Poll Finds 33% of U.S. Voters View Israel as Ally, 20% as Enemy, Down From Early March

Only 33 percent of American voters believe Israel is an ally, according to a Napolitan News Service survey of 1,000 registered voters conducted online by Scott Rasmussen on May 11-12, 2026. One in five American voters believe Israel is an enemy. The percentage of poll respondents who view Israel as an ally dropped by 25 percentage points compared to early March 2026 when the second engagement of the Iran War began.

Fewer than half of both Democrats and Republicans polled now agree that Israel is an ally. Twenty percent of Democrats polled believe Israel is an ally while 49 percent of Republicans polled believe Israel is an ally.

1 percentage points. Belief that Iran, Russia, and China are enemies dropped by roughly 15 percentage points since the conflict began. Less than 12 percent of respondents stated that Iran, Russia, or China are allies.

President Trump stated that Operation Epic Fury would be a four-to-six-week military operation to dismantle the military threat posed by the radical Islamic Iranian regime. The war in Iran has lasted over 10 weeks. A ceasefire was declared on April 8 by Trump.

U.S. military and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have attacked each other since the ceasefire began.

Separate polling shows broad bipartisan concern over the federal deficit and national debt. Sixty-six percent of Democrats consider the federal deficit a very big problem for the country according to a Pew Research Center poll.

The Pew Research Center poll asked more than 5,000 Americans whether they considered specific issues a very big problem. The national debt exceeded $39 trillion in March.

Ninety-four percent of Democrats say the national debt is raising their cost of living according to a Peter G. Peterson Foundation survey.

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A Gallup poll in March found 47 percent of Republicans considered federal spending and the deficit a major concern. Opinions of Israel have been declining globally according to a Pew Research Center survey of 24 countries.

The United Kingdom unfavorable view of Israel was 44 percent in 2013 and 61 percent now according to a Pew Research Center survey of 24 countries. A 2021 study published in the Journal of Politics found that dislike toward opposite-party voters tends to be directed at stereotyped versions of the opposing party.