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{"found_url":"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/10\/nyregion\/israel-gaza-poll-nyc-mayor.html","crawl_time":1772630718,"first_indexed_time":1757511244,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,nytimes!www,\/2025\/09\/10\/nyregion\/israel-gaza-poll-nyc-mayor.html s443","src_root_hash":"4566504020376537684","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"Gaza War Turns New Yorkers Against Israel, With Mayor’s Race as Backdrop - The New York Times","meta_descriptions":["More New Yorkers say their sympathies lie with Palestinians rather than Israel in the long-running conflict in Gaza, according to a New York Times\/Siena poll."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"Advertisement\nSKIP ADVERTISEMENT\nMore New Yorkers say their sympathies lie with Palestinians rather than Israel in the long-running conflict in Gaza, according to a New York Times\/Siena poll.\nThe Times\/Siena poll found that 44 percent of registered New York City voters sympathized more with Palestinians and 26 percent with Israel in the conflict.\nCredit...\nBing Guan for The New York Times\nSept. 10, 2025\nTwo years after Hamas’s terrorist attack on Oct. 7, 2023, and Israel’s subsequent invasion of Gaza, New Yorkers now broadly sympathize with Palestinians over Israelis in the ongoing conflict, according to\na new survey by The New York Times and Siena University\n.\nThe yawning gap of perspectives toward the conflict — 44 percent of registered New York City voters sympathized more with Palestinians; 26 percent sympathized more with Israel — is particularly stark given that the city is home to the largest Jewish population outside Israel. The poll also found that voters broadly think that criticizing Israel is not inherently antisemitic, 51 percent to 31 percent.\nIsrael’s\nprosecution of the war\nand its\nrestrictions on aid\nto Gaza have played a part in sullying New Yorkers’ opinion of the country’s actions, and have led many — including traditionally staunch allies of Israel — to shift\ntheir views and speak out\nagainst the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. While the Times\/Siena poll has not previously surveyed voters in the city on this topic, national polls have shown Americans becoming ever more critical of Israel as the war has continued.\nThe New York Times\/Siena Poll\nof New York City voters, Sept. 2-6\nIn the dispute between Israel and the Palestinians, which side do you sympathize with more: Israel or the Palestinians?\nDon’t know\/ Did not say\nIsrael\nBoth\nPalestinians\nN.Y.C. voters\n26%\n12\n44%\nGENDER\nMen\n29%\n12\n41%\nWomen\n25\n13\n46\nAGE\n18 to 29\n13%\n10\n67%\n30 to 44\n20\n11\n57\n45 to 64\n29\n11\n37\n65+\n38\n16\n28\nPARTY\nDemocrat\n18%\n11\n57%\nIndependent\n29\n16\n38\nRepublican\n57\n14\n12\n2025 VOTE PREFERENCE\nMamdani\n5\n8\n74%\nCuomo\n38\n18\n28\nSliwa\n54\n14\n16\nAdams\n49\n20\n17\nBased on a New York Times\/Siena poll of 1,284 registered voters in New York City from Sept. 2-6.\nThe segments for “Israel” and “Palestinians” include respondents who said they “strongly” or “somewhat” sympathize with each group, as well as those who said they “lean toward” sympathizing with each group.\nBy Ashley Cai\nThese views have filtered down to the mayor’s race, which is currently led by Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee who has aligned himself firmly with the plight of Palestinians, calling Israel’s actions in Gaza a “genocide.”\nMore than 60,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, according to health officials there. Residents are struggling to feed themselves amid Mr. Netanyahu’s push to\nexpand\nthe war. Mr. Netanyahu has said\nassertions of a famine in Gaza\nare exaggerated and that the war must continue until Hamas disarms and releases the\nremaining hostages\nit took in 2023, in an attack that killed about 1,200 people.\nMr. Mamdani’s beliefs would traditionally be considered disqualifying by many New York City voters, and they stand in stark contrast to the positions held by his two most prominent general election opponents, Mayor Eric Adams and former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo. Both are Democrats who are now campaigning as independents. They, along with\nCurtis Sliwa, the Republican candidate\n, are polling far behind Mr. Mamdani among likely voters.\nMr. Adams and Mr. Cuomo have relentlessly criticized Mr. Mamdani’s stance on Israel, calling him an antisemite and terrorist sympathizer. The poll’s findings underscore just how much Mr. Adams and Mr. Cuomo may have misread the electorate by expending energy to attack Mr. Mamdani’s views on Israel.\nIn fact, Mr. Mamdani had a slim lead among the poll’s relatively small sample of Jewish likely voters with about 30 percent support, closely followed by Mr. Adams and Mr. Cuomo.\nImage\nAssemblyman Zohran Mamdani\nCredit...\nSarah Blesener for The New York Times\nMore than 70 percent of Jewish voters said they sympathized with Israel, compared with about 20 percent who said they sympathized with Palestinians.\nOverall, Mr. Mamdani leads the pack in terms of who voters think has best addressed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with 39 percent preferring his approach. By comparison, 17 percent said they thought Mr. Cuomo had best addressed the conflict and just 10 percent preferred Mr. Adams.\nMr. Mamdani’s primary victory and continued electoral strength have been driven by strong support from younger voters. This demographic group was especially likely to say Mr. Mamdani had best addressed the conflict.\nAamina Mohammed, 19, said that Mr. Mamdani’s response after he was asked during a primary debate where he would travel first if elected mayor stuck with her. Several of the other candidates, including Mr. Cuomo, said Israel, while Mr. Mamdani said he would stay in New York City.\nThe candidate’s focus on New Yorkers’ struggles to afford rent and his willingness to speak out against Israel has led Ms. Mohammed to back him.\n“I don’t recognize a state that literally is killing people,” she said. “You cannot make up the things that people are posting online, showing you blown-up children. You can’t make that up.”\nMr. Mamdani’s backers were far more likely to sympathize with Palestinian interests, the poll found. Mr. Cuomo’s supporters were slightly more sympathetic to Israel (38 percent), but a sizable share (28 percent) were sympathetic to Palestinians and many (18 percent) supported both groups equally. Even among Mr. Cuomo’s own supporters, only about half said he had best addressed the conflict; 12 percent of them said Mr. Mamdani had done a better job.\nDuring the primary, Mr. Cuomo assiduously courted Jewish voters — particularly Orthodox Jews who had previously been\nskeptical of him\nbecause of Covid restrictions during his governorship. Last year, Mr. Cuomo founded a pro-Israel advocacy group and said he would\njoin Mr. Netanyahu’s legal defense team\nafter the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for him.\n“Do you stand with Israel or do you stand against Israel?” Mr. Cuomo\nsaid in 2023\n. “Because silence is not an option.”\nImage\nMayor Eric Adams\nCredit...\nJames Estrin\/The New York Times\nImage\nFormer Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo\nCredit...\nAdam Gray for The New York Times\nMr. Mamdani has\nstrongly disputed\nassertions that he is antisemitic and has\nspoken frequently\nabout expanding the city’s efforts to protect Jewish New Yorkers and combat antisemitism if he is elected.\nWhile Mr. Cuomo has continued to denounce Mr. Mamdani’s views, the former governor’s supporters are not especially likely to say that criticizing Israel is antisemitic. A plurality of his supporters, about 43 percent, said that such criticism is not antisemitic, not dissimilar to the share of New Yorkers overall. About half of registered voters said they thought criticizing Israel is not inherently antisemitic.\n“The Israeli government is extreme. It’s right-wing, and the public is not happy with them,” said Lisa Sopher, a Manhattan resident who is Modern Orthodox. She supports Mr. Cuomo, she said, in part because she objected to Mr. Mamdani’s initial reluctance to disavow the phrase “globalize the intifada,” which some see as a call for violence against Jews.\nMr. Mamdani has since said he does not use the phrase and would\ndiscourage its use\n.\nHere are the key things to know about this Times\/Siena poll:\nThe survey was conducted among 1,284 New York City registered voters from Sept. 2 to Sept. 6, 2025.\nThis poll was conducted in English and Spanish, by telephone using live interviewers and by text message. Overall, more than 99 percent of respondents were contacted on their cellphones. You can see the exact questions that were asked and the order in which they were asked\nhere\n.\nVoters are selected for the survey from a list of registered voters. The list contains information on the demographic characteristics of every registered voter, allowing us to make sure we reach the right number of voters of each party, race and borough. For this poll, interviewers placed more than 163,000 calls or texts to more than 81,000 voters.\nTo further ensure that the results reflect the entire voting population, not just those willing to take a poll, we give more weight to respondents from demographic groups that are underrepresented among survey respondents, like people without a college degree. You can see more information about the characteristics of our respondents and the weighted sample at the bottom of the\nmethodology page\n, under “Composition of the Sample.”