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Secular Israeli millennials shift ground on views about Palestinians

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Published: 30 October 2020

Last updated: 4 March 2024

STACEY GUTKOWSKI: Increasing numbers have come to see military activity by the IDF in the West Bank and Gaza as acceptable after four Gaza-Israel wars

A SOCIALLY ELITE GROUP, young secular Jewish-Israelis were once the backbone of the peace movement, working against Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories in the West Bank and Gaza.

But increasing numbers of millennial secular Jewish-Israelis, known as hilonim, have come to see military activity by the Israel Defence Forces in the West Bank and Gaza as acceptable after four Gaza-Israel wars.

My new book sheds new light on why their attitudes towards the Palestinian struggle have shifted.

Stacey Gutkowski is Senior Lecturer in Conflict Studies and Co-Director, Centre for the Study of Divided Societies, King's College London

FULL STORY How secular Israeli millennials feel about Palestinians (The Conversation)

Photo: Young people sitting on grass bank with a view of Jaffa from Tel Aviv (Mor Shani/Unsplash)
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