We began the year 5786 with yet another synagogue car ramming, stabbing, and killing Jews in the U.K. And for Chanukah, killing 16 Jews, aged 10 to 87 years old, including a Holocaust survivor, gathered on a beach in Australia, to celebrate our festival of light and hope. Murdering Jews has become the new norm.  Mainstream media’s obsessive decades of Big Lies against only Israel, painting Israelis and Jews who support Israel as subhuman, serves as the “justification” for attacks, intimidation and ostracization.  We have failed to educate the public about the truth and beauty of Israel. And now they no longer care.

A Zionist is anyone who believes in the simple right of Israel to exist as a Jewish State. Period.  Do you seriously think the global attacks on Zionists, on Jewish children and adults walking to synagogue will stop if there is a “palestinian” state, if Israel is no longer a Jewish nation or simply no longer? 

Some Jews think becoming a universalist, a totally assimilated, global pluralist is their new calling and yes, that will also keep them safe from Jew hate as a by-product.  Some think “if only Jews would do this or do that or change this or that”, it will stop our persecution. They fail to understand human nature and the nature of centuries old, specific Jew hate. Humans have always needed a bogeyman to blame for their own and the world’s woes.  We are small in number. The average person can go through life and never meet a Jew. Jews are an unfamiliar entity. We worship in........

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