\nThe margin of sampling error among the electorate that is likely to vote in November is about plus or minus 3.6 percentage points. In theory, this means that the results should reflect the views of the overall population most of the time, though many other challenges create additional sources of error. When the difference between two values is computed — such as a candidate’s lead in a race — the margin of error is twice as large.\nFindings among demographic groups carry larger margins of error, and additional considerations, such as the challenge of ensuring each subgroup is demographically representative, mean that results among such groups are less precise.\nIf you want to read more about how and why The Times\/Siena Poll is conducted, you can see answers to\nfrequently asked questions and submit your own questions here\n.\nBenjamin Oreskes\nis a reporter covering New York State politics and government for The Times.\nRuth Igielnik\nis a Times polling editor who conducts polls and analyzes and reports on the results.\nA version of this article appears in print on\nSept. 11, 2025\n, Section A, Page 20 of the New York edition with the headline: As Race for Mayor Nears, Gaza War Turns New Yorkers Against Israel\n.\nOrder Reprints\n|\nToday’s Paper\n|\nSubscribe\nRelated Content\nMore in New York\nGabriela Bhaskar for The New York Times\nGraham Dickie\/The New York Times\nEduardo Munoz\/Reuters\nKarsten Moran for The New York Times\nEditors’ Picks\nEmma McIntyre\/Getty Images\nDaniel Smith\/Prime\nTrending in The Times\nAmanda Shae Home Team Realty Group\nYamil Lage\/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images\nJanet Mac\nWarner Bros.\nPhoto Illustration by Mel Haasch; 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26 percent sympathized more with Israel — is particularly stark given that the city is home to the largest Jewish population outside Israel. The poll also found that voters broadly think that criticizing Israel is not inherently antisemitic, 51 percent to 31 percent.\n\nIsrael’s [prosecution of the war](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/06\/world\/middleeast\/israel-gaza-humanitarian.html) and its [restrictions on aid](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/israel-gaza-aid.html) to Gaza have played a part in sullying New Yorkers’ opinion of the country’s actions, and have led many — including traditionally staunch allies of Israel — to shift [their views and speak out](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/07\/31\/nyregion\/hochul-israel-gaza.html) against the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. While the Times\/Siena poll has not previously surveyed voters in the city on this topic, national polls have shown Americans becoming ever more critical of Israel as the war has continued.\n\nThe New York Times\/Siena Poll\n\nof New York City voters, Sept. 2-6\n\nIn the dispute between Israel and the Palestinians, which side do you sympathize with more: Israel or the Palestinians?\n\nDon’t know\/ Did not say\n\nIsrael\n\nBoth\n\nPalestinians\n\nN.Y.C. voters\n\n26%\n\n12\n\n44%\n***\n\nGENDER\n\nMen\n\n29%\n\n12\n\n41%\n\nWomen\n\n25\n\n13\n\n46\n***\n\nAGE\n\n18 to 29\n\n13%\n\n10\n\n67%\n\n30 to 44\n\n20\n\n11\n\n57\n\n45 to 64\n\n29\n\n11\n\n37\n\n65+\n\n38\n\n16\n\n28\n***\n\nPARTY\n\nDemocrat\n\n18%\n\n11\n\n57%\n\nIndependent\n\n29\n\n16\n\n38\n\nRepublican\n\n57\n\n14\n\n12\n***\n\n2025 VOTE PREFERENCE\n\nMamdani\n\n5\n\n8\n\n74%\n\nCuomo\n\n38\n\n18\n\n28\n\nSliwa\n\n54\n\n14\n\n16\n\nAdams\n\n49\n\n20\n\n17\n\nBased on a New York Times\/Siena poll of 1,284 registered voters in New York City from Sept. 2-6.\n\nThe segments for “Israel” and “Palestinians” include respondents who said they “strongly” or “somewhat” sympathize with each group, as well as those who said they “lean toward” sympathizing with each group.\n\nBy Ashley Cai\n\nThese views have filtered down to the mayor’s race, which is currently led by Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee who has aligned himself firmly with the plight of Palestinians, calling Israel’s actions in Gaza a “genocide.”\n\nMore than 60,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, according to health officials there. Residents are struggling to feed themselves amid Mr. Netanyahu’s push to [expand](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/09\/world\/middleeast\/israel-gaza-city-evacuation.html) the war. Mr. Netanyahu has said [assertions of a famine in Gaza](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/07\/world\/middleeast\/homeless-and-hungry-gazans-fear-a-repeat-of-1948-history.html) are exaggerated and that the war must continue until Hamas disarms and releases the [remaining hostages](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/04\/world\/middleeast\/hamas-gaza-war-israel-ceasefire-deal.html) it took in 2023, in an attack that killed about 1,200 people.\n\nMr. Mamdani’s beliefs would traditionally be considered disqualifying by many New York City voters, and they stand in stark contrast to the positions held by his two most prominent general election opponents, Mayor Eric Adams and former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo. Both are Democrats who are now campaigning as independents. They, along with [Curtis Sliwa, the Republican candidate](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/09\/nyregion\/mayor-poll-mamdani-cuomo.html), are polling far behind Mr. Mamdani among likely voters.\n\nMr. Adams and Mr. Cuomo have relentlessly criticized Mr. Mamdani’s stance on Israel, calling him an antisemite and terrorist sympathizer. The poll’s findings underscore just how much Mr. Adams and Mr. Cuomo may have misread the electorate by expending energy to attack Mr. Mamdani’s views on Israel.\n\nIn fact, Mr. Mamdani had a slim lead among the poll’s relatively small sample of Jewish likely voters with about 30 percent support, closely followed by Mr. Adams and Mr. Cuomo.\n\n## Editors’ Picks\n[![](https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/03\/10\/well\/10WELL-ASK-EMOTIONAL-DRINKING1\/03WELL-ASK-EMOTIONAL-DRINKING1-thumbLarge.jpg)Why Does Drinking Mess With My Emotions?](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/03\/well\/mind\/alcohol-emotions-hangovers.html)\n\n[![](https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/02\/12\/12visualUploader-56768-cover\/12visualUploader-56768-cover-thumbLarge.jpg)40 Years and 10,000 Broadcasts In, They’re Still Live on Air](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/01\/business\/media\/anchors-rick-ardon-susannah-carr-perth-australia.html)\n\n[![](https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2023\/09\/21\/t-magazine\/21tmag-justinian-slide-JOO5-copy-copy\/21tmag-justinian-slide-JOO5-thumbLarge.jpg)Our Favorite Living Rooms](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/28\/t-magazine\/best-living-room-design.html)\n\nAdvertisement\n\n[SKIP ADVERTISEMENT](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/10\/nyregion\/israel-gaza-poll-nyc-mayor.html#after-pp_edpick)\n\nImage\n\n![](https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/09\/10\/multimedia\/10met-poll-israel-bqlc\/10met-poll-israel-bqlc-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale)\n\nAssemblyman Zohran MamdaniCredit...Sarah Blesener for The New York Times\n\nMore than 70 percent of Jewish voters said they sympathized with Israel, compared with about 20 percent who said they sympathized with Palestinians.\n\nOverall, Mr. Mamdani leads the pack in terms of who voters think has best addressed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with 39 percent preferring his approach. By comparison, 17 percent said they thought Mr. Cuomo had best addressed the conflict and just 10 percent preferred Mr. Adams.\n\nMr. Mamdani’s primary victory and continued electoral strength have been driven by strong support from younger voters. This demographic group was especially likely to say Mr. Mamdani had best addressed the conflict.\n\nAamina Mohammed, 19, said that Mr. Mamdani’s response after he was asked during a primary debate where he would travel first if elected mayor stuck with her. Several of the other candidates, including Mr. Cuomo, said Israel, while Mr. Mamdani said he would stay in New York City.\n\nThe candidate’s focus on New Yorkers’ struggles to afford rent and his willingness to speak out against Israel has led Ms. Mohammed to back him.\n\n“I don’t recognize a state that literally is killing people,” she said. “You cannot make up the things that people are posting online, showing you blown-up children. You can’t make that up.”\n\nMr. Mamdani’s backers were far more likely to sympathize with Palestinian interests, the poll found. Mr. Cuomo’s supporters were slightly more sympathetic to Israel (38 percent), but a sizable share (28 percent) were sympathetic to Palestinians and many (18 percent) supported both groups equally. Even among Mr. Cuomo’s own supporters, only about half said he had best addressed the conflict; 12 percent of them said Mr. Mamdani had done a better job.