Public sympathy for Israel in the UK, which increased after the October 7 Hamas attack, has remained at a steady level, according to the Institute for Jewish Policy Research.

The London-based institute, which has been monitoring national polls, says that although mounting casualties in Gaza led to increased support for the Palestinians, the picture did not change “perhaps quite as much as one might expect”.

JPR executive director Jonathan Boyd said that in the four years before October 7, people in the UK sympathised with the Palestinians more than twice as much as the Israelis - 20 to 25 per cent compared with just 10 per cent.

But sympathy for Israel doubled after the Hamas outrage to 20 per cent, while that from the Palestinians slipped from 25 per cent to 15 per cent.

By early November, sympathy for the Palestinians had climbed to 20 per cent, while that for Israel remained “fairly steady, staying at more or less the same level”, Dr Boyd noted.