The generation voting for the first time came of age after the Oslo process collapsed,
when the prospect of negotiating a political resolution to the Israel-Palestine conflict seemed to be fading.
They were teenagers during the Hamas attacks on 7 October 2023, which resulted in the deaths of about 1,200 people, the majority of them civilians.
Militants took 251 living hostages and dead bodies to Gaza, leading to a two-year hostage crisis.
“There’s a lot of people, especially young people, who think that there is no solving the conflict,
that we’ll always be at war.
There’s a lot of racism, a lot of hatred, but most of all, there’s fear,”
said Erez Uzan, vice-chair of the Young Democrats.
Bucking global trends, young Israelis are more rightwing than older generations
and are likely to vote in a new Knesset with more rightwing members than the current chamber,
said Dahlia Scheindlin, a political analyst and public opinion researcher.
Consistently rightwing ultra-Orthodox and nationalist religious communities make up a growing proportion of Israel’s Jewish population but still account for only around a quarter of the electorate,
so demographics alone do not explain the growing age gap on political issues.
“All Israelis, and particularly younger people, have been living in a political environment where
not only is the government rightwing but the general terms of debate are really populist and ultra-nationalist.
That’s all they know. They’re socialised into it,” Scheindlin said.
“There’s been a real downplaying of anything to do with democracy, universal values or human rights.
Those are seen as weak, if they’re discussed at all,
possibly as bad as betrayal.
And very few politicians talk about peace, concessions, negotiations, Palestinian self-determination, or even Palestinian wellbeing.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/18/theres-a-lot-of-racism-a-lot-of-hatred-far-right-gains-predicted-as-israel-heads-to-the-polls?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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