\n\nDuring the primary, Mr. Cuomo assiduously courted Jewish voters — particularly Orthodox Jews who had previously been [skeptical of him](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/10\/07\/nyregion\/orthodox-jews-nyc-coronavirus.html) because of Covid restrictions during his governorship. Last year, Mr. Cuomo founded a pro-Israel advocacy group and said he would [join Mr. Netanyahu’s legal defense team](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2024\/11\/27\/world\/israel-hezbollah-lebanon-cease-fire?smid=url-share#andrew-cuomo-joins-netanyahus-legal-defense-team) after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for him.\n\n“Do you stand with Israel or do you stand against Israel?” Mr. Cuomo [said in 2023](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/07\/nyregion\/andrew-cuomo-israel.html). “Because silence is not an option.”\n\nImage\n\n![](https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/09\/10\/multimedia\/10met-poll-israel-cmwp\/10met-poll-israel-cmwp-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale)\n\nMayor Eric AdamsCredit...James Estrin\/The New York Times\n\nImage\n\n![](https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/09\/10\/multimedia\/10met-poll-israel-hwzc\/10met-poll-israel-hwzc-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale)\n\nFormer Gov. Andrew M. CuomoCredit...Adam Gray for The New York Times\n\nMr. Mamdani has [strongly disputed](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/06\/25\/nyregion\/mamdani-gaza-israel.html) assertions that he is antisemitic and has [spoken frequently](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/08\/04\/nyregion\/zohran-mamdani-jewish-voters-gaza.html) about expanding the city’s efforts to protect Jewish New Yorkers and combat antisemitism if he is elected.\n\nWhile Mr. Cuomo has continued to denounce Mr. Mamdani’s views, the former governor’s supporters are not especially likely to say that criticizing Israel is antisemitic. A plurality of his supporters, about 43 percent, said that such criticism is not antisemitic, not dissimilar to the share of New Yorkers overall. About half of registered voters said they thought criticizing Israel is not inherently antisemitic.\n\n“The Israeli government is extreme. It’s right-wing, and the public is not happy with them,” said Lisa Sopher, a Manhattan resident who is Modern Orthodox. She supports Mr. Cuomo, she said, in part because she objected to Mr. Mamdani’s initial reluctance to disavow the phrase “globalize the intifada,” which some see as a call for violence against Jews.\n\nMr. Mamdani has since said he does not use the phrase and would [discourage its use](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/07\/15\/business\/mamdani-globalize-intafada-business-leaders.html).\n***\n### Here are the key things to know about this Times\/Siena poll:\n- The survey was conducted among 1,284 New York City registered voters from Sept. 2 to Sept. 6, 2025.\n\n- This poll was conducted in English and Spanish, by telephone using live interviewers and by text message. Overall, more than 99 percent of respondents were contacted on their cellphones. You can see the exact questions that were asked and the order in which they were asked [here](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2025\/09\/09\/polls\/nyc-mayor-poll-likely-voters.html).\n\n- Voters are selected for the survey from a list of registered voters. The list contains information on the demographic characteristics of every registered voter, allowing us to make sure we reach the right number of voters of each party, race and borough. For this poll, interviewers placed more than 163,000 calls or texts to more than 81,000 voters.\n\n- To further ensure that the results reflect the entire voting population, not just those willing to take a poll, we give more weight to respondents from demographic groups that are underrepresented among survey respondents, like people without a college degree. You can see more information about the characteristics of our respondents and the weighted sample at the bottom of the [methodology page](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2025\/09\/09\/polls\/nyc-mayor-poll-likely-voters.html), under “Composition of the Sample.”\n\n- The margin of sampling error among the electorate that is likely to vote in November is about plus or minus 3.6 percentage points. In theory, this means that the results should reflect the views of the overall population most of the time, though many other challenges create additional sources of error. When the difference between two values is computed — such as a candidate’s lead in a race — the margin of error is twice as large.\n- Findings among demographic groups carry larger margins of error, and additional considerations, such as the challenge of ensuring each subgroup is demographically representative, mean that results among such groups are less precise.\n\nIf you want to read more about how and why The Times\/Siena Poll is conducted, you can see answers to [frequently asked questions and submit your own questions here](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/times-siena-poll-methodology.html).\n\n[Benjamin Oreskes](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/benjamin-oreskes) is a reporter covering New York State politics and government for The Times.\n\n[Ruth Igielnik](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/ruth-igielnik) is a Times polling editor who conducts polls and analyzes and reports on the results.\n\nA version of this article appears in print on Sept. 11, 2025, Section A, Page 20 of the New York edition with the headline: As Race for Mayor Nears, Gaza War Turns New Yorkers Against Israel. 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Manhattan.](https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/09\/10\/multimedia\/10met-poll-israel-lpwq\/10met-poll-israel-lpwq-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale)\n\nThe Times\/Siena poll found that 44 percent of registered New York City voters sympathized more with Palestinians and 26 percent with Israel in the conflict.Credit...Bing Guan for The New York Times\n\nSept. 10, 2025\n\nTwo years after Hamas’s terrorist attack on Oct. 7, 2023, and Israel’s subsequent invasion of Gaza, New Yorkers now broadly sympathize with Palestinians over Israelis in the ongoing conflict, according to [a new survey by The New York Times and Siena University](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2025\/09\/09\/polls\/nyc-mayor-poll-likely-voters.html).\n\nThe yawning gap of perspectives toward the conflict — 44 percent of registered New York City voters sympathized more with Palestinians; 26 percent sympathized more with Israel — is particularly stark given that the city is home to the largest Jewish population outside Israel. The poll also found that voters broadly think that criticizing Israel is not inherently antisemitic, 51 percent to 31 percent.\n\nIsrael’s [prosecution of the war](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/06\/world\/middleeast\/israel-gaza-humanitarian.html) and its [restrictions on aid](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/israel-gaza-aid.html) to Gaza have played a part in sullying New Yorkers’ opinion of the country’s actions, and have led many — including traditionally staunch allies of Israel — to shift [their views and speak out](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/07\/31\/nyregion\/hochul-israel-gaza.html) against the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. While the Times\/Siena poll has not previously surveyed voters in the city on this topic, national polls have shown Americans becoming ever more critical of Israel as the war has continued.\n\nThe New York Times\/Siena Poll\n\nof New York City voters, Sept. 2-6\n\nIn the dispute between Israel and the Palestinians, which side do you sympathize with more: Israel or the Palestinians?\n\nDon’t know\/ Did not say\n\nIsrael\n\nBoth\n\nPalestinians\n\nN.Y.C. voters\n\n26%\n\n12\n\n44%\n***\n\nGENDER\n\nMen\n\n29%\n\n12\n\n41%\n\nWomen\n\n25\n\n13\n\n46\n***\n\nAGE\n\n18 to 29\n\n13%\n\n10\n\n67%\n\n30 to 44\n\n20\n\n11\n\n57\n\n45 to 64\n\n29\n\n11\n\n37\n\n65+\n\n38\n\n16\n\n28\n***\n\nPARTY\n\nDemocrat\n\n18%\n\n11\n\n57%\n\nIndependent\n\n29\n\n16\n\n38\n\nRepublican\n\n57\n\n14\n\n12\n***\n\n2025 VOTE PREFERENCE\n\nMamdani\n\n5\n\n8\n\n74%\n\nCuomo\n\n38\n\n18\n\n28\n\nSliwa\n\n54\n\n14\n\n16\n\nAdams\n\n49\n\n20\n\n17\n\nBased on a New York Times\/Siena poll of 1,284 registered voters in New York City from Sept. 2-6.\n\nThe segments for “Israel” and “Palestinians” include respondents who said they “strongly” or “somewhat” sympathize with each group, as well as those who said they “lean toward” sympathizing with each group.\n\nBy Ashley Cai\n\nThese views have filtered down to the mayor’s race, which is currently led by Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee who has aligned himself firmly with the plight of Palestinians, calling Israel’s actions in Gaza a “genocide.”\n\nMore than 60,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, according to health officials there. Residents are struggling to feed themselves amid Mr. Netanyahu’s push to [expand](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/09\/world\/middleeast\/israel-gaza-city-evacuation.html) the war. Mr. Netanyahu has said [assertions of a famine in Gaza](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/07\/world\/middleeast\/homeless-and-hungry-gazans-fear-a-repeat-of-1948-history.html) are exaggerated and that the war must continue until Hamas disarms and releases the [remaining hostages](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/04\/world\/middleeast\/hamas-gaza-war-israel-ceasefire-deal.html) it took in 2023, in an attack that killed about 1,200 people.