Is Israel losing a generation of Americans?

In recent years, American youth’s support for the occupation has declined, while their support for the Palestinian cause has increased, especially among university students, whose campuses have been a strong center of activity for the “Boycott Israel and Divestment Movement - BDS,” which resists the occupation, settler colonialism, and Israeli apartheid in order to Real freedom, justice and equality in Palestine, Reaching the right to self-determination for all the Palestinian people in the homeland and the diaspora.
A few months ago, an opinion poll issued by the Pew Research Institute indicated that the feelings of American youth (between 18 and 29 years old) towards both sides of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict have changed significantly, as “61% of them now look positively at the Palestinians, while the percentage towards the Israelis is 56% “.
Since the “Al-Aqsa Flood,” the hysterical Israeli reaction, and the continuation of the genocide in the Gaza Strip, new slogans have spread among American youth, led by “from the river to the sea,” “apartheid,” “land theft,” and “ethnic cleansing” instead of previous slogans focused on “Israel’s right to exist,” “striking terrorists,” and “anti-Semitism,” while the vigils and demonstrations supporting the Palestinian side increased compared to those supporting the occupation, which prompted the American jurist (Richard Goldwasser) to say: “Israel is against “You are about to lose a generation of Americans, and this means the loss of America.”
Later, the latest poll in the United States (conducted by Harris Insight & Analytics and the Center for American Affairs at Harvard University), which the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth described as “dramatic,” revealed that “51% of young Americans believe that the preferred solution to Palestinian/Israeli conflict is the end of the State of Israel and its handover to Hamas and the Palestinians,” while “60% said that “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood” can be justified by the plight that the Palestinians are experiencing,” and the majority of Americans between the ages of 18-24 and 25-34 years also indicated that they “believe that Israel is committing genocide.”
On a complementary level, American voters’ support for American military aid to the occupation decreased. According to a new poll conducted by Quinnipiac University and published by the American newspaper The Hill, only 45% of registered voters said that they support the United States sending additional military aid to the occupation, and this is a decrease from a previous poll conducted last November, when “54% of registered voters said they wanted to provide additional military aid to the occupation.”

The poll also showed “Americans’ dissatisfaction with their country’s support for the occupation as the war on the Gaza Strip continues.” It is known that this new poll came just one day after a group of Democrats in the US House of Representatives sent a letter to President Joe Biden in which it said: “We are deeply concerned about the current military strategy of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Gaza and the increasing number of civilian deaths and the humanitarian crisis is unacceptable and is not in line with American interests, nor does it advance the issue of security for our ally, Israel.” It also said, “58% of Democrats and 48% of independents said they oppose aid to the Israeli military campaign in Gaza.”
All of these numbers are astonishing, as are their implications, which reflect a major fact that there are historical transformations taking place within the United States (and others, of course, throughout the world) and will have significant political consequences in terms of shedding light on the Palestinian narrative of the conflict (at the expense of the old/new invented Israeli narrative) and also in terms of revealing the ugly face of the Israeli occupation. However, things always depend on their endings. What is required now is to maintain, and even increase, the momentum of these transformations through a thoughtful plan that we develop and follow up on its implementation in a way that ensures the continued shining of the sun of the Palestinian cause and the decline of the “sun” of the occupation and its state.