Why do the Left march against Israel but not Russia, Iran’s mullahs, or the Taliban?
Story by Zoe Strimpel • 15h
It used to be thought that Gen-Z was a rather passionless, inert bunch – children of screens, they scrolled incessantly on beds behind closed doors, too afraid to leave home for real-life social interaction, anxious about work, conversation and sex, braced for micro-aggressions, unsafe spaces and triggering content.
But in the past few years, beginning with support for Greta Thunberg’s scarily extreme brand of hair-shirt environmentalism and its offshoots – especially the paint-chucking Just Stop Oil – we have begun to see another side to them: at times deranged, pseudo-political passion. These youngsters, especially the majority that gravitate towards the political fringe, are not afraid of getting out at all, and seem wildly confident rather than socially anxious.
In fact, not since the 1960s have we seen such passionate lunacy in young people’s political identities: their flaunting and strutting as police corral and arrest them, their faces puce and furious as they scream and chant their mad orthodoxy into megaphones.
Israel’s response to Hamas’s October 7 invasion put to rest any final worries about the confidence and passion of Gen Z, especially the swathes of it associated with the Left (or the disturbing mishmash of disinformation, false history and identity politics that passes for the left these days). Marches in London “for Palestine” and against Israel regularly number 125,000.
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