\n\nMr. Mamdani’s beliefs would traditionally be considered disqualifying by many New York City voters, and they stand in stark contrast to the positions held by his two most prominent general election opponents, Mayor Eric Adams and former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo. Both are Democrats who are now campaigning as independents. They, along with [Curtis Sliwa, the Republican candidate](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/09\/nyregion\/mayor-poll-mamdani-cuomo.html), are polling far behind Mr. Mamdani among likely voters.\n\nMr. Adams and Mr. Cuomo have relentlessly criticized Mr. Mamdani’s stance on Israel, calling him an antisemite and terrorist sympathizer. The poll’s findings underscore just how much Mr. Adams and Mr. Cuomo may have misread the electorate by expending energy to attack Mr. Mamdani’s views on Israel.\n\nIn fact, Mr. Mamdani had a slim lead among the poll’s relatively small sample of Jewish likely voters with about 30 percent support, closely followed by Mr. Adams and Mr. Cuomo.\n\nImage\n\n![](https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/09\/10\/multimedia\/10met-poll-israel-bqlc\/10met-poll-israel-bqlc-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale)\n\nAssemblyman Zohran MamdaniCredit...Sarah Blesener for The New York Times\n\nMore than 70 percent of Jewish voters said they sympathized with Israel, compared with about 20 percent who said they sympathized with Palestinians.\n\nOverall, Mr. Mamdani leads the pack in terms of who voters think has best addressed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with 39 percent preferring his approach. By comparison, 17 percent said they thought Mr. Cuomo had best addressed the conflict and just 10 percent preferred Mr. Adams.\n\nMr. Mamdani’s primary victory and continued electoral strength have been driven by strong support from younger voters. This demographic group was especially likely to say Mr. Mamdani had best addressed the conflict.\n\nAamina Mohammed, 19, said that Mr. Mamdani’s response after he was asked during a primary debate where he would travel first if elected mayor stuck with her. Several of the other candidates, including Mr. Cuomo, said Israel, while Mr. Mamdani said he would stay in New York City.\n\nThe candidate’s focus on New Yorkers’ struggles to afford rent and his willingness to speak out against Israel has led Ms. Mohammed to back him.\n\n“I don’t recognize a state that literally is killing people,” she said. “You cannot make up the things that people are posting online, showing you blown-up children. You can’t make that up.”\n\nMr. Mamdani’s backers were far more likely to sympathize with Palestinian interests, the poll found. Mr. Cuomo’s supporters were slightly more sympathetic to Israel (38 percent), but a sizable share (28 percent) were sympathetic to Palestinians and many (18 percent) supported both groups equally. Even among Mr. Cuomo’s own supporters, only about half said he had best addressed the conflict; 12 percent of them said Mr. Mamdani had done a better job.\n\nDuring the primary, Mr. Cuomo assiduously courted Jewish voters — particularly Orthodox Jews who had previously been [skeptical of him](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/10\/07\/nyregion\/orthodox-jews-nyc-coronavirus.html) because of Covid restrictions during his governorship. Last year, Mr. Cuomo founded a pro-Israel advocacy group and said he would [join Mr. Netanyahu’s legal defense team](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2024\/11\/27\/world\/israel-hezbollah-lebanon-cease-fire?smid=url-share#andrew-cuomo-joins-netanyahus-legal-defense-team) after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for him.\n\n“Do you stand with Israel or do you stand against Israel?” Mr. Cuomo [said in 2023](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/07\/nyregion\/andrew-cuomo-israel.html). “Because silence is not an option.”\n\nImage\n\n![](https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/09\/10\/multimedia\/10met-poll-israel-cmwp\/10met-poll-israel-cmwp-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale)\n\nMayor Eric AdamsCredit...James Estrin\/The New York Times\n\nImage\n\n![](https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/09\/10\/multimedia\/10met-poll-israel-hwzc\/10met-poll-israel-hwzc-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale)\n\nFormer Gov. Andrew M. CuomoCredit...Adam Gray for The New York Times\n\nMr. Mamdani has [strongly disputed](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/06\/25\/nyregion\/mamdani-gaza-israel.html) assertions that he is antisemitic and has [spoken frequently](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/08\/04\/nyregion\/zohran-mamdani-jewish-voters-gaza.html) about expanding the city’s efforts to protect Jewish New Yorkers and combat antisemitism if he is elected.\n\nWhile Mr. Cuomo has continued to denounce Mr. Mamdani’s views, the former governor’s supporters are not especially likely to say that criticizing Israel is antisemitic. A plurality of his supporters, about 43 percent, said that such criticism is not antisemitic, not dissimilar to the share of New Yorkers overall. About half of registered voters said they thought criticizing Israel is not inherently antisemitic.\n\n“The Israeli government is extreme. It’s right-wing, and the public is not happy with them,” said Lisa Sopher, a Manhattan resident who is Modern Orthodox. She supports Mr. Cuomo, she said, in part because she objected to Mr. Mamdani’s initial reluctance to disavow the phrase “globalize the intifada,” which some see as a call for violence against Jews.\n\nMr. Mamdani has since said he does not use the phrase and would [discourage its use](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/07\/15\/business\/mamdani-globalize-intafada-business-leaders.html).\n***\n### Here are the key things to know about this Times\/Siena poll:\n- The survey was conducted among 1,284 New York City registered voters from Sept. 2 to Sept. 6, 2025.\n\n- This poll was conducted in English and Spanish, by telephone using live interviewers and by text message. Overall, more than 99 percent of respondents were contacted on their cellphones. You can see the exact questions that were asked and the order in which they were asked [here](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2025\/09\/09\/polls\/nyc-mayor-poll-likely-voters.html).\n\n- Voters are selected for the survey from a list of registered voters. The list contains information on the demographic characteristics of every registered voter, allowing us to make sure we reach the right number of voters of each party, race and borough. For this poll, interviewers placed more than 163,000 calls or texts to more than 81,000 voters.\n\n- To further ensure that the results reflect the entire voting population, not just those willing to take a poll, we give more weight to respondents from demographic groups that are underrepresented among survey respondents, like people without a college degree. You can see more information about the characteristics of our respondents and the weighted sample at the bottom of the [methodology page](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2025\/09\/09\/polls\/nyc-mayor-poll-likely-voters.html), under “Composition of the Sample.”\n\n- The margin of sampling error among the electorate that is likely to vote in November is about plus or minus 3.6 percentage points. In theory, this means that the results should reflect the views of the overall population most of the time, though many other challenges create additional sources of error. When the difference between two values is computed — such as a candidate’s lead in a race — the margin of error is twice as large.\n- Findings among demographic groups carry larger margins of error, and additional considerations, such as the challenge of ensuring each subgroup is demographically representative, mean that results among such groups are less precise.\n\nIf you want to read more about how and why The Times\/Siena Poll is conducted, you can see answers to [frequently asked questions and submit your own questions here](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/times-siena-poll-methodology.html).\n\n[Benjamin Oreskes](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/benjamin-oreskes) is a reporter covering New York State politics and government for The Times.\n\n[Ruth Igielnik](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/ruth-igielnik) is a Times polling editor who conducts polls and analyzes and reports on the results.\n\nA version of this article appears in print on Sept. 11, 2025, Section A, Page 20 of the New York edition with the headline: As Race for Mayor Nears, Gaza War Turns New Yorkers Against Israel. 