Why is this here? I will tell you…

The question is asked from the outset —“Is Netanyahu to blame for Gen Z’s hatred of the Jewish state?”

in Mr. Medoff’s reply, to Mr. Klein of the New York Times, who put forward the question, Mr. Medoff dismisses Mr. Klein of the NYT and ascribes young Americans hatred of Israel due to their ignorance of the history and facts of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Taking a purely political worldview. Looking only through the lens of politics.

Let’s be succinct, clear, and spot on as to why it is young people in America now, more than in the past hate Israel, when it is stated that 63% of Americans 65 years of age and older do support Israel.

The Christian faith. Belief in God. Belief and knowledge of the Holy Bible and what is taught in the Word of God. Young people in America today are a generation who have never attended a Christian church. Never picked up a Bible and read it. Along with being indoctrinated by their teachers, many are atheists who have reinforced this hatred of a place, a people they are ignorant of — but it doesn’t stem from worldly education or politics.

It was born in their families, the offspring of the folks 65 years of age and older, turning from the Christian faith in great numbers. Refusing to believe what is in God’s Word and refusing to belong to a church, rejecting the Lord and everything in the Holy Bible.

And these offspring of folks 65 and older had offspring of their own that have been spoiled beyond comprehension greater than any previous generation. Never having to do that which they didn’t want to do while being told how special they were and God, Christ, the Holy Spirit, and assembling on a regular basis in a Bible preaching, Bible teaching, Bible-believing church never entered into their lives.

Devoid of any faith other than faith in themselves or science, or what they have been told by their lost and in darkness teachers and parents.

Not having any faithful examples in their lives, except perhaps their grandparents.

It isn’t about Mr. Netanyahu.

Yes, it is due in part to their ignorance of the conflict between Jews, Israel, and not only Arabs but most of the world — all due to their ignorance not of worldly history or worldly politics — but due to their ignorance of God’s Word and the history contained in the Holy Bible.

THAT is the root cause of their hatred of Israel and Jews.

No church. No God other than themselves and all the false gods they serve. No good examples in their lives. Ignorance of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Bible. Ignorance of the Christian foundation built into America and the resulting knowledge of what Israel truly is, who the Jews truly are.

Israel is God’s land. The Jews are His chosen people.

If these young Americans had a foundation in the Word of God, knew Christ as their Saviour, and were Bible literate and Bible-believing they then could not be anything but friends of Israel and Jews. Blessing the Lord for protecting Israel and preserving Israel and His people.

Until and unless viewing everything, evaluating everything, understanding everything from a Biblical worldview, a Biblical foundation whatever is then believed as fact, as truth, as reality is built upon hollow words. Lies. Omitting God and omitting Christ, and omitting the Holy Bible leaves a history, a knowledge of omission of real history, the only real truth. The only foundation upon which to build anything on. And as a result, only ignorance and hatred, confusion, and following lies rather than fact can exist in such a person.

No matter their age.

It all begins with God. With Jesus. With the Holy Spirit. With the Holy Bible. With worshipping God Almighty and the Lord Jesus Christ out of love for Them on a regular basis, being taught the truth and reality within a solidly Bible-centered, Christ-centered Bible teaching and Bible preaching Bible-believing church.

Period.

Everything else to explain anything else comes up short. Isn’t anywhere accurate. Nothing changes as a result. And the history of the world versus the history taking God, His Son, and His Word into account begins in error and can never find its way and become correct until and unless seeing the error of its way and turning to God and the inerrant living Word of God — to replace the delusion and worldly babel with the Truth of the Lord. The truth is contained in His Word.

Teach your children well.

Here’s a good starting point:

Now the Lord had said to Abram:

The children have not been taught well for many years now.

Not taught in the ways of the Lord. Through His Word.

And that is why America is at the precipice it is, and why its young people are the most lost generation of any that has come along. Why there is such hatred of Israel and Jews. Because first and foremost these young people hate God, hate the Lord Jesus Christ, hate the Holy Bible.

Always go to the root cause. Not the words of the world if anything needs sorting.

Ken Pullen, Thursday, February 1st, 2024

Why do so many young Americans hate Israel?

Is Netanyahu to blame for Gen Z’s hatred of the Jewish state?

January 31st, 2024

By Rafael Medoff

Reprinted from World Israel News

Young Americans are turning against Israel, and that’s Israel’s fault, says New York Times columnist Ezra Klein. Is he right?

In a major January 27 op-ed, Klein pointed to a recent poll showing only 27% of Americans aged 18 to 29—known as “Gen Z”—are more sympathetic to Israel than to the Palestinian Arabs, as compared to 63% of Americans who are 65 or older.

