PART 2
I will begin part 2 of this essay
with the shameful words of the Democratic Socialists of America on October 7,
2026:
“October 7th marks three years of the ongoing genocide
of the Palestinian people, one of the deadliest ongoing and globally
broadcasted massacres in modern history.”
“October 7th marks three years since resistance against
imperialism changed the fate of our world forever.”
“Resistance to imperialism?” Try mass murder, rape,
and torture of civilians.
While the post was collaborative
with other groups to announce a pro-Palestinian event happening today and the
DSA has since removed itself from the announcement, whatever that means, it is
way beyond the pale and, frankly, a disgusting display.
The Palestinian Authority, after
October 7, framed the massacre as not just resistance, but heroic resistance.
They conducted surveys among the population (presumably in the West Bank) and
around 80% agreed. Over the past three years, they have acknowledged that the
massacre was problematic for Palestinians, but they blame the Israelis fully
(for being brutally invaded). It reminds me of the surveys in Palestine and
Gaza after 9/11 where majorities that high were pleased with the bombing, both
right after the massacre and years later. In fact, the first news story I saw
after 9/11 was a video of Palestinians passing out candy in celebration. My
point is that I believe the vast majority of the Palestinian populace sees
itself as at war with Israel and America. Israel and America are the enemies.
The PA's actions, like “pay-for-slay” and terrorist cells, including Hamas, in
the West Bank complicate matters. Some Israeli settlers have been rightly
accused of terrorist actions as well, including intimidation tactics. Some are
racist. However, the data show that West Bank Palestinians have committed far
more terrorist acts and killed and injured more people there over the years. I
remember not long after October7, maybe in early 2024, there was a story that noted
a restaurant opened up in Jordan called October 7, a disgusting display of
support for murder.
I was also aghast to note that
more pro-Palestinian events had been scheduled around the world on this most
recent October 7 than events honoring the massacred Jews.
“The far left sees October 7th — the deadliest day for
Jews since the Holocaust — not as an occasion to mourn the 1,200 Israelis
murdered in an act of terror but as an occasion to romanticize the mass murder
of Jews as ‘resistance,'” Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) said on X in response to
the Instagram post. “The inevitable consequence of glorifying political
violence is political violence itself. That is the dangerous direction in which
American politics seems to be heading.”
Already this morning, October 7, I
have read that a Texas church display of solidarity with Israel on its day of
mourning was vandalized. Meanwhile, France is suffering from riots spearheaded
by young leftists, migrants, and Islamists in cahoots. This is probably another
example of the Marxist-Islamist alliance Netanyahu spoke about.
The articles and evidence show
shocking harassment of Jews, not just by outliers of society like the KKK and
white supremacist groups, but by populist leftist anti-Zionists.
As if things couldn’t get more
absurd, anti-Zionists in NYC protested the mourning ceremonies by calling Mayor
Mamdani complicit in genocide, amid calls to globalize the intifada.
‘Zionism is Racism’ Declares the UK’s Green Party and
Canada Declares ‘Anti-Zionism is Antisemitism’
The Green Party in Britain just
held a vote and declared that Zionism is racism. Meanwhile, Canada has declared
that anti-Zionism is antisemitism. Britain’s descent into antisemitism was once
epitomized by the Labour Party's “Islamo-Communism under the doomed
leadership of its "friend" of Hamas and Hezbollah, Jeremy Corbyn,”
according to Ian Haworth in an article for Creators. It is commonplace for
antisemites and anti-Zionists to have secular Jews, some of whom are only Jews
by ethnicity, not specifically by religion, represent their views, as if to say
there are Jews who support them. However, there is no reason Jews can’t be
antisemitic or anti-Zionist. These Jews are, of course, very much in the
minority.
Haworth writes about antisemitism
in Britain's National Health Service:
“In yet another example, the "Campaign Against
Antisemitism" released its documentary this week, titled "Malignant:
Antisemitism in the NHS." It documents the experiences of Jewish patients
and providers in Britain's government-run, government-controlled and
taxpayer-funded healthcare system, including Nazi salutes, anti-Semitic rants
during surgery and throat-slitting threats by the very people tasked with
caring for the physical and mental health of British citizens.”
He notes that many of the doctors,
nurses, midwives and therapists are Muslims. He suggests that some Jews are
afraid to go to the doctor, of being subjected to hate by Muslims.
Danny Cohen writes in the
Telegraph about the British Green Party:
“The Greens’ obsessive focus on Gaza is a very
significant factor. It is a party uninterested in any other conflict or
humanitarian crisis taking place around the world. The result of this
disproportionate focus by the Greens and others is that the Jewish State is
being portrayed as uniquely evil. This fuels anti-Semitism in Britain and
around the world.”
