© 2026 South Carolina Public Radio
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations
SC Public Radio's statewide network is experiencing intermittent outages and programming issues due to ongoing infrastructure upgrades. Our team is working to keep these disruptions to a minimum and to resolve issues that do arise. Streaming on this site, the SCETV App, the NPR App, and smart speakers is unaffected.

What's behind the United States' strong support for Israel?

President Biden joins Israel's Prime Minister for the start of the Israeli war cabinet meeting, in Tel Aviv on Oct. 18, 2023, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas. (Miriam Alster/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
President Biden joins Israel's Prime Minister for the start of the Israeli war cabinet meeting, in Tel Aviv on Oct. 18, 2023, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas. (Miriam Alster/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

More than three weeks into the Israel-Hamas war, President Biden continues to signal his strong support for Israel. That support goes back decades. We look at the political, cultural and religious factors that have contributed.

Here & Now’s Scott Tong speaks with Daniel Hummel, research fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.