(LifeSiteNews) — Recent professional polls confirm a profound shift in American opinion against support for Israel and in favor of the Palestinians, even among Republicans, especially young people and those who identify as “moderate or liberal.”

In analyzing a new Pew Research Center poll earlier this week, CNN reporter Harry Enten emphasized the “massive shift that we have had over the last four years” among Republicans (and GOP leaning independents) under 50 years of age.

This demographic moved from a plus-28-point advantage in net favorability of Israel in 2022, to a minus-2 result in 2025, marking a 30-point swing away from support of Israel in three years. And in the last year and the favorability rating dropped to minus-16 points.

“That’s an over 40-point shift in just one, two, three, four years’ time away from Israel amongst young Republicans,” Enten stressed.

He then turned to the category of “moderate or liberal” Republicans, whom he said consist of around a third of the party’s base support.

In 2022, moderate or liberal Republicans polled as having a plus-26 point net favorability toward Israel. In 2026, the numbers have plummeted to a minus-9 deficit, marking a 35-point swing in attitudes away from Israel among this demographic.

Yet these trends against support for Israel are not limited to political categories but are also conditioned by age.

Focusing on the category of men under age 50, Enten showed that net favorability toward Israel in 2022 was minus-3 points. It dropped significantly to negative-22 points in 2025 and is now at minus-47 points.

“That’s a 44-point shift away from Israel on the net favorability amongst young men who of course shifted massively into the Republican column back in 2024,” Enten observed. “And they have been shifting away from Israel over the last four years.”

Turning his attention to the other side of the aisle, the New York City native observed that while it is not surprising that very liberal Democrats have been highly critical of Israel, “now we’re even seeing it among moderate and conservative Democrats,” he said, and this marks a “sea change.”

Unpacking the numbers, he showed that in 2022 the net favorability toward Israel among non-liberal Democrats was plus-3 points. By 2025, it had experienced a free fall to minus-30 points and now it is at minus-55 points.

“That’s a nearly 60-point switcheroo in just four years’ time,” Enten emphasized.

Moving on, he highlighted how the numbers fit into “a larger sea change against Israel,” presenting net favorability of Israel among all adults being measured at plus-13 points in 2022, dropping 21 points to minus-8 by 2025 and now measuring a year later at minus-23.

“That’s a 36-point change in just four years’ time amongst all adults,” the analyst said.

Then focusing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he cited a Gallop poll from late February that marked for the first time in history when the American public sympathized more with the Palestinian people than with the state of Israel.

Enten presented that in 2022, before the October 7, 2023, attack from Hamas, and Israel’s genocidal response, when asked “are your sympathies more with the Israelis or more with the Palestinians?” Americans sided with Israel by a margin of plus-28 points. But in response to the same question in 2026, Palestinians enjoy a plus-11 point margin.

“That is a shift of nearly 40 points in just four years’ time,” he said. “This is the best position that the Palestinians have ever been in, in the minds of the American public.”