An announcement for those with their heads still in the sand: there’s something up with the youths these days. They might be more fragile and less cool than the James Dean version of Hollywood legend, but they’re rebels with a cause. The kids are here, they’re queer, and they’re out to decolonize the West.
Two-thirds of young Americans ages 18 to 24 believe that Jews are “oppressors,” though 73 percent of voters overall disagree. Unsurprisingly, then, the same age cohort takes the Frantz Fanon view of the October 7 massacre, with a strong majority explicitly agreeing that the 1,200 murders and 250 kidnappings of mostly civilian Israelis—an attack they themselves agree was genocidal, per another poll question—are “justified” by the grievance of Palestinians against Israel.
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