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Why Young Americans are Turning on Israel

Simon Whistler • August 19, 2026

Why Young Americans are Turning on Israel

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Last Tuesday, a former county health director who calls Israel's ongoing campaign in Gaza a genocide and who campaigned on ending American weapons transfers to Jerusalem entirely won the Democrats' nomination for U.S. Senate in the state of Michigan. That man, Abdul El-Sayed, beat his pro-Israel rival Haley Stevens by one point.

U.S. House, with its 435 districts, may have occasionally elected some unorthodox members.

Shout out Marjorie Taylor Greene, but the Senate is a different animal, which made this a real WTF moment. while having an anti-Israel candidate win a Senate primary feels like a watershed, the truth is that this is just the biggest manifestation yet of a vast political realignment, one that is seeing younger Americans overwhelmingly break with their elders'

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