Almost Half of Muslim Americans have Favorable View of Terror Group

And the other half? Most likely, they think they are Hamas.

Islamic Jew hatred is a central pillar of Islam. And therein lies the rub. I have been doing this work for decades and have yet to meet a practicing Muslim who supports a Jewish state. Apostates? Yes. But they are no longer Muslims.

Almost half of Muslim Americans have favorable view of Hamas — and few support Israel, new survey shows

By Anthony Blair, NY Post, July 10, 2026:

Almost half of Muslim Americans support the terror group Hamas, while views of Israelis have soured since 2022 amongst Republicans and Democrats, a bombshell new poll found

The startling survey also found that young Americans of all religions are now far more likely to hold favorable views of Palestinians over Israelis, marking a drastic change since Hamas’ deadly Oct. 7 rampage.

Some 44% of Muslim American respondents expressed a favorable opinion of the terror group, compared to 17% of black Protestants, just 4% of white evangelical Protestants, and 8% of Catholics, according to a Pew Research Center survey published Thursday.

Meanwhile, only 26% of Muslim Americans had a favorable view of the Israeli people, compared to 74% of white evangelical Protestants, 51% of Catholics, and 55% of black Protestants, the results revealed.

The findings were similar to those of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, according to Muslim scholar Hussain Abdul-Hussain, research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

“Pew poll showing 44 percent of Muslims in America support Hamas squares with Palestinian polls, as surveyed by the Palestinian PCPSR [Center for Polling and Survey Research],” Hussain, who authored “The Arab Case for Israel,” wrote on X.

Hamas fighters in camouflage uniforms holding rifles, with green headbands and hats, some wearing balaclavas, at a funeral.
Almost half of Muslim Americans have a favorable view of Hamas, according to a new survey.
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“Given Pew’s numbers on Muslim American support of Hamas and PCPSR’s numbers on Palestinian opposition to two state, support of Hamas and October 7, the question … is. … How can Israel make peace with a Muslim population whose majority rejects it?” he added.

Another Muslim X user, Maliq, claimed that the issue wasn’t so simple.

“Some Muslims support Hamas because they see them as a resistance group fighting against what they view as oppression and occupation,” he wrote on X.

‘That’s the reason behind their support, even though others strongly disagree with Hamas’ actions and methods.”

In the Big Apple, Cab driver Ali Muhammed, who sat outside the Aasafa Islamic Center on the Lower East Side on Thursday, was dismissive of Hamas.

“We want that war [in Gaza] to be stopped. We want all wars to be over,” the 55-year-old Muhammed, who is originally from Sudan, said.

Another cab driver outside the cultural center, who was afraid to offer up his name, blasted Israel for killing Palestinian “babies and women” in Gaza.

“We are looking for peace. Where is the peace?,” he said.

“Hamas is fighting Israel and that is good. This from the prophet Moses time.”

Younger Americans across all religious groups — and especially Democrats — were far more likely to have positive views of Hamas and the Palestinian people as opposed to the Israeli people and its government.

More than half (58%) of US adults under 30 expressed favorable views of the Palestinian people, while under a third (32%) had positive views of Israelis, according to the findings.

For young Democrats, that division was even more extreme, with 72% under 30 viewing Palestinians favorably compared to just 26% having similar views of Israelis.

Even young Republicans have cooled on Israel, with 42% having favorable views of the Israeli people compared to 40% for Palestinian people.

Across the board, some 13% of adult respondents under 30 expressed a favorable view of Hamas, including 16% of young Democrats and a shocking 11% of young Republicans.

Since 2022, the year before the Oct. 7 attacks that slaughtered roughly 1,200 Israelis, support for the Israeli people and its government has dropped sharply in the US among both Democrats and Republicans, the poll found.

The share of Republicans with a favorable view of the Israelis fell from 77% to 65%, and plummeted from 62% to 43% among Dems.

Likewise, support for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government fell from 65% in 2022 among Republicans to 51%, and from 35% to 16% among Dems.

Jewish Americans and white evangelical Protestants had the most favorable views of the Israeli people and its leaders, with the latter being the only religious group to have a mostly favorable view of the Israeli government.

More than half (57%) of white evangelical Protestants expressed positive views of Netanyahu’s government — compared to only 47% of Jewish respondents.

Views among religious groups also differed by age, with Jewish adults under the age of 50 less likely to have favorable views of Israel’s government and people than their older counterparts.

The poll surveyed 12,574 Americans from May 4-17, about two months after the US and Israel launched its war on Iran.