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Boilerpipe Text	Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT More New Yorkers say their sympathies lie with Palestinians rather than Israel in the long-running conflict in Gaza, according to a New York Times/Siena poll. The Times/Siena poll found that 44 percent of registered New York City voters sympathized more with Palestinians and 26 percent with Israel in the conflict. Credit... Bing Guan for The New York Times Sept. 10, 2025 Two years after Hamas’s terrorist attack on Oct. 7, 2023, and Israel’s subsequent invasion of Gaza, New Yorkers now broadly sympathize with Palestinians over Israelis in the ongoing conflict, according to a new survey by The New York Times and Siena University . The yawning gap of perspectives toward the conflict — 44 percent of registered New York City voters sympathized more with Palestinians; 26 percent sympathized more with Israel — is particularly stark given that the city is home to the largest Jewish population outside Israel. The poll also found that voters broadly think that criticizing Israel is not inherently antisemitic, 51 percent to 31 percent. Israel’s prosecution of the war and its restrictions on aid to Gaza have played a part in sullying New Yorkers’ opinion of the country’s actions, and have led many — including traditionally staunch allies of Israel — to shift their views and speak out against the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. While the Times/Siena poll has not previously surveyed voters in the city on this topic, national polls have shown Americans becoming ever more critical of Israel as the war has continued. The New York Times/Siena Poll of New York City voters, Sept. 2-6 In the dispute between Israel and the Palestinians, which side do you sympathize with more: Israel or the Palestinians? Don’t know/ Did not say Israel Both Palestinians N.Y.C. voters 26% 12 44% GENDER Men 29% 12 41% Women 25 13 46 AGE 18 to 29 13% 10 67% 30 to 44 20 11 57 45 to 64 29 11 37 65+ 38 16 28 PARTY Democrat 18% 11 57% Independent 29 16 38 Republican 57 14 12 2025 VOTE PREFERENCE Mamdani 5 8 74% Cuomo 38 18 28 Sliwa 54 14 16 Adams 49 20 17 Based on a New York Times/Siena poll of 1,284 registered voters in New York City from Sept. 2-6. The segments for “Israel” and “Palestinians” include respondents who said they “strongly” or “somewhat” sympathize with each group, as well as those who said they “lean toward” sympathizing with each group. By Ashley Cai These views have filtered down to the mayor’s race, which is currently led by Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee who has aligned himself firmly with the plight of Palestinians, calling Israel’s actions in Gaza a “genocide.” More than 60,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, according to health officials there. Residents are struggling to feed themselves amid Mr. Netanyahu’s push to expand the war. Mr. Netanyahu has said assertions of a famine in Gaza are exaggerated and that the war must continue until Hamas disarms and releases the remaining hostages it took in 2023, in an attack that killed about 1,200 people. Mr. Mamdani’s beliefs would traditionally be considered disqualifying by many New York City voters, and they stand in stark contrast to the positions held by his two most prominent general election opponents, Mayor Eric Adams and former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo. Both are Democrats who are now campaigning as independents. They, along with Curtis Sliwa, the Republican candidate , are polling far behind Mr. Mamdani among likely voters. Mr. Adams and Mr. Cuomo have relentlessly criticized Mr. Mamdani’s stance on Israel, calling him an antisemite and terrorist sympathizer. The poll’s findings underscore just how much Mr. Adams and Mr. Cuomo may have misread the electorate by expending energy to attack Mr. Mamdani’s views on Israel. In fact, Mr. Mamdani had a slim lead among the poll’s relatively small sample of Jewish likely voters with about 30 percent support, closely followed by Mr. Adams and Mr. Cuomo. Image Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani Credit... Sarah Blesener for The New York Times More than 70 percent of Jewish voters said they sympathized with Israel, compared with about 20 percent who said they sympathized with Palestinians. Overall, Mr. Mamdani leads the pack in terms of who voters think has best addressed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with 39 percent preferring his approach. By comparison, 17 percent said they thought Mr. Cuomo had best addressed the conflict and just 10 percent preferred Mr. Adams. Mr. Mamdani’s primary victory and continued electoral strength have been driven by strong support from younger voters. This demographic group was especially likely to say Mr. Mamdani had best addressed the conflict. Aamina Mohammed, 19, said that Mr. Mamdani’s response after he was asked during a primary debate where he would travel first if elected mayor stuck with her. Several of the other candidates, including Mr. Cuomo, said Israel, while Mr. Mamdani said he would stay in New York City. The candidate’s focus on New Yorkers’ struggles to afford rent and his willingness to speak out against Israel has led Ms. Mohammed to back him. “I don’t recognize a state that literally is killing people,” she said. “You cannot make up the things that people are posting online, showing you blown-up children. You can’t make that up.” Mr. Mamdani’s backers were far more likely to sympathize with Palestinian interests, the poll found. Mr. Cuomo’s supporters were slightly more sympathetic to Israel (38 percent), but a sizable share (28 percent) were sympathetic to Palestinians and many (18 percent) supported both groups equally. Even among Mr. Cuomo’s own supporters, only about half said he had best addressed the conflict; 12 percent of them said Mr. Mamdani had done a better job. During the primary, Mr. Cuomo assiduously courted Jewish voters — particularly Orthodox Jews who had previously been skeptical of him because of Covid restrictions during his governorship. Last year, Mr. Cuomo founded a pro-Israel advocacy group and said he would join Mr. Netanyahu’s legal defense team after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for him. “Do you stand with Israel or do you stand against Israel?” Mr. Cuomo said in 2023 . “Because silence is not an option.” Image Mayor Eric Adams Credit... James Estrin/The New York Times Image Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo Credit... Adam Gray for The New York Times Mr. Mamdani has strongly disputed assertions that he is antisemitic and has spoken frequently about expanding the city’s efforts to protect Jewish New Yorkers and combat antisemitism if he is elected. While Mr. Cuomo has continued to denounce Mr. Mamdani’s views, the former governor’s supporters are not especially likely to say that criticizing Israel is antisemitic. A plurality of his supporters, about 43 percent, said that such criticism is not antisemitic, not dissimilar to the share of New Yorkers overall. About half of registered voters said they thought criticizing Israel is not inherently antisemitic. “The Israeli government is extreme. It’s right-wing, and the public is not happy with them,” said Lisa Sopher, a Manhattan resident who is Modern Orthodox. She supports Mr. Cuomo, she said, in part because she objected to Mr. Mamdani’s initial reluctance to disavow the phrase “globalize the intifada,” which some see as a call for violence against Jews. Mr. Mamdani has since said he does not use the phrase and would discourage its use . Here are the key things to know about this Times/Siena poll: The survey was conducted among 1,284 New York City registered voters from Sept. 2 to Sept. 6, 2025. This poll was conducted in English and Spanish, by telephone using live interviewers and by text message. Overall, more than 99 percent of respondents were contacted on their cellphones. You can see the exact questions that were asked and the order in which they were asked here . Voters are selected for the survey from a list of registered voters. The list contains information on the demographic characteristics of every registered voter, allowing us to make sure we reach the right number of voters of each party, race and borough. For this poll, interviewers placed more than 163,000 calls or texts to more than 81,000 voters. To further ensure that the results reflect the entire voting population, not just those willing to take a poll, we give more weight to respondents from demographic groups that are underrepresented among survey respondents, like people without a college degree. You can see more information about the characteristics of our respondents and the weighted sample at the bottom of the methodology page , under “Composition of the Sample.” The margin of sampling error among the electorate that is likely to vote in November is about plus or minus 3.6 percentage points. In theory, this means that the results should reflect the views of the overall population most of the time, though many other challenges create additional sources of error. When the difference between two values is computed — such as a candidate’s lead in a race — the margin of error is twice as large. Findings among demographic groups carry larger margins of error, and additional considerations, such as the challenge of ensuring each subgroup is demographically representative, mean that results among such groups are less precise. If you want to read more about how and why The Times/Siena Poll is conducted, you can see answers to frequently asked questions and submit your own questions here . Benjamin Oreskes is a reporter covering New York State politics and government for The Times. Ruth Igielnik is a Times polling editor who conducts polls and analyzes and reports on the results. A version of this article appears in print on Sept. 11, 2025 , Section A, Page 20 of the New York edition with the headline: As Race for Mayor Nears, Gaza War Turns New Yorkers Against Israel . 