TIMES OF ISRAEL
Why Millennials Dislike Israel
by Alexander H. Joffe
June 8, 2016

Many have taken notice of the recent Pew poll that shows decreasing support for Israel among millennials. Overall the poll showed solid American support for Israel; 54% sympathize more with Israel than with the Palestinians, while only 19% said they sympathize with the Palestinians. But the poll also showed alarming generational contrasts; only 43% of millennials (born after 1980), as opposed to 61% of baby boomers (born between 1946 and 1964), feel sympathy toward Israel…The demographic shifts of the past 50 years have coincided with a second major process, the systematic discarding of American national identity by its educational system. Previous generations had been acculturated into knowledge of and respect for constitutionalism and the ‘American’s creed.’ But starting in the 1960s civic education was gradually discarded, beginning with universities. Post-Americanism has now filtered down to all levels. READ MORE