Some cannot allow Jews to celebrate in peace. Increasingly, they cannot allow them to mourn in peace either.

In 1948, after two thousand years of exile, centuries of persecution, and the ashes of the Holocaust still warm across Europe, the Jewish people re-established sovereignty in their ancestral homeland. For Israelis, it became Independence Day. For Palestinians, it became the Nakba—the “catastrophe.”

That was the first great inversion. Jewish survival itself was recast as someone else’s tragedy. The mere existence of a Jewish state became the original offense, not the repeated attempts to destroy it.

That moral inversion did not end in 1948. It became the operating system of Palestinian nationalism.

Every Israeli holiday requires a Palestinian counter-narrative. Every Israeli achievement must be diminished. Every Israeli funeral demands a competing victimhood. Israelis are not permitted the ordinary privilege of celebrating their victories or burying their dead without Palestinians insisting that the spotlight belongs to them.

The suffering of Israelis is considered incomplete until it has been rewritten as Palestinian victimhood.

That familiar script unfolded once again on July 2, 2026.

Israelis marked one thousand days since the October 7 massacre. Across the country, families remembered murdered relatives and prayed for hostages who remain in Gaza—alive or dead. For once, ideology should have yielded to simple human decency. Instead, Palestinians declared the occasion “one thousand days of genocide.”

Even Jewish mourning had to become Palestinian theatre.

Imagine arriving at a shiva only to insist the bereaved family vacate the mourning tent because your grievance deserves the chairs. That is the logic on display.........

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