Canada’s declaration that
anti-Zionism is antisemitism is an interesting turn of events. Since many
people, including a lot of the Progressives I have encountered, are fond of
declaring they are anti-Zionist, not antisemitic, I wonder what they would
think of it.
Michael Geist writes that
anti-Zionism is often just a workaround:
“…anti-Zionism is too often thinly veiled antisemitism,
as if substituting the word Zionist for Jew renders the unacceptable acceptable.”
The statement, issued by Public
Safety Canada, says, more specifically, that antisemitism includes anti-Zionism
as noted below:
“Antisemitism, which includes anti-Zionism, is not
always obvious. While some incidents involve explicit threats, violence, or
hate speech, others may take the form of conspiracy theories, Holocaust denial,
coded language, stereotypes, or the collective blaming of Jewish people.
Recognizing antisemitism consistently is an essential first step toward
responding effectively.”
The Film ‘Naza’ (Likely) Reveals IDF’s Collateral Damage
Strategy Worthy of Criticism, but Not Genocide
Urban warfare is difficult. It is
especially difficult with an enemy that has perfected suicide bombing, the
utilization of human shielding, and the embedding of military assets at
hospitals, schools, and mosques. The population has been highly indoctrinated
from a young age to hate Israelis and Jews. Its government has long been widely
recognized as one of the premier terrorist organizations in the world. It
reveres death via martyrdom. It does not care about its civilians being harmed
and uses them in a way that they are likely to be harmed. The IDF makes phone
calls, distributes leaflets, and tells people to evacuate before it bombs
military assets. It may not do so when it is targeting specific terrorists in
smaller operations. It also makes mistakes in targeting and allows a certain
amount of unavoidable collateral damage, arguably too much. It is a fair
argument to make that the IDF allows too much collateral damage and has, in
some cases, committed war crimes. To this very day, Israel notes that Hamas is
rebuilding its military capabilities. Just recently, weapons were found in an
aid shipment. Recruitment is also up. Hamas still refuses to disarm.
The recent movie Naza, with its
bizarre 25-minute standing ovation in Europe, has helped to fire up
anti-Zionists. Bilge Ebiri for Vulture.com calls it one of the most important
films of our time, noting that the information in the film has long been
available through Palestinian journalists:
“Palestinian journalists have reported on these facts.
In other words, the information has been out there for months, and much of the
world has shrugged, if not ignored it completely.”
I will simply point out that
Israel has proven that many Palestinian journalists are members of Hamas, some
even participating in the October 7 massacre. Surely, we should take their
views with a grain of salt.
Of course, I have not seen the
film, but I have heard that it tries to equate the IDF to Nazis and its
treatment of Gazans to the Holocaust. One article in Haaretz notes that even
the name Naza suggests both Nazi and Gaza, although that may well be
coincidental rather than intentional.
Certainly, the destruction in Gaza
is horrific, and it has been used to justify hatred of Israel. However, it is
not that different from the destruction wreaked by Russia and Syria on Syria’s
cities or the destruction by Russia of Ukrainian front-line towns or the
destruction in other wars. Additionally, the IDF was bombing to destroy a vast
network of military tunnels stretching for many tens of miles that was paid for
by Qatari donors, the UN, and even by U.S. aid, as Hamas diverted aid funds to
military uses.
Israel likely overreacted to the
October 7 massacre and overly sought revenge, resulting in the committing of
war crimes, especially early in the retaliation cycle.
Amos Harel writes in Haaretz:
“Still, the procedures for collateral damage
authorizations have become stricter, and the number of civilians who were
killed this year in the Strip fell considerably. In the first months of the war
there was a rampage, part of which was a bottom-up initiative, and part was a
top-down directive. Many officers confirm this in not-for-attribution
interviews.”
“The bottom line of what has been described here is
clear enough: Israel committed war crimes in Gaza, both by soldiers acting on
their own and in operations by units and teams, which were part of a broader
system. There are similarities to the way the Americans operated in urban
combat in Iraq and Syria (in the campaign against ISIS in particular).”
Former Israeli prime minister
Naftali Bennet noted about the movie:
“What makes it especially painful and infuriating is
that this lie comes from Israeli filmmakers and is now being spread around the
world,” Bennett posted on X the day after the premiere.”
