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Source: https://besacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/181-web.pdf
The American Public and Israel in the 21st Century
(BESA Center for Strategic Studies-Bar-Ilan University) Prof. Eytan Gilboa - Considerable majorities of Americans - between 2/3 and 3/4 - have held highly stable favorable views of Israel. Israel even went up 12% in the past two decades - from 62% favorability in 2000 to 74% in 2020. Despite the unpopularity of foreign aid and the sizeable U.S. military aid to Israel, majorities said it should be kept at the current level or even increased. Between 2015 and 2019, American Jews sympathized more with Israel than with the Palestinians by a ratio of 86% to 7%. The writer is a professor of political science and international communication at Bar-Ilan University and a senior researcher at the BESA Center.