A hair-rising finding by a national poll: only 41% of those questioned who were between the ages of 18 and 29 support Israel’s right to exist. More on this depressing result can be found here: “Majority of Young Americans Unsure Whether Israel Should Exist: Poll,” by Corey Walker, Algemeiner, October 13, 2026:
A majority of young American voters are unwilling to affirm that Israel should continue to exist as an independent country, according to a new national poll that reveals a stark generational divide over the Jewish state — even as Americans overall overwhelmingly recognize Israel’s right to defend its citizens against armed attacks.
The survey, conducted by Republican-aligned polling firm Cygnal from Oct. 7–10 among 1,500 likely 2026 midterm voters, found that just 41 percent of respondents ages 18–29 support Israel’s right to exist. Among all voters, support stands at 67 percent, with 16 percent opposed and 17 percent unsure.
The results offer a snapshot of the challenge facing Israel and its American supporters as younger generations grow increasingly detached from the bipartisan consensus that has historically defined the US-Israel relationship. The poll does not establish why younger voters hold these views, but it documents a substantial generational divide over a fundamental question of Israel’s legitimacy….
Younger voters are likely to be less well-informed than their elders, not just about Israel and its enemies, but about all sorts of matters. They do not remember any of the three wars Israel was forced to fight for its own survival, in 1948, 1967, and 1973; the Second Intifada for them may be a dim memory; they may not have devoted the mental energy necessary to grasp how the propaganda war against Israel works; above all, these are the people who have seen the anti-Israel protests on campuses and, in lemming-like fashion, have joined in, repeating chants about apartheid, genocide, and why Israel must be destroyed in order to be supplanted by a 23rd Arab state, expressed in the slogan “From the river to the sea/Palestine will be free.” Anti-Israel animus is all the rage, in every sense, and is all over the Internet, most notoriously on Wikipedia, which is where the American young now seek most of their information; for them, history books are so… yesterday.
Among voters ages 18–29, the gap is considerably starker. Approximately 91 percent say Ukraine was justified in defending itself, while 67 percent, far less, affirm Israel’s right to defend its civilians. That 24-point difference raises questions about whether younger Americans apply the same principles of national self-defense to Israel that they apply to other countries facing armed aggression.
The answer, obviously, is no. Israel is held to a far higher standard of conduct in its war-making than any other country. It has made tremendous efforts to minimize civilian casualties in Gaza, but most of the world not only ignores this, but insists on calling the IDF’s actions in Gaza a “genocide.”
Here’s the good part:
In the same poll, 95% of Americans of all ages believe a country — presumably including Israel — has a right to defend itself. 51% believe Hamas should have no role in Gaza, and only 6% believe Hamas should be allowed to govern Gaza.
And here’s the bad:
Only 41% of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 believe that the Jewish state has a right to exist.
Clearly the fashionable expression of anti-Israel animus has had a malignant effect on young minds. Israel needs to devote much more of its time and money to its human resources, finding the most articulate spokesmen (ideally fluent speakers of English) who have been properly trained in verbal combat.
Everything has to be challenged: when an interviewer mentions “West Bank,” don’t leave that unanswered, but express surprise that a toponym that was used first in 1950 should have been allowed to supplant other far more ancient toponyms — Judea and Samaria — that have been in continuous use for the past 3000 years.
When the phrase “two-state solution” is used, don’t ever let it pass unremarked, but point out that calling something a “solution” does not make it so. And then explain that “when people use that formulation, they mean that Israel must be squeezed back within the 1949 armistice lines, that were never recognized boundaries, and that would leave Israel with a nine-mile-wide waist from Qalqilya to the sea. Within such lines, an invading force from the east could cut Israel in two before the country’s reservists could be called up.” That is not a “solution,” but a death warrant for the only Jewish state.
Remind your audience of the League of Nations’ Mandate for Palestine, which was always meant to include all the territory from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, and which in time would become the Jewish state. While Jordan seized Judea and Samaria in 1949, and held onto that area until 1967, it never had a legal claim to it. In 1967, as a result of the Six-Day War, Israel was at last able to exercise its pre-existing claim to Judea and Samaria. Israeli hasbara need only hew to the truth, and to keep repeating that truth every time enemy spokesmen, or poorly-informed members of the Western media and public, offer up a steaming heap of falsehoods.
ploome says
Why does that question even exist?
Why doesn’t everyone ask if Jordan has the right to exist?
Why are the Hashemites, relocated from the Hejaz have the right to exist and rule that part of Mandate Palestine, trans Jordan just because the British gave it to them?
Or Iraq have the right to exist?
