The Jews do strange things to demented people.
“These are people who have taken an oath to a cult and have had to remake themselves in the image of the cult. If they follow ‘Palestine’ they must give up their soul.”
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Those who truly understand antisemitism know that it has little to do with us Jews and most everything to do with them Jew haters.
Of course, antisemitism encompasses a spectrum; not every single antisemite harbors pure hatred for the Jewish People. Some loathe us, others are jealous of us — but all do so in projection of their own fears, frustrations, mistakes, miscalculations, disappointments, insecurities, shame, or guilt. Truth be told, it is easier to identify a scapegoat than it is to take personal responsibility for one’s life.
Antisemitism is also a unique type of bigotry, though it is often (mistakenly) grouped with other forms of it. For example, a new ad campaign titled “Timeout Against Hate” — being run by the Jewish NFL billionaire owner Robert Kraft’s organization, Foundation to Combat Antisemitism — features some of American sports’ biggest names such as Shaquille O’Neal, Billie Jean King, Andy Reid, Candace Parker, and Joe Torre, saying:
“This is the most important timeout I’ve ever called. Things are getting out of control out here, and we need to regroup. Hate is winning out there — out on these fields, in our communities, on our streets, in our schools — and we need to stop it. So let’s take this moment to change the momentum and take a timeout on hate.”
But antisemitism is unlike other types of hate, for it is the only type where otherwise complimentary terms are used as insults. Think “Jews are too clever” and “Jews are too successful” and “Jewish domination” and “Jewish wealth” and “Jews are good with money” and “Jews control the [insert entity here].” Therefore, to group antisemitism with other forms of hate is to confuse its roots, reasons, and impact.
This at least partly explains why the Jews have never been great at “combating antisemitism.” Indeed, there is a joke that goes: “Antisemitism was going nowhere until the Jews got into it.” Again, this is just a joke, but like every joke, it has some truth. The reality is that antisemitism is not something you can combat, no matter how many celebrities you get onboard and how much money you pour into it.
And yet, there is an entire industry around “combating antisemitism.” Jewish organizations, ripe with overpaid and self-righteous “executives,” make a killing by fundraising on the back of Jew-hate. Instead of focusing on what truly matters — instilling Jews with a genuine, growing foundation of Jewish pride — they generate more funds as antisemitism becomes more ubiquitous.
Take, for example, the Anti-Defamation League’s CEO who last week used the “anniversary” of October 7th to explicitly call for “re-commiting to fight antisemitism.”1 This is the same CEO who has deliberately overlooked Left-wing antisemitism — which is just as pernicious as Right-wing antisemitism nowadays — because it does not match up with his and perhaps his donors’ political views. (He served in the White House as Special Assistant to leftist President Barack Obama from 2011 to 2014.)
One of the reasons why many leftist Jews have trouble identifying Left-wing antisemitism is because it is covert, whereas its Right-wing variants are far more overt. Some Jews have also fallen prey to identity politics, meaning they choose to only find fault in opposing political parties, candidates, and worldviews — even at their own expense.
Other Jews in the Diaspora have tried, with the best of intentions of course, to “forge partnerships” with various minority groups under the assumption that if we, the Jews, support their causes, they will support us as well. In the aftermath of October 7th, we have seen this approach mostly go up in the flames of failure — because, again, it demonstrates a profound confusion of antisemitism’s roots, reasons, and impact. We (“the Jews”) are unlike them — and we should be proud of that.
What’s more, antisemitism is not only the oldest hatred, but a symptom of deep dysfunction below the surface of liberal democratic societies and a threat to the pluralism that makes these countries work. While Jewish people and communities certainly bear the brunt of antisemitism, it is a contagion. It ultimately will infect and endanger virtually all Western societies.
There is also the phenomenon of “internalized antisemitism” — which can apply to both Jews and non-Jews alike. “Internalized antisemitism” is the concept that people ingest and even accept stereotypes, discrimination, prejudices, and traumas experienced by the Jewish People, our ethnicity, or our religion.
