 percentage points.
Rights groups, including Amnesty International, B’Tselem and Human Rights Watch, have accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza.
In January 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that South Africa could proceed with its case accusing Israel of genocide and that Palestinians had “plausible rights to protection from genocide”.
In November, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