Simply asking that question over and over, makes people doubt/
Stop asking if Israel has the right to exist, and maybe assert that after the Ottomans abandoned their holdings the Middle East, the victorious allies, divided the territory and recreated national borders in that area.
Beans🫘 says
Yea I get your sentiment. But it had to do with Muslims. That changes things completely. If a land is ever once taken by Muslims or Muslims move in mass, it is forever considered Islamic land by them.
Our youth are much more pro Islamic, and with the Islamist world view in general, the Islamist geopolitical strategy, and they are moving away from pro western outlooks.
Rob Porter says
59 % of young America are very ignorant and stupid! I grew up in South Africa when apartheid existed. I know all about apartheid and its racial segregation, and I know that Israel does NOT have apartheid. Those who say it does either don’t know what they are talking about or are lying.
For ten years in South Africa, 1977 to 1987, in newspapers I wrote out against apartheid – and am still alive to to tell you. If I had been in a Muslim country and wrote out in criticism of Islam I’d be dead. Criticism of in not permitted. Why? Because Muslims and Islam are so pathetic and insecure that they cannot stand criticism of their nonsense beliefs.
The most viciously apartheid-like system in the world is Islam. Muslims in their ignorance regard themselves a sort of master race that hates and looks down upon anyone who does believe their medieval and ignorant man-made Islamic rubbish. !60 verses in the Qur’an instruct Muslims to violence, even to killing, of non-Muslims. If you leave Islam and covert, you will be killed – for ‘apostasy’. After the Muslim conquest of countries began in 633AD, they, the Arabs and Ottomans, murdered about 270 million people. Nowhere Muslims go in numbers do they bring or create peace, joy and happiness. Why? Because they believe in a death cult that tells them the crap that if they die while killing non-Muslim they will go to their version of heaven. And their carnal version of ‘heaven’ is more hell for girls and women. In fact, their version of heaven is just more Islamic horse dung.
somehistory says
Parden me, young person, but do you have the right to exist?
These may be the same people who would deny that unborn children have a right to *exist*….which means they probably favor ending the lives of millions of unborn babies.
James Lincoln says
It appears that the leftist / islamic brainwashing of our youth is happening in real time.
Ruth Weekly says
Sad but true.
WPM says
This has been going on for 60 years in the making starting in the 1960s with communist invited into colleges and universities in the west .Israel is only used as a symbol of western cultural and law .This is because Israel is the only country in the Middle East that is a life boat of western cultural and law there .Without Jewish cultural ,and law the west would not exists as it is today .Without Jewish law and cultural Christianity would not exist today Christianity stands the shoulders of Jewish cultural and law .I as a Christian under stand this the west true enemy for over 1200 years is Islam ,communist are late in the game only coming onto the scene about 125 years ago .The communist foolishly think they can team up with the jihadist .The jihadist will use them and disregard them after the goals of destroying western cultural and law are achieved.
Greg Conway says
Looks like the US is on the way to becoming a communist Islamic country. All those who love the Muslims will get a big shock when the Muslims come to their door with Big knives.
WPM says
That is what they did in Iran in 1979 that communist party was sold a bill of goods that they would be a voice in the government and they hung them from construction cranes or shot them in public executions in sports stadiums .The communist are so dumb ,but they still believe communism will work and make everyone “equal ” ,they refuse to see themselves as just tools for the jihadist .Islam has killed alot more people then communist ,but they have been around over a thousand years longer.
WPM says
Both communist and Islam is anti -Christian and anti-Jewish they will both do not share power with an another belief system. Both make people generally poor ,more miserable and kill millions on the so call road to their Utopia ?
CryHavoc says
Do you want to bet that the other 59% are Millidiots or Genzies?
Shemite and Hebraic peoples displaced the Phillistines in that area ca. 2000 B.C.
The Pharaohs Thutmose fought Jewish City Princes (1459 – 1457 B.C. (within that time frame)). Judaism was established at that time.
Israel was an empire (ca. 1000 – 550 B.C.)
Israel has as much right to that lands as do the Shemites. If the UK did a better job of dealing with Jordan, the Shemites would have a homeland.
Palestine was never the name of that land; it was a placeholder name because the UK knew there would be conflict there..
One more question: If the people of Gaza are starving, how can they afford a five figure amount for a new iPhone?