Consider when hear about a Jewish person who commits some heinous crime, such as Bernie Madoff or Jeffrey Epstein. Rationally, there is no reason why the Jewishness of these criminals should make us feel a certain way about Jews, though I will bet that many of us felt that feeling. And we feel it is because of the negative stereotypes that abound Jews, Judaism, and Jewish history — which have become so entrenched in the soil of civilization, that many Jews absorb some of these beliefs as well.
Hence why many Jews do not even realize the sheer absurdities of what has transpired in our post-October 7th world.
For example, Palestinian terrorists massacred people in Israel as part of a pogrom on October 7th. Yet, since then, Jews have not paraded the streets calling for violence against Palestinians or Arab countries, nor have they stormed airports seeking to lynch Muslims. More than 1,000 Jews were massacred, hundreds more taken hostage, and it is Jews who are feeling unsafe around the world.
People defending the virtue of free speech are doing so because they want to normalize hate speech with genocidal chants like “From the River to the Sea” and “Free, Free Palestine!” (For those more naïve in the crowd, they mean that Israel should be free of Jews.)
The notion of “peaceful protest” is disguising micro-aggressions, bullying, intimidation, fear-mongering, and gaslighting. If the subject of these “protests” was virtually any other minority group not named “the Jews,” they would be shouted down and then shut down within minutes. But because it is “the Jews” in question, these otherwise deplorable behaviors are perfectly acceptable.
To add insult to injury, protestors regularly compare themselves to noble groups from the past who demonstrated against “injustices” such as the anti-Vietnam War protesters. But the latter never covered their faces so you could not identify them. Only when “the Jews” are protestors’ focus does covering one’s face pass the litmus test.
More than 26,000 rockets have been indiscriminately fired mostly at civilian populations in Israel since the start of this war. In other words, that is more than 26,000 war crimes committed by folks who claim to represent the Palestinians. But Israel, the Jewish state, is the only side accused of war crimes.
There are American hostages, British hostages, French hostages, Thai hostages, Russian hostages — and people are marching with impunity, not in support of the hostages, but in support of the hostage-takers — precisely because they were all taken hostage from within the Jewish state.
People were silent while the Kurds and coalition forces bombed Mosul, Iraq to destroy ISIS — killing more than 9,000 civilians in one battle — but they somehow find the time and energy to condemn Israeli bombings intended to defeat known terrorist organizations.
Virtues like “freedom of religion” are being used to as justification to overlook Islamism and its obvious intentions to kill as many Jews as possible. You can openly say you want to kill Jews (i.e. “infidels”) and when these “infidels” say they do not want to be killed, the perpetrators claim you have a phobia. As leadership coordinator, Amina Ahmed, at Scotland Yard — the headquarters of London’s Metropolitan Police — posted on her LinkedIn account: “if anyone openly agrees with the war in Gaza, they should be called out as Islamophobic and inciting hatred against Muslims.”
People across the world who have been living on stolen land their entire lives are denouncing Israelis for, in these people’s words, “living on stolen land.” As one columnist put it:
“These are people who have taken an oath to a cult and have had to remake themselves in the image of the cult. They are no longer allowed ‘moderation.’ If they follow ‘Palestine’ they must give up their soul. A Faustian bargain … an illiberal and racist movement that requires obsequiousness, self-censorship and self-flagellation.”2
Those who condemn war at all costs are the same people who do not realize that a ceasefire would, for the time being, allow Palestinian terrorists to regroup and reload, enabling them to commit more war crimes against Israelis. But since it is the Israelis in jihadist terrorism’s way, this is (at least implicitly) totally fine.
Speaking of terrorism, suddenly it has taken on a whole new meaning. Prior to October 7th, it was pretty obvious what terrorism is — the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims — but following the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust, terrorists are now called “freedom fighters” and courses for civil servants are teaching: “Terrorism is not the problem, rather the systems they oppose are terrorist.”3
Even the BBC does not call the “Hamas gunmen” who carried out appalling atrocities in southern Israel “terrorists” because “terrorism is a loaded word” and it is “simply not the BBC’s job to tell people who to support and who to condemn — who are the good guys and who are the bad guys.”4 For the BBC, apparently, even the most heinous acts like raping teenage girls, burning entire families to death, beheading babies, and kidnapping elderly women does not mean those who engaged in these actions are “the bad guys” — because, let’s not forget, the victims are Jewish.
