I love Israel, and always have. My love was passed onto my children and one made Aliya, married an Israeli, and after five years in NY, now live in Israel with half of my grandchildren. Israel is beloved by my family and we are there every year, and wish that the right wing leaning government would be voted out, while the religious would become part of the IDF, and stop living off nonreligious working Israelis’ taxes. Israel is the best country in the world. I have spent months in nine.
If there are Israelis who are leaving, (yerida) due to frustration with the present government, are not only making a categorical error, they are admitting that they do not believe in the Democratic system.
"A government is replaceable, but a homeland is not. Mistaking a political season for a permanent climate risks becoming an abdication of agency — the very agency the Jewish state was created to provide the Jewish People."
A reminder:
Zeev Jabotinsky warned European Jews of a looming catastrophe primarily during the 1930s, culminating in his 1936 "Evacuation Plan".
He urged millions of Jews in Eastern Europe to leave before disaster struck. [1, 2, 3]
The 1930s Evacuation Plan
1936:
At the New Zionist Organization (Hatzach) conference, Jabotinsky pleaded for the mass removal of millions of European Jews.
1936–1939: He toured Europe to personally plead with Jewish communities to leave, warning: "If you won't eliminate the Diaspora – the Diaspora will eliminate you." [1, 2]
The warning was issued by Analyzing the Danger
Jabotinsky's urgency stemmed from a realistic, prescient analysis of European politics: [1, 2, 3]
The Rise of Fascism: He recognized that the ascent of Nazism and anti-Semitic regimes meant Jews were in physical peril. [1, 2]
Vulnerability in Europe: He argued that emancipation was an illusion. He realized that Jewish integration in countries like Poland, Hungary, and Romania was fragile, and that sympathy was not security. [1, 2]
What percentage of those leaving Israel are Russian and Ukrainian Jews who fled to Israel to escape the war and had no intention of staying? Perhaps those using Israel as a temporary refuge (which is of course their right) should be omitted from the conversation.
"Israel’s public diplomacy strategy should shift from a defensive hasbara posture toward a more assertive approach to fortify reputational security."
It will take cajones, but it can be done. The tactic the IDF use is when attacked not to react defensively but to go on the offensive. It is a tactic that has ensured Israel's physical survival. It does not involve lying or exaggeration but exposing the Arab tactics for what they are.
"Palestinian" is not a protected class of people. It is a recently (1968) manufactured political identity having no basis in law, history or archeological evidence. That Palestine never existed as a state. That its stated goal is not the establishment of a state but the elimination of a sovereign one and annihilate its people, a crime falling under the Geneva Genocide Convention. That the cause is but one branch of a larger movement, Dawah, establishing Islam as the world religion. That Surahs in the Koran attack not just Jews but Christians too labelling them as vile kuffars, infidels, whose fate is to convert, accept third class status involving punitive taxation and public humiliation, exile, or decapitation. All other peoples are even more detested as idolaters for whom conversion or beheading will be their only choice.
Also reveal how the enemy's tactic is to eat away as Western Civilization from within by eroding continuity national identity and the ability to maintain national security. Remind the people of the aggressive street demonstrations, the non-stop random attacks on civilians, the rapes of women, the abuse of Western values like Free Speech to promote Licentious or Criminal Speech like hate mongering.
These are just a few suggestions how to mount an effective counter-propaganda offensive. The "Liberals," i.e. the left leaning will hate it, but the goal is not to appease the appeasers. It is to demand the same rights and respect given all other national peoples.
It's always struck me that while Israel / Israelis move settle Judea Samaria to the thundering denunciation of the world at large, Galilee has an Arab majority ....and it's such beautiful country. And that since the war people have left and aren't returning. And any move to bring Jews there is DENOUNCED too....as so called "Judaization." Even within Israel's accepted borders by most except of course the Arabs. There aren't enough Jews in the world to have a mass migration. American / Canadian Jews are more assimilated than ever and the young more hostile to Israel than even my generation which had plenty of that among young Jews. I too wonder how many Jews are going to make aliyah or yerida if you prefer from Israel to Iceland, to Ireland, to Spain....to precisely the countries that are the most hostile to Israelis and to Jews. And the United States. Southern California's climate is similar enough that there is a large Israeli and Persian Jewish presence there. And a few committed idealistic Jews will continue to make aliyah to Israel. Constant war encourages Jews to leave Israel....some Jews like the Soviet ones I met fifty years ago are too European to feel comfortable in their new setting(and apply for American immigration) no matter how Western Israel was then or even more so now. And in a way it's become more Eastern too than my first visit. My hunch is that Israel's future is with the Sephardim/Mizrahim.
