„Je mehr ich mit jungen Leuten zusammen bin, desto mehr gerate ich in Panik“
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/12/american-anti-semitism-youth/685261/?gift=66OeTwjwIWd7-zlTK2lFDuZiw9Qaojk_ZN2xV4zaQ0o
„Je mehr ich mit jungen Leuten zusammen bin, desto mehr gerate ich in Panik“
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/12/american-anti-semitism-youth/685261/?gift=66OeTwjwIWd7-zlTK2lFDuZiw9Qaojk_ZN2xV4zaQ0o
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SS: Anti-Jewish prejudice isn’t a partisan divide—it’s a generational one.
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In late 2024, the Democratic data scientist David Shor surveyed nearly 130,000 voters at the behest of Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign. He found that a quarter of those younger than 25—with negligible differences among Trump and Harris supporters—held an “unfavorable opinion” of “Jewish people.” (Jewish people—not Israelis or Zionists.) By contrast, the older a person was, the less likely they were to express such sentiments.
One year later, an avalanche of data has confirmed what Shor glimpsed and researchers and reporters like myself have argued for years: American anti-Semitism is not primarily a partisan phenomenon, as it is often framed in popular discourse, but a generational one. Jews constitute just 2 percent of the American population, but they’ve assumed much larger and more sinister proportions in the imagination of the country’s youth.
Last week, the Yale Youth Poll released its fall survey, which found that “younger voters are more likely to hold antisemitic views than older voters.”
In other words, the research collectively suggests that America is becoming more anti-Semitic because its young people are becoming more anti-Semitic. This finding flies in the face of the folk wisdom that prejudice is the province of the old and will die out with them. That maxim may be true of some bigotries, but anti-Semitism is not one of them.
A YouGov/Economist poll two years ago showed that over 50% of young Americans (18-29) either believed or wasn’t sure if the Holocaust was a myth. For Republicans that number was 17% and for Democrats that number was a whopping 29%.
Whatever your thoughts are on the Israel/Palestine conflict, there has been an absolute explosion of antisemitism in the West. And a lot of Western leaders are absolutely complicit in normalizing it. (See for instance, every Western country on the UNHCR that voted to appoint a special rapporteur to the conflict who had previously claimed that Jews, not “Zionists” or “Israelis, have “subjugated” the United States. That’s literal Nazi propaganda normalized and treated as acceptable by the UN Human Rights Council and every country sitting on it.
Well, I do not think we need to ignore that white elephant in a room – bit of a war that did happen at a time.
I think the writer and many other Jewish writers are missing the forest for the trees. Are the youth becoming more antisemitic? Yes but that’s also because they are becoming more racist. I was in a game store the past weekend playing a TCG and in an intense moment I started yelling in a faux Indian accent, „DO NOT THE REDEEM!“. Most of the guys understood what I was talking about and laughed except one guy a teacher who noted that I was doing the exact same thing his students did. We had a nice laugh that eventually led to further discussion that many of the parents and the people who work with kids noted that a lot of the teens are way more racist than before. When there are no black people in the room kids would often talk about how blacks were thieving criminals and would bring up the per Capita crime rates. How South Asians are unhygienic rapists, Muslims would blow you up, how Hispanics were lazy chauvinists and so on and so on. When a specific ethnic group is not around offensive stereotypes and memes are parroted like it’s the norm, all of them know that they are racist, are saying racist things against each other and know racist things are said behind their backs. It seems like a lot of the youth are openly racist just not directly to each other’s faces. If anything anti semitism is merely the final boss, once you start saying anti Jewish stuff you have probably lambasted most other ethnic groups on the way there. All the decades of propaganda and moralistic teaching was for naught against the might of the algorithm.