When young Jews don't go to Israel, they drift

(JNS) — A Jewish college student sits in a lecture hall while her professor describes Israel as a colonial project. She’s not sure he’s right, but she doesn’t have the knowledge or courage to push back. She stays quiet. After class, she scrolls through Instagram, where the algorithm serves her a steady diet of the same narrative. By winter break, she’s stopped going to Hillel. By spring, she tells her parents she doesn’t feel connected to Israel anymore.

She’s not angry. She’s just gone.

This is not a hypothetical. This is the pattern Brandeis University just documented in the most significant...