Averting Historical Disaster
It is a strange period of time to live in. All periods of time are strange in their own ways; but we in the present moment have the unique position of knowing our history and of seeing it repeat in front of our eyes. It is as if the entire Jewish nation has become its own Alfred Dreyfus in the eyes of the world. Countless “democratic” resolutions in the United Nations condemn Israel more than the Islamic Republic of Iran, the People’s Republic of China, and the Russian Federation combined. Supposedly “impartial” NGOs like Doctors Without Borders and the International Committee of the Red Cross seemingly care about everyone except the Jewish and Israeli victims of October 7th; not one humanitarian visit by any to the hostages of Hamas terrorists. It is a sick joke that the world is playing, blaming Jews for all the problems of the world yet again in history and dismissing their suffering as secondary or somehow “deserved”.
And it’s not just the dictatorial and authoritarian regimes and their minions that are the culprits of this modern-age Jew hate that has made Israel out to be the “Jew among the nations”. Many in our own liberal democratic societies are participating as well. Women’s rights groups are silent on the horrific rape and unspeakable brutalization of women on that darkest of days—because the victims were Jewish or Israeli. Gay rights organizations refuse to stand up for the only democracy and the only country with nationwide Pride celebrations in the Middle East—because they refuse to see Israelis as human beings worthy of pride in their identities. Masked fascists chant in our streets for the elimination of the only Jewish nation in the world and the extermination of millions of Jews and Arab Israelis. They slander the Jewish nation with utterly unfounded accusations of “genocide”, “apartheid”, “ethnic cleansing” and more. They refuse to see reality for what it is; they refuse to see Jews as anything less than monstrous “genocide supporters” and Israelis as “genociders”. And they want nothing more than to see genocide on the scale of the Holocaust against them, as evidenced by their words and actions.
I believe that most people engaging in antisemitic behavior today don’t realize the extent of what they’re doing. Sure, they may hate Jews and know that they do (although the number of them that have even that level of self-awareness is questionable). But they almost certainly don’t understand how closely they are flirting with atrocity. And if we who are giving everything to combat antisemitism are successful, they will essentially “get away with it”. We will hold them accountable for their hate—but we won’t have to hold them accountable for concentration camps and gas chambers. We WILL NOT let the movement of hatred progress that far.
And make no mistake, that is where this movement inevitably leads. Hate leads to pogroms; in the industrial age, it led to industrial mass murder. Our “tolerant” modern society has several advantages over Weimar Republic Germany—but we must never become complacent. These useful idiots chanting for ‘Intifada’ are calling for the full-scale slaughter, rape, and mutilation of millions of Jews and Arab Israelis and the ethnic cleansing of the entirety of Israel. There are more than a few that are actually aware of this fact; we see this presented with the placards that read ‘Resistance by any means necessary’. They would gladly engage in the worst atrocities of history if it meant the end of the Jewish nation. And they have twisted the minds of so many and swept them up in their movement of hate.
History. This is it. We have seen this all before. Goebbels was an evil genius of propaganda. He got an entire nation to slowly acquiesce to his demented view of reality and his darkest fantasies of a ‘Judenfrei’ Deutschland.
Now, the enemies of the tolerant society engage in the same tactics to make the world hate Israelis and their supporters—which just so happen to be somewhere between 80 to 90 percent or higher of the total Jewish population of the world. Hatred of Israel is hatred of the Jewish people. It is really that simple. And we must not let this hate drag us back down the same roads we promised we would NEVER TRAVEL AGAIN.
I have fought this hate for months on end. And I will not stop; I must not stop. Because I understand the stakes. I understand that we truly do have everything to lose in this fight for the very soul of humanity. And we will not lose. We are stronger than hate.
Love conquers all. Am Yisrael Chai 🇮🇱