Police and law enforcement in Western countries are given a lot of social justice-style training, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but it is not old-fashioned, proper policing. This “modern approach” to policing has led cops to make bizarre decisions in recent months, including police forcing a Jewish nonprofit to stop showing digital images of Israeli children taken hostage, arguing that these images were “breaching the peace.”
Russia invaded Ukraine, kidnapped children, is an ally of Iran, and Gen Z went bonkers. Then Hamas invaded Israel, kidnapped children, is an ally of Iran, and Gen Z is mesmerized by a death cult called Islam.
People who call themselves “progressive” can somehow justify, in the name of “liberation” and “human rights,” Hamas’ barbaric crimes against humanity — but fail to comprehend that Israel has taken the most humanitarian steps in modern warfare history, hence a less than two-to-one ratio of civilian-to-combatant casualties, which is nothing short of unprecedented for urban warfare. How can we explain this discrepancy? Because the Jewish state can do no right, and its self-declared enemies can do no wrong.
Nicaragua announced plans this week to break off relations with Israel over the war in Gaza, calling the Israeli government “fascist and genocidal.” Mind you, Israel has no ambassador in Nicaragua, and the Nicaraguan and Israeli governments never had any relations to begin with.
The same people who were not overly concerned about Israeli women being gang-raped are so up in arms at photos of Palestinian terrorists surrendering in their underwear. According to anti-Jewish logic, rape is resistance and rounding up terrorists who tend to hide explosives under their clothes is genocide. Or, as one of our guest columnists put it:
“It takes a twisted kind of evil to walk up to strangers, murder them, and do it with a smile. In most parts of the world, we call these serial killers. If the victim is a Jew or the perpetrator is a Palestinian, however, it’s called ‘resistance.’”5
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said he keeps the Israeli hostages dog tag necklace “in the right pocket of my coat.” Nothing says “Jews don’t matter” like putting a necklace where no one can see it.
When the IDF goes out of its way to prevent civilian casualties in Gaza, Israel is committing genocide. When Egypt refuses to allow Gazans a safe haven, the Egyptians are still regarded by Gazans as their friends. Why? Because the Egyptians are not Jewish.
For more than a year now, respectable media outlets have been retracting their libelous reporting about Israel, and people have been deleting their antisemitic social media posts. Don’t you wish we Jews were better, as people have accused us for decades, at controlling the media?
And sometimes the anti-Israel sentiment is overt, such as at the BBC, which has violated its own impartiality and accuracy guidelines a whopping 1,553 times in its coverage of the war.6
During the late 1800s, August Bebel, the leader of Germany’s Social Democratic Party, said: “Antisemitism is the socialism of idiots.”
Bebel used this phrase to demonstrate that antisemites were blaming economic inequality on the Jews rather than on the real reasons, such as unregulated capitalism, poor education, and equal opportunity employment. These bigots understood that they were getting shafted by the system, and their Jew-hating attitudes only made it worse.
More than 100 years later, even after the Holocaust and multiple genocidal wars aimed at the Jewish state, it appears that not much has changed.
“We must re-commit to fight the contagion of antisemitism.” Times of Israel.
Piper, Jess. “Faustian Bargains.” The View from Rural Missouri by Jess Piper.
“Scandalous Indoctrination: Inside a Kings College Counter-Terrorism Course for UK Civil Servants.” Fathom.
“Why BBC doesn’t call Hamas militants ‘terrorists’ - John Simpson.” BBC.
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“The Asserson Report: The Israel-Hamas war and the BBC.” Campaign for Media Standards.
i'm not gonna lie, I wanna get through this - whatever it is and however long it takes - and then never talk to the rest of the world ever again. Ever. For anything.
So when are we going to push back against the narrative?? How about full page adds in newspapers with "Palestinian children die when Hamas uses them as human shields." Or billboards with "Israel fights for you." How about "Hamas lies." "Palestinian parents, love your children. Give up Hamas." We have brilliant I.T. guys, why aren't they flooding TikTok with pro Israel stuff. I'm tired of us loosing P.R. war. We can do better.