This has nothing to do with Gaza but everything to do with Jew-hatred

Ever since Israel became a state in 1948, there has been unrest between two sides, the Arabs, some of whom now identify as Palestinians and Jewish Israelis. Wars have come and gone, but Israel has prevailed, continuing to be an independent and democratic nation. Yet, interestingly enough, in all that time, there was a complete absence of university protests, rooting for terrorists, suicide bombers and attackers of innocent civilians – that is until now.

A Fox News article reported that a Columbia law student group has declared that “No Jew is safe until everyone is safe.” In other words, they are saying that “Jewish safety cannot be assured until Palestine is ‘free.’”

By their own definition of a “free Palestine,” which constitutes, “From the river to the sea,” they are threatening the well-being of Jews (whether on or off campus) until and unless Israel no longer exists. Given that such a thing will never occur, if you believe what God promised in Jeremiah 31:36, which says that Israel will never cease to be a nation before Him unless the fixed order of the moon, stars and sea departs, then what these protesters are essentially saying is that no Jew can ever again be safe. 

So, for what are they advocating? It seems clear that these students, studying for their law degrees, are already making their closing argument to Hamas, to finish the work they began on October 7th and eliminate the Jews from their homeland. Only then, will Diaspora Jews be safe. Oh, but wait! Are they saying that the safety of Jews outside of the land of Israel is dependent upon there being no more Israel? Because there’s no other way to read this.

And what if Hamas is unable to rid the Middle East of its Jewish presence? Then that means that Jews, worldwide will no longer be safe, making it clear that we have entered into a new phase of history – one where Jews are back to being hunted down, alienated due to their birth ethnicity and sought out for elimination. It only took 80 years, but it’s as if no one has learned anything from the horrors of Nazi Europe in the 30s and 40s. How is that possible?

Just as in the opening of the Biblical book of Exodus, it says, “Now a new king arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph,” meaning that the respect, honor and protection, once given to Joseph by Egyptian rulers had departed as a new generation of kings came into the picture. Their perspective and evaluation of Israel was influenced from a place of fear when they noticed that the people of Israel were greater in number and mightier than they were. Thus, the affliction of the Jewish people began as they were forced into hard labor, embittering their lives. 

Today’s young progressives seem to be no different as they view the Jewish people through the Woke lens of oppressors who are responsible for all of the suffering of Gazans. From that perch of misplaced pity, they fail to recognize that Gazans, whether intentionally or by force, are stuck with a cruel governing body, which they personally elected into power and whom they have faithfully supported. It is that terror organization which has been wholly responsible for the suppression of the very people they claim to be championing but who are used as human shields and unable to deviate in any way from throwing in with Hamas barbarians.

This dramatic new viewpoint, laden with distortion, has done at least one thing, though. It has facilitated a convenient premise for which Jew-hatred can now be justified in the minds of those who previously couldn’t express what was seething inside of them, for fear of exposing an unacceptable bigotry that no one dared to reveal, knowing that it would backfire on them. 

But now, these deluded young people believe that if they can make the case for justice, by pointing to the unrest of one people, perpetrated by the other, then they can advocate for equal treatment. If one suffers, both suffer!

The problem is that Israel is not responsible for the suffering of Gazans, who are the unwitting victims of their harsh masters, merely being used as expendable props in their game of erasing the Jews from the face of the earth. If Hamas were to be eliminated tomorrow, giving way to an honest, forthright government, in favor of liberty, good governance and opportunity for all, Gazans would finally be able to breathe the free air of human rights, granted to those who are blessed enough to live in such open societies.

But, of course, that is dependent upon the relinquishing of the hatred, with which Gazans have been indoctrinated since birth, because retaining that level of rage and disdain for their neighbors is nothing more than a self-inflicted impediment, keeping them locked in their own prison of unjustified loathing, for a people who have never been their enemy but whom they have seen as such. 

The key to their well-being is found in the abandonment of a vice which they must be prepared to give up, and that is Jew-hatred, because clearly, it is only hurting them while the Jewish people continue to gain in stature and revel in success as a result of not harboring a death sentence for others in their heart. 

It is this same anger, hatred and demonic spirit, which has taken hold of this generation of young people who will not reap any blessing from despising the people who God called His Chosen! If anything, they, too, will become prisoners of their own noxious bile, the bitterness of which is causing them great damage internally and externally.

To recap, everything that is happening on college campuses has nothing to do with a territorial dispute or the suppression of Gazan human rights. It is all a clever pretext for the willful harboring of hate against a people who continue to be blessed in the face of thousands of years of persecution, plotted destruction and an evil desire to replace them as the ones who were intended to be a light to the nations.

It is a futile effort to try to undo what the Almighty ordained from the foundations of the earth, and to continue on that path will only result in one’s own undoing. It’s time to abandon a losing battle!