“If Israel wanted to hurt the people of Gaza, we would
not send our sons and daughters to fight house to house, through alleyways and
tunnels, at the terrible cost of our own soldiers being killed and wounded,” he
argued, adding that “The war in Gaza is terrible. The death of every child is a
tragedy. But a terrible war is not genocide.”
Around 1000 IDF troops have been
killed in the Gaza conflict thus far.
Israeli October 7 hostage Omer
Shem Tov writes that Israel’s Naza policy saved lives, likely his, but mostly
Palestinian lives:
“Shem Tov, who was kidnapped on October 7, 2023, from
the Nova music festival near the Gaza border, recounted an instance when the
mother of one of his captors received a phone call from the IDF warning her of
an imminent airstrike.”
“Hamas knew where I was and left me to die. Israel
didn’t know my location, but it knew where my captor’s mother was and called to
make sure she wasn’t killed accidentally,” he wrote. “There I was — kidnapped,
starved and tortured by her son — while my army was trying to keep his mother
alive.”
“He said his captors in Gaza celebrated death and
destruction on both sides: “For Hamas, destruction itself could be victory. As
long as there was death on either side, Hamas could win.”
“Shem Tov said that “Israel desperately wanted me home.
But not at any price. There were Palestinian civilians between Israel and me.
So Israel dropped leaflets, sent messages, made phone calls and ordered
evacuations. It tried to minimize NAZA, or collateral damage.”
“The freed hostage suggested that Israel “paid a price”
for its efforts to reduce civilian casualties: “They gave Hamas time. They
exposed Israeli soldiers to greater danger. And they left hostages like me
waiting longer.”
“If Israel had cared less about NAZA, perhaps I would
have come home sooner,” he added. “Fewer Israeli soldiers might have died.
Fewer hostages might have died. But more Palestinians would have.”
The LA Review Spikes Interview with Pro-Israel Jew Shai
Davidai
Shai Davidai is the author of a
new book, American Intellectual Antisemitism: The Anti-Jewish Movement
Tearing Through Our Universities, which details anti-Jewish sentiment being
propagated at American universities. I fairly commonly see “Free Gaza” or “Free
Palestine” graffiti near my local university, but a few days ago I did see a
sticker that said “Stop Framing Israel,” which, frankly, was encouraging.
The senior editor of the LA Review
pulled the interview, calling Davidai a toxic and controversial figure. Davidai
commented:
“Ironically, part of the book concerns these exact
distortions and erasures in the media,” he told The Post.
“What’s most shocking is that they’re saying the quiet
parts out loud,” he added, blasting “the double standard” at work.
“It was clear to me it wasn’t about her not asking the
right questions, but about her asking the wrong person.”
This is from a publication that
was happy to feature anti-Zionist protest leader Mahmoud Khalil in what has
been called “fawning.”
In Part 1 of this essay, I wrote
about antisemitism in the publishing industry. Here Davidai notes that he had a
hard time finding a publisher for his book, according to the New York Post:
“It’s a fraught time for Jewish and pro-Israel authors
dealing with “blacklists” and “boycotts,” and Davidai said that he was rejected
by 36 out of 38 publishers before finding a home with Wicked Son, an imprint of
Post Hill Press that is distributed by Simon & Schuster.”
“The human behavior researcher went from celebrated
staffer – who was regularly published in journals and mainstream outlets and
collected awards like “best 40 under 40 MBA professors of 2023” – to being
barred from the classroom and campus.”
“He finally left the poison Ivy last year after spurious
charges against him were ultimately dropped. The New York-based academic went
on to join the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy as a
research fellow.”
Raihaana Adira is a Canadian
Ismaili Muslim who considers herself to be a Zionist. She praises the Abraham
Accords as a potential beginning of better relations between Israel and Muslim
countries. She describes the difficulty of simply having pro-Israel views at
her Canadian University:
“When anti-Israel protesters tried to shut down my
graduation at McGill this summer, it felt less about opposing the war in Gaza
and more about whether someone with my views belonged in the room. That same
absolutism drives the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against
Israel, which presents itself as a campaign for Palestinian rights but actually
calls for cutting the research and business ties that connect Israelis and
Palestinians. On campus, the movement treats dissent as morally suspect, not merely
a differing opinion.”
Genocide, Urban Warfare, and Civilian Casualties
The New York Post Editorial Board
writes:
“Urban warfare expert John Spencer, who’s studied the
war in Gaza, reports that Jerusalem has “implemented more civilian harm
mitigation measures than any military in history.”
“That includes not just calling off strikes and
diverting missiles mid-flight rather than skirt the rules of war, but also
informing civilians in advance of an attack by phone and leaflets, using
pinpoint targeting and more.”
