Don’t Be Surprised by Antisemitism
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Slogans that promote murder and terror don't further the cause of the Palestinian people. Try “Peace by any means necessary!” instead.
When you say that you want an intifada, a global uprising against Jews, you condone the murder of innocent people, like my son Koby and his friend Yosef, who were in eighth grade when terrorists beat them to death with rocks, leaving them in a cave with blood smeared on the walls at the beginning of the Second Intifada in 2001.
Koby was our oldest child. He loved baseball and basketball and pizza. He was just a kid, out for a hike. That’s who you are talking about killing — by any means necessary.
That murder did not move us out of Israel. That murder did not bring peace. That murder brought no positive results for the Palestinians. Supporting murder will not help the Palestinian cause, neither then 23 years ago, nor today.
When you say you want an intifada, when you shout, “Resistance by any means necessary,” you may be unwittingly losing the battle for the Palestinian people.
You condone the murder of families like the Fogel family who were murdered in their home. Their 12-year-old daughter came home that night to find her family massacred — mother, father, 3-month-old baby and two siblings. One child who survived, a 2-year-old, sat next to his parents, who lay in a pool of blood. He was trying to wake them.
The rest of the Fogel family did not leave Israel. The murder of the Fogel family did not advance the political agenda of the Palestinians.
When you call for an intifada, you are an accomplice to atrocity and murder.
When you say you want an intifada, you condone the murder of Hallel Ariel who was 13 when a terrorist stabbed her to death in her bed.
When you say you want a global intifada, you are saying that you believe in killing Jews at Passover seders, like the one at the Park Hotel in 2002 where 30 Israelis were murdered. You believe in killing us at discos like the Dolphinarium in Tel Aviv where 21 Israelis were killed, most of them teenagers. You want to kill us at schools like Mercaz HaRav yeshiva, where a terrorist shot and murdered eight teenagers.
When you call for an intifada, you are an accomplice to atrocity and murder. You encourage violence and antisemitism. You support radical Islam, Hamas, and Iran who want to annihilate the nation of Israel. You embolden Palestinians to murder and take captives, as they did on October 7th, as though that were a pathway to peace.
You are being used. Your self-righteousness and rage are being exploited as you support terror against Jews anywhere in the world. You will not be victorious. Instead, your sensibilities will be deadened as you partake in an orgy of hatred.
Instead of resistance by any means necessary, imagine changing your slogan: Peace by any means necessary. Imagine if you told Hamas to release the Israeli hostages and stop launching missiles, so that the war could end.
Peace by any means necessary. Now that’s a slogan that would end this war, bring home the hostages, and even encourage the Israeli government to advance a Palestinian state.
This op-ed originally appeared in The Times of Israel.
Psalm 123
Lets not even encourage the Israeli government to advance another Palestinian state. Its called jordan
Let every Jew sing:
"From the River to the Sea!
Israel shall always be!"
Concise and to the point. Kudos Sherri
Very eloquent and important article but on this forum its a case of preaching to the choir.I hope this article is also in publications where the ignorant masses will read it.If they can read.
Yes, but the ability to read doesn't help if the reader has a closed mind, as those who love to hate apparently do!
Unfortunately supporting the supposed victims allows these people to indulge their evil desires; since most of them as stated already are quite spoiled to begin with there is little to hold them back. Whatever frustrations they experience in life are being vented on the designated “acceptable” target: Jews.
As with the Palestinians themselves, only maturity will solve the problem. May it come soon!
This is the type of article I would like to see in main stream world wide media outlets.
BEH May these beautiiful words penetrate the hearts of those who are so full of ignorance and hatred.
what those spoil self centered freedom loving universities students who never had to face any hardships in their lives and do not have a clue about what is going on in the world or about what is happening to their own country do not realize that after HAMAS( who foolishly thinks that they can remove the nation of Israel from the middle east) has finished with Israel will turn on them and take away that same freedom that they so cherished, These spoil brat would not have the strength to survive this onslaught on them
Yes like Hamas turned on the people in the kibbutz’s on their border, the ones who were kind and helpful to the Gazans even planning a kite festival with them. Over here in the US, we have Palestinians living in 2 of our states. Now, President Biden is discussing bringing more Palestinian Gazans here who are their family members! I am afraid because they are all brought up to hate Jews.
לעולם לא אשכך את בנך ואת יוסף. יוסף היה ידיד טוב של חברה של הבת שלי.