What motivates an otherwise normal teenager or American 20-something-year-old to throw their lot in with a genocidal terrorist organization?
It’s a question we have all asked as we try to understand the eruption of support for Hamas after their inhumane massacre, torture, rape and kidnapping of over 1,200 Israelis on October 7, 2023.
The 20-somethings are a demographic that campaigns for anti-racism, anti-bullying and human rights for all. How are we to understand the extreme Jew hatred and demonization of Israel from this age group? Moreover, after the terrorists strapped Go-Pros to themselves and filmed their horrific crimes on October 7 in real-time, why do vast swaths of 20-somethings deny the reality of the terrorists’ deeds?
The answers to these questions are as complex and idiosyncratic as most humans are. However, a deep dive into what is colloquially known as Generation Z (Gen Z for short) — today’s 12-27-year-olds — will set us on a path to unraveling this mystery and make clear a number of course corrections our society needs to make if we are to avoid devolving into a society much like the one Hamas created in Gaza.
This report explores the reasons why Gen Z youth heeded the calls made by anti-Israel groups in America and student organizations in Gaza for the “revolutionary escalation of the global student intifada for Palestine.” It is also worth noting that these same student organizations support other authoritarian regimes opposed to human rights and democracy, including those in China, Iran, Cubaand Russia.
See the full report here: Why Does Generation Z Support Hamas?
Videos like this are art of the reason:
“Hamas is not a terrorist group.” “It’s not a project of killing Jews.”
“I would not infer from [Hamas’] actions… the essence of who they are.”
WATCH Int’l BDS leader Ilan Pappé whitewash Hamas while accidentally admitting anti-Zionism involves hatred of Jews.
WARNING: Graphic pic.twitter.com/cUdySuwt8a— Canary Mission (@canarymission) July 24, 2024
BasedExHindu says
Something something horseshoe theory or something like that.
The Nazis believed that the evil, scheming, conniving Jewish bankers and merchants controlled the German government and economy, and were keeping the Aryan German down.
The left in the USA today believes that the evil, scheming, conniving Jewish bankers and merchants control the American and other Western governments and economies, and are keeping the blacks and the Muslims down.
So whichever direction you go on the political spectrum, if you go far enough you just end up becoming a Nazi again.
Daniel Erbstoesser says
That it and yes the socialist is back and this time it will work and when not then tough luck. The socialist has changed his name from national socialist to INTERnational socialist but the program is still the same and the socialists problem is that the money of others allways runs out and that is why socialism has failed over 40 times but this time.
Not A Muslim says
Why Ex-Hindu?
Just curious.
Pray Hard says
Oh, my God, what an evil, sick fuck!
Peter WF says
I share my place with a Gen Z. It is a subject not even I have the courage to raise with her. She had one “out burst” and I consider her beyond communication.
BareNakedIslam says
There’s no arguing with far left ideology-brainwashed morons.
Me says
Brainwashing by the mainstream media plus the woke agenda that is sweeping the planet is to blame.
billythekid says
Apart from the fact they are idiots, I would say theese fools would be at every protest there is, Weather its climate change, trans rights ect ect ect, They are all full of Shit and cant think without someone holding there hand.
jffg says
long story short humans are demons just like their creator god , when someone creates a virus it’s gonna harm it’s host that it was designed to kill destroy or infect it’s simple if they feel hamas palestine islam are great causes there is nothing in existence that can change that except death , the only cure for plagues like leftism islamofascism and other disgusting love of vermin known as woke , I tried it before even ignored them and let them be they are just like those zombies they know that you don’t belong to the rotten deados and they’ll attack you regardless what you do or don’t just simply having the right mindset is enough to make you an attack target
Canuckguy NB says
There is also the problem with the educational system which, from what I understand, has been hijacked by the politically correct woke wackos.
BareNakedIslam says
In the US, nearly all the teachers are far leftists.
Stewart - South Africa says
And that is no accident at all! Just Google “Frankfurt School” and learn of the campaign started in 1929 by German Communists to undermine the Western nations! This is no “conspiracy theory”!
lawrence estavan says
Wow he makes Noam Chomsky look smart
Steve says
Generation Z = morons
Computer games and non-binary parents have messed their personalities big time.
