Six in 10 US voters also oppose Washington sending more military aid to Israel, according to a Quinnipiac poll.Published On 28 Aug 202528 Aug 2025Half of voters in the United States believe Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, a poll has found.The share of US voters who believe a genocide is taking place includes 77 percent of Democrats and 51 percent of independents, according to the Quinnipiac University poll released on Wednesday.A large majority of Republicans – 64 percent to 20 percent – do not think Israel is committing genocide, according to the poll.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.Voters are almost evenly split in their sympathies for Palestinians and Israelis, according to Quinnipiac, with 37 percent saying they are more sympathetic towards Palestinians and 36 percent saying 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 per …
