Why Are So Many Young People Anti-Semitic ?

Khandro | 16:10 Mon 23rd Oct 2023 | News

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There has been the greatest incidence of anti-Semitism in Britain since records began over the past two weeks, and, judging by the louts caught on camera, it’s not prejudiced pensioners smashing kosher restaurant windows, vandalising schools and writing ‘COLONISER’ over posters of murdered toddlers. We’re usually told that this group of young people are less prejudiced than any other, so some might think it a bit of a shock that a recent poll on anti-Semitic attitudes – measured by asking 11 questions about Jewish stereotypes and seeing if people agree with them – found the disease most prevalent in the 18-34 age group (13 per cent) and least from the over-50s (8 per cent).

In the past, the younger generation always craved more freedom, but this one wants less. That’s why it supports the policing of language (when the Labour party promise two years in jail for ‘misgendering’, it knows the age group most likely to vote for it) and the persecution and cancelling of those with rebellious views. In 2019, a survey conducted by the Hanbury Strategy for the centre-right think tank Onward claimed that two thirds of 25-34s would prefer a ‘strongman leader’ who does not ‘have to bother with parliament’. The same poll described London as ‘the most authoritarian part of the country’ because of its ‘younger and ethnically diverse population’. Under-35s across the country were described as ‘considerably more authoritarian than older generations’. How weird it would be if the demographic who have spent the last few years screaming that everybody they don’t like is literally Hitler turned out to be quite keen on Hitler. Literally. ?

Written by Julie Birchill

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naomi24

We all have odd ideas when we're young. Some of us voted Labour ... until we grew up. ;o)

On a more serious note, how shameful that Jews in this country have cause to be afraid.

ToraToraTora

I have spoken many times on the emergnce of a new fascism, where the incorrect view on any given subject is punished.

Deskdiary

Shouldn't be long before somebody plays the player not the ball given who wrote the piece.

It is a sad state of affairs that only the 'correct' view is tolerated. There was a poster a few months ago who bragged that "we" stopped Katie Hopkins from doing her show. Ironically, had somebody been cancelled who the poster wanted to listen to, no doubt they'd have been whining about free speech.

Tilly2

That was me. I wasn't bragging. When I said 'we', I was referring to the borough council. Maybe I should have elucidated.

Tilly2

...and I don't whine.

Deskdiary

Fair enough, and I apologise Tilly.

I took the "we" to mean you were involved in the cancellation.

The wider point remains though (not aimed at you) in that people will cancel, or at least try to cancel, people who have the bare-faced temerity to hold a different opinion to the 'correct' opinion.

Tilly2

I accept you apology. Thank you.

bazwillrun

"how shameful that Jews in this country have cause to be afraid."

300K Jews
4million plus muslims and counting

no wonder theyre afraid, so should everybody else be...

webbo3

Because they've never read or seen what the Nazi's did.

Peter Pedant

We all have odd ideas when we're young. Some of us voted Labour ... until we grew up. ;o)

and some of us never grow up ( that remark does NOT apply to any of the wonderful moderators that fearlessly delete posts they er dont like or disagree with. oh no)

Peter Pedant

Shouldn't be long before somebody plays the player not the ball given who wrote the piece.

yeah me

vary famous and thoughtful authors ( not on Ab then) have a nick name

much like a working title ( A working title is a temporary name for a product or project. The usage is especially common in film and TV, gaming, music and publishing.) The biog of the famously tiddly ITN news presenter was "This ish the news"

Private Eye calls Julie Burchill - Julie B*llsh*t - a bit like Piers Morgan is oftern called by his Birth Name - Piers Moron.

( note name calling is not libel as every mod reaches towards the zap button and convulsively stabs it)

david small

I have never understood Anti-Semiticism. It personifies the stupidity of this wretched species, humanity.

jourdain2

A much larger proportion (and growing) of young people are Muslims and generally 'foreign' backgrounds. They and other 1st generation 'new Britons' do not have anything like the same backgroundas the indigenous population.

Ergo, anti-semetism, totalitarianism etc. is a growing percentage of the population. Before anyone says it - education will not make much difference. Family background and culture usually reigns supreme in my experience.

Khandro

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As Douglas Murray wrote this week: ‘There are times when you wonder how history happened, and other times when you realise how it did. The past two weeks have been one such time.’

As Europe recommences its once-loved, if barely-remembered, danse macabre, we see that the deep memory was there all along, and how familiar the tinkle of broken glass from a synagogue on the streets of Berlin sounds; if not from memory then from film archives.

No one will be allowed to sit this one out. Sooner or later, we will all have to pick our side, or that side will pick us, as the mob young and strong gains voice & velocity and the madness of crowds seeks to finally finish what it started so many times before.

I know which side I’m on, and pray I'm not alone.

Of Julie's article quoted above from the Spectator, I wrote in the comments section (and as it also covered Jewish school children needing police protection in England) that few articles I've read brought a tear to my eyes, but this one did.