Discriminating against an entire people for any reason is an ugly act.
It is a disease.
In the 1930s, the West was in the grip of a disease called ‘anti-Semitism.’
Until the 1960s, it was not possible for Jews to participate in every profession or live in any neighborhood they wanted in Western countries—even in the U.S.; major universities accepted only a limited number of Jewish students.
In many countries, there were pogroms, and in Germany, the Holocaust took place.
Jews strive not to let the atrocities they faced be forgotten, but Netanyahu’s genocidal policy toward Gaza is negatively impacting global views on Jews, reigniting anti-Semitism.
Netanyahu continues his massacre of Palestinians in Gaza, but things are not going as planned. Despite the tens of thousands of lives lost, Palestinians are not leaving their homes.
When starting this full-scale war, the plan was to carry out mass extermination without sparing women and children, rendering Gaza uninhabitable so that Palestinians would leave in masses for neighboring Egypt.
That hasn’t happened, nor does it seem likely.
You know about the recent incident: Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, a newly graduated American citizen, was killed by an Israeli sniper in the West Bank while attending a pro-Palestinian event organized by an international organization.
Jewish settlers and the Israeli army in the West Bank are also hoping to achieve a similar outcome by harassing Palestinians, attacking them, destroying their homes and workplaces, and killing them.
According to their calculations, Palestinians in the West Bank will also abandon the lands they’ve lived on for centuries and seek refuge in Jordan…
That plan, too, seems unlikely to succeed.
As Netanyahu pushes the West for more support with his excessive actions, he may be making another miscalculation.
The newly elected Labour government in the UK has announced the cancellation of 30 licenses for arms and equipment exports to Israel, citing concerns they could be used for purposes prohibited under international law.
In the U.S., Joe Biden has declared that if Israel attempts to occupy Rafah, they will halt the shipment of arms and equipment used to kill innocent civilians.
This is just the beginning.
There is a reason for the shift.
The academic year has started in the U.S., and universities could again be disrupted by the activities of students sensitive to the massacre in Gaza.
It’s not just universities; the killing of thousands of children in the war is provoking widespread public outrage.
Anti-Semitism is on the rise.
Until recently, Jewish Americans were respected in the communities they were part of, but now they are losing even their closest friends. The positive sentiment toward Jews in the West immediately following Hamas’s October 7th attacks on Israeli targets has been replaced by opposition as Israel carries out its extermination campaign in Gaza.
In New York, where Jews traditionally felt most at ease in America, a bookstore in Brooklyn—a neighborhood where Jews of all ages wearing skullcaps can be seen walking—had to cancel an event featuring two Jewish speakers due to concerns that one of them, with a ‘Zionist’ identity, might spark backlash.
At universities, classes taught by Jewish professors who do not take a firm stance against Israel are going unfilled due to student disinterest.
The sympathy and immunity that Jews enjoyed worldwide after the mass slaughter they endured under Hitler’s regime (the Holocaust) are being eroded due to Israel’s ongoing massacre in Gaza.
The International Court of Justice has labeled what is happening as ‘genocide.’
Netanyahu seems to have achieved with his Gaza massacre what even the harshest critics of Israel could not.
Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied territories is profoundly altering the perception of Jews living in various countries around the world.
The old disease is resurfacing…
Jews are left with little choice but to either openly adopt an anti-Israel stance or emigrate to Israel.
Netanyahu has disappointed American and British writers who sacrificed their professional reputations to defend him.
There are also Jews with a conscience; Sarah Friedland’s speech, after winning awards in three categories at the 81st Venice International Film Festival, is significant:
“As a Jewish American artist, I accept this award on the 336th day of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the 76th year of the occupation of Palestine. As directors, it is our responsibility to use the institutional platforms we work with to draw attention to Israel’s impunity. I stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people and their struggle for freedom.”
By reviving the old disease in the West, Netanyahu is doing the greatest harm to his own people.
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[The translation of the article is by ChatGPT.]