Get your lies straight please
࿗Infidel࿘ says
That’s why Israel needs to do 2 things in the short & long terms for its survival:
1. Become fully militarily independent, ASAP! Strengthen its military cooperation, if not alliance, w/ Ukraine, which has turned out to be a hidden superpower by grinding down the Russian invasion and making Putin resemble a Napoleon or Hitler. Also, use countries like India, VIetnam, Thailand, Taiwan as backup logistical hubs for its military: none of these countries would question Israel’s ethics for good reasons or bad, unlike European or American governments
2. Stop pretending that it’s a European country, & declare itself Asian: geographically, it is, even if it’s in a Western corner of Asia, on the border w/ Africa. Build up cultural, sporting ties w/ Asian countries – India, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Nepal…. plenty of countries to choose from. Their peoples are not antisemitic, & would be happy to engage Israel. Jerusalem can continue to be open to Western Jews & support Christians in its neighborhood – Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, but culturally, build the ties w/ Asian countries, not European! Also promote Israeli exports to Asia, rather than Europe: ASEAN or others won’t demand to know which products were built in the “West Bank”
tgusa says
Washington DC has polluted the good American demographic that used to be.
The U.S. Constitution explicitly frames government’s purpose in terms of the common good. In its Preamble, the founders state that “We the People adopt the Constitution “in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.”
Government has failed us in that mission. The Founders knew what they were doing way back when.
jimjames says
Simply put this is the decline of America in summary. The left leaning, essentially Marxist thinking and taught spurred by radical Islam have gained the propaganda domination vital to their existence. The key freedom is now the fight to defend and maintain the Second Amendment. Free speech has been under assault since forever led by the leninist concept of “ultra-democracy”. But Americans must maintain the right to defend and protect not only the Constitution and the flag to which it stands but our very homes.
andrew says
Tell a lie, tell a big one and tell it often and it will become its own truth…
Herr Goebbels, the Right Hand Man of Adolf Hitler.
This is the motto of CNN and the BBC today as so many young people merely follow and have zero sense of individuality and get everything they are told to think from the Phones they constantly stare down at.
I may well be 78 but kids today have no idea about the world as they all dress in the exact same rags while covered in tattoos.
Their music, if you can even call it that, is awful as is their sense of style or lack thereof.
If they get all their information and news from Tik Tok then they are going to believe anything.
Speaking with a 24 year old American girl recently who told me the Jews control everything so I suggested if she truly believes that then she best throw her Smart Phone away as much of the Tech shit inside was invented by Jews and they may be listening… She freaked out….
Being this old I love to make fun of them as its so bloody easy.
Huh!?! says
Israel cannot be destroyed. How do I know. The Bible tells me so.
OLD GUY says
I wonder if they feel that way about America’s right to exist or any other country? I wonder if those 41% of American youth are willing to give up their lives to Islamic terrorist? Wake up America islam is coming for you, and sooner than you think.
jimjames says
Islam has already declared war n America-‘The Great Satan’! Wake up people before you find yourselves in hell hole!
Walter Sieruk says
According to that survey 41 % young American adults believe that the State of Israel has the right to exist, Of course, this must mean that 59 % of them disapprove of the continued Israel as a nation.
Such awful statistics do indicate the many colleges and universities have been terribly infiltrated and therefore, influenced in their “education program “ by the Muslims who are also stealth jihadists, funded many oil rich Islamic nations as Saudi Arabia and Qatar . So, no longer in many ”institutions of higher education “ are the facts of the truth objectively taught.
The result of this is not only that above statistic and even worse the many pro- Hamas Red/Green alliance rallies on many college and universities campuses Those mind conditioned youth are the useful idiot of the Islamic influential powers of the currents times in the USA. Young Americans have undergone thought manipulation through many insidious and sly ways. Such being taught disinformation about the history of the Middle East. Regarding that the sixteenth President of the United States had, rightly and wisely, said that “History is not history unless it is the truth.”
Walter Sieruk says
It’s highly unlikely any of those 59 % of young Americas who dislike Israel either know or care that the birth of the State of Israel May 14, 1948 , or it may also be said the restoration of the nation of Israel was in Bible prophecy Ezekiel 37:view 1-7. In other words, the Bible the rebirth of Israel was fated to occur because God had decreed so . Two reasons why many American young adults couldn’t care less is because of the damage done to them because of believe in evolution and the influence of Islam, both beliefs terribly degrades the value of the Bible in the worldview d of many people
Nevertheless, God had given all that land to the Jews .. This may be found in the Bible, as seen in, for example, Genesis 28:13-15. 35:10-12. Deuteronomy 32:48,49. Psalm 105:7-11.
In other words the Jews have tall this land by Divine Right. Moreover, the Jewish people should have this land by historic rights as shown in First Kings 4:20,21, 24,25. 8:55, 56.
For the Bible informs its reader “For the Lord has chosen Jacob for Himself, Israel for His special treasure.” Psalm 135:4. [N.K.J.V.]