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Favorability of Israel (Pew)

Do you have a very favorable or unfavorable opinion of ...? Israel

Latest wave fielded March 24 to 30, 2025. Primary source: Pew Research Center, American Trends Panel Wave 166 (Spring 2025 Global Attitudes, U.S.), March 24 to 30, 2025.

Trend

Favorability of Israel (Pew): trendLine chart of 2 survey waves from Spring 2022 to Spring 2025. Exact values are in the table below.0%10%20%30%40%50%2022202320242025Year of fieldworkPercentVery favorable, Spring 2022 (dates as labelled by the pollster): 14%Very favorable, March 24 to 30, 2025: 13%Somewhat favorable, Spring 2022 (dates as labelled by the pollster): 41%Somewhat favorable, March 24 to 30, 2025: 31%Somewhat unfavorable, Spring 2022 (dates as labelled by the pollster): 31%Somewhat unfavorable, March 24 to 30, 2025: 34%Very unfavorable, Spring 2022 (dates as labelled by the pollster): 10%Very unfavorable, March 24 to 30, 2025: 19%DK/Refused, Spring 2022 (dates as labelled by the pollster): 4%DK/Refused, March 24 to 30, 2025: 3%
  • Very favorable
  • Somewhat favorable
  • Somewhat unfavorable
  • Very unfavorable
  • DK/Refused
Source: Pew Research Center; see Sources below. Percentages of respondents.

Toplines

Favorability of Israel (Pew): toplines by survey wave, percent (newest first)
Field datesVery favorableSomewhat favorableSomewhat unfavorableVery unfavorableDK/RefusedSample (n)Margin of error
March 24 to 30, 20251331341933,605±1.9
Spring 2022 (dates as labelled by the pollster)144131104----

Note: Topline item FAV_ISRAEL, wording as printed in the topline, with very and somewhat favorable or unfavorable response categories. Pew's release dates the 2022 wave to March 2022; the topline labels it Spring 2022. A 2013 phone-mode reading (57% favorable) is not comparable and is omitted from the trend.

Sources

  1. Pew Research Center, American Trends Panel Wave 166 (Spring 2025 Global Attitudes, U.S.), March 24 to 30, 2025, accessed October 13, 2026.
  2. Pew Research Center, American Trends Panel Wave 166 (Spring 2025 Global Attitudes, U.S.), topline, accessed October 13, 2026.

Cite

Pew Research Center, "Favorability of Israel (Pew)," in Middle East Forum, U.S. Opinion on the Middle East, https://polls.meforum.org/q/pew-fav-israel/.