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Markdown	[Skip to content](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/nyregion/israel-gaza-poll-nyc-mayor.html#site-content)[Skip to site index](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/nyregion/israel-gaza-poll-nyc-mayor.html#site-index) Search & Section Navigation Section Navigation Search [New York](https://www.nytimes.com/section/nyregion) [Log in](https://myaccount.nytimes.com/auth/login?response_type=cookie&client_id=vi&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Fsubscription%2Fonboarding-offer%3FcampaignId%3D7JFJX%26EXIT_URI%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.nytimes.com%252F2025%252F09%252F10%252Fnyregion%252Fisrael-gaza-poll-nyc-mayor.html&asset=masthead) Wednesday, March 4, 2026 [Today’s Paper](https://www.nytimes.com/section/todayspaper) Mamdani Administration - [Free Child Care](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/nyregion/mamdani-2k-nyc-child-care.html) - [Meeting With Trump](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/nyregion/mamdani-trump-photo-newspapers.html) - [Culture Czar](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/arts/design/mamdani-culture-czar-diya-vij.html) - [Tax Proposals](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/nyregion/mamdani-millionaire-tax-property.html) - [Homeless Encampment Sweeps](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/nyregion/homeless-encampment-mamdani-nyc.html) Advertisement [SKIP ADVERTISEMENT](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/nyregion/israel-gaza-poll-nyc-mayor.html#after-top) Supported by [SKIP ADVERTISEMENT](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/nyregion/israel-gaza-poll-nyc-mayor.html#after-sponsor) # Gaza War Turns New Yorkers Against Israel, With Mayor’s Race as Backdrop More New Yorkers say their sympathies lie with Palestinians rather than Israel in the long-running conflict in Gaza, according to a New York Times/Siena poll. - Share full article - 58 ![Protesters holding signs calling for the end of a starvation campaign in Gaza march outside the Turkish consulate in Manhattan.](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2025/09/10/multimedia/10met-poll-israel-lpwq/10met-poll-israel-lpwq-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale) The Times/Siena poll found that 44 percent of registered New York City voters sympathized more with Palestinians and 26 percent with Israel in the conflict.Credit...Bing Guan for The New York Times [![Benjamin Oreskes](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/10/02/reader-center/author-benjamin-oreskes/author-benjamin-oreskes-thumbLarge.png)](https://www.nytimes.com/by/benjamin-oreskes)[![Ruth Igielnik](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/12/14/us/politics/author-ruth-igielnik/author-ruth-igielnik-thumbLarge-v5.png)](https://www.nytimes.com/by/ruth-igielnik) By [Benjamin Oreskes](https://www.nytimes.com/by/benjamin-oreskes) and [Ruth Igielnik](https://www.nytimes.com/by/ruth-igielnik) Sept. 10, 2025 Two years after Hamas’s terrorist attack on Oct. 7, 2023, and Israel’s subsequent invasion of Gaza, New Yorkers now broadly sympathize with Palestinians over Israelis in the ongoing conflict, according to [a new survey by The New York Times and Siena University](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/09/09/polls/nyc-mayor-poll-likely-voters.html). The yawning gap of perspectives toward the conflict — 44 percent of registered New York City voters sympathized more with Palestinians; 26 percent sympathized more with Israel — is particularly stark given that the city is home to the largest Jewish population outside Israel. The poll also found that voters broadly think that criticizing Israel is not inherently antisemitic, 51 percent to 31 percent. Israel’s [prosecution of the war](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-humanitarian.html) and its [restrictions on aid](https://www.nytimes.com/article/israel-gaza-aid.html) to Gaza have played a part in sullying New Yorkers’ opinion of the country’s actions, and have led many — including traditionally staunch allies of Israel — to shift [their views and speak out](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/nyregion/hochul-israel-gaza.html) against the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. While the Times/Siena poll has not previously surveyed voters in the city on this topic, national polls have shown Americans becoming ever more critical of Israel as the war has continued. The New York Times/Siena Poll of New York City voters, Sept. 2-6 In the dispute between Israel and the Palestinians, which side do you sympathize with more: Israel or the Palestinians? Don’t know/ Did not say Israel Both Palestinians N.Y.C. voters 26% 12 44% * GENDER Men 29% 12 41% Women 25 13 46 * AGE 18 to 29 13% 10 67% 30 to 44 20 11 57 45 to 64 29 11 37 65+ 38 16 28 * PARTY Democrat 18% 11 57% Independent 29 16 38 Republican 57 14 12 * 2025 VOTE PREFERENCE Mamdani 5 8 74% Cuomo 38 18 28 Sliwa 54 14 16 Adams 49 20 17 Based on a New York Times/Siena poll of 1,284 registered voters in New York City from Sept. 2-6. The segments for “Israel” and “Palestinians” include respondents who said they “strongly” or “somewhat” sympathize with each group, as well as those who said they “lean toward” sympathizing with each group. By Ashley Cai These views have filtered down to the mayor’s race, which is currently led by Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee who has aligned himself firmly with the plight of Palestinians, calling Israel’s actions in Gaza a “genocide.” More than 60,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, according to health officials there. Residents are struggling to feed themselves amid Mr. Netanyahu’s push to [expand](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-city-evacuation.html) the war. Mr. Netanyahu has said [assertions of a famine in Gaza](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/world/middleeast/homeless-and-hungry-gazans-fear-a-repeat-of-1948-history.html) are exaggerated and that the war must continue until Hamas disarms and releases the [remaining hostages](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/world/middleeast/hamas-gaza-war-israel-ceasefire-deal.html) it took in 2023, in an attack that killed about 1,200 people. Mr. Mamdani’s beliefs would traditionally be considered disqualifying by many New York City voters, and they stand in stark contrast to the positions held by his two most prominent general election opponents, Mayor Eric Adams and former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo. Both are Democrats who are now campaigning as independents. They, along with [Curtis Sliwa, the Republican candidate](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/nyregion/mayor-poll-mamdani-cuomo.html), are polling far behind Mr. Mamdani among likely voters. Mr. Adams and Mr. Cuomo have relentlessly criticized Mr. Mamdani’s stance on Israel, calling him an antisemite and terrorist sympathizer. The poll’s findings underscore just how much Mr. Adams and Mr. Cuomo may have misread the electorate by expending energy to attack Mr. Mamdani’s views on Israel. In fact, Mr. Mamdani had a slim lead among the poll’s relatively small sample of Jewish likely voters with about 30 percent support, closely followed by Mr. Adams and Mr. Cuomo. ## Editors’ Picks [![](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/03/10/well/10WELL-ASK-EMOTIONAL-DRINKING1/03WELL-ASK-EMOTIONAL-DRINKING1-thumbLarge.jpg)Why Does Drinking Mess With My Emotions?](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/well/mind/alcohol-emotions-hangovers.html) [![](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/02/12/12visualUploader-56768-cover/12visualUploader-56768-cover-thumbLarge.jpg)40 Years and 10,000 Broadcasts In, They’re Still Live on Air](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/business/media/anchors-rick-ardon-susannah-carr-perth-australia.html) [![](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2023/09/21/t-magazine/21tmag-justinian-slide-JOO5-copy-copy/21tmag-justinian-slide-JOO5-thumbLarge.jpg)Our Favorite Living Rooms](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/t-magazine/best-living-room-design.html) Advertisement [SKIP ADVERTISEMENT](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/nyregion/israel-gaza-poll-nyc-mayor.html#after-pp_edpick) Image ![](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2025/09/10/multimedia/10met-poll-israel-bqlc/10met-poll-israel-bqlc-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale) Assemblyman Zohran MamdaniCredit...Sarah Blesener for The New York Times More than 70 percent of Jewish voters said they sympathized with Israel, compared with about 20 percent who said they sympathized with Palestinians. Overall, Mr. Mamdani leads the pack in terms of who voters think has best addressed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with 39 percent preferring his approach. By comparison, 17 percent said they thought Mr. Cuomo had best addressed the conflict and just 10 percent preferred Mr. Adams. Mr. Mamdani’s primary victory and continued electoral strength have been driven by strong support from younger voters. This demographic group was especially likely to say Mr. Mamdani had best addressed the conflict. Aamina Mohammed, 19, said that Mr. Mamdani’s response after he was asked during a primary debate where he would travel first if elected mayor stuck with her. Several of the other candidates, including Mr. Cuomo, said Israel, while Mr. Mamdani said he would stay in New York City. The candidate’s focus on New