In the Mind of an Antisemite
"You don't fight a genocidal war against a population that just survived another genocide, lose that war, and then cry about it for 75 years. That isn't how this works."
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In the mind of an antisemite: Jews control the world.
In reality: Jews cannot even defend themselves against radical Islamic terrorists without being charged for “genocide” at the UN International Court of Justice.
In the mind of an antisemite: Let’s see what nonsense we can conjure up against the Jewish state. Genocidal intent, ethnic cleaning, settler colonialism, White supremacy it is!
In reality: From day one of the Israel-Hamas war, which Hamas started, Israel has taken measures to protect Palestinian lives that no other country would even entertain, given the circumstances.
“There are very few modern militaries in the world that would do that,” said White House spokesman John Kirby. “I don’t know that we would do that.”
In the mind of an antisemite: History will forever look kindly on South Africa’s government for its noble and heroic deed of bringing a genocide case against Israel at the World Court.
In reality: In South Africa, a person is assaulted every two minutes, a woman is raped every 12 minutes, and a person is murdered every 19 minutes. As a matter of fact, five of the 20 most dangerous cities across the world are in South Africa.
But, of course, South Africa’s case against Israel is a handy deflection for their government’s domestic failures, just as the Jews have regularly been a convenient excuse for society’s ills throughout much of our history.
In the mind of an antisemite: Israel desperately failed to prove South Africa’s compelling case that was presented before the World Court.
In reality: Israel just reminded the world that you shouldn’t mess with Jewish lawyers.
In the mind of an antisemite: Israel is killing Palestinian women and children indiscriminately!
In reality: Israeli soldiers are confronted with unprecedented military gymnastics because they are fighting within an environment incredibly unique to combat — both urban and underground — since Hamas has turned virtually all of Gaza into a quasi-military fortress.
War is horrendous and innocents will inevitably be hurt and killed, but Israel is doing the best it can to avoid needless carnage while at the same time ridding its borders of bestial terror (as any country would). The ratio of combatant to non-combatant casualties (if we believe the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry) is believed to be one-to-two, meaning that for every terrorist there are two civilians killed.
Yet “pro-Palestinian” activists, true to their cause, claim that “Israel is lying” and, in the same breath, cite Hamas (the world’s fifth-most active terrorist organization) as a reliable source of information. Brilliant.
In the mind of an antisemite: Israel is killing journalists at an alarming rate!
In reality: David Collier, an investigative journalist, researched on social media 100 of the “journalists” in Gaza. “Almost all of them are tied up with Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Almost all of them celebrate the murder of Jews,” he said.1
In Hamas-run Gaza, the vast majority of “journalists” exist solely to be in the service of Hamas’ genocidal, fascist, Islamic fundamentalist ideology.
In the mind of an antisemite: Israel seeks to destroy the Palestinians.
The reality: What Israel seeks is not to destroy a people but to protect a people, its people, and to do so in accordance with international law even as it faces an enemy hellbent on leveraging a storm of lies, distortions, misinformation, and gaslighting against it.
As if this storm wasn’t enough, Israel’s enemy is now using the people of Gaza as legal human shields to cover up Hamas’ war crimes and keep the terror group in kleptocratic power.
In the mind of an antisemite: End Israel’s blockade of Gaza!
In reality: Israel keeps Gaza (and the Palestinian West Bank) afloat by allowing it to use the Israeli shekel. There is no other country that would supply the Palestinian economy with its currency because doing so automatically devalues said currency.
On October 6th, 2023, amidst the ceasefire in place, some 18,000 individuals from Gaza were employed in and supported by Israel, channeling $25 million each month into the Gaza Strip. Shockingly, some of these very employees aided Hamas in targeting the very places where they worked.
With Israel’s backing, the Gaza economy experienced a remarkable 20-percent growth, and per capita gross domestic product soared by 19 percent. Meanwhile, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad opted for war on October 7th, and these 18,000 individuals immediately became unemployed.
