A majority of the nation’s youngest voters see Jewish and White folks as “oppressors,” in line with a newly launched ballot that supplied a grim forecast on U.S. help for Israel.
An eye-popping 51% of registered voters ages 18-24 consider that the answer to the Israel-Palestinian battle is for Israel to “be ended and given to Hamas and the Palestinians,” as proven within the outcomes of the month-to-month Harvard-Harris ballot for December.
Generation Z was starkly out of step with the remainder of these polled. Overall, solely 19% of these surveyed needed to see Israel ended. A 60% majority favored a two-state answer, whereas 21% needed to see the Palestinians absorbed by neighboring Arab states.
The break up on Israel between college-age voters and older Americans was pronounced on quite a few questions, lending credence to fears that universities have grow to be breeding grounds for the anti-Israel fervor and antisemitism surging on campuses because the Oct. 7 Hamas assault on Israeli civilians.
Harvard-Harris outcomes are worse than you assume for 18-24 yr olds.
-60% stated 10/7 assault may be justified by Palestinian grievances
– 79% help ideology of white ppl as oppressors
– 67% help ideology of Jews as oppressorsNumbers are flipped for each different age group. pic.twitter.com/0hTpxvvnIL
— AG (@AGHamilton29) December 16, 2023
Foreign governments, together with these hostile to Israel, have additionally poured beforehand unreported billions into U.S. universities from 2014-19, led by Qatar at $2.7 billion, in line with a report final month from the Network Contagion Research Institute.
The 18-24 cohort was the one age group that needed Israel to “cease all hostilities now,” the choice favored by 57%. Every different group favored having Israel “keep going until Hamas is defeated and the hostages are released.”
Generation Z voters have been break up on whether or not they supported Israel or Hamas at 50% every, in sharp distinction to voters total who supported Israel by 81% versus 19% for Hamas.
The youngest technology’s help for the acknowledged overseas terrorist group got here though 58% agreed that Hamas “would like to commit genocide against the Jews,” a view held by 79% of voters total.
All age teams agreed that the assault on Israeli civilians that left 1,200 lifeless was “genocidal in nature” at 73%. Still, these 18-24 have been the one contingent who believed that the assault was “justified by the grievances of Palestinians,” a view held by 60% of Generation Z voters versus solely 27% of voters total.
Such views might stem from the youthful technology’s view that Jews are “oppressors.” Two-thirds, or 67%, stated they believed that “Jews as a class are oppressors and should be treated as oppressors,” in stark distinction to the 73% total who referred to as {that a} “false ideology.”
An even bigger proportion of these 18-24 believed that “White people are oppressors” and “nonwhite people and people of certain groups have been oppressed,” making them deserving of particular remedy. The ballot discovered that 79% of the youngest cohort supported that view, versus 65% who rejected it.
Every age group, together with these 18-24, agreed that “identity politics based on race has come to dominate our elite universities,” a view that was supported by 64% of respondents. Majorities of all age teams additionally agreed that antisemitism is prevalent on college campuses and that Jewish college students face harassment.
Voters throughout the board needed to see the resignations of college presidents who stated requires the “genocide of Jews” didn’t essentially violate their conduct codes, together with 73% of these 18-24 and 74% of voters total.
Even so, 53% of Generation Z respondents stated that college students calling for the “genocide of Jews” ought to be informed they’re free to take action, versus 74% of voters total who stated that such college students ought to “face actions for violating university rules.”
The ballot’s findings despatched off shock waves over the weekend amongst supporters of Israel. However, George Mason University regulation faculty professor Ilya Somin took concern with the wording of some ballot questions and pointed to different surveys exhibiting sturdy help for Israel.
He famous in a publish on the Volokh Conspiracy weblog that the Harvard-Harris ballot additionally confirmed that 69% of these 18-24 consider that “Israel has a right to exist.”
The ballot by the Harvard Center for American Political Studies and Harris Poll was performed on-line Dec. 13-14 amongst 2,034 registered voters.