Yorkers’ struggles to afford rent and his willingness to speak out against Israel has led Ms. Mohammed to back him. “I don’t recognize a state that literally is killing people,” she said. “You cannot make up the things that people are posting online, showing you blown-up children. You can’t make that up.” Mr. Mamdani’s backers were far more likely to sympathize with Palestinian interests, the poll found. Mr. Cuomo’s supporters were slightly more sympathetic to Israel (38 percent), but a sizable share (28 percent) were sympathetic to Palestinians and many (18 percent) supported both groups equally. Even among Mr. Cuomo’s own supporters, only about half said he had best addressed the conflict; 12 percent of them said Mr. Mamdani had done a better job. During the primary, Mr. Cuomo assiduously courted Jewish voters — particularly Orthodox Jews who had previously been [skeptical of him](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/nyregion/orthodox-jews-nyc-coronavirus.html) because of Covid restrictions during his governorship. Last year, Mr. Cuomo founded a pro-Israel advocacy group and said he would [join Mr. Netanyahu’s legal defense team](https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11/27/world/israel-hezbollah-lebanon-cease-fire?smid=url-share#andrew-cuomo-joins-netanyahus-legal-defense-team) after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for him. “Do you stand with Israel or do you stand against Israel?” Mr. Cuomo [said in 2023](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/nyregion/andrew-cuomo-israel.html). “Because silence is not an option.” Image ![](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2025/09/10/multimedia/10met-poll-israel-cmwp/10met-poll-israel-cmwp-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale) Mayor Eric AdamsCredit...James Estrin/The New York Times Image ![](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2025/09/10/multimedia/10met-poll-israel-hwzc/10met-poll-israel-hwzc-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale) Former Gov. Andrew M. CuomoCredit...Adam Gray for The New York Times Mr. Mamdani has [strongly disputed](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/nyregion/mamdani-gaza-israel.html) assertions that he is antisemitic and has [spoken frequently](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/nyregion/zohran-mamdani-jewish-voters-gaza.html) about expanding the city’s efforts to protect Jewish New Yorkers and combat antisemitism if he is elected. While Mr. Cuomo has continued to denounce Mr. Mamdani’s views, the former governor’s supporters are not especially likely to say that criticizing Israel is antisemitic. A plurality of his supporters, about 43 percent, said that such criticism is not antisemitic, not dissimilar to the share of New Yorkers overall. About half of registered voters said they thought criticizing Israel is not inherently antisemitic. “The Israeli government is extreme. It’s right-wing, and the public is not happy with them,” said Lisa Sopher, a Manhattan resident who is Modern Orthodox. She supports Mr. Cuomo, she said, in part because she objected to Mr. Mamdani’s initial reluctance to disavow the phrase “globalize the intifada,” which some see as a call for violence against Jews. Mr. Mamdani has since said he does not use the phrase and would [discourage its use](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/business/mamdani-globalize-intafada-business-leaders.html). * ### Here are the key things to know about this Times/Siena poll: - The survey was conducted among 1,284 New York City registered voters from Sept. 2 to Sept. 6, 2025. - This poll was conducted in English and Spanish, by telephone using live interviewers and by text message. Overall, more than 99 percent of respondents were contacted on their cellphones. You can see the exact questions that were asked and the order in which they were asked [here](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/09/09/polls/nyc-mayor-poll-likely-voters.html). - Voters are selected for the survey from a list of registered voters. The list contains information on the demographic characteristics of every registered voter, allowing us to make sure we reach the right number of voters of each party, race and borough. For this poll, interviewers placed more than 163,000 calls or texts to more than 81,000 voters. - To further ensure that the results reflect the entire voting population, not just those willing to take a poll, we give more weight to respondents from demographic groups that are underrepresented among survey respondents, like people without a college degree. You can see more information about the characteristics of our respondents and the weighted sample at the bottom of the [methodology page](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/09/09/polls/nyc-mayor-poll-likely-voters.html), under “Composition of the Sample.” - The margin of sampling error among the electorate that is likely to vote in November is about plus or minus 3.6 percentage points. In theory, this means that the results should reflect the views of the overall population most of the time, though many other challenges create additional sources of error. When the difference between two values is computed — such as a candidate’s lead in a race — the margin of error is twice as large. - Findings among demographic groups carry larger margins of error, and additional considerations, such as the challenge of ensuring each subgroup is demographically representative, mean that results among such groups are less precise. If you want to read more about how and why The Times/Siena Poll is conducted, you can see answers to [frequently asked questions and submit your own questions here](https://www.nytimes.com/article/times-siena-poll-methodology.html). [Benjamin Oreskes](https://www.nytimes.com/by/benjamin-oreskes) is a reporter covering New York State politics and government for The Times. [Ruth Igielnik](https://www.nytimes.com/by/ruth-igielnik) is a Times polling editor who conducts polls and analyzes and reports on the results. A version of this article appears in print on Sept. 11, 2025, Section A, Page 20 of the New York edition with the headline: As Race for Mayor Nears, Gaza War Turns New Yorkers Against Israel. 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Readable Markdown	Advertisement [SKIP ADVERTISEMENT](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/nyregion/israel-gaza-poll-nyc-mayor.html#after-top) More New Yorkers say their sympathies lie with Palestinians rather than Israel in the long-running conflict in Gaza, according to a New York Times/Siena poll. ![Protesters holding signs calling for the end of a starvation campaign in Gaza march outside the Turkish consulate in Manhattan.](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2025/09/10/multimedia/10met-poll-israel-lpwq/10met-poll-israel-lpwq-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale) The Times/Siena poll found that 44 percent of registered New York City voters sympathized more with Palestinians and 26 percent with Israel in the conflict.Credit...Bing Guan for The New York Times Sept. 10, 2025 Two years after Hamas’s terrorist attack on Oct. 7, 2023, and Israel’s subsequent invasion of Gaza, New Yorkers now broadly sympathize with Palestinians over Israelis in the ongoing conflict, according to [a new survey by The New York Times and Siena University](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/09/09/polls/nyc-mayor-poll-likely-voters.html). The yawning gap of perspectives toward the conflict — 44 percent of registered New York City voters sympathized more with Palestinians; 26 percent sympathized more with Israel — is particularly stark given that the city is home to the largest Jewish population outside Israel. The poll also found that voters broadly think that criticizing Israel is not inherently antisemitic, 51 percent to 31 percent. Israel’s [prosecution of the war](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-humanitarian.html) and its [restrictions on aid](https://www.nytimes.com/article/israel-gaza-aid.html) to Gaza have played a part in sullying New Yorkers’ opinion of the country’s actions, and have led many — including traditionally staunch allies of Israel — to shift [their views and speak out](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/nyregion/hochul-israel-gaza.html) against the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. While the Times/Siena poll has not previously surveyed voters in the city on this topic, national polls have shown Americans becoming ever more critical of Israel as the war has continued. The New York Times/Siena Poll of New York City voters, Sept. 2-6 In the dispute between Israel and the Palestinians, which side do you sympathize with more: Israel or the Palestinians? Don’t know/ Did not say Israel Both Palestinians N.Y.C. voters 26% 12 44% * GENDER Men 29% 12 41% Women 25 13 46 * AGE 18 to 29 13% 10 67% 30 to 44 20 11 57 45 to 64 29 11 37 65+ 38 16 28 * PARTY Democrat 18% 11 57% Independent 29 16 38 Republican 57 14 12 * 2025 VOTE PREFERENCE Mamdani 5 8 74% Cuomo 38 18 28 Sliwa 54 14 16 Adams 49 20 17 Based on a New York Times/Siena poll of 1,284 registered voters in New York City from Sept. 2-6. The segments for “Israel” and “Palestinians” include respondents who said they “strongly” or “somewhat” sympathize with each group, as well as those who said they “lean toward” sympathizing with each group. By Ashley Cai These views have filtered down to the mayor’s