We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. — Elie Wiesel
Anti-Israel and anti-semitic rhetoric, whether on social media or through MSM is increasing at an alarming rate. Propaganda, based on falsehoods, is regarded as fact with the devious hope that if mainstreamed and repeated enough times, the masses will believe it.
As a child of Holocaust survivors, I cannot remain silent in the face of unabated false and hypocritical criticism. Israel and Jews worldwide are held to a different standard than any other country or people. It is this type of indoctrination of baseless hatred towards a specific group which has led to one of the most atrocious historical events – the genocide of six million Jews in Europe.
Israel has been held to a different standard than any other country. The United Nations’ constant devilish obsession with Israel, has resulted in continuous discriminatory resolutions against the one democracy in the middle east – Israel.
Watch UK Col. Richard Kemp Accuses UN Gaza Inquiry of Aiding Hamas (last week)
The dishonest condemnation that Israel is an apartheid country has been falsely repeated in the media to the point where it is believed as a truism.
When if fact:
- Israel’s Arab citizens (20% of Israel’s population) are full citizens.
- They attend all of Israel’s major universities.
- They are treated in all of Israel’s hospitals.
- They serve in government and the judiciary.
- They are welcome in all of Israel’s establishments, including restaurants and cafés.
The twisting of hard facts and the proliferation of the “apartheid” propaganda has given birth to the movement to “boycott, divest from and sanction Israel” (BDS). BDS leaders try to portray themselves as peace activists who are using non-violent means to force Israel to withdraw from the “West Bank” and make way for a Palestinian State. But, in actuality, the leaders of the BDS movement admit that BDS has far a more radical goal: eliminating Israel as a Jewish state (see an interview with Omar Barghouti here).
Video by Alan Dershowitz on BDS
The BDS movement criticizes Israel, claiming that its ongoing military presence in the “West Bank” is blocking the creation of a Palestinian state.
BDS ignores the following key facts:
- Israel has repeatedly offered to withdraw from almost all of the West Bank to create a Palestinian state – most recently in 2000, 2001 and 2008 – in exchange for peace.
- The Palestinians have rejected each of these offers.
- When Israel began a phased withdrawal from the West Bank in the mid-1990s, Palestinian terrorists, backed by the Palestinian Authority, responded with a wave of violent suicide bombings that killed over 1,000 Israeli civilians.
- When Israel withdrew all of its soldiers and civilians from Gaza in 2005, rocket fire from Gaza into Israel dramatically increased, to the point where a rocket from Gaza aimed at the heart of the country – Tel-Aviv – destroyed a civilian home and injured seven people, including children.
- The Palestinian Authority incites, encourages and rewards Palestinians to commit acts of terrorism and murder as many civilian Israelis (including men, women, and children) as possible.
We have a responsibility to speak out against the spreading of lies, the targeting of a group/nation and the promotion of terrorist acts in an attempt to eliminate an entire nation/religion. If the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, and BDS proponents have their way, their slogan of a Palestinian state “from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea” (meaning the elimination of Israel) will prevail.
We need to #SpeakOutNow!
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