In the mind of an antisemite: Israeli Jews should just go back to Europe.
The reality: More than half of Israeli Jews are of Middle Eastern and North African descent, because nearly one million Jews were implicitly or explicitly expelled from their homes across the Middle East and North Africa, leading up to and after Israel declared its independence in 1948.
But we know the drill: In pre-Holocaust Europe, Jews were told to go back to “Palestine.” Now they’re being told to get out of “Palestine.”
In the mind of an antisemite: Israel should care more about the Palestinians!
The reality: It might just be that Israel cares more about the Palestinians than the Palestinians care about themselves.
Throughout this war, Israel has warned Palestinians when and where it is going to attack, facilitates aid to the Palestinians, helps with evacuations, and established humanitarian corridors so civilians can avoid the battle zones.
Israel has also invented military techniques specifically designed to save Palestinian lives, such as “roof knocking” — a practice of dropping non-explosive or low-yield devices on the roofs of targeted civilian infrastructure that is used by Palestinian combatants, to warn non-combatants of imminent bombing and give them time to leave the buildings.
And while the Arabs didn’t welcome the modest immigration of Jews during Ottoman-era and British-era Palestine, from the mid-1800s through the 1930s, Arabs indeed benefitted from Jewish arrival. Ardent Zionist Dr. Israel Kligler, a microbiologist, is credited with malaria eradication in the region, which ironically resulted in a major share of the Arab’s massive population increase.
In the mind of an antisemite: Israel should terminate its occupation of the Palestinians!
In reality: “Palestine” is the only country in the world that never existed before its so-called occupation. Therefore, the Palestinians have the weakest case among all the world’s conflicts. Yet, because their opponents are the world’s villains — the Jews — the Palestinians have a distinct advantage over every other conflict in the world.
In the mind of an antisemite: There would be no antisemitism in the Middle East if the Jews didn’t declare statehood in 1948.
In reality: In 1834, the Palestinian peasants’ revolt, which was precipitated by heavy Egyptian demands for conscripts, took place well before any real semblance of modern-day Zionism.
In head-scratching yet highly antisemitic fashion, Palestinians deployed their frustrations against the region’s Jews. In Safed, they took advantage of a defenseless Jewish population, looting and destroying their homes, as well as raping and killing. In Jerusalem, hundreds of Jewish-owned shops were raided and damaged. Jews were also murdered in Nablus and Hebron.
Episodes of Palestinian violence, both individual and in groups, routinely continued throughout the 1800s and into the 1900s. But sure, keep on spreading the myth that antisemitism in the Middle East only exists because of the Jewish state’s declaration of independence in 1948.
In the mind of an antisemite: What about the “Nakba” when 700,000 Palestinians had to flee their homes in 1948 because of Israel?
In reality: On May 14th, 1948, the armies of Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Jordan (the Arab League) waged war against the hours-old Jewish state and tried to commit genocide against the Jews in their indigenous homeland. They promised a victory to the Palestinians and told them to leave their homes — a fact corroborated by many Arab leaders, past and present — so the Arab armies could invade and rid of the region of Jews. But that victory never came, so they called it the “Nakba” (catastrophe in Arabic).
As one Instagram user aptly wrote: “You don’t fight a genocidal war against a population that just survived another genocide, lose that war, and then cry about it for 75 years. That isn’t how this works.”2
In the mind of an antisemite: Israel cannot be the Jews’ indigenous homeland if the country is just 75 years old.
In reality: Ironically, the Arabic word for Jew is “yahud” because Jews are the people of Yahuda (Judea), presently called Israel — but acknowledging this fact means acknowledging Jews lived in Judea thousands of years ago, which means acknowledging Jewish indigenousness way before Arabs from Arabia migrated to and Arabicized the Levant, which means acknowledging Jewish rights in this land — a big turn-off for Jew haters, anti-Zionists, and terrorist sympathizers.
