some observers hoped the moral clar- ity of the atrocities might reverse pro- gressive trends or put certain campus ideologies “on the ropes,” as one main- stream outlet put it. In hindsight, such analysis did
not consider the depth of anti-Israel sentiment embedded in universities and social media ecosystems. As a result, the simplistic “oppressed ver- sus oppressor” worldview — in which the perceived villains are those with greater wealth and power — proved more durable than many imagined. A Harvard Youth Poll of those ages
18-29 found 46% viewing the U.S. rela- tionship with Israel as mostly a bur- den, versus just 16% who saw it as a benefit — the lowest rating of any alliance tested. When Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll respondents were asked what the terrorist groups fighting Israel want, 43% said “greater rights in their terri- tory,” while 30% said they wanted to “destroy Israel,” even though Hamas states in its charter that its goal is Israel’s destruction. And the younger the respondents,
the more likely they were to frame the conflict in terms of “rights” rather than destruction. Pollsters and analysts point to
several factors, including far-left col- lege professors and young Ameri- cans’ heavy reliance on social media, especially TikTok, where emotion- ally charged images of destruction in Gaza often circulate with little his- torical context. Also, formative experiences dur-
ing the post-Oct. 7 war shape views more than the memories of older gen- erations, including of the Holocaust, the Cold War, or earlier peace efforts thwarted by Hamas and its allies. Pro-Israel pushback has taken
many forms, including in the enter- tainment sphere. Dinesh D’Souza, arguably the most successful maker of conservative doc- umentary films, last year released The Dragon’s Prophecy, which includes scenes of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on
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nfluential podcasters and streamers amplify those messages among the
demographics shifting most sharply against Israel, with Hasan Piker on the far left and Tucker Carlson on the right serving as prominent examples. Piker commands roughly 3 million
followers on Twitch and reaches about 15 million monthly viewers when other social media platforms are included. His audience skews young, male, and socialist, and he has framed the conflict in strongly anti-Israel, anti- American terms, famously saying that the U.S. deserved the 9/11 terror attacks.
On the far right, Nick Fuentes
attracts a young, male “Groyper” (a term for his fans) following through America First livestreams. His content, which also
reaches millions, mixes isolationism and criticism of U.S. support for Israel. He denies that he is antisemitic, even though he has said things like, “Hitler was awesome,” and “Hitler was right,” while referencing “organized Jewry.” As for Carlson, who
survivors and the families of those who were murdered. In the play, an actor playing the
real-life father of a daughter killed at the music festival that day reads his child’s last text: “They are bombing us. We are trying to escape.” Then the actor says, “We got, like,
8 kilometers from the party. We saw bodies burning on the road . . . She was the perfect child, until Arabs . . . they killed her.” McAleer and his wife said anti-Isra-
el sentiment began to emerge within a day of the attack. A month later, they traveled to Israel, gaining trust by promising their play would use the exact words of those they interviewed. “Hating Israel is the happy place for many young people,” McAleer told Newsmax. “Hating Israel allows them to feel morally superior — to feel good about themselves — it is the new environmentalism.” President Donald Trump
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boasts 5.7 million YouTube subscribers, he seems to grow more critical of Israel by the day, recently calling its actions against Hamas “genocide or ethnic cleansing . . . a crime, a sin, an atrocity.”
Israel, including audio of an inter- cepted phone call from a terrorist to his parents: “Dad, I’m talking to you from a
Jewish woman’s phone. I killed her and I killed her husband. I killed 10 with my own hands! Dad, open What- sApp and see how many I killed,” the terrorist boasts. Then he tells his mother: “Mom,
your son is a hero. Kill, kill, kill!” In 2024, there was a stage play from producers Phelim McAleer and his wife Ann McElhinney, both journal- ists, about the Oct. 7 attack that was based on verbatim interviews with
remains broadly supportive of Israel, even as cracks appear among younger Republicans and some “America First”
voices like Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly, both former Trump supporters. In an interview with Newsmax,
Christian author and speaker Alex McFarland, who has written more than 20 books and addressed some 250,000 young people through camps and conferences, said he sees a deeper cultural failure. “One of the sad ironies in recent
years has been that, though we are in the age of ‘social justice’ and ‘respect for everyone,’ rightly so, there is one ethnic- ity and nationality that is not extended such courtesies: Jewish people, and the nation of Israel itself,” he said. “The toleration of Jew hatred is
due to the fact that most youth have come up through government educa- tion, under very liberal educators who did not acknowledge Israel’s right to exist. Every American — and especial- ly Christians — should courageously condemn antisemitism.”
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