If we truly care about lessening the rising hatred toward Jews worldwide, we must be willing to confront a painful truth: much of that anger is being fueled by the actions of Netanyahu and the Israeli government. If we want to protect Jewish lives and dignity, we must demand that they stop their brutal assault on Gaza.
What is happening in Gaza is not a war. It is not a battle between two armies. It is the overwhelming force of a powerful military crushing a cornered civilian population, under the false pretense of fighting a terrorist organization. Those terrorists represent only a tiny fraction of the people now facing death and devastation.
This cannot be justified as self-defense at this point. This is the realization of Netanyahu’s long-desired vision: the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank. It is an attempt to erase, or remove, an entire people while the world watches in horror.
And while he wages this campaign of destruction, Netanyahu is making all Jews pay for his crimes. He is pouring gasoline on the fire of antisemitism, turning justified outrage at a government’s brutality into hatred toward an entire people who did not choose this path.
If we love our people, if we believe in justice, if we want to stop history from repeating its darkest chapters, we must not stay silent. We must stand against this cruelty, not just for the sake of Palestinians, but for the soul and safety of the Jewish people everywhere.
AND you cannot ignore the West Bank either
In the West Bank, the ongoing illegal occupation, the relentless expansion of settlements, the demolition of Palestinian homes, the settler violence often shielded, and sometimes outright supported, by the IDF, and the daily reality of apartheid conditions must all come to an end. These actions not only trample on the rights and dignity of the Palestinian people but also perpetuate endless cycles of resentment, instability, and violence that poison any hope for a just and lasting peace.
And beyond Israel and Palestine, we cannot turn a blind eye to the humanitarian disasters unfolding in Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen…
Ignoring these atrocities, excusing them, or selectively condemning injustice depending on who commits it only deepens the abyss. True peace, true justice, demands that we confront oppression wherever it exists… not just when it fits a particular narrative or serves political convenience. Silence, equivocation, or selective outrage is complicity.