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?
Because, by the numbers you yourself quoted, there are 10-20% of Jews who are not Zionists. If, in future, there is a reaction to Zionism, it should not result in antijewish attacks on all Jews.
In the present "antisemitism" is used as a stick to hit people with who oppose genocide. Real Palestinians are really being genocided and people speak with more worry about antisemitism than the Palestinians literally undergoing a genocide because of said "antisemitism".
For a more in-depth explanation: Fight Jewish Exceptionalism
At the surface level, that's just fallacious. Feminism is used as a stick to hit Muslims. Your reasoning structure (as explained by you from further down the thread) dictates "taking that weapon away" because of western imperialist crimes in Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc. There is no logic in this. Just because someone disingenuously turns something into a stick does not mean that the thing was a stick to begin with. If I start using PC keyboards as paddleboards, that doesn't mean that PC keyboards are paddleboards.
At the deeper level, it's worse. It's buying into the dishonest weaponization of antisemitism that zionists perform. That's just accepting the basic structure of zionism as unavoidable. Same as with the feminist example, a program of "taking away the feminism weapon" just buys into the structure of Huntingtonian war of civilizations, and reinforces it as its dialectical counter-tension. Conflating Jews with Israel is Zionism at its most basic "zionishness". How can you even begin to imagine building any kind of antizionism on zionism itself? It's just as silly as trying to base antiracist politics on racist stereotypes about black people being more physical than intelligent: "proper antiracist praxis is to deemphasize intellectualism because black people aren't intellectual" and "proper antizionist praxis is to deemphasize antisemitism because the majority of Jews are supporting zionism"; this is just madness and folly.
Your arguments are deeply deeply misguided. But the proof is in the pudding. Like I asked elsewhere in the thread: what is the ask here, what are the specific kinds of tasks you are envisioning antizionists to undertake?
This is true. But is there any advantage to criticising all Jews, compared to criticising Zionism?
My country was once part of the British Empire. Was the problem the existence of British people, or the ideology of colonial supremacy? We still have the grandchildren of British officers around, and they're people, just like everyone else. What matters is creating a democratic system, with equality for all people. Then even those who have racist views will be forced to live alongside others.
Actually (sadly) yes there is. Because people attribute so much value to antisemitism above other forms of discrimination and even genocide of Palestinians, it is disproportionally effective in stifling criticism of Israel. And the only real quick solution is to take that weapon away because people are currently being genocided with it. Which sucks for anti-Zionist Jews but they aren't the people currently being genocided.
For example Zohran Mamdani condemns people who protested against land sales of Palestinians, because Jews were selling the stolen land in a Synagogue. A Zionist Synagogue.
Hasan Piker recently did basically the same thing. https://lemmy.ml/post/51867022
If you really want to get in-depth on this I recommend The Ugly Exigencies of Genocide - Steve Salaita.