A year after the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, a new Leger poll suggests younger and left-wing Canadians are markedly more likely to support Hamas, while older and right-of-centre Canadians favour Israel. The poll was commissioned by the Association for Canadian Studies for the National Post.

The CEO and president of ACS attributes the gulf in opposing views to disparate sources of information about Israel’s war with Hamas. According to Jack Jedwab, “the stark differences in opinion” among respondents who sympathize with Hamas and those who favour Israel can be explained by “the persons and sources of information that younger and older respondents trust when formulating their views.”