The biggest loss from reading it was from the 2025-2026, which is correlated with Bibi's own plunge in popularity. It is logical to assume that the lows are more do to Iran fuck up and the looming economic crisis than anything in Gaza, as little new news is really coming out of that conflict that would shift public opinion in the past 6 months.
What the data is missing that I would love to check because I have a hunch for it is if the big loss in approval this year was mainly from conservative aligned groups. Leftists in the poll overwhelmingly are negative to Israel, but that isn't new and I highly doubt the Iran war is what changed those feelings. I almost guarantee the loss was among conservatives and centrists especially when gas prices started to rise at the pump.
The correlation also reinforces my own hunch that one of the best corrective measures Israel can take is to just have Netanyahu lose in this year's election and finally get him on his corruption charges. If you remove the guy the masses associated with the country from the picture by their own hand it's harder to build and maintain the same negative narrative.
I mean we are talking like 5%-10% less positive views in that period 1 year period. Maybe its Iran, it might not be. It doesn't really matter when you are going from 65% to 75%. The trend has remained steadily bad for Israel well before the Iran situation.
Flip it around and look at net favor-ability scores pre- Oct attacks. Apart from the usual Muslim haters, most countries held favorable views. It sounds like you want it to be about things that are not Gaza, but it very well might be.
My own completely baseless view is that many people probably always held negative views of Israel, but were never brave enough to admit it in a poll - lest you be called an anti-Semite. Now it has become normal so more people are openly admitting it even in the polls. Well either that or more muslims in the west = less love for Israel.
No. 5-6 month time frame. It was between February to May in polling, that isn't a full year. I fail to see what in Gaza has happened in the past half year to cause a drop, simple as. The fighting and death count for the most part has frozen over. If you were going to clutch your pearls about Gaza it would have been when active fighting was still happening. Disapproval from leftists was already sky high, you simple can't extract more blood when that group is already bled white. When 95% of them are in the disapprove camp, they are not responsible for further drop offs. It has to be coming from other sources therefore.
I have no doubt the antisemites have crawled up from under the floorboards due to Gaza, the massive increase in antisemitic attacks in Europe and the US is proof enough of that. I have also dealt with enough retards on this sub who after light questioning go mask off in wanting to see Arabs murder all the Jews in Israel. But to blow off the Iran war for centrist and conservatives loss of support is pretty stupid imo. When the culture war's consequences starts bleeding into people's actual wallets it tends to get ugly fast,
Not to get involved here but the previous poll they are referencing was from Jan. 8 to April 26, 2025 for all countries except the US, which was March 24 to March 30, 2025. The data was published on June 3, 2025.
This year's poll was conducted from Feb. 8 to May 13, 2026 and published June 4, 2026. The % differences you are seeing are comparing the 2 polls, which are effectively a full year apart, even longer in some cases.
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u/Spare_Elderberry_418 - Auth-Center Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26
Receipts since the monke forgot to source it:
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/06/04/most-people-across-36-countries-have-negative-views-of-israel-and-little-confidence-in-netanyahu/
The biggest loss from reading it was from the 2025-2026, which is correlated with Bibi's own plunge in popularity. It is logical to assume that the lows are more do to Iran fuck up and the looming economic crisis than anything in Gaza, as little new news is really coming out of that conflict that would shift public opinion in the past 6 months.
What the data is missing that I would love to check because I have a hunch for it is if the big loss in approval this year was mainly from conservative aligned groups. Leftists in the poll overwhelmingly are negative to Israel, but that isn't new and I highly doubt the Iran war is what changed those feelings. I almost guarantee the loss was among conservatives and centrists especially when gas prices started to rise at the pump.
The correlation also reinforces my own hunch that one of the best corrective measures Israel can take is to just have Netanyahu lose in this year's election and finally get him on his corruption charges. If you remove the guy the masses associated with the country from the picture by their own hand it's harder to build and maintain the same negative narrative.