What’s next? Claiming that the Palestinians created the TV show “Seinfeld” which didn’t truly take place in New York City, but in Gaza City? And that Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer were actually Palestinians?
Or that Palestine was once a peaceful supercontinent known as Palestengea, until Zionists divided it up into smaller continents?3
In the mind of an antisemite: Can’t you see that Israel creates more antisemitism?
In reality: To borrow a line from Israeli politician Yair Lapid, “The State of Israel wasn’t founded because we thought antisemitism would disappear. The State of Israel was founded so we can tell antisemites to go screw themselves.”
In the mind of an antisemite: Why can’t we just go back to the 1967 borders?
In reality: People often talk about the 1967 borders as a plausible solution to the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian saga, but what they don’t always mention is that Gaza was under Egyptian control and the West Bank was part of Jordan prior and leading up to the 1967 Six-Day War.
Egypt wanted to create a pan-Arab state (the United Arab Republic) and unite the Arab populations under this state, whereas Jordan annexed the West Bank. The two countries were at odds.
Had Israel disappeared in 1967, there wouldn’t be peace. There would be a conflict between Egypt and Jordan, at least, over what to do with this land in which an Arab state named Palestine never existed. Thus, establishing a Palestinian state along the “1967 borders” wouldn’t be a “return” to the way things were. It would be the invention of a new regional problem, as if the Middle East and North Africa need another one.
In the mind of an antisemite: Hamas doesn’t hide among the Palestinian people in Gaza. Hamas is the Palestinian people in Gaza.
In reality: A resident of Gaza recently shared that “Hamas’ people have trimmed their beards and are hiding among the civilian population in order to avoid assassinations by the IDF. In the meantime they are stealing the aid.”4
In the mind of an antisemite: The Houthis aren’t a terrorist organization. They’re just coming to the defense of their Palestinian brothers and sisters.
The reality: The Houthis’ official slogan literally says, “Allah Is the Greatest, Death to America, Death to Israel, A Curse Upon the Jews, Victory to Islam.”
In the mind of an antisemite: Ceasefire now!
In reality: Another Palestinian from Gaza City recently wrote: “It’s not possible to simply put all the focus on Israel and keep calling for a ceasefire without fundamentally understanding what’s at play here. Hamas’ role, actions, decisions, and priorities are inexorably linked to the current war and misery of Palestinians. The eventual cessation of the war will require pressure applied on Hamas to compromise, accept its responsibilities, and pay the necessary price.”5
In the mind of an antisemite: We should just treat all cultures equally.
In reality: It is easy to live somewhere far, far away from the Middle East and preach “cultural relativism” if you haven’t been murdered or kidnapped after undergoing anal gang-rape during a music festival, at the hands of Muslim men shouting in Arabic, “Allah is the greatest!”
In the mind of an antisemite: All this Islamophobia since October 7th is making me really uncomfortable!
In reality: Islamophobia is the fear of Islam or Muslims, especially when seen as a geopolitical force or a source of terrorism. But there’s something really awkward about this definition: Many of us have totally rational reasons to be frightened by Islam and Muslims — because millions of Muslims are, as a matter of fact, a geopolitical force and a source of terrorism.
The Middle East and North Africa used to be predominantly Christian. Now they are predominantly Muslim — and growing in the latter direction. In most Middle Eastern countries, Christian populations are declining and there is “horrifying growth” of Christian persecution, according to the organization Open Doors.
As far as Islam and Muslims being a source of terrorism, it would be foolish to say that all terrorists are Muslim, but a healthy percentage of terror attacks are carried out by Muslims, in the name of Islam. In the UK, for example, nearly 70 percent of terror attacks are Islamist.6
In the mind of an antisemite: I have Jewish friends. I can’t be antisemitic.
