Israel faces another terrorist on 3rd memorial of Oct 7: Gen Z antisemitism

When President Donald Trump announced an Israel-Gaza peace deal and the release of the final Israeli hostages last October, most Americans assumed the two-year war had ended. But three years after the atrocities against Israelis on October 7, 2023, the Gaza war has become a new normal for Israel, and another fight threatens the country: the global return of antisemitism.

“One of the things that we have seen a huge increase in since the since the start of the war, since the seventh of October, is the amount of antisemitism that that it has caused across the world, including in the United States,” paramedic Aryeh Myers with Magen David Adom (MDA), Israel’s Emergency Medical Services (EMS) organization, said in an interview. “We’ve seen horrendous events happening in in the states, in Canada, in Australia, in many places around the world, where the Jewish community there has been directly affected because of what’s happening here in Israel, which is which is a horrendous situation to be in.”

Mere hours after Hamas terrorists murdered more than 1,200 innocent civilians and captured 251 hostages, American students marched on college campuses with banners reading “Free Palestine” and “From the River to the Sea.”

“The blood was still not dry in the streets of the kibbutzim before wet ink was being printed on propaganda posters in the United States for college students to be championing terror, and that was funded,” Aaron Evans, vice president of the D.C. Young Professionals chapter for Friends of the Israeli Defense Force (FIDF), said in an interview.

By May of 2024, more than 1,300 student-led protests had convened across America with more than 90% portraying pro-Palestinian support, according to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project.

But with the pro-Palestinian chants, students also waved rainbow flags and gathered with ideological leftist groups such as Queers for Palestine – marking a contradiction in the very name. The Hamas terrorists who attacked Israelis did so in the belief that the murder of Jews is a religious obligation and honors their god, Allah. The same terrorists, as well as a majority of Sunni Muslims, also believe that the denial of biological sex in LGBTQ ideology offends Allah just as much as the Jews’ possession of Israel. And their solution would be the same under a given opportunity: mass murder and public brutality.

For now, however, terrorist organizations will take the leftist funds and public support, just as they took the food and hospitality of Israelis in the kibbutzim for years, all while plotting Israeli murders for October 7, 2023. But Israelis understand how Muslim doctrine radicalizes terrorists, knowing that America’s woke politics could never co-exist in an Islamic state.

Their number one question of America is not to demand more military support or to request money. Instead, they simply want to know why Americans celebrate Jewish annihilation. Nearly every Israeli asked me this question in June when I visited the country.

I had no explanation to give because none exist. Instead, I merely hung my head in shame of my country’s actions, and especially of those among my own generation: a generation that is lost due to the poor education and rejection of morality in America; a generation that is searching for answers and identity and thereby latching to any ideology that claims to defend freedom and equality for all; a generation raised on screens, social media and prominent public influencers with too much to say and little wisdom.

Gen Z, now predominantly more adults than youth, poses a great danger to the future of America and frankly the world if they continue to champion such inconsistent ideologies. If this generation drinks the poison of antisemitism, historical precedent promises their downfall. The only solution is proper education to expose the inconsistencies of leftist ideology with radical Islam, alongside the hope that Betsie ten Boom’s words during her imprisonment in Ravensbrück remain true today:

“Corrie, if people can be taught to hate, they can be taught to love! We must find the way, you and I, no matter how long it takes.”