Support for Israel Has Collapsed Among Young Americans

I'm not antisemitic, I'm anti- Israeli government. I'm also anti- American government right now. I'm a 60 year old rural southerner.

Criticizing Israel is not anti-semetic, it's recognizing a terrible government engaged in terrible actions. I have family friends in Israel. A tree was planted in Israel to commemorate my birth. My mom and her Jewish best friend shared baby clothes. I will criticize Netanyahu and his monstrous supporters as often as I want with a clear conscious.

Any friend that keeps starting fights with others and then has you back them up is not a friend.

I guess I’m confused because I feel like I can be both anti-Israeli government without being antisemitic. I also think you can be anti-America sending Israel billions of dollars without being antisemitic.

I'm an older Millennial and I used to have a generally positive view of Israel, especially after Oct 7th. But ever since, it's been on a steady decline. All the crap they've pulled with the settlements, how they undermined Biden to get Trump elected, and now their extreme aggression in the Middle East. I fully expect any future Dem president to distance us from Israel.

You should thank Jonathan Greenblatt, the ADL, AIPAC for this conflation. They are the ones saying that being anti Israel is antisemitic and conflating Jews and Israel as one and the same. If their job is to stop antisemitism, they should all be fired.

If you're going to do a poll on this matter, you should ask how people feel about the Israel government and at the same time with the same people ask how people feel about Jewish people. They are not the same and the latter is what will show antisemitism, not the former.

Genocide is a red line for the kids. Who'd a thunk it, after years of anti-genocide history lessons?

Genocide isn’t cool anymore?!? Weird!

Antizionism doesn't equal antisemitism