If you think Generation Z is bad, wait for Generation Alpha, those born after 2007 something. They’ll have their fingers up all the wrong holes. 😂
None of them should be given Voting rights in my opinion. Not unless they’re first sent to boot camp to sort out their pathological issues.
Hadenoughalready says
You can blame video games for that, folks.
They may seem outwardly innocuous but think about it. They desensitize people to rape, theft, and death and KIDS are the most impressed by this. The younger they are, the more they are influenced.
Go back to when these first games came out and look at the ages of those protesting and supporting Hamas.
It’s NOT a coincidence if the numbers coincide.
BareNakedIslam says
Interesting theory.
Not A Muslim says
https://x.com/brndxix/status/1816231803973521728
Musk is allowing anti-Jewish content.
Also, no to video games. TV and movies already did the desensitized aspect.
Video games actually involve creativity.
Look at Japan – much lower crime rates and plenty of gaming.
BareNakedIslam says
I lived in Japan for 2 years, never felt as safe anywhere else in the world.
Not A Muslim says
The only negative news I see of Japan is the harassment of women but I assume that’s mostly exaggerated.
FromSoftware, etc. are very popular there.
BareNakedIslam says
Yes, men are superior there, even the language has male and female versions. I could get away with using the male version because I was a young blonde foreigner and they thought it was very cute. The only harassment I ever experienced was on the jam-packed subway cars where occasionally I would feel a wandering hand on my body, but it was so crowded, it was hard to know who was doing it.
On the other hand, I could walk to the house I was living in from the train station (about a half mile) at 2:00 in the morning all by myself, and never feared being attacked or harassed in any way.
The Japanese are exceedingly police and well-mannered. And I never saw any women being treated like Muslim women are by men.
Not A Muslim says
Didn’t you say you also visited India and Israel and some other place?
How were those?
And yeah Japan looks awesome but it has not growth potential at this point.
Stuck around $4 trillion for a while now.
I hate NYC subways. I’d rather walk 40 minutes than deal with them.
https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2024/06/f857f21eb6ac-japan-vows-to-take-all-steps-to-achieve-stable-economic-wage-growth.html
BareNakedIslam says
Japan, like many countries in the West have to import labor because they are not replacing themselves in high enough numbers.
I flew home (NY) after living in Japan the long way, East to West, so was able to stop off in several different countries – Taiwan, Kong Kong, India, Israel Greece, France and the UK – along the way, but never stayed in them for more than a few days to a week.
Not A Muslim says
Cool.
Just saw on Youtube that Japanese men are going up to women in public to measure breast size.
You were right: it’s male-dominated.
Have you watched CIRA International or Jay Smith?
They do a great job dismantling Islam’s foundations.
This edit within 10 minutes feature is cool.
BareNakedIslam says
Are those names the websites?
Not A Muslim says
Here you go:
https://www.youtube.com/@CIRAInternational
Former Wahhabi Muslim runs this.
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6 Reasons Mecca is a Lie! – Sources of Islam with Dr. Jay – Episode 24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHTP5XxZahk
Best arguments against Islam are here! Worth spreading around.
BareNakedIslam says
Thanks for the links. I know Al Fadi, am pretty sure I have posted some of his videos here before.
Not A Muslim says
Not relevant but this is the funniest news I’ve seen all week:
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/34893
BareNakedIslam says
Nothing would surprise me, considering the halfwits and traitors who are running our country.
BasedExHindu says
High-trust society, low crime, strong ethnocultural and national consciousness, great pop culture, pretty women, and not a Muslim in a trashbag, a “body positive” land-whale, or a drug-addled hobo, in sight. What’s not to love?
If Japan would take me, I’d move there tomorrow.
BareNakedIslam says
I’ve thought about it, too. Although, sadly, Islam has started infiltrating Japan as well, because of the Indonesian workers they import, because of a labor shortage.
BasedExHindu says
Now that you mention it, I had read about the Southeast Asian migrants in Japan.
The Japanese are very racially and ethnically conscious, but their lack of direct contact with Islam historically perhaps makes them rather naive about this particular dynamic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Japan#Long_term_residents_on_limited_duration_employment
Per this Wikipedia article, it appears that non-Muslim Asians still make up the bulk of the migrants (the “Brazilians” are likely to be ethnic Japanese), but, yes, a not insignificant number of Indonesians too.
