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New polling confirms that there’s now a ” structural shift inside the Democratic Party” and the surging criticism of, and opposition to, Israel is showing up in primary results, congressional votes, and more.

According to an analysis from Israel365News of the results from the AP-NORC polling, this is what’s happening:

–Rep. Dan Goldman, a Democrat from New York and a stalwart supporter of Israel, lost badly in his primary to Brad Lander, who insists he’ll be one of the most vocal Jewish advocates, for Palestinian rights.

–Sen. Bernie Sanders, born Jewish, has led schemes in the Senate to block arms sales to Israel, calling the government “racist” and “extremist.”

–And House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who long had been seen as a reliable friend of Israel, is declining to commit to supporting Israel’s security in the party’s next platform.

The polling, done June 11-17 among 3,040 adults including an oversample of 1,022 Jewish respondents, confirmed 58% of Democrats now think the U.S. supports Israel too much. That’s up from 45% in 2024.

And nearly two-thirds of the Democrats say America needs to support Palestinians more.

Nearly one-third of Americans now say Israel’s military actions in Gaza constitute genocide, a claim adopted by 52% of Democrats but rejected totally by 87% of Republicans.

Among Republicans, 61% now say U.S. support for Israel is “about right,” up from just 33% in January 2024.

According to Israel365, “the poll’s most revealing numbers concern Jewish Americans themselves. Jewish adults remain sharply divided along party lines even as their community as a whole tilts toward supporting Israel’s actions: 73% of Jewish respondents call Israel’s immediate military response to the October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack justified, and 42% support Israel’s ongoing operations in Gaza. But among Jewish Democrats, 51% say the U.S. is too supportive of Israel, and 45% believe Israel committed genocide in Gaza, a figure that stands in stark contrast to the 3% of Jewish Republicans who say the same.”

The report confirmed, “This anti-Israel trend follows a documented rise in antisemitic incidents on American college campuses, from 179 in the 2019-20 academic year to 2,334 in 2024-25, concentrated on campuses where opposition to Israel has become an organizing principle of the political left.”

Part of the shift can be blamed on Joe Biden who took actions during his term that abandoned America’s long-standing strong support for Isreal.

For example, he abstained on United Nations Security Council Resolution 2728, allowing a ceasefire resolution to pass that did not condition a halt in fighting on the release of the hostages Hamas had taken on October 7, the report said.

He also created a sanctions scheme that was aimed at Israeli citizens living in Judea and Samaria.

The report noted Barack Obama actually started that agenda years before, when he in 2015 reached a “deal” with Iran, over Israel’s objections that lifted sanctions on Iran and turned over billions of dollars, in return for a promise of a temporary halt in Iran’s nuclear weapons program.

Then Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bypassed Obama to warn Congress directly about the dangerous deal that would “finance Iranian aggression,” the report said.

President Donald Trump worked to reverse that agenda when he took office.

The analysis continued, “The Democratic Party’s shift on Israel has coincided with a parallel argument breaking out on the right, one that cuts to the theological core of why tens of millions of American evangelicals support the Jewish state at all.”

The analysis noted Sen. Ted Cruz commented on why he considers himself Israel’s leading defender in the Senate. Cruz explained that he was raised to believe those who bless Israel are blessed and those who curse it are cursed, and said plainly that he wants to be “on the blessing side of things.”