“And it doesn’t just avoid casualties; IDF soldiers have
actually risked their lives to protect civilians — from Hamas.”
A Progressive Facebook friend of
mine posted the following meme.
Sure, that looks bad. It is
unfortunate that such a level of destruction happened. Could the area have been
cleared of terrorists in another way? Possibly, but I would guess unlikely.
Is it a genocide? Not by
definition. It may be objectionable to many but does not fit the definition of
a genocide.
The Gaza Health Ministry, run by
Hamas, tabulates Gazan casualties. Apparently, they do not differentiate normal
deaths from war deaths, but they do release the ages of the dead. They recently
released numbers that show most deaths among males of the age usually utilized
in war. With recent footage and information gathered about Iran’s mass killing
of protestors last January, it is possible that Iran killed more civilians in
two days than Israel killed in Gaza in three years. There is one difference. Iran
intended to kill each and every one of those civilians and continues to execute
others who were imprisoned at the time, typically hanging them from cranes with
public viewing.
If only 76% of the dead were war
dead, then the 72,000+ number would become 55,000+, with somewhere around half of those likely being Hamas fighters. By the standards of modern urban
warfare, that’s pretty good, and it shows that they have been trying to reduce
civilian casualties rather than committing genocide.
Antisemitism at a 50-Year High as is Spending for Security
at Synagogues and Jewish Centers: West Bank Violence Offers a Talking Point for
Anti-Zionists and Antisemites
A recent poll shows that sentiment
in the U.S. favors Palestinians over Israelis for the first time.
“Slightly more American voters say their sympathies lie
more with Palestinians than Israelis, according to a new poll from Quinnipiac
University, adding to evidence of the growing animosity toward Israel among the
U.S. electorate.”
Other polls have shown the same.
Among the changes are more conservatives following the lead of rampant
anti-Israel prognosticator and all-around shmuck Tucker Carlson.
New York Times columnist Thomas
Friedman has compared right-wing Israeli actions in the West Bank with Nazi
hate campaigns. While there is no doubt that some ultra-right-wing Israelis are
racists, it is surely a small minority. Yes, there are Jewish supremacists, and
some are active in the West Bank as settlers, and yes, the Israeli government
has likely not done enough to counteract them. It would help if there were not
far-right members in Israel’s current ruling coalition.
Robert Cherry in the Washington
Examiner notes that the West Bank has a long history, much of it involving
anti-Jewish actions by Palestinians.
“As religious Jews began rebuilding their houses of
study in Hebron, they were attacked by Islamists, including Tayseer Abu
Sneineh. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1980 killing of six Jews
at the Hadassah House, home to a Hebron yeshiva. He was released in a prison
exchange in 1983 and returned from exile a decade later to a hero’s welcome;
and for the last decade, he has been Hebron’s mayor.”
The article compares treatment of
Palestinians in East Jerusalem to treatment of Palestinian “refugees” in
Jordan:
“Though they lack Israeli citizenship, East Jerusalem
Palestinians are free to travel throughout the country and face few employment
or educational barriers. By contrast, 1 million stateless Palestinians living
in Jordan and Lebanon face severe restrictions. When the head of the Jordanian
human rights commission sought improvements, she met fierce opposition within
the government: “When we talk about civil rights, political rights and so on,
they would say ‘Well, we don’t want to help Israelis achieve their goals by
giving those people access to all types of activities and normal living so that
they could forget about their right of return.’”
“None of this denies that right-wing extremists have
been given a free hand in the West Bank and cause serious damage to Palestinian
communities there.”
Cherry also cites the West Bank
city of Jaffa as a place where Muslims and Jews have refrained from violence by
design, with positive results in relations.
However, West Bank settler
violence is quite rampant in other places, and the IDF reportedly allows it to
happen and, in a few cases, even has participated. This is unacceptable. Israel
has been accused of ethnic cleansing. At most, they are allowing it to happen,
and they need to stop it from happening. Opposing Israeli policy in the West
Bank is legitimate, not antisemitic, although as we saw in Part 1 of this
essay, in the section about NYC housing, it can be used in an antisemitic
manner.
Leading U.S. reform Rabbi Ammiel
Hirsch recently noted that hatred of Israel was corrupting the U.S. He noted:
“While pervasive anti-Jewish hostility is not new, it is
new to us. We grew up in what has been described as the ‘Golden Age’ of
American Jewry,” he said, according to a transcript shared with The Times of
Israel before the speech. “It is this clear and obvious change that has so
unnerved us.”