BareNakedIslam says
Here are several posts I did about Muslims/Islam in Japan. Notice how it has changed in recent years, yet is still far better than Europe or the USA in limiting Muslim migrants. Not surprisingly, a lot of the videos in these posts have been taken down by Youtube.
https://barenakedislam.com/2024/02/26/japan-will-just-have-to-learn-the-hard-way-what-happens-when-you-reverse-your-long-time-policy-of-rejecting-muslim-immigrants/
https://barenakedislam.com/2023/06/03/say-what-apparently-islam-is-now-being-allowed-to-infiltrate-japan-too/
https://barenakedislam.com/2023/01/23/glad-to-hear-that-japan-still-feels-japanese-despite-a-bbc-article-slamming-japan-for-not-embracing-diversity-that-would-inevitably-include-mass-muslim-immigration/
https://barenakedislam.com/2021/08/13/this-is-why-japan-doesnt-have-the-mass-muslim-immigration-problem-of-europe-and-much-of-the-west/
https://barenakedislam.com/2018/02/19/theres-been-a-lot-of-teeth-gnashing-and-hand-wringing-by-the-media-political-elites-and-the-un-over-the-latest-news-from-japan-about-refugees-accepted-in-2017/
https://barenakedislam.com/2018/01/15/not-only-does-japan-reject-more-than-99-of-asylum-seekers-as-of-today-it-will-curb-asylum-seekers-right-to-work-despite-the-tight-labor-market/
https://barenakedislam.com/2017/11/22/united-nations-pressures-japan-to-take-in-more-muslim-refugees-so-far-in-2017-they-have-taken-in-just-three/
https://barenakedislam.com/2017/11/05/theres-a-simple-reason-why-there-have-been-no-islamic-terror-attacks-in-japan/
https://barenakedislam.com/2017/06/23/yes-japan-certainly-is-capable-of-doing-a-lot-more-for-the-resettlement-of-muslim-refugees-but-they-never-will/
https://barenakedislam.com/2016/01/24/japan-under-fire-for-rejecting-99-of-asylum-seeker-applications-yet-not-a-peep-about-the-rich-arab-gulf-states-that-refuse-to-accept-any-muslim-refugees/
https://barenakedislam.com/2015/11/08/remember-how-a-viral-email-convinced-you-that-there-are-no-muslims-in-japan/
https://barenakedislam.com/2015/02/23/several-mosques-in-japan-have-been-getting-threats-of-violence-and-demands-to-leave/
https://barenakedislam.com/2014/11/26/sorry-to-reportheres-more-repudiation-of-the-popular-email-myth-that-japan-has-no-muslim-problem/
https://barenakedislam.com/2014/11/04/if-you-fell-for-that-viral-email-that-says-japan-is-virtually-muslim-free-this-will-burst-that-bubble/
https://barenakedislam.com/2013/12/27/kyoto-ancient-japanese-capital-commits-hara-kiri-decides-to-call-itself-muslim-friendly/
https://barenakedislam.com/2012/09/21/bni-response-to-the-viral-email-re-islam-and-japan/
https://barenakedislam.com/2011/02/09/good-for-japan-police-keeping-muslim-community-under-tight-surveillance/
https://barenakedislam.com/2011/06/10/japan-muslims-showing-signs-of-ocvd-obsessive-compulsive-victim-disorder/
https://barenakedislam.com/2011/05/17/muslims-suing-japan-over-anti-terror-probe/
BasedExHindu says
Yes, as you note Islam is certainly slowly creeping into Japan, in some corners, as it is everywhere, but nonetheless not nearly comparable to the suicidal policies of the North American and Western European nations.
The prosperous East Asians are anyways considered “honorary whites” by much of the Western left, so expect more such hand-wringing about “xenophobic, racist Japan” in the coming years as they look for their next targets once they’re finished with the West. Though I suspect that the Marxists will find the Japanese an altogether different challenge from the neutered Westerners that they’ve thus far become quite accustomed to dealing with.
BareNakedIslam says
I know the Japanese well. They will not allow themselves to become like Islamized Europe. And they couldn’t care less what Europe thinks of them.