The Tiktok and Instagram video genre that has been flourishing in Israel recently is the debates.
A type of reality sitcom.
In the right corner stand various intellectuals from the pro-Israel side (such as Ben Shapiro and Douglas Murray), in the second are students from a number of prestigious colleges in the USA. In front of a large audience in a local cathedral, the guest lecturer answers the questions and difficulties of pro-Palestinian students and other Progress boys.
One after another, arrogant young people come up, shouting about the genocide committed by the Zionist entity in the unfortunate Palestinians, and one after another they return bowed and bareheaded to their place after a series of verbal and polite blows that reveal unimaginable ignorance, which covers up anti-Semitism of the good old kind.
A large majority of Israeli viewers sum up the experience with the same sequence of questions: How, for God's sake, are there students with such poor understanding and general knowledge in the universities and colleges that are considered in the world?
What makes a medical student declare that "a civilian population has never been bombed before"?
Don't you have core studies?!
One can escape to the simple explanation: all over the world young people tend to believe and do nonsense, and there is no shortage here either.
The difference is that with us the average young man, even if he once paid 30 shekels for rollups and thought Ben Zini should be the minister of energy, straightens up and matures quickly thanks to service in the Israeli army, which brings him down to reality with a hard cap on the back of his neck.
At exactly the same time and age, the retired American high school student celebrates college and feels enlightened and a great man of the world.
As entertaining as the above videos are, this is definitely the time for us as Israelis to start worrying. If until a few years ago the students who were still a little interested drew their knowledge from reading books and lectures, today most of the knowledge of the young American comes from social networks, a breeding ground for alarming anti-Semitic ignorance and falsehoods News, under the guise of universal concern for the weak. These students will get the diploma, and ignorant and anti-Semitic youths will grow up to be ignorant and anti-Semitic American voters, and subsequently parents accordingly. Nothing will stop the trend.
60% of young people in the US are sure that the massacre committed by Hamas is justified and that Israel is the one committing genocide - a fact, as Greta Thunberg and Jackson Hinkle explained, and they have millions of followers, so it is surely true
The pro-Israel Jewish lobby is not getting any younger day by day, and their next generation is becoming irrelevant at best, and anti-Zionist at worst, unfortunately.
Sound far-fetched?
A survey from last December shows that more than half of the young people (18-24) in the US declare that the solution to the conflict is in fact the end of the State of Israel ("that Israel be handed over to the Palestinians"). 60% of them are sure that the massacre committed by Hamas is justified and that Israel is the one committing genocide - a fact, That's how Greta Thunberg and Jackson Hinkle explained it, and they have millions of followers, so it must be true.
These are alarming figures that will make us miss the current auto-post-Zionist Baidani administration.
On the most practical level, and the political opinion of each of us does not really matter, this is the time to start preparing for a future without a safe American back.
Don't believe?
Ask Harvard or TikTok.
There is really no difference.
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