As President Donald Trump works to secure the release of the remaining hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza, on the home front, America’s younger generation strongly opposes his peace plan and handling of the conflict. Strikingly almost half also oppose Hamas releasing the hostages without conditions.
Rather than a reflexively anti-Trump position, the polling data suggests that members of America’s youngest voting generation–Gen Z–are not only becoming increasingly anti-Israel, but rather many are supportive of Hamas over Israel at higher levels than its fellow generations.
Hamas is a designated terrorist organization by the U.S. government that holds as one of its primary goals the elimination of the Israeli state. Hamas “strives to raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine,” according to the group’s covenant.
While America’s older generations support Israel over Hamas by an average of about 75% to 25%, Gen Z respondents have the closest margin for the question, according to the latest poll from Harvard CAPS/Harris.
