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One in five young Americans believes the Holocaust is a myth, poll finds

One in five young Americans thinks that the Holocaust is a myth and only half are convinced that it definitely happened, according to a new poll.

Older Americans were far more likely to believe the historical fact of the Holocaust, the attempt by Hitler’s Germany to exterminate Jewish people.

The findings are particularly sensitive amid growing accusations of anti-Semitism on US university campuses since the start of the Israel-Hamas war.

Fake news on social media has been suggested as an explanation for the findings in the YouGov/The Economist poll, which found the proportion of Americans who believe the Holocaust is a myth was similar across all levels of education.

About 20 per cent of people aged 18 to 29 believe the murder of six million Jews is made up, the survey found. An additional 30 per cent said they did not know whether the Holocaust was a myth or not.

Social media doesn’t help, but, it’s failing schools, including colleges

Young people were also nearly five times more likely to think that Jews have too much power in the USA than those aged 65 or over. Some 28 per cent of young respondents agreed with the well-worn anti-Semitic trope, compared to just 6 per cent of older Americans.

These are the same ones wearing nose rings, telling everyone their preferred pronouns, and constantly yammering about LBGT while espousing interest in Islam and saying it would be tolerant to them. They learn this in schools. Speaking of schools, the NY Times is more concerned with Republicans seizing on the Democratic Party voters at colleges being Jew haters than the Democratic Party voters at colleges actually being Jew haters

As Fury Erupts Over Campus Antisemitism, Conservatives Seize the Moment

For years, conservatives have struggled to persuade American voters that the left-wing tilt of higher education is not only wrong but dangerous. Universities and their students, they’ve argued, have been increasingly clenched by suffocating ideologies — political correctness in one decade, overweening “social justice” in another, “woke-ism” most recently — that shouldn’t be dismissed as academic fads or harmless zeal.

The validation they have sought seemed to finally arrive this fall, as campuses convulsed with protests against Israel’s military campaign in Gaza and hostile, sometimes violent, rhetoric toward Jews. It came to a head last week on Capitol Hill, as the presidents of three elite universities struggled to answer a question about whether “calling for the genocide of Jews” would violate school rules, and Republicans asserted that outbreaks of campus antisemitism were a symptom of the radical ideas they had long warned about. On Saturday, amid the fallout, one of those presidents, M. Elizabeth Magill of the University of Pennsylvania, resigned.

For Republicans, the rise of antisemitic speech and the timid responses of some academic leaders presented a long-sought opportunity to flip the political script and cast liberals or their institutions as hateful and intolerant. “What I’m describing is a grave danger inherent in assenting to the race-based ideology of the radical left,” said Representative Virginia Foxx, Republican of North Carolina, at the hearing, adding, “Institutional antisemitism and hate are among the poison fruits of your institution’s cultures.”

This was a very high on the webpage article on Sunday. Colleges are mostly run and staffed by Democrats, most of the teachers are Democrats, and so many kiddies are taught to be Democrats, but, hey, let’s yammer about Republicans seizing.

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