Jews are targeted in hate crimes
far more than any other group in New York City, with at least 229 confirmed
antisemitic hate crimes so far this year, according to NYPD data.
“Hirsch warned that hatred of Israel and animosity
toward Jews in politics, the intellectual sphere, and online were damaging US
society.”
“Jew-hatred is harming America. We are not only worried
about ourselves. We are worried about the country we love,” Hirsch said.
“Unhinged and obsessive loathing of Israel is corrupting American values. If
allowed to spread, it is not only Jews who will pay the price. America will too.”
An article in Psy Post by Eric
Dolan about a recent study published in American Psychologist notes that after
October 7, antisemitism spiked, especially among liberals:
“Hate crimes against Jewish people in the United States
spiked following the onset of the Israel-Hamas war in October 2023, rising from
11% of all hate crimes in the year before the war to 27% in the year after.
Historically, political liberals have been fiercely protective of minority
groups and quick to condemn discrimination. In fact, a study covered by PsyPost
in 2022 found that, before the war, agreement with overtly antisemitic
statements was two to three times higher on the American far right than on the
far left.”
The researchers argued:
“…by 2025, 75% of Republicans but only 21% of Democrats
said their sympathies lay with Israelis, which they argued may make criticism
of Israel a marker of liberal identity. They proposed two potential
psychological mechanisms: ingroup favoritism, where a justification signals
shared political views, and alliance politics, where a justification implies
the speaker is not indiscriminately hateful toward other groups.”
“Moon said the team was surprised by how participants
responded to a conspiracy trope long associated with the political right. “One
of the justifications we included was the trope that Jews hold too much power
and influence over financial markets, governments, and the media,” he
explained. “Historically in the U.S., this has been a right-coded
justification. However, in our experiment, participants thought the profile
uttering this trope was more politically liberal than the profile expressing
unjustified antisemitism, and this trope had a similar effect in licensing
antisemitism as the disapproval of Israel and the war in Gaza justification.”
A New York Post article reports
that synagogues and other Jewish institutions across America spent more than $1
billion on security last year. They reported that over 60% of all religiously
motivated US hate crimes in 2025 were against Jews, despite Jews comprising
under 3% of the population. The problem has gotten so
bad that this year Gov. Kathy Hochul allocated $70 million in state funds to
bolster city Jewish centers’ security measures during this year’s high
holidays.
Jews at U.S. state assemblies and
at Green Party headquarters in the UK have had to be isolated due to the
prevalence of hate against them. One incident in March 2026 in Michigan
involved a Muslim man ramming a Jewish children’s school with a vehicle full of
explosives with the clear intention to kill Jewish children. He nearly
succeeded. When the story broke, it was suggested he was somewhat justified
since his two brothers were killed by the IDF in Lebanon. However, they were not
civilians but part of a Hezbollah rocket unit. He didn’t succeed simply because
the center buffed up its security;
“Bollards had been installed at entrances. The doors
were bulletproof. Just weeks before the attack, FBI agents led active shooter
preparedness training for clergy and staff.”
“We’ve been talking for two weeks about the potential,
sadly, for this happening,” Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said at a
press conference that day.
Similar bombings were attempted in
the Netherlands and the UK in the days that followed. Antisemitic incidents
more than doubled in the UK from 2022 to 2025. This is in addition to the more
routine arsons, swastika graffiti, and the like.
Antisemitism used to be considered
a right-wing-driven problem. Now it is clearly a left-wing-driven problem,
despite the Tucker Carlson crowd. Lots of left-wingers are also pro-Russian,
like Carlson, especially the Marxists and socialists who basically share a
worldview with the Soviets. Both views are disturbing.
The Origins of Anti-Zionism Are in Nazi Europe and the
Soviet Union: Dara Horn
Jewish author
Dara Horn recently wrote:
“The through line of antisemitism for thousands of years
has been the denial of truth and the promotion of lies. These lies range in
scope from conspiracy theories to Holocaust denial to the blood libel to the
currently popular claims that Zionism is racism, that Jews are settler
colonialists, and that Jewish civilization isn’t native to the land of Israel.
These lies are all part of the foundational Big Lie: that antisemitism itself
is a righteous act of resistance against evil, because Jews are collectively
evil and have no right to exist. Today, the Big Lie is winning.”
After being involved as a part of
Harvard’s Antisemitism advisory group in 2023, she notes:
“You realize the depth of this 30-year investment and
the role of this hate movement in teaching [antisemitism]… There’s obviously
been a lot of press about the protests at universities in the US, but to me,
the story that was totally missed was that they are teaching antisemitic lies
as facts, and saturating it to the point where it’s in everything. You’re
taking an English class, and it’s about decolonizing Palestine. It’s in the
graduate school of education and the school of public health. This is a plot,”
Horn said.
