Abstract
Since October 7, a substantial amount of polling has been conducted on the views of US young adults about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. However, beyond general opinions about the actors in the conflict, we know little about the attitudes that contribute to those views. This report focuses on undergraduates’ overall orientation toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a construct that aims to capture the complexity and nuance of how students think and feel about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The report examines how Israel/Palestine orientation relates to views on specific statements that have been the subject of much debate in the Israel/Palestine discourse. The findings draw on data collected from nearly 4,000 undergraduates in the fall 2025 semester and demonstrate that American students’ views about Israel are not as clear-cut as media reports or polling data suggest.