Young Americans are turning away from Israel not because they side with Hamas, but because they are done with the whole idea of nations being special and holy—an idea that was cooked up by Christianity long ago—and instead they want the world to work more like the old pagan empires, where everyone just mixes together, no one group is Divine-favorite, and borders don't matter as much as people getting along.
“Why Are Young Americans Ditching Israel? For the first time in decades, unwavering American support for Israel is no longer a given.” Obviously, the baby boomers are dying out. “Young people don't support Israel, and they don't support the Judaism that promotes it.”
It's not Judaism that created the state of Israel; Israel is a nation. So the problem is nationalism—it always has been. That's what those idiots americans fail to understand. Jewish Christianity Invented Nationalism long ago to fight the Roman Empire.
It’s exhausting having to repeat the same things over and over. What don’t you understand? The Roman Empire was undermined from within by Jewish Christianity, which, disliking paganism and the empire tied to it, had to invent a new concept: nations.
Christianity was the original nationalist virus, and the modern nation-state is simply that virus reaching its final, fully evolved form. Israel, then, is not a throwback to ancient tribalism, but a perfect, modern expression of this original Jewish Christianity invention.
Young Americans aren't just rejecting a foreign policy; they may be instinctively sensing that the entire architecture of nationalism—of which Israel is a particularly intense example—is exhausted or illegitimate.
They are, intuitively post-nationalist, while their Baby Boomer parents remain locked into the final stage of the Jewish Christianity-nationalist project : the idea of a “people” with a sacred history, a mission, and a territory—is fucking biblical, morons.
Pagan Rome: Universalist, syncretic, absorptive. Citizenship could be extended. The gods of conquered peoples were added to the pantheon. There was no single “chosen people” with an exclusive covenant and a promised land. The Empire was the container; your local identity was secondary. The gods were portable.
Polytheistic cognition: Multiple truths, multiple loyalties, no single sacred narrative that overrides all others. This-worldly focus: Concern with actual outcomes (bodies, rights, suffering) rather than symbolic or prophetic significance. Absorptive rather than exclusive: Cultures mix, identities layer, borders are administrative rather than sacred. Empire over tribe: Large, diverse, pragmatic structures that maintain peace between groups rather than elevating one group above others.
Jewish Christianity: Introduced the virus of a chosen people with a sacred history and a covenant with the Sacred : the nations. When Christianity married state power under Constantine, this virus encoded itself into the political DNA of the West. The “Jewish Christian nation” became the template.
Young Americans not pro-Hamas. They're post-nationalist, post jewish-christian, young Americans (and Western Europeans) increasingly favor: Universal rights over national particularity; Individual identity over collective destiny; Multicultural absorption over cultural preservation; Critiquing historical grievances rather than mobilizing them. You know what it's called; paganism.
Jewish Christian-nationalist model exhausted itself. Live with it.
The young are pre-Christian in their political instincts, not post-Christian.
A new pagan generation is born. The Jewish Christian-nationalist model asks for your soul, your identity, your sacrifice. The young are refusing to pay that price. The Jewish Christ is dead