A majority of Americans oppose providing economic and military aid to Israel, according to a poll conducted by The New York Times and Siena Research Institute.
The survey found that 57 per cent of Americans oppose giving assistance to Israel, while 37 per cent support it.
It also showed that 37 per cent of respondents sympathise more with Palestinians, compared with 35 per cent who said they sympathise more with Israelis.
The poll was conducted between 11th and 15th May and included more than 1,500 American adults. The margin of error was about 2.8 percentage points.
A previous poll by Gallup found that 41 per cent of Americans said they sympathised more with Palestinians, compared with 36 per cent who sympathised more with Israelis, marking the first such shift since the annual survey began in 2001.
According to the agency, observers said the rapid change in American public opinion was linked to the growing influence of pro-Palestinian grassroots movements in the United States, which they said had helped break long-standing political and media taboos surrounding debate over Israeli policies in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
