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| 2025-10-22 | |||
[IsraelNationalNews] For now, the quiet seems to be holding. No one is sure if this is the start of a real and lasting peace or if, as is more likely, this is just a chance for Hamas to regroup, rearm nd bury explosives on all the roads Israel might want to retake.
But for Jews in the rest of the world, there’s no way to go back. The old normal they grew up and thought would always be there is gone. Worse still, it turns out that it was never even really there at all. A new day has dawned for Western Jews. That means it's time for them to awaken. Until October 7th, most Jews outside of Israel lived their lives operating under certain assumptions. 1. They were respected, valued members of their society. 2. The old antisemitism that had plagued Europe before the war was a thing of the past, impossible to exist in a modern, educated nation. 3. The Jews’ tireless commitment to social justice and helping the oppressed had earned them the goodwill, respect, and admiration of other progressive minds.
Which is what has made it so hard to wake up. On October 7th, Israeli Jews awoke to horrors beyond belief. On October 8th, Jews in the rest of the world woke up to a different but equally painful shock, that everything they thought they knew was wrong. In the weeks and months that followed, Jews in America and the Western world watched with astonishment as their friends, neighbors, even family members took to the streets in droves, protesting not the pogrom that had occurred but the Jews themselves. Rather than being comforted as the victims of a horrific crime, the Jews of the Western world found that they themselves were the ones on trial. Forced in front of their peers to defend their very existence. As time went on, things have only grown worse. Protests and riots against the Jewish State became frequent and accepted, making Jews fearful of walking in their own cities. Jewish students found themselves attacked in their universities, supposedly places of enlightenment and rational thinking. Hate crimes and antisemitic attacks increased to record numbers that would have been inconceivable just a few years ago. As things went on, Jews were forced to hide their identities in public, something not seen since World War II. What made all this so much more painful was that, unlike in Israel where the attacks were coming from an outside enemy, here the attacks all came from within. People found friends they had known their entire lives turning on them. Neighbors made it clear that they were no longer part of the community. Many even found that their own intermarried non-Jewish family now saw them as the enemy. The attacks hurt all the more because they were personal. The censures came from people Jews knew and loved and whom they thought knew and loved them. People who should have known better. Who did know better but perhaps simply didn’t care once they had an acceptable outlet for the hatred that always lay boiling deep inside. At first Jews were confused as to how so many people could be so misled. Some, like Professor Daniel Pipes, even blamed Israel, called the Jewish State a danger to Diaspora Jews, and threatened to stop donating to it (the fact is that Israel can do very well without those funds, ed.). Then, as time went on, a harsh truth settled in. The Jew-haters weren’t being misled at all. They hadn’t fallen victims to the waves of lies being spread against the Jews. Deep down, this is what they had believed the entire time. The countless libels against the IDF weren’t what turned the world against the Jews. Instead, they finally gave the world an excuse to vent the hatred it had always felt. All the progress, all the enlightened ideals, all the work of the past century evaporated before the eyes of the Western Jews. These same Jews who had spent their lives fighting for these ideals and values, who were there at every liberal protest and championed every civil rights and humanitarian cause, found that the world they were fighting for had no place for them in it. What’s become clear is the events of October 7th didn’t cause Jews to lose friends. It exposed their enemies.
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