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You are right. Biden had 59% support among Arab Americans at least in 2020-2021. But the genocide is very unpopular and people have family and friends there. For example former Congressman Justin Amash had several of his relatives killed after an Israeli airstrike hit a Greek Orthodox church in the Gaza Strip.
The data here has been collected by the ADC https://adc.org/community-pulse/ you can learn about this https://adc.org/about/
Here's another source that similarly illustrate this unprecedented huge drop in a short time:
The Arab American Institute also have their polling methodology and Biden drops to 17%, higher than 7% but this is older data from November 2023 when people still had hope Biden would do the right thing:
Biden’s Gaza Stance Spurs Stunning Drop in Arab American Support