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July 24, 2025

American Jews Aren’t Deeply Divided over Israel

Instead, young Jews are divided from their fellow Americans.

While we’re on the subject of the evils of the New York Times, Ezra Klein writes on a subject much-covered by the paper over the past decade: the supposedly growing distance between young American Jews and Israel. Klein makes many tendentious points, asking rhetorically, for instance, if young Jews are “to defend, or even accept, the use of mass starvation as a tool of war?” Of course, Israel is doing no such thing. Elsewhere he entirely misrepresents a 2018 Knesset controversy. The real problem, however, is that his article is about a phenomenon that isn’t really happening. Josh Kraushaar writes:

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