Polling from May 2026 showed that white evangelical Protestants held favorable opinions of the Israeli people. Seventy-four percent of white evangelical Protestants polled by the Pew Research Center said they had a favorable view of the Israeli people. That still puts white evangelical Protestants well above Pew’s polling of other American religious groups when it comes to viewing the Israeli people favorably. But compared with 84 percent in 2024, it is significant. When it comes to views of the Israeli government, support has dropped even more steeply among white evangelicals. From 2024 to 2026, the percentage of white evangelicals viewing the Israeli government positively dropped from 71 percent to 57 percent. According to Pew, 57 percent of white evangelical Protestants held a favorable view of the Israeli government, and they were the only religious group in the survey in which a majority did so.

But a generational gap may be even more impactful. Tablet Magazine covered research from Motti Inbari and Kirill Bumin that showed that 68.9 percent of evangelical respondents who were younger than thirty supported Israel as part of a 2018 study. But 33.6 percent of evangelical respondents supported Israel in a larger 2021 study Bumin and Inbari conducted among young evangelicals. In that 2021 survey, 24.3 percent of respondents supported the Palestinians and 42.2 percent took neither side. The samples were not identical. The under-thirty population from the 2018 study had 148 respondents, compared to the 700 respondents from the 2021 study. Thus, the percentages should not be taken to reflect how one group’s views changed over time. They can, however, be used to suggest that young evangelicals are far less uniformly pro-Israel than their parents and grandparents were at the same age.

A 2025 study, Crossroads of Belief: Evangelicals and the Jewish People, produced by Infinity Concepts and Grey Matter Research, points toward........

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