Horn’s solution to the problem of
antisemitism, particularly the kind that shows up at universities, is better
and more historically accurate education. Importantly, she notes that
Anti-Zionism actually originated before the state of Israel existed.
In the video below she states that
right-wing and left-wing antisemitism are the same. She proceeds to tell the
story of a Nazi ideologue and author. He designed the Third Reich’s educational
curriculum. After the war, he first escaped to Argentina, then to Egypt, where
he was hired by the Egyptian government to write anti-Israel propaganda for the
Arab League. He did this till his death in the 1960s, having converted to
Islam. His work was translated into Russian, which the Soviets used to inform
their own anti-Zionist campaign in the 1960s. She says the slogans used were
the same: Zionism is racism, etc.
Video | Facebook
The Abrahamic Movement
For many years, several decades,
there have been attempts to ease the ethnic tensions between Israelis and
Palestinians and between Jews and Muslims. One is the Abrahamic Movement, which
seeks members of both faiths to acknowledge and embrace their common origins as
Abrahamic faiths. The movement’s founder, Tom Wegner, notes that Europe
achieved a more lasting peace through a sense of shared identity. He thinks the
Jewish and Muslim worlds can do the same by emphasizing shared origins. This is
not unprecedented, as there was a period in the past in some parts of the world
in the 8th-12th centuries, known in some places as the Jewish-Arab Golden Age.
Most of the modern hostilities result from 20th-century actions, despite a
much longer history of antisemitism in the world. The movement may help
relations, but I don’t see it as a final solution. Someone I worked with in the
oilfields told me once about a discussion about religion between a Christian, a
Muslim, and an Atheist. The Muslim said he could accept the Christian but not
the Atheist. That reminded me of how the Muslim invaders in the early Middle
Ages in India dealt with the Indian Theists and Buddhists. The Indian Theists,
or Hindus, as they are known today, were accepted as fellow “people of the
book” who believed in God. The Buddhists were considered to be atheists who
don’t believe in God and were oppressed, and many were enslaved. That story
simply shows that solidarity can be used for both acceptance and rejection.
While a shared identity can lead to acceptance, a non-shared identity can lead
to non-acceptance. The shared identity phenomenon is all about in-group and
out-group dynamics. Ultimately, we need to move away from such dynamics, but it
may be the beginning of something better: acceptance for all. Right now,
Jewish-Muslim relations are more important than the potential pitfalls of Jews
and Muslims outcasting other groups.
Interestingly, Wegner states that
he wants to formulate a politically moderate alternative to extremist
ideological groups like the Muslim Brotherhood. That is needed.
“Losing your honor in this part of the world is worse
than losing your life. When it comes to Arab and Muslim society, you’re better
off losing your life than losing your honor,” he said, highlighting that
Hezbollah, Hamas, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and every other enemy
of Israel face the choice to die in battle as a martyr or sacrifice their honor
by surrendering to Israel.”
“If we understand that killing all the radicals is not a
very good or solid plan, then we should ask ourselves what the way out is. And
over here, the Abrahamic Movement represents a way out for many reasons.... It
implies that this is common ground, and when you come to common ground, that’s
not surrendering,” he said. “That’s an identity that both of us can live with,
without losing our honor.”
Wegner has suggested that “The
Quran is a Zionist document,” and often cites the Quran and his knowledge
if it in support of his arguments.
He emphasizes the importance of
diplomacy:
“If we really want to speak with the Muslim world and
create some sort of dialogue, the whole approach of saying ‘Muhammad was a
pedophile,’ or all that jazz that basically tries to contradict Islam at face
value, is not relevant. It’s not helping anyone,” he insisted. “It’s only
creating more animosity and tension.”
“We can probably get better results if we speak to our
cousins the way cousins speak to each other, focusing on our shared heritage
and the things that are common to us.”
Muslims in many countries,
especially when there are high illiteracy rates, are subjected to anti-Jewish
propaganda from a young age. Thus, better education could help lessen
widespread beliefs in anti-Jewish conspiracy theories. The reality is that in
many Muslim countries there is no freedom of religion, something we take for
granted. People can be imprisoned for things like simply supporting
normalization of Israel, as happened in Iraq. That should be unacceptable.
These are laws that promote and enforce hatred. Normalization is clearly needed
and would benefit all. The Abraham Accords and the Abrahamic Movement are a
start.
