"On Monday, I published an article unpacking how anti-Semitism in America is a youth movement. Surveys from nonpartisan, conservative, and liberal sources have found that far from being the benighted bigotry of the old, anti-Jewish prejudice is growing in popularity among the young, which is why it has been on the rise in American politics and culture. "The research collectively suggests that America is becoming more anti-Semitic because its young people are becoming more anti-Semitic," I wrote."
""Mainstream journalism is just profoundly uninteresting and lame, consumed by its own pieties," he wrote in a series of posts on X, where he regularly engages in political sparring. "To write an article about the 'generational divide' in anti-semitism without discussing the demographics of the various generations is mind boggling. 'We imported a lot of people with ethnic grievances prior generations didn't have. We celebrated this as the fruits of multiculturalism."
Surveys from nonpartisan, conservative, and liberal sources show anti-Jewish prejudice is growing among young Americans. The trend indicates that anti-Semitism is increasingly a youth movement rather than exclusively an affliction of older cohorts. That generational shift helps explain the rise of anti-Jewish sentiment in American politics and culture. Framing anti-Semitism as a generational phenomenon implies different remedies than purely partisan approaches. A vice president publicly criticized the generational framing, called mainstream journalism "uninteresting," and argued that lowering immigration and promoting assimilation would reduce ethnic hatred.
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