The American newspaper Politico reported today that “the generation gap with regard to Israel and Palestine is widening” within the United States, explaining that young voters are “diverging sharply from older members of the Democratic Party, which creates a challenge for the party.”

According to the American newspaper, the generational divide constitutes a “problem for the Democratic Party,” which relies on young voters as a major bloc in its coalition.

Party strategists and elected officials are concerned that Democratic support for Israel, led by current President Joe Biden, "will cost the party at the ballot box."

The newspaper added that American divisions are becoming more widespread as the war in Gaza continues, which threatens to distance the Democratic Party from its younger voters, whose support for the Palestinians is “much greater than the support shown by other age groups.”

While “most Americans say they are more sympathetic to Israelis,” according to Politico, the number of voters more sympathetic to Palestinians rose from 13% to 24%, compared to a poll conducted by Quinnipiac University last month.

This shift is largely due to participants under the age of 35, who overwhelmingly said they do not agree with the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, at 66%. 52% of respondents say that they sympathize with the Palestinians more than the Israelis, while 50% of them believe that the United States supports the Israeli occupation to an exaggerated manner.

On the other hand, older voters, especially those over the age of 65, are likely to take opposite positions, being more supportive of Israel, as is the case with Republican voters, according to the newspaper.

After young voters were “evenly divided over who they sympathized with,” last October, they tended to support the Palestinians, with an increase from 26% to 52%, in a return to “a long-term trend that led to the division of the Democratic Party.” ".

In one month, the number of young voters who were more sympathetic to Israelis than Palestinians decreased from 41% to 29%, according to the newspaper.