{"id":2105016,"date":"2023-11-21T15:01:02","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T20:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congratulations-america-youve-raised-a-generation-of-terrorist-sympathizers\/"},"modified":"2023-11-21T15:01:02","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T20:01:02","slug":"congratulations-america-youve-raised-a-generation-of-terrorist-sympathizers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congratulations-america-youve-raised-a-generation-of-terrorist-sympathizers\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations America, You\u2019ve Raised A Generation Of Terrorist Sympathizers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcongratulations-america-youve-raised-a-generation-of-terrorist-sympathizers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2105016&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Americans are shocked at the rising tide of anti-Jewish propaganda and harassment in the streets and on college campuses. But we should have known that this spirit would predictably arise from the witch\u2019s brew of postmodern cynicism, anti-American propaganda, and racialist resentment on which the modern education system is built.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A new <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/harvardharrispoll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/HHP_Oct23_KeyResults.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Caps\/Harvard poll<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> shows the cold reality of what Gen Zers believe. Fifty-nine percent readily admit that Hamas is a terrorist group of brutal killers who indiscriminately shot, killed, and beheaded men, women and children. Yet fifty-one percent say that the brutal killing of innocent Israelis was justified because of Palestinian grievances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anti-Jewish and anti-Israel sentiment is more popular among Gen Z than any other belief, with the possible exceptions of unrestricted abortion and socialism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What more would Gen Z have to do for us to realize this is serious? Venerate Osama Bin Laden?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Well, the Bin Laden worship has begun. Last week his \u201cLetter to America\u201d became the subject of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/osama-bin-laden-becomes-a-tiktok-influencer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">growing number<\/a> of TikTok videos, with young adults from all walks of life testifying that it has led them to a new appreciation of how terrorism is justified as a tool of resistance against Western power.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So, hats off to the American education system: you\u2019ve raised a generation of terrorist sympathizers who hate Jews.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/black-friday-gift-guide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE BLACK FRIDAY SHOPPING GUIDE<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Worldviews matter. Sympathy with violent terrorists arises out of a radical worldview which rejects truth, insists that America is evil, and asserts that the free-market system is immoral. Is anyone surprised that a generation this untethered from reality might cheer for a terrorist group such as Hamas? As Voltaire said in a very different context, \u201cSurely whoever can get them to believe absurdities can get them to commit atrocities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This isn\u2019t new in America. In the 1930s, according to Gallup, the vast majority of Americans deplored the Nazi treatment of Jews. Yet eight in ten opposed giving Jews sanctuary in America and more than half believed that the persecution of Jews was at least partly their own fault.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meanwhile, Hitler was busy indoctrinating German young people en masse. Failing to win majority support among the populace, Hitler bolstered his power by radicalizing the youth. In just the first year of Nazi dominance, the Hitler Youth grew from 50,000 members to 2 million. That\u2019s about one in five German youth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One in five youths would only be about five percent of the total population. But history shows that it doesn\u2019t take a majority to destroy a nation. It requires only the activation of an outraged minority and the acquiescence of the rest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A similar thing happened during Mao\u2019s cultural revolution in China. The youthful Red Guards rose seemingly out of nowhere, sweeping through the streets with a doctrine of destroying the \u201cFour Olds\u201d: old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits. They humiliated and murdered those they thought held power, such as teachers and property owners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">No, we don\u2019t see swastika-wearing goose-steppers yet. To understand violent movements, though, you have to look past their uniformity of clothing to the uniformity of beliefs they hold in lockstep.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And that uniformity of belief is growing among Gen Z. Most young adults now believe that absolute truth is not knowable. They embrace cancel culture and are ashamed of America. A rapidly growing number reject religion. They\u2019re primed to accept without question the propaganda of those who wish to overturn Judeo-Christian civilization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As G.K. Chesterton pointed out, when people stop believing in God it isn\u2019t that they believe nothing, but that they will believe anything.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/get.dailywire.com\/subscribe\/plus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GET 50% OFF DAILYWIRE+ ANNUAL MEMBERSHIPS<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some say that violent ideologies can\u2019t take root in America. We\u2019re too smart for that. That\u2019s what they said in Germany. But decades of indoctrination in the anti-God philosophies of Nietzsche, Wagner, and Heidegger eroded their moral decision-making ability. Jews were singled out first for harassment, then persecution, then extinction. It was all very slow, until it wasn\u2019t.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today\u2019s anti-Jewish bigotry is more than a geopolitical struggle. It is a spiritual battle. Those wishing to attack society\u2019s stability know that they must first attack God. Attacking God means attacking the Judeo-Christian worldview that says that humans have value because of God.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jews are an ever-present reminder that there is a God and that he has a plan for the world. Every anti-God movement, from Haman in the Old Testament, to the Bolsheviks, to the Nazis, seeks to destroy them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How do we respond to such a time as this? Parents, educators, and pastors all have a role to play.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Parents must reinforce to their children that every person bears the image of God and that individual violence is never the solution. They must explain how the Judeo-Christian worldview has provided greater political, religious, and economic freedom than any other form of society in human history. Communist, Nazi, and Jihadist ideas always \u2014 always \u2014 lead to wreck and ruin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Educators must equip students with thinking skills based on truth and teach the difference between propaganda and persuasion. Persuasion is using ethical arguments to enlighten an audience to the truth. Propaganda is using any arguments \u2014 ethical or unethical \u2014 to deceive an audience from seeing the truth. Schools that refuse to acknowledge that truth exists should be held accountable. Take your kids out. Stop donating. There will always be thieves who try to steal the minds of the young. But why in God\u2019s name would we bankroll them?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After World War Two, the Jewish community admonished us to \u201cnever forget.\u201d We have forgotten. Most of today\u2019s college students weren\u2019t alive on September 11, 2001. They have no visceral reaction against terrorism. Little in our culture encourages them to remember why it is wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is up to us to replant the seeds of truth once more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jeff Myers, Ph.D., is president of Summit Ministries, a Colorado-based non-profit that equips and supports the rising generation to embrace God\u2019s truth and champion a biblical worldview, and author of \u201cTruth Changes Everything.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans are shocked at the rising tide of anti-Jewish propaganda and harassment in the streets and on college campuses. 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