The reality: It may seem contradictory for someone to have Jewish friends while holding antisemitic views, but human behavior can indeed be complex and inconsistent. People might compartmentalize their beliefs or exhibit cognitive dissonance, where they hold contradictory thoughts or attitudes. Tokenizing, stereotyping, stigmatizing, unconscious bias, and selective empathy are a few ways this contradiction can occur.
In the mind of an antisemite: Jews own Hollywood.
The reality: Ah, so that’s why we get so many great Jewish movies every year.
In the mind of an antisemite: Jews should stop being so smart and clever.
The reality: The Jews are the only minority group to which the words “clever” and “smart” are used as insults, and to which the skill of being “good with money” is meant to be derogatory.
In the mind of an antisemite: Hamas is just helping the Palestinians liberate themselves from Israeli tyranny, oppression, occupation, and ethnic cleansing.
The reality: Hamas’ 1988 charter includes a “hadith,” an Islamic commandment, that suggests the Day of Judgment will not come until the Muslims fight and kill the Jews. Nothing in Israel’s declaration of independence suggested any policy or doctrine against the Palestinians, Muslims, or Arabs.
The Jews even agreed to share the modern-day Levant with the Palestinians based on the 1947 UN Partition Plan. (I know, it’s hard to believe that, once upon a time, the UN did something remotely favorable for the Jews.)
One of the reasons Arab leaders rejected the UN Partition Plan was their own disbelief in the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination. In fact, they were opposed to it; Arab leaders never recognized Palestinians as an ethnic group with self-determination rights, but rather as a part of the larger Arab goal to create Greater Syria, covering today’s Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, and Israel, a vision outlined in the McMahon-Hussein correspondence of 1915 and 1916.
When Israel declared statehood in 1948 based on the UN Partition Plan, the Palestinians and their Arab “allies” responded with multiple wars and incessant bouts of terrorism in the following decades, still to this day. Israel, like any country, has mostly acted to defend itself and its people accordingly.
In the mind of an antisemite: But I don’t like that the Jews can defend themselves.
The reality: Well, reality’s a bitch, isn’t it?
David Collier on X
@ranchingandrescuing on Instagram
The Mossad: Satirical, Yet Awesome on X
Aviva Klompas on X
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib on X
“Scandalous Indoctrination: Inside a Kings College Counter-Terrorism Course for UK Civil Servants.” Fathom.
It's time to actually say no to the rest of the world we won't apologise for defending our families, we fight this war a war put upon you, you don't apologise for the innocent accidentally harmed or killed, they cheered your loss celebrated innocent unarmed citizens being raped and murdered, Winston Churchill said it they sowed the seeds now let them reap the harvest ( I know whirlwind ) but no other country would tolerate such an an attack, the twin towers attack America went in guns blazing, when Iraq attacked Kuwait 35 States went to war against them, so the world needs to shut up and allow Israel to clean house and do it properly this time you tried nice and innocent Israelis have paid the price.
The article is genius the way it was constructed and your last "Reaity," excellent! This should be sent to all prominent antisemites to read, but then again, they'd say it's all a lie. This is the mindset nowadays, present facts and they turn their heads. Amir Tsarfati made a great comment about these uni protesters in the States and elsewhere. He said, "I feel bad for the parents that paid so much money to get such a stinking education." Going to uni doesn't mean you've been educated or knowledgeable as evidenced by the ignorance shown in these "protests." I read a comment the other day saying that 75% of doctors are Jews (in the US). Turns out 14.1% are Jewish, the majority are, 38.8% Protestant, 21.7 Catholic. For all the keyboard warriors, they only have to find a link with the information instead of throwing out numbers with no validity and worse, lies. That would be what a thinking person would do, but an antisemite, never. They need to keep the lies perpetuated. The antisemites who accuse Israel of anything and everything are guilty of the very things they say Israel does. So, if Israel didn't take the time to keep Palestinians safe, they'd be criticized, and when they do, they're criticised. It is a no win situation for Israel which is why Israel will continue to do what it must do to win the conflict for the country and its people.