Jewish Ivy League students who identify as “very liberal” fell from 40% to 13%.
Ivy League college campuses are some of the most leftist places in the country. The pro-Hamas campus riots radicalized the next generation of leaders into supporting Islamic terrorism, they terrorized Jewish students and in the process, transformed their politics.
When the encampments went up on elite campuses, Jewish students abandoned the far left in droves. The share of Jewish Ivy League students who identify as “very liberal” on a 7-point ideology scale declined from 40% before the encampments to 13% after they appeared. The proportion of “strong Democrats” tanked from 37% to 14% while the Republican share rose from 12% to 18%. Ivy League Jews went from being well to the left of the median Ivy League student to leaning right of the average.
Speaking anecdotally, I’ve seen a political shift among young secular Jewish Ivy League professionals from knee-jerk liberalism to much less enthusiasm for the movement and more openness to Trump. They’re not about to become Republicans, but based on the FIRE surveys quoted here, they are moving away from the Left.
The drop in affinity for the Left is massive and portends a generational shift.
Far too many Jews instinctively felt that they had a natural home on the left. They no longer do.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
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