The Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, revealed a seismic change in the way young people in the United States think about Israel and Palestine. A poll conducted two months after the attack found that while Americans as a whole supported Israel over Hamas by 81 percent to 19 percent, those aged 18-24 were split fifty-fifty. Within that age group, 66 percent of respondents agreed that Hamas's attack was "genocidal in nature," yet 60 percent also said it "can be justified by the grievances of the Palestinians." In other words, more than half of college-age Americans seem to believe that it would be justified for Palestinians to commit a genocide of Israeli Jews.
- From On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice by Adam Kirsch
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