Overview
- JL Partners surveyed 2,223 UK adults, including 1,031 British Muslims, from March 2–13 for Policy Exchange’s Worlds Apart report.
- About 39% of British Muslims held a favourable view of Iran versus 8% of the public, translating to net +22 among Muslims compared with -42 in the wider population.
- Net favourability toward the United States and Israel stood at -41 and -52 among British Muslims, versus -16 and -22 across the general public.
- Half of British Muslims judged recent US–Israeli strikes on Iran as “definitely wrong,” compared with 17% of the wider public.
- The study reports different information ecosystems, with nearly a quarter of British Muslims citing Al Jazeera and larger shares using Instagram (26%), TikTok (27%) and WhatsApp for Iran coverage than the general public.