Over half (54%) of Britons aged 18-24 do not believe that Israel should exist, a new poll by UnHerd revealed on Wednesday.
The poll, which collected data from 1,012 voters, found that younger voters were generally less likely to believe the Jewish state should exist.
A total of 35% of voters aged 25-34 shared the view that Israel shouldn’t exist, a perspective that dropped to 25% of voters aged 35-44 and 12% of respondents aged 45-54.
Participants aged over 65 years were most likely to support Israel’s existence, with only 7% saying that the state shouldn’t.
Who is to blame for the war?
Asked who was to blame for the current conflict, 50% of young voters (18-24) claimed that the Israeli government was to blame and 15% said the fault lay with the Israeli people.
Only a quarter of the respondents in the 18-25 age group blamed Hamas for the war, and 19% of this group blamed both Israel and Hamas equally.
The age group 25-34 took a similar stance, with 34% blaming the war on the Israeli government and only 18% saying the blame lay with Hamas. Respondents in this age category more frequently answered that it was both Hamas and the Israeli government's fault (28%).
More than double those in the 25-34 category blamed the Israeli people (12%) than the Palestinian people (5%.)
Despite younger respondents taking a harsher stance with Israel, the overall trend was that respondents laid more blame with Hamas (31%) than the Israeli government (27%.) A quarter of all respondents answered that Hamas and the Israeli government were equally to blame.
Only 5% of all respondents answered that the Palestinian people were to blame for the conflict and 6% said the Israeli people were.
Only the category 65+ placed no blame with the Israeli people, and only 5% of this group placed blame on the Palestinian people.