“Nearly Half of Young U.S. Jews Want To Replace Israel With Binational State, Poll Finds” – And How We U.S. Grassroots Should Respond
#1324 May 31, 2026
What’s most disturbing about a new poll of U.S. Jews isn’t just younger ones favoring replacing Israel with a “binational” state, but almost four-fifths of all ages favoring either that or “two-state solution” that would turn our Jewish national home into a Jewishly meaningless indefensible Jewish national ghetto. What can we do? I make a suggestion, come see.
“Nearly Half of Young U.S. Jews Want To Replace Israel With Binational State, Poll Finds” – And How We U.S. Grassroots Should Respond
The Forward ran an article this Wednesday, 5/27/26, with the above-quoted headline, with this sub-head
“The new data reflects generational shift and growing gulf between American and Israeli Jews”
and this lede:
“Almost half of American Jews under 35 say the Israeli-Palestinian conflict should be solved by creating a single country in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza with a government elected by both Israelis and Palestinians, according to a poll conducted by the Jewish Voter Resource Center.
“The findings signal a generational shift in U.S. support for a binational state in Israel, reflecting a core demand of anti-Zionist protests on college campuses and beyond, even as most major Jewish organizations classify calls for a single state as an expression of antisemitism.”
I have two problems (and I hope you do too) with this poll question
“In your opinion, which of the following would be the best resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?”
One problem is with the choices part of the question itself, and the other with the poll participants’ answers.
What’s Wrong With the Question
The poll question offered three choices, a binational one-state solution, the two-state solution, and Israeli “annexation” – viz:
“Establishing one state that is neither Jewish nor Palestinian, and includes Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza under a single government elected by Israelis and Palestinians”
“Establishing two separate states with their own separate governments – a Jewish State of Israel alongside an Arab State of Palestine”
“Israeli annexation of the West Bank and Gaza that establishes one state as the national homeland of the Jewish people, and allows Palestinians to vote for their municipal leaders but not vote for Israel’s national government”
Talk about question begging, conceding that Judea and Samaria is “the West Bank,” an antonym, not a synonym, of “Judea-Samaria,” compounded by making Israel having to “annex” it, dictionary-defined as “taking over another country’s land,” is about as loaded as our Jewish people’s homeland’s enemies could have put it.
We Jews have damn good historical and legal claim. We’ve been physically present, thrice sovereign, for three thousand years. Palestinian Arabs have never ruled Palestine ever. Every ruler following Roman destruction of Jewish Judaea was a foreign empire invader, and mostly non-Arab at that. Today’s Israel is the land of Israel’s next native state. The Palestine Mandate mandated it as the “Jewish national home,” allowing trustee Britain to excise from it the three-quarters of Mandated Palestine only east of the River, today’s judenrein Jordan with its Palestinian Arab majority population.
So instead of “Israeli annexation,” that choice should have been “Areas of Palestinian Arab autonomy in portions of Judea-Samaria under Israeli sovereignty and security control.” In his One Jewish State, Amb. David Friedman, in expanding on President Trump’s first term peace plan sidelined by the Abraham Accords, points out that Puerto Ricans vote for local leaders but not U.S. President. Actually, Judea-Samaria Arabs are freer. By crossing a water barrier about as formidable as Philadelphia’s Wissahickon Creek, they can be in a Palestinian Arab homeland in Palestine where they’re the majority.
What’s Wrong With the Answers
But beyond finding fault with the poll’s framing of the question, we pro-Israel U.S. Jews should be even more troubled by the poll participants’ answers. 54% of these all-ages U.S. Jewish responders favor “the two-state solution,” which ZOA’s Morton Klein rightly calls “not a pro-Israel position.” Israelis meekly walking out of Judea-Samaria and historic Jerusalem would shrink our people’s Jewish national home into a Jewishly meaningless indefensible Jewish national ghetto.
Worse even than that, a further 24% go for the Jewish homeland replacing binational one-state solution. So that’s 54% of U.S. Jews going for undoing the Six Day War of 1967, plus 24% for undoing that and Israel’s 1948 War of Independence – i.e., a total of 78% percent of us for undoing fulfillment of what Ben-Gurion rightly called the Dream of Generations for our people’s homeland’s sovereign redemption. I’m with the 22% standing by Israel, as Ben-Gurion called on us, and I hope you are too.
What We Grassroots Can Do About It
That Forward article quotes a U.S. professor that
“young American Jews have little experience of Israel as a vulnerable underdog, unlike older generations that witnessed the establishment of the state or its victory in the 1967 and 1973 Arab-Israeli wars.”
Our era’s great Zionists, the nation’s founders and most Six Day and Yom Kippur war veterans aren’t here anymore, but moving books by and about them abound, typically “used,” on Amazon and AbeBooks.com. Go there and get them, read them and pass them on to those among us, not only the young, who, oh-so-lamentably, see binational or two-state solutions as desirable in place of Israel.
