College Students’ Shocking 9/11 Views Expose Campus Brainwashing Against America, Israel

A jaw-dropping new survey exposed the alarming indoctrination gripping America’s college campuses, where more than one in five undergrads claim the United States somehow “deserved” the September 11 terror attacks that slaughtered nearly 3,000 people.

The Buckley Institute polled 803 full-time students under 25 at four-year colleges and universities between September 5 and 14. A full 22% agreed with the statement “America deserved September 11th.” Seventy-two percent rejected the notion, and 6% were unsure.

These young people weren’t even born when al-Qaeda terrorists flew planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon 25 years ago.

The finding tracks with the toxic rhetoric of far-Left streamers like Hasan Piker, who has said America “deserved 9/11” and later claimed the U.S. military commits more terrorism pound-for-pound than al-Qaeda.

The same students have swung to the Left on economics and foreign policy. Asked which system they would rather live under, 42% picked socialism and only 28% capitalism, with the rest undecided. That 14-point gap is the widest the Buckley Institute has recorded in the five years it has posed the question. Nearly half agreed that Cuba and the Soviet Union offer a better economic model than American capitalism. Just 33% defended the U.S. system.

Hostility toward Israel has also intensified. When asked to choose which country is a better ally for the United States, 38% named “Palestine” and only 25% Israel. That’s a nine-point shift away from the Jewish state compared with the previous year.

Racial attitudes follow the same pattern. Half the respondents said America remains “inextricably linked to white supremacy” and that most minorities are still shut out of the promise of equality. Only 39% believed the country is making progress and expanding that promise.

Free-speech instincts are equally troubling. Forty percent said “offensive speech” should be subject to criminal prosecution. Nearly half favored campus speech codes, and many students reported feeling intimidated about voicing dissenting views in class. Substantial minorities even said shouting down speakers or using physical violence can be justified against “hate speech.”

“This year’s survey demonstrates that censorious attitudes remain stubbornly high on America’s college campuses,” said Buckley Institute founder and Executive Director Lauren Noble. “During the 250th anniversary of America’s founding, America’s college students have swung heavily in favor of socialism. Alarmingly, those same students are more likely to support shout downs, violence to stop hate speech, and other tools of censorship.”

The Buckley Institute, named for conservative intellectual William F. Buckley Jr., commissioned the national survey through Inquire LLC. The margin of error is 3.5 percentage points.