It’s more than just that too. Older people vote more than younger people. Younger people are concerned with Palestine, older people are ride or die with Israel. A lot of it has to do with their religion, I’d say most of it really. I hear older democrats all the time mocking the younger people and their protests in support of Palestine.
It’s funny because in a historical context, Jews have been terribly persecuted by Christians.
When I was a kid growing up in an evangelical, Pentecostal movement, we were taught that the Jews were God’s chosen people. We were taught that we had to back Israel no matter what and that the nation who went against Israel would collapse.
Their parents would have been taught something very different regarding Jews in general.
I don’t have a problem with Jews myself, just what the Israeli army is doing right now. I don’t understand why the world has been so unkind to them for so long. I don’t understand how the people of Israel can’t see the parallels between what they’re doing and what happened to them in the 20th century.
I’d say 9/11 and the anti Arab sentiment that grew out of that has something to do with older people being less concerned with the welfare of Palestinians too. I never heard a bad word about Arabs when I was a kid, but after that happened I heard the term “towel head” daily for years. Younger people view that as a historical event and not something that affected their lives directly.
It’s more than just that too. Older people vote more than younger people. Younger people are concerned with Palestine, older people are ride or die with Israel. A lot of it has to do with their religion, I’d say most of it really. I hear older democrats all the time mocking the younger people and their protests in support of Palestine.
It’s funny because in a historical context, Jews have been terribly persecuted by Christians.
When I was a kid growing up in an evangelical, Pentecostal movement, we were taught that the Jews were God’s chosen people. We were taught that we had to back Israel no matter what and that the nation who went against Israel would collapse.
Their parents would have been taught something very different regarding Jews in general.
I don’t have a problem with Jews myself, just what the Israeli army is doing right now. I don’t understand why the world has been so unkind to them for so long. I don’t understand how the people of Israel can’t see the parallels between what they’re doing and what happened to them in the 20th century.
I’d say 9/11 and the anti Arab sentiment that grew out of that has something to do with older people being less concerned with the welfare of Palestinians too. I never heard a bad word about Arabs when I was a kid, but after that happened I heard the term “towel head” daily for years. Younger people view that as a historical event and not something that affected their lives directly.