Niall Ferguson Niall Ferguson

Students annoyed their elders in the 1930s, too

Credit: Dominic Bugatto 
issue 16 December 2023

Astriking generation gap in the western world has been revealed by the responses to the 7 October atrocities in Israel. Noting in these pages the surge in pro-Palestinian sentiment among young people on both sides of the Atlantic, my old friend Douglas Murray worries that ‘When it comes to Palestine, the kids aren’t all right’.

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