{"id":2229458,"date":"2024-04-24T17:52:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T21:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/not-surprising-roughly-half-of-gen-z-voters-are-sympathetic-to-hamas\/"},"modified":"2024-04-24T17:53:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T21:53:35","slug":"not-surprising-roughly-half-of-gen-z-voters-are-sympathetic-to-hamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/not-surprising-roughly-half-of-gen-z-voters-are-sympathetic-to-hamas\/","title":{"rendered":"Gen Z Voters: Around 50% Show Sympathy Towards Hamas"},"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%2Fnot-surprising-roughly-half-of-gen-z-voters-are-sympathetic-to-hamas%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=2229458&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>Recent Anti-Semitic Protests \u2062at U.S. Colleges Spark Concern: Demonstrators at Ohio\u2063 State, Columbia, and Yale tore down flags and glorified attacks. With rising anti-Semitism post-Israel-Hamas war, questions arose on campus biases. Surveys showing Gen Z&#8217;s sympathy for Hamas despite classifying it as a terror group are alarming. The sentiment against Israel&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-view-puts-on-verbal-gymnastics-exhibition-in-defense-of-jamaal-fire-alarm-bowman\/\" title=\"'The View' defends Jamaal 'Fire Alarm' Bowman with verbal acrobatics.\">actions raises questions<\/a> about the radicalization\u2062 of youth.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/news\/\">  News <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/washingtonstand\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/washingtonstand\/%20\"><span>Washington Stand<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   April 24, 2024 at 1:00pm <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>Last weekend, multiple anti-Semitic protests broke out on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-china-threat-is-real-and-upon-us\/\" title=\"The China Threat is Real and Upon Us\">college campuses<\/a> including Ohio State University, Columbia University, and Yale University. The demonstrators tore down American flags, chanted about the death of Israelis and praised the October 7 attacks. There were also some injuries and arrests.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since the war between Israel and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">terrorist group<\/a> Hamas broke out, intense <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonstand.com\/commentary\/relentless-antisemitism-shows-colleges-are-global-environments-isolated-from-common-sense\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">targeting of Jews in the U.S.<\/a> sparked, too.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, people questioned whether the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/anti-semitism-report-nearly-75-universities-received-c-worse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anti-Semitism<\/a> was new or simply uncovered by the Hamas terrorist attack.<\/p>\n<p>But now, as more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-usps-running-covert-operation-monitoring-americans-social-media-for-inflammatory-posts\/\" title=\"Report: USPS Running \u2018Covert\u2019 Operation Monitoring Americans\u2019 Social Media For \u2018Inflammatory\u2019 Posts\">protests occur<\/a>, many worry that colleges have become a breeding ground for not only leftist agendas at large, but also for much of this resurgence of Jewish hatred.<\/p>\n<p>Considering the amount of anti-Semitism displayed on college campuses in recent months, the news that a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summit.org\/about\/press\/poll-gen-z-sides-with-hamas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">survey<\/a> found roughly half of Gen Z voters \u201care sympathetic toward Hamas\u201d is, for many, not a shock, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2024\/04\/22\/poll-nearly-half-of-gen-z-voters-are-sympathetic-toward-hamas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breitbart<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Summit Ministries and RMG Research, Inc. released data on Monday showcasing \u201cthe startling difference between the sentiments of all voters and Gen Z voters specifically, those born between 1997 and 2012.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These particular results, which involved 1,003 registered voters, highlighted Gen Z\u2019s terrorist sympathies with the label, \u201cLandmark poll: Gen Z sides with Hamas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The respondents were asked, \u201cDo you believe that Israel\u2019s wealth and military power make its campaign against Hamas unjust?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Breitbart, \u201cWhile most voters across the board, 58 percent, believe that Israel\u2019s campaign is \u2018just\u2019 \u2014 compared to 21 percent who believe it is unjust \u2014 only 42 percent of voters aged 18-24 believe Israel\u2019s campaign against Hamas is just. A plurality of voters aged 18-24 believe Israel\u2019s campaign against Hamas is unjust.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\">\n<p>Does Hamas deserve Gen Z sympathy?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is despite the fact that roughly 60 percent of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/gen-z-replacing-nfl-anime-new-studies-say-yes-not-close\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gen Z<\/a> voters \u201cagree with the U.S. government classifying Hamas as a terrorist group.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The survey also revealed that \u201cone-third of Gen Z voters believe Israel does not have the right to exist as a nation. Across the board, just ten percent hold that same sentiment, showcasing the radicalization of America\u2019s youth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Comparatively, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/2024\/03\/21\/majority-in-u-s-say-israel-has-valid-reasons-for-fighting-fewer-say-the-same-about-hamas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pew Research<\/a> poll from March found \u201croughly six-in-ten Americans (58 percent) say Israel\u2019s reasons for fighting Hamas are valid,\u201d even if they did not all agree with how Israel responded to Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>However, even though the majority of the U.S. voters appear to side with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/nancy-pelosi-embarrasses-us-traveling-abroad-extremely-foolish-attempt-interfere-israeli-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Israel<\/a> amid the war, the poll from Monday made it unmistakably clear that almost the majority of young voters do not.<\/p>\n<p>Meg Kilgannon, Family Research Council\u2019s senior fellow for Education Studies, shared with The Washington Stand, \u201cWhen colleges and even primary and secondary schools are educating their students in the \u2018oppressor\/oppressed\u2019 paradigm, it\u2019s little wonder that Gen Z will identify with Hamas as indigenous and believe that Israel is a \u2018colonizing\u2019 force.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She continued, \u201cWe know that this is totally and biblically inaccurate, but this is a generation that has been formed by social media very profoundly where these ideas are pervasive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As such, it leads to \u201ca situation where there is very little downside for being a pro-Palestine protestor on a college campus in most states,\u201d especially considering the fact that \u201cuniversities have policies where they provide the police force and the court system to meet their need for [social] justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Kilgannon concluded, \u201cThis horrific situation is sadly not surprising.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>This article appeared originally on <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonstand.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Stand<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"author-info-45743\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/washingtonstand\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent Anti-Semitic Protests on College Campuses Spark Concern: Last weekend, rallies at Ohio State, Columbia, and Yale saw demonstrators tearing down flags, chanting anti-Israel slogans, and lauding past attacks. 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