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Introduction: A 25-Year-Old American Jews Struggles to Make Sense of a Post-October 7th World (Sneak Peak)

For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Ted Goldstein. 

I am a 25 year-old American Jew from Los Angeles, CA, and I was a witness to the miseducation of the American Mind that has made Gen Z so antisemitic. 

If you were shocked and appalled by what has happened to the United States in the past year, if you could not believe how rapidly our civic virtue declined, if you could not fathom what has happened – this book is for you. 

As a high-achieving, Ivy-League Educated, American Jew, I had a front row seat to the indoctrination of my generation. 

I watched it happen firsthand, and I, like millions of Jews around the world, felt the pain of losing most of my non-Jewish friends to this indoctrination. 

When I got into Princeton as a bright-eyed 17 year old, I dreamed of one day becoming the first Jewish president. 

By the time I graduated four years later in 2020, I was telling every Jew I knew to make preparations to flee the country if need be. Because, I told them, I did not think that Jews would be safe walking around the streets of the U.S. by election day 2024. 

What I would give to have been wrong. 

After October 7th, some friends of mine asked me to write more on the subject since I had spent so much time studying it, so I created a substack so that I could publish my thoughts and feelings about the rise of the new antisemitism. 

At first, the thoughts and feelings were disjointed. It was not clear to me how one piece related to the next – I was just writing what I was feeling.

But slowly, overtime, my thoughts became clearer to me, and a clear thesis about our moral decline became more and more apparent. 

This memoir, told in essays and poems, is the account of my year of angst and antisemitism. Between the lines of its essays, it tells the story of how a young American man became ostracized from his country, and how his country became ostracized from itself. 

– Ted Goldstein