According to Klein, that’s because of the policies of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, since young Americans “know only Netanyahu’s Israel.”

Does that mean all Gen Zers were pro-Israel when the left-of-center Yair Lapid was prime minister fourteen months ago?

Hardly. The real reason for hostility toward Israel among that age bracket is their ignorance of the history and facts of the Arab-Israeli conflict, not the specific polices of a particular prime minister.

Israel is not to blame if many young people choose to base their views on misleading Instagram photos, biased college professors, and radical ideologies that falsely paint Israel as a “white supremacist” state.

Nor is ignorance among the younger generation about foreign affairs a new problem in America. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was bothered by it, too.

In the 1930s, polls found 63% of college students favored unilateral American disarmament and many thousands of them signed a public pledge declaring, “We will not support the U.S. government in any war it may conduct.”

They couldn’t be bothered to read up on what was happening in Nazi Germany and the threat Hitler posed to world peace.

They were worried about being drafted.

They preferred sweet fantasies of peace to the reality of a world headed for war. And some just wanted to mimic “what the cool kids were doing”—they saw that many British university students were signing the Oxford Pledge, vowing that “under no circumstances” would they “fight for [their] king and country.”

In 1934, 25,000 American college students took part in a one-hour walkout from classes to demonstrate their opposition to U.S. involvement in any war.

The strike mushroomed to 175,000 participants in 1935, then 500,000 in 1936— nearly half the national college student population.

The student antiwar movement began to crack when communist-aligned students changed their position—again and again—not as a result of studying the facts but out of obedience to their party.

For them, ignorance was truly bliss.

In the early 1930s, the Soviet Union preferred that America keep out of European affairs, so their followers on U.S. college campuses promoted the antiwar strike. But when the Spanish civil war erupted in 1936 and the Kremlin backed Spain’s leftwing government, its campus sympathizers suddenly dropped their calls for American isolationism.

Then when the Soviets signed their nonaggression pact with Nazi Germany three years later, their followers all went back to urging America to stay out of Europe’s conflicts.

When the Soviets invaded Finland in November 1939, American communist college students defended the attack and denounced President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s proposal for modest financial aid to the Finns.

Not long afterwards, FDR gave a previously-scheduled address to thousands of activists from the American Youth Congress—including many of his communist critics. He decided to give them a piece of his mind.

The students’ claim that aid to Finland would “force America into an imperialistic war” was, the president said, “unadulterated twaddle.” He repeated that slap for emphasis. Roosevelt called their position “about the silliest thing that I have ever heard in my fifty-eight years of life.”

Note the contrast between Roosevelt’s response to his youthful critics and the recent responses by President Joe Biden to pro-Hamas protesters.

On two occasions when hecklers shouted at Biden over Gaza, he responded that he was pressuring Israel to slow down its actions against Hamas and to withdraw from Gaza.

He treated the protesters’ shouts as reasonable, persuasive arguments and sought to convince them he was already doing his best to implement their demands.

Not Roosevelt. He considered his pro-Soviet student critics to be ignoramuses, and told them so.

Despite audible boos from the crowd, he admonished the students that their positions were “based perhaps on sincerity, but, at the same time, on 90 per cent ignorance” of the subject matter.

“There is room for improvement in common-sense thinking and definite room for improvement in the art of not passing resolutions concerning things one doesn’t know anything about,” the president said. He characterized his student critics as “young people [who] get a smattering of the subject from two or three speakers who themselves have but a smattering on the subject.”

Has the political climate on America’s campuses changed very much since then?

Whether Communist Party members then or Israel-haters now, campus political activity is often steered by a handful of ideologically-driven militants.

Particular social, economic, or political circumstances create opportunities to attract sympathetic students—not because many students are deeply acquainted with the relevant history, but precisely because they are not.

Probably very few American college students in the 1930s had read Mein Kampf; probably very few today are aware of the discovery of Arabic-language copies of Mein Kampf in Gaza.

Those members of Gen Z who are marching for Hamas or telling pollsters they oppose Israel are driven by a variety of motives.

For many, old fashioned ignorance or personal factors such as a desire to join a popular cause may determine whether they march against Israel, as their predecessors marched for isolationism in the 1930s.

Whatever their motives, however, the real-world impact of their activities must be considered.

Their actions back then contributed to America’s aloofness in the face of Hitler’s outrages against the Jews and fascist aggression in Spain, Ethiopia, and China.

Their actions today are undermining America’s support for an ally fighting for its very survival.

Dr. Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and author of more than 20 books about Jewish history and the Holocaust. His latest is Whistleblowers: Four Who Fought to Expose the Holocaust to America, a nonfiction graphic novel with artist Dean Motter, to be published by Dark Horse in February 2024.