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Source: https://www.jns.org/fake-activism-real-antisemitism/
Those Who Cling to Propaganda and Parrot Slogans without Understanding Are Not Resisting Oppression but Enabling It
(JNS) Yuval David - The wave of anti-Israel protests that exploded across the globe did not emerge in response to Israeli military action in Gaza. It began before Israel launched a single airstrike - before one soldier crossed the border, before the blood of Israeli civilians from the Oct. 7 massacre was even dry. It was a global campaign of antisemitism, unleashed the moment Jews were slaughtered. Selective outrage is not justice. And when that selectivity always targets the Jewish state, it is antisemitism, plain and simple. Any honest person knows that Israel is not a colonialist enterprise. It is the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people. We Jews are indigenous to that land - our language, holidays, history, holy sites, and our identity are all rooted there. We have lived, prayed, died and returned there for more than 3,000 years. Modern Israel is a multiethnic, pluralistic democracy. It is not ruled by a foreign empire from across the sea. By definition, Israel is not a colony. Those who chant otherwise either don't know the definition of colonization - or they don't care. These same protesters romanticize Hamas, a genocidal Islamist regime that commits daily human-rights violations. Hamas doesn't want peace. They want leverage. And the world enables their cruelty. Why do these "activists" go silent when Jews are the victims? The global anti-Israel movement is not about Palestinian rights. It's about erasing Jewish rights. To those who cling to propaganda, who parrot slogans without understanding, know this: You have been seduced by ideologies that would crush your own freedoms. You are fighting for regimes that would silence you, erase your identity and criminalize your speech. That is not justice. That is self-delusion. You are not resisting oppression. You are enabling it.