The term was invented in the 19th century by an outright racist German Jew hater, meant to refer specifically to the Jewish race. By all means use the more accurate term “Jew hatred” if you wish.
"According to the Times of Israel, more than 69,000 Israelis emigrated (yerida) in 2025, compared with approximately 19,894 arrivals; in 2024, 82,700 Israelis left while only 29,859 arrived, marking the second consecutive year in which emigration exceeded immigration."
Is it known who is leaving and why?
Are they IDF dodgers?
Left wingers who hate Bibi and free market capitalism?
Right wingers who detest Israel's corrupt judicial system?
I have a good Ukrainian friend - highly educated - he said it was amazing how many Russians suddenly discovered their Jewish ancestry. He also knew Ukrainians who did likewise that was suspicious.
I completely agree that we should take the Black struggle for equal rights and respect as the model that Jewish people should follow. Although the Black community still has some struggles left, they have succeeded in their attempts by leaps and bounds. We should all note that while most people find it appalling when Blacks are referred to disparagingly, those same people do not have a similar reaction when Jews are denigrated. It was the response of the Black community to discrimination that achieved the change in their status. Jews need to mimic most of their peaceful tactics.
I love Israel, and always have. My love was passed onto my children and one made Aliya, married an Israeli, and after five years in NY, now live in Israel with half of my grandchildren. Israel is beloved by my family and we are there every year, and wish that the right wing leaning government would be voted out, while the religious would become part of the IDF, and stop living off nonreligious working Israelis’ taxes. Israel is the best country in the world. I have spent months in nine.
If there are Israelis who are leaving, (yerida) due to frustration with the present government, are not only making a categorical error, they are admitting that they do not believe in the Democratic system.
"A government is replaceable, but a homeland is not. Mistaking a political season for a permanent climate risks becoming an abdication of agency — the very agency the Jewish state was created to provide the Jewish People."
A reminder:
Zeev Jabotinsky warned European Jews of a looming catastrophe primarily during the 1930s, culminating in his 1936 "Evacuation Plan".
He urged millions of Jews in Eastern Europe to leave before disaster struck. [1, 2, 3]
The 1930s Evacuation Plan
1936:
At the New Zionist Organization (Hatzach) conference, Jabotinsky pleaded for the mass removal of millions of European Jews.
1936–1939: He toured Europe to personally plead with Jewish communities to leave, warning: "If you won't eliminate the Diaspora – the Diaspora will eliminate you." [1, 2]
The warning was issued by Analyzing the Danger
Jabotinsky's urgency stemmed from a realistic, prescient analysis of European politics: [1, 2, 3]
The Rise of Fascism: He recognized that the ascent of Nazism and anti-Semitic regimes meant Jews were in physical peril. [1, 2]
Vulnerability in Europe: He argued that emancipation was an illusion. He realized that Jewish integration in countries like Poland, Hungary, and Romania was fragile, and that sympathy was not security. [1, 2]
https://unpacked.education/video/unpacking-jabotinsky/
https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/2013-08-04/ty-article/.premium/1940-death-of-a-zionist-visionary/0000017f-e143-d7b2-a77f-e3471d800000
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/373545908_The_Fires_of_Destruction_Warsaw_August_1938_On_the_Posthumous_Invention_of_Jabotinsky's_Well-Known_Annihilation_Prophecy
What percentage of those leaving Israel are Russian and Ukrainian Jews who fled to Israel to escape the war and had no intention of staying? Perhaps those using Israel as a temporary refuge (which is of course their right) should be omitted from the conversation.
Very well said. Thank you Sabrina
"Israel’s public diplomacy strategy should shift from a defensive hasbara posture toward a more assertive approach to fortify reputational security."
It will take cajones, but it can be done. The tactic the IDF use is when attacked not to react defensively but to go on the offensive. It is a tactic that has ensured Israel's physical survival. It does not involve lying or exaggeration but exposing the Arab tactics for what they are.