race, which is currently led by Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee who has aligned himself firmly with the plight of Palestinians, calling Israel’s actions in Gaza a “genocide.” More than 60,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, according to health officials there. Residents are struggling to feed themselves amid Mr. Netanyahu’s push to [expand](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-city-evacuation.html) the war. Mr. Netanyahu has said [assertions of a famine in Gaza](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/world/middleeast/homeless-and-hungry-gazans-fear-a-repeat-of-1948-history.html) are exaggerated and that the war must continue until Hamas disarms and releases the [remaining hostages](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/world/middleeast/hamas-gaza-war-israel-ceasefire-deal.html) it took in 2023, in an attack that killed about 1,200 people. Mr. Mamdani’s beliefs would traditionally be considered disqualifying by many New York City voters, and they stand in stark contrast to the positions held by his two most prominent general election opponents, Mayor Eric Adams and former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo. Both are Democrats who are now campaigning as independents. They, along with [Curtis Sliwa, the Republican candidate](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/nyregion/mayor-poll-mamdani-cuomo.html), are polling far behind Mr. Mamdani among likely voters. Mr. Adams and Mr. Cuomo have relentlessly criticized Mr. Mamdani’s stance on Israel, calling him an antisemite and terrorist sympathizer. The poll’s findings underscore just how much Mr. Adams and Mr. Cuomo may have misread the electorate by expending energy to attack Mr. Mamdani’s views on Israel. In fact, Mr. Mamdani had a slim lead among the poll’s relatively small sample of Jewish likely voters with about 30 percent support, closely followed by Mr. Adams and Mr. Cuomo. Image ![](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2025/09/10/multimedia/10met-poll-israel-bqlc/10met-poll-israel-bqlc-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale) Assemblyman Zohran MamdaniCredit...Sarah Blesener for The New York Times More than 70 percent of Jewish voters said they sympathized with Israel, compared with about 20 percent who said they sympathized with Palestinians. Overall, Mr. Mamdani leads the pack in terms of who voters think has best addressed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with 39 percent preferring his approach. By comparison, 17 percent said they thought Mr. Cuomo had best addressed the conflict and just 10 percent preferred Mr. Adams. Mr. Mamdani’s primary victory and continued electoral strength have been driven by strong support from younger voters. This demographic group was especially likely to say Mr. Mamdani had best addressed the conflict. Aamina Mohammed, 19, said that Mr. Mamdani’s response after he was asked during a primary debate where he would travel first if elected mayor stuck with her. Several of the other candidates, including Mr. Cuomo, said Israel, while Mr. Mamdani said he would stay in New York City. The candidate’s focus on New Yorkers’ struggles to afford rent and his willingness to speak out against Israel has led Ms. Mohammed to back him. “I don’t recognize a state that literally is killing people,” she said. “You cannot make up the things that people are posting online, showing you blown-up children. You can’t make that up.” Mr. Mamdani’s backers were far more likely to sympathize with Palestinian interests, the poll found. Mr. Cuomo’s supporters were slightly more sympathetic to Israel (38 percent), but a sizable share (28 percent) were sympathetic to Palestinians and many (18 percent) supported both groups equally. Even among Mr. Cuomo’s own supporters, only about half said he had best addressed the conflict; 12 percent of them said Mr. Mamdani had done a better job. During the primary, Mr. Cuomo assiduously courted Jewish voters — particularly Orthodox Jews who had previously been [skeptical of him](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/nyregion/orthodox-jews-nyc-coronavirus.html) because of Covid restrictions during his governorship. Last year, Mr. Cuomo founded a pro-Israel advocacy group and said he would [join Mr. Netanyahu’s legal defense team](https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11/27/world/israel-hezbollah-lebanon-cease-fire?smid=url-share#andrew-cuomo-joins-netanyahus-legal-defense-team) after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for him. “Do you stand with Israel or do you stand against Israel?” Mr. Cuomo [said in 2023](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/nyregion/andrew-cuomo-israel.html). “Because silence is not an option.” Image ![](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2025/09/10/multimedia/10met-poll-israel-cmwp/10met-poll-israel-cmwp-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale) Mayor Eric AdamsCredit...James Estrin/The New York Times Image ![](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2025/09/10/multimedia/10met-poll-israel-hwzc/10met-poll-israel-hwzc-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale) Former Gov. Andrew M. CuomoCredit...Adam Gray for The New York Times Mr. Mamdani has [strongly disputed](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/nyregion/mamdani-gaza-israel.html) assertions that he is antisemitic and has [spoken frequently](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/nyregion/zohran-mamdani-jewish-voters-gaza.html) about expanding the city’s efforts to protect Jewish New Yorkers and combat antisemitism if he is elected. While Mr. Cuomo has continued to denounce Mr. Mamdani’s views, the former governor’s supporters are not especially likely to say that criticizing Israel is antisemitic. A plurality of his supporters, about 43 percent, said that such criticism is not antisemitic, not dissimilar to the share of New Yorkers overall. About half of registered voters said they thought criticizing Israel is not inherently antisemitic. “The Israeli government is extreme. It’s right-wing, and the public is not happy with them,” said Lisa Sopher, a Manhattan resident who is Modern Orthodox. She supports Mr. Cuomo, she said, in part because she objected to Mr. Mamdani’s initial reluctance to disavow the phrase “globalize the intifada,” which some see as a call for violence against Jews. Mr. Mamdani has since said he does not use the phrase and would [discourage its use](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/business/mamdani-globalize-intafada-business-leaders.html). *** ### Here are the key things to know about this Times/Siena poll: - The survey was conducted among 1,284 New York City registered voters from Sept. 2 to Sept. 6, 2025. - This poll was conducted in English and Spanish, by telephone using live interviewers and by text message. Overall, more than 99 percent of respondents were contacted on their cellphones. You can see the exact questions that were asked and the order in which they were asked [here](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/09/09/polls/nyc-mayor-poll-likely-voters.html). - Voters are selected for the survey from a list of registered voters. The list contains information on the demographic characteristics of every registered voter, allowing us to make sure we reach the right number of voters of each party, race and borough. For this poll, interviewers placed more than 163,000 calls or texts to more than 81,000 voters. - To further ensure that the results reflect the entire voting population, not just those willing to take a poll, we give more weight to respondents from demographic groups that are underrepresented among survey respondents, like people without a college degree. You can see more information about the characteristics of our respondents and the weighted sample at the bottom of the [methodology page](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/09/09/polls/nyc-mayor-poll-likely-voters.html), under “Composition of the Sample.” - The margin of sampling error among the electorate that is likely to vote in November is about plus or minus 3.6 percentage points. In theory, this means that the results should reflect the views of the overall population most of the time, though many other challenges create additional sources of error. When the difference between two values is computed — such as a candidate’s lead in a race — the margin of error is twice as large. - Findings among demographic groups carry larger margins of error, and additional considerations, such as the challenge of ensuring each subgroup is demographically representative, mean that results among such groups are less precise. If you want to read more about how and why The Times/Siena Poll is conducted, you can see answers to [frequently asked questions and submit your own questions here](https://www.nytimes.com/article/times-siena-poll-methodology.html). [Benjamin Oreskes](https://www.nytimes.com/by/benjamin-oreskes) is a reporter covering New York State politics and government for The Times. [Ruth Igielnik](https://www.nytimes.com/by/ruth-igielnik) is a Times polling editor who conducts polls and analyzes and reports on the results. A version of this article appears in print on Sept. 11, 2025, Section A, Page 20 of the New York edition with the headline: As Race for Mayor Nears, Gaza War Turns New Yorkers Against Israel. 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