The findings revealed a “strong and growing partisan factor in American views of U.S. support for Israel in its war against Hamas,” according to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and Lester Crown Center on U.S. Foreign Policy.

In the survey, 37% of Americans said that Washington is providing too much support and military aid to Israel in its defensive war against Hamas. That’s up from 30% in 2024.

Another 26% said that the United States strikes the right balance, up from 22% in 2024, and the percentage that said that Washington isn’t providing enough aid and support fell to 10% from 20%.

“Polls fluctuate, but the reality is that Israel is fighting a just and moral war against a barbaric enemy that savagely attacked the Jewish state on Oct. 7 and continues to hold 48 hostages,” Marshall Wittmann, a spokesman for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, told JNS.

“It is entirely consistent with American interests and values to stand with a democratic ally as it battles Hamas and other Iranian terrorist proxies,” he said.

The increased dissatisfaction with U.S. actions in the survey was driven by Democrats and independents. A growing number of Republicans say that the United States has struck the right balance.

More than half of Democrats (53%) said that the United States supports Israel too much, up from 40% last year. Independents agreed by 42% to 34%.

About a quarter of Republicans (23%) said last year that the United States had struck the right balance in its support of the Jewish state. That percentage more than doubled to 47% after Donald Trump replaced Joe Biden in the White House.

“The Jewish state has had no better friend in the White House than President Donald Trump,” Sam Markstein, a spokesman for the Republican Jewish Coalition, told JNS. “His trailblazing leadership has strengthened the U.S.-Israel relationship to historic highs, most notably the recent precision strikes to obliterate Iran’s nuclear weapons program in Operation Midnight Hammer.”

Six in 10 Democrats said that the United States is not sending enough aid to Gaza, an increase over the 44% who expressed that view last year. The percentage of independents who said that there wasn’t enough aid getting through rose from 31% to 43%.

A plurality of Republicans (34%, up from 31% in 2024) said that the right amount of aid was being sent, and just 11% (down from 15%) said that there was too little aid going to Gaza.

A slight majority of Americans (51%) continue to support a two-state solution in the Middle East, including 63% of Democrats and 53% of independents. But Republicans stood in opposition to an independent Palestinian state alongside the existing Jewish one, 58% to 35%.

The survey of 2,148 adults was conducted online from July 18 to 30 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.2 percentage points.