Americans have increasingly negative views of Israel and its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.
- 60% of U.S. adults have an unfavorable view of Israel, up from 53% last year.
- 59% have little or no confidence in Netanyahu to do the right thing regarding world affairs – up from 52% last year.
- In both political parties, majorities of adults under the age of 50 now rate Israel and Netanyahu negatively.
I’ve started getting text campaigns from Friends for Peace about Israel and Iran. They ask about your feelings on Isreal and then send a bunch of links looks like spread by Clock Tower X LLC on behalf of the State of Israel. Digging deeper Clock Tower X LLC is a Ohio-based marketing firm owned by former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale. In late 2025, the company signed a multi-million dollar contract (reportedly increasing to million) with the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The more you know.
Several weeks ago, I had some weird AI chatbot text me asking my opinion on Israel, then trying to convince me that the genocide in Gaza isn’t actually a genocide.
edit: past to present tense.
This was probably the same one then.
Like it was a spam text?
Yeah. Came out of nowhere. I usually ignore spam, but any opportunity to voice my contempt for Israeli/American policy and leadership is something I’m going to jump on.
I’ve been seeing their ads on YouTube when my wife watches streams. It’s the one where the Israeli guy is like, “See, I have Arabic friends so I can’t be bad.”
It’s pretty gross because they are conflating all Jews with the state of Israel without directly saying it.