But, wait! Before that, click this link to the pages on my website
in which I recommend, on a dozen facets of Israel, gripping reads by or about those who brought about what Charles Krauthammer rightly called the “miraculous” Jewish history events of our time.
Myron Sugarman’s comment by email reply:
JERRY,
Thank you again for your important contributions to facts, knowledge and wisdom. I am forwarding it as usual to my 1,800 friends on Bcc, only G-d knows how many actually read what I send them
Insofar as the Jewish youth of America, my own opinion is that unless they’re either Yeshiva educated or members of the small numbers of proud Right of Center Revisionist Zionists or better yet, even both, I am of the firm opinion that the vast majority of Jewish youth of America are LOST.
Remember when you and I were kids, being Jewish and Israel played important roles in our lives, we didn’t need our Elders to feed us books to help us to become interested in our Jewish history and in our Zionism, you and I went looking for books on our own because there was something within us that drove us to learn as much as we possibly could.
We were driven by Jewish pride
I have no idea of the success of Birthright to cause Jewish youth to connect with our ties to our Ancestral Homeland, apparently from the statistics you wrote about in your article below, maybe if we didn’t have Birthright the numbers would be even far worse amongst Jewish youth of America
In the not so very long run, the life for the Jews in America, unless a miraculous intervention from the Great World Beyond by the G-D of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, we have no future here in America and many other places throughout the Galut (Exile), the 250 years were wonderful but like the expression goes, “the Party is over!”
We need to keep talking about Jabotinsky’s great speech of Tisha B’Av 1938 to the 3 million Jews of Poland, where he pleaded for Jews to run when there was still a chance to escape what Jabotinsky saw as the Volcano ready to explode,
Unfortunately, he was right.
Yes, I understand the reluctance of the Jew in America to see any signs of another Volcano, but this is June, 2026, anybody with any sense of history can see the proverbial handwriting on the wall.
I think that our job now is to emphasize Vladimir Zev Jabotinsky’s “Evacuation Plan” and keep repeating and repeating the message because nobody in their right mind sees Jew hatred subsiding and we’ll be able to play Ring Around the Rosy with our fellow American Jihadists in years to come, who will be Masters of America, Mamdani’s will be a dime a dozen.
Shavua Tov and best wishes to you and your family
Myron
Hi, Myron,
Thanks so much for your comment and forwarding.
Decades ago, in my visit to Israel, we were invited to a delightful home dinner by distant cousins long living there. After-dinner conversation turned to their asking “So when are you moving here?” I answered differently than I’d have to now. I replied back then “Why do you think America supports Israel?” “Because it’s the right thing to do.” “Of course, it’s the right thing to do, given our democracy and Judeo-Christian heritage connections, but that’s not the full reason. Our presence and our peoplehood and homeland advocacy matter.”
Today, I’d have to answer those Israeli cousins that steadfast support of our people and its homeland by Diaspora, meaning mostly American, Jewry is increasingly indispensable, and we here who see this must increasingly urgently make this case to our fellow US Jews, our younger generation especially. Only if we’re successful in this can we help Americans keep seeing the inestimable importance to the Free World of US and Israel mutual support of Western civilization.
All the best,
Jerry
Emailed comment by Henry::
Jerry, The 4th choice, logically including the other 3, Should the Jewish Israelis commit mass suicide?
That would save the Islamists the trouble of doing it themselves on their way to world domination. Henry
ME: Hi, Henry,
Israelis agreeing to either binational or two-state solution would be suicidal, which is why our and our homeland’s enemies are so gung-ho for them.
Posted this. Best, Jerry
Emailed comment by Hans:
I think the mainstream Jewish prefer to put their head in the sand until its to late like in London
MY REPLY: Hi, Hans, I fear you’re right. They not only support “solutions” that would be fatal to our homeland, but do so using pejoratives (“West Bank … ‘Green Line’ as pre-Six Day War ‘border’ … annexation … ‘Occupied Palestinian Territories’ which are neither ‘occupied’ nor ‘Palestinian’ nor ‘territories,’ but featureless 1948 ceasefire lines). Jerry
FURTHER FRIM HANS::
Thing is with all these left liberal teatowel brigade thinking they know everything yet couldn’t even point on the map where Israel is or know it was Egypt who actually occupied Gaza for starters.
Most people including the Jewish generations are sheep and believe what they see on their social media.
We went beginning of May to Auschwitz, what those families endured is beyond believe and these generations are leading their own people to same destination
England is doomed without a doubt im hearing NY, and even Texas are going same route
Regards
Hans
Those who want a binational state should learn from the experiences of Jews who lived in Arab majority countries and were expelled. See description of Free Library 2025 event I hosted about Rabbi Gabbai’s experience in Egypt https://libwww.freelibrary.org/calendar/event/150493 and Pierre Rehov’s film Silent Exodus, which can be seen for free on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFyDU62W4Rk&t=17s