References,
Part 1 and 2:
The
academic case for blaming the Southport riots on Zionism is chilling. Nicole
Lampert. The Telegraph. September 3, 2026. The academic case for blaming the
Southport riots on Zionism is chilling
Jews
at US teachers unions subject to discrimination, forced to self-censor: report.
Luke Tress. Times of Israel. August 27, 2026. Jews at US teachers unions subject to
discrimination, forced to self-censor: report
The
'Gaza genocide' is a hoax. David Harsanyi. Creators. September 2, 2026. The 'Gaza genocide' is a hoax
When
every Hollywood cause becomes an anti-Israel cause. Yuval David, Washington
Examiner. August 28, 2026. When every Hollywood cause becomes an
anti-Israel cause
Deluded
Western activists must stop shouting over actual Palestinians like me. Nicole
Lampert. The Telegraph. August 28, 2026. Deluded Western activists must stop
shouting over actual Palestinians like me
Opinion:
Just war is not the same as 'genocide'. Opinion by Dan Pollak. The Hill.
September 3, 2026. Opinion: Just war is not the same as
'genocide'
In
protests and politics, 'Zionists' are being blamed for NYC housing woes. Luke
Tress. The Times of Israel. September 7, 2026. In protests and politics, 'Zionists'
are being blamed for NYC housing woes
The
poison of anti-Semitism has seeped into the fabric of British society. Danny
Cohen. The Telegraph. September 8, 2026. The poison of anti-Semitism has
seeped into the fabric of British society
Antisemitism
charges plague the literary world. New publishers are pushing back. Pamela Paul.
September 10, 2026. Antisemitism charges plague the
literary world. New publishers are pushing back.
Fox
News 'Antisemitism Exposed' newsletter: Hate steals the show. Fox News Staff.
Fox News. September 10, 2026. Fox News 'Antisemitism Exposed'
newsletter: Hate steals the show
Naza
Is One of the Most Important Films of Our Time. Bilge Ebiri, Vulture.com. Naza Is One of the Most Important
Films of Our Time
IDF
rejects testimonies in Israeli-made documentary about AI-powered killing in
Gaza. AFP, ToI Staff. Times of Israel. September 11, 2026. IDF rejects testimonies in
Israeli-made documentary about AI-powered killing in Gaza
US
support for Palestinians continues to eclipse sympathy for Israelis, poll shows.
Arno Rosenfeld. Haaretz. September 11, 2026. US support for Palestinians continues
to eclipse sympathy for Israelis, poll shows
Voices:
Confronting Jewish terrorism is not an act of Jew hate. Opinion by Alan
Rusbridger. The Independent. September 12, 2026. Voices: Confronting Jewish terrorism
is not an act of Jew hate
If
Israel’s war in Gaza is 'genocide,' so is every modern war ever fought. Opinion
by David Harsanyi, Washington Examiner. September 16, 2026. If Israel’s war in Gaza is
'genocide,' so is every modern war ever fought
Top UN
Aid Official Says Hamas Is Not a Terrorist Group. Foundation for Defense of
Democracies. February 16, 2026. Top UN Aid Official Says Hamas Is Not
a Terrorist Group
Britain's
NHS: Waitlists, taxes and Jew-hatred. Ian Haworth. The Telegraph. September 15,
2026. Britain's NHS: Waitlists, taxes and
Jew-hatred
Britain’s
Jews are right to fear the Greens. Opinion by Danny Cohen. The Telegraph.
September 18, 2026. Britain’s Jews are right to fear the
Greens
Jewish
centers spent more than $1 billion on security last year as antisemitism soars
across US. Alex Oliveira. New York Post. September 17, 2026. Jewish centers spent more than $1
billion on security last year as antisemitism soars across US
LA
Review of Books spikes interview with pro-Israel professor Shai Davidai:
'Double standard'. Doree Lewak. New York Post. September 18, 2026. LA Review of Books spikes interview
with pro-Israel professor Shai Davidai: 'Double standard'
The
Fury Over 'NAZA' Doesn't Change the Bottom Line: Israel Committed War Crimes in
Gaza. Amos Harel. Haaretz. September 18, 2026. The Fury Over 'NAZA' Doesn't Change
the Bottom Line: Israel Committed War Crimes in Gaza
The
left lobs yet another 'big lie' on Israel — and the fallout keeps getting worse.
Opinion by Post Editorial Board. New York Post. September 18, 2026. The left lobs yet another 'big lie'
on Israel — and the fallout keeps getting worse
I’m a
Muslim Zionist. Anti-Israel activists have it completely backward.
