2018年12月，众议院议长南希·佩洛西向一个以犹太人为主的听众承诺：“如果美国国会大厦‘崩塌倒地，唯一留存的将是我们对援助——我甚至不称之为援助——我们与以色列合作的承诺。这是根本的。’”显然，这一承诺在7月中旬出现了动摇，当时佩洛西女士与一百多位同事一道投票，决定削减对这个犹太国家的美国援助。
In December 2018, Representative Nancy Pelosi made a pledge to a largely Jewish audience: If the U.S. Capitol “crumbled to the ground, the one thing that would remain is our commitment to our aid — and I don’t even call it aid — our cooperation — with Israel. That’s fundamental.”That commitment apparently faltered in mid-July, when Ms. Pelosi voted with over a hundred of her colleagues to slash U.S. aid to the Jewish state.
对以色列的无条件支持曾在国会像参议员翻领上的国旗徽章一样普遍，这很大程度上归功于美国以色列公共事务委员会（AIPAC）的两党努力。如今，在以色列对加沙发动血腥战争之后——这场战争是针对哈马斯2023年10月7日残暴袭击的反应——以色列在国际和国内已近乎沦为弃儿。加利福尼亚州州长加文·纽森9月告诉PBS新闻：“民主党内部对内塔尼亚胡所作所为的谴责几乎是一致的”，他指的是以色列在加沙、黎巴嫩和约旦河西岸的行动。
Unconditional support for Israel was once as common in Congress as the flag pin on a senator’s lapel, largely thanks to the bipartisan efforts of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Today, in the aftermath of Israel’s bloody war on Gaza, launched in reaction to Hamas’s brutal attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, Israel has reached near-pariah status globally and domestically. “The condemnation of what Bibi Netanyahu is doing is almost universal” within the Democratic Party, California Governor Gavin Newsom told PBS News in September, speaking of Israel’s actions in Gaza, Lebanon and the West Bank.
此外他说，如今该党“对接受AIPAC资金存在‘相当压倒性的反对’”。AIPAC无与伦比的政治权力和影响力的时代已近尾声。拒绝可能是该组织激发的最具两党性的行为。在密歇根州的联邦参议员竞选中，共和党候选人迈克·罗杰斯的盟友据报请求AIPAC不要为他投放广告。AIPAC及其关联团体在夏季民主党初选期间投入近3000万美元广告费，助力众议员海利·史蒂文斯角逐密歇根州参议员提名。
Furthermore, he said, these days the party has a “pretty overwhelming opposition to accepting money from AIPAC.”The age of AIPAC’s unmatched political power and influence is at an end. Rejection may be the most bipartisan act the group inspires. In the U.S. Senate race in Michigan, allies of the Republican candidate Mike Rogers reportedly asked AIPAC not to advertise on his behalf. AIPAC and affiliated groups invested nearly $30 million in advertising during the summer’s Democratic primaries to help Representative Haley Stevens in her bid for the Senate nomination in Michigan.
在该竞选中，她的对手阿卜杜勒·赛义德博士夸口道：“AIPAC称我为这场竞选中‘唯一最危险的候选人’。”赛义德博士当然赢了。
During that race, her opponent Dr. Abdul El-Sayed bragged, “AIPAC has called me the single most dangerous candidate in this race.”Dr. El-Sayed, of course, won.
尽管世界对以色列公共事务委员会（AIPAC）唯一客户——以色列的看法发生了深刻变化，且该组织在美国政治中日益边缘化，但该团体不仅未承认这一变化，反而仿佛以色列仍像1991年那样受欢迎，当时这个犹太国家在美国人的好感度高达近80%。根据2026年NBC新闻民调，如今仅有32%的美国选民对以色列持正面看法；在民主党人中，这一比例更跌至仅13%。
Despite the profound transformation in how the world sees AIPAC’s sole client, and its increasing marginalization in American politics, the group not only hasn’t acknowledged the change, but it operates as though Israel were as popular as it was in 1991, when the Jewish state enjoyed a nearly 80 percent favorable rating among Americans. According to a 2026 NBC News poll, just 32 percent of American voters now view Israel positively; among Democrats, that number falls to just 13 percent.
更有甚者，以色列甚至失去了许多美国犹太人的支持。根据2025年《华盛顿邮报》民调，61%的美国犹太人认为以色列在加沙犯下了战争罪行，约40%认为以色列犯下了种族灭绝罪。另一项近期民调发现，近半数35岁以下的美国犹太人认为，以巴冲突应通过建立单一的双民族国家来解决——自1999年巴勒斯坦裔美国学者爱德华·萨义德倡导这一想法以来，它一直被视为边缘观点。
What’s more, Israel has lost even many American Jews. According to a 2025 Washington Post poll, 61 percent of American Jews said they believe Israel committed war crimes in Gaza and some 40 percent believe Israel has committed genocide. Another recent poll found nearly half of American Jews under the age of 35 believing that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict should be solved by creating a single, binational state, an idea considered to be fringe since the Palestinian American scholar Edward Said advocated it in 1999.
支持以色列如今已成为民主党政客脖颈上的磨盘，也是美国犹太人在试图平衡其犹太复国主义与自由主义时陷入深刻内心冲突的根源。如今，那些仍以支持以色列来定义自我身份的犹太人，大多正在核算养老院和退休社区的费用。与几乎所有宗教和种族的美国年轻人一样，年轻犹太人越来越多地表达对这个犹太国家的负面看法。
Support for Israel is now a millstone around the neck of Democratic politicians and a source of profound inner conflict for American Jews who seek to balance their Zionism with their liberalism. Many of the Jews who continue to define their identities via their support for Israel are, today, most likely calculating the cost of nursing homes and retirement communities. Younger Jews, like most young Americans of virtually all religions and ethnicities, increasingly express negative views about the Jewish state.