Poll: Majority of U.S. Young People, 18-24, Want Israel to Be Destroyed
A majority of registered voters age 18 to 24 in the United States told a Harvard-Harris poll that they want “Israel to be ended and given to Hamas and the Palestinians,” rather than the two-state solution favored by 60% of Americans overall.
The shocking result, after a survey of 2.034 registered voters December 13-14, suggested that young people are profoundly more hostile to Israel than any other age group — a result that accompanies a wave of antisemitic protests on university campuses and in large cities.
Other results from the poll suggest:
A majority of registered voters age 18 to 24 in the United States told a Harvard-Harris poll that they want “Israel to be ended and given to Hamas and the Palestinians,” rather than the two-state solution favored by 60% of Americans overall.
The shocking result, after a survey of 2.034 registered voters December 13-14, suggested that young people are profoundly more hostile to Israel than any other age group — a result that accompanies a wave of antisemitic protests on university campuses and in large cities.
Other results from the poll suggest:
- 60% of those 18-24 believe that the October 7 terror attack was “justified” by Palestinian grievances (versus 27% overall)
- 53% of those 18-24 think students should be “free to call for genocide” of Jews (versus 26% overall)
- 67% of those 18-24 think university presidents “went far enough” in condemning antisemitism (versus 38% overall)
- 79% of those 18-24 agree “white people are oppressors” and “nonwhite” people should be “favored” (versus 35% overall)
- 67% of those 18-24 believe Jews belong in the category of “oppressors” (versus 27% overall)
- 60% of those 18-24 think Israel is trying to commit “genocide” in Gaza (versus 37% overall)
- 67% of those 18-24 think Hamas “can be negotiated with” (versus 36% overall)
- 51% of those 18-42 think Israel started the “crisis” (versus 27% overall)