Raihaana Adira,
Washington Examiner. September 19, 2026. I’m a Muslim Zionist. Anti-Israel
activists have it completely backward
'I am
pro-Abraham': Meet the unlikely allies risking everything for peace with Israel.
Danielle Greyman-Kennard. The Jerusalem Post. September 19, 2026. 'I am pro-Abraham': Meet the unlikely
allies risking everything for peace with Israel
‘Mein
Kampf in reverse’? How the New York Times weaponizes Holocaust metaphors
against Israel. Robert Cherry, Washington Examiner. September 19, 2026. ‘Mein Kampf in reverse’? How the New
York Times weaponizes Holocaust metaphors against Israel
Leading
US Reform rabbi in Yom Kippur sermon: Unhinged, obsessive loathing of Israel is
corrupting US values. Luke Tress. The Times of Israel. September 21, 2026. Leading US Reform rabbi in Yom Kippur
sermon: Unhinged, obsessive loathing of Israel is corrupting US values
Rebutting
‘NAZA,’ freed hostage says he knows what its like ‘to be collateral damage.’
The Times of Israel. September 23, 2026. Rebutting 'NAZA,' freed hostage says
he knows what it's like 'to be collateral damage' | The Times of Israel
Mamdani’s
genocide lie: How NYC’s mayor turned Hamas’s atrocities into Israel’s crime. Mendi
Glik. Washington Examiner. September 24, 2026.
What
if Israel isn’t committing genocide in Gaza? Faisal Kutty. Newsweek. September
25, 2026.
Silent
on Sudan, loud on Israel: Your antisemitism is showing. Even R. Bernstein.
Washington Examiner. September 25, 2026.
Opinion:
If Trump is serious about antisemitism, he should reopen this lifeline for
refugees. Opinion by Mia Emmunah Toubian and Jason Bryan Silverstein. The Hill.
September 27, 2026. Opinion: If Trump is serious about
antisemitism, he should reopen this lifeline for refugees
We
know today's leftwing antizionism comes directly from Nazi anti-Jewish
theology. Dara Horn. Zionism and Anti-Zionism. (1) Video | Facebook
Anti-Zionists
are the real racists: Infiltrated by Gaza-obsessed entryists, the Green Party
will this weekend debate the Soviet-inspired motion: ‘Zionism is racism’. Nicole
Lampert. The Telegraph. October 1, 2026. Anti-Zionists are the real racists
Gaza
Health Ministry makes massive blunder, releases health numbers debunking their
own genocide narrative. C. Douglas Golden. October 2, 2026. Gaza
Health Ministry makes massive blunder, releases health numbers debunking their
own genocide narrative
Left-wing
justifications partly shield antisemitism from liberal disapproval, study
suggests. Eric W. Dolan. Psy Post. October 3, 2026. Left-wing
justifications partly shield antisemitism from liberal disapproval, study
suggests
The
war on European Jews and the new reality of American Jewish life. Daniel Ross
Goodman, Washington Examiner. October 4, 2026. The
war on European Jews and the new reality of American Jewish life
Petitioner
calls for the removal of member from season 2 of Heated Rivalry amid
pro-Zionist claims. Caroline Gaspich. The Mirror. October 2, 2026. Petitioner
calls for the removal of member from season 2 of Heated Rivalry amid
pro-Zionist claims
Greens
are forced to give Jewish delegates safe room at 'febrile' party conference. Glen
Owen and Lee Harpin. Daily Mail. October 3, 2026. Greens
are forced to give Jewish delegates safe room at 'febrile' party conference
Greens
branded UK's 'first openly anti-Semitic party' as members pass Zionism is
racism motion. Sophie Church and David Wilcock. Daily Mail. October 4, 2026. Greens
branded UK's 'first openly anti-Semitic party' as members pass Zionism is
racism motion
DSA
groups walk back post calling Oct. 7 ‘resistance against imperialism’. Hudson Crozier. Washington Examiner. October
6, 2026. DSA
groups walk back post calling Oct. 7 massacre 'resistance'
A
Definition That Meets the Moment: Federal Government Recognizes Antisemitism
Includes Anti-Zionism. Michael Geist. September 25, 2026. A
Definition That Meets the Moment: Federal Government Recognizes Antisemitism
Includes Anti-Zionism - Michael Geist
Dara
Horn tackles enduring antisemitic lies head-on with optimistic ‘Final Solution’.
Renee Ghert-Zand. Times of Israel. September 3, 2026. Dara
Horn tackles enduring antisemitic lies head-on with optimistic 'Final Solution'
| The Times of Israel