"Palestinian" is not a protected class of people. It is a recently (1968) manufactured political identity having no basis in law, history or archeological evidence. That Palestine never existed as a state. That its stated goal is not the establishment of a state but the elimination of a sovereign one and annihilate its people, a crime falling under the Geneva Genocide Convention. That the cause is but one branch of a larger movement, Dawah, establishing Islam as the world religion. That Surahs in the Koran attack not just Jews but Christians too labelling them as vile kuffars, infidels, whose fate is to convert, accept third class status involving punitive taxation and public humiliation, exile, or decapitation. All other peoples are even more detested as idolaters for whom conversion or beheading will be their only choice.
Also reveal how the enemy's tactic is to eat away as Western Civilization from within by eroding continuity national identity and the ability to maintain national security. Remind the people of the aggressive street demonstrations, the non-stop random attacks on civilians, the rapes of women, the abuse of Western values like Free Speech to promote Licentious or Criminal Speech like hate mongering.
These are just a few suggestions how to mount an effective counter-propaganda offensive. The "Liberals," i.e. the left leaning will hate it, but the goal is not to appease the appeasers. It is to demand the same rights and respect given all other national peoples.
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It's always struck me that while Israel / Israelis move settle Judea Samaria to the thundering denunciation of the world at large, Galilee has an Arab majority ....and it's such beautiful country. And that since the war people have left and aren't returning. And any move to bring Jews there is DENOUNCED too....as so called "Judaization." Even within Israel's accepted borders by most except of course the Arabs. There aren't enough Jews in the world to have a mass migration. American / Canadian Jews are more assimilated than ever and the young more hostile to Israel than even my generation which had plenty of that among young Jews. I too wonder how many Jews are going to make aliyah or yerida if you prefer from Israel to Iceland, to Ireland, to Spain....to precisely the countries that are the most hostile to Israelis and to Jews. And the United States. Southern California's climate is similar enough that there is a large Israeli and Persian Jewish presence there. And a few committed idealistic Jews will continue to make aliyah to Israel. Constant war encourages Jews to leave Israel....some Jews like the Soviet ones I met fifty years ago are too European to feel comfortable in their new setting(and apply for American immigration) no matter how Western Israel was then or even more so now. And in a way it's become more Eastern too than my first visit. My hunch is that Israel's future is with the Sephardim/Mizrahim.
Concise, on-point, minimal blabber. I love it. Thanks.
I find it ironic when people talk about antisemitism they talk about Isreal and forget that the Palestinians are also Semitic.
The term was invented in the 19th century by an outright racist German Jew hater, meant to refer specifically to the Jewish race. By all means use the more accurate term “Jew hatred” if you wish.
Therefore, "Palestine hated." It works both way.
Therefore, "Palestine hated." It works both way.
What are you talking about? "Palestine hatred"? Do you mean Arab?
"According to the Times of Israel, more than 69,000 Israelis emigrated (yerida) in 2025, compared with approximately 19,894 arrivals; in 2024, 82,700 Israelis left while only 29,859 arrived, marking the second consecutive year in which emigration exceeded immigration."
Is it known who is leaving and why?
Are they IDF dodgers?
Left wingers who hate Bibi and free market capitalism?
Right wingers who detest Israel's corrupt judicial system?
Businessmen seeking better opportunities overseas?
Israelis trying to keep their children safe from missile attacks?
Russian and Ukrainian Jewish refugees who always meant to use Israel as a temporary waystation?
I have a good Ukrainian friend - highly educated - he said it was amazing how many Russians suddenly discovered their Jewish ancestry. He also knew Ukrainians who did likewise that was suspicious.
Why would they want to leave Israel for hostile countries is beyond me.
With the BDS movement in the west, why would Israeli businessmen think there are better opportunities overseas? This is foolish.
So, I asked Grok
1) 52% native born - 48% foreign born
2) Mostly young 30 to 50 and many with dual citizenship
3) Professional classes, highly educated
4) Ashkenazi/Secular/Left-leaning appear over represented anecdotally and in qualitative reports.
I completely agree that we should take the Black struggle for equal rights and respect as the model that Jewish people should follow. Although the Black community still has some struggles left, they have succeeded in their attempts by leaps and bounds. We should all note that while most people find it appalling when Blacks are referred to disparagingly, those same people do not have a similar reaction when Jews are denigrated. It was the response of the Black community to discrimination that achieved the change in their status. Jews need to mimic most of their peaceful tactics.