It is clear that using antisemitism as a shield for violence and theft has worked. Every time someone pushes back against Israeli atrocities, the accusation of antisemitism is used as proof that antisemitism is powerful and pervasive. It is a self-reinforcing loop, a propaganda feedback cycle that allows state violence to continue unchecked.
We have to see that pattern clearly. Acts of antisemitism have indeed risen since October 7, 2023, but that rise did not come from thin air. It came in reaction to Israel’s own actions: the mass killing of civilians, the destruction of Gaza, the open celebration of ethnic cleansing. Just as Jewish communities were displaced and targeted in 1948 because of Israel’s behavior on the world stage, we are watching that cycle repeat.
It is not the existence of Jewish people that fuels this hatred. It is the antisocial, colonial behavior of a state that claims to act in their name. Israel has made itself the most dangerous place in the world to be Jewish, not because Jews exist there, but because the state’s actions invite global outrage and then conflate that outrage with antisemitism.
Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism. You cannot have it both ways. If you insist that Israel represents all Jews, then every atrocity Israel commits will be seen as done by Jews, and that is the greatest act of antisemitism there is.
The dehumanization of Muslims is part of a larger project to destabilize the region. It has been the deliberate choice of the major colonizers, who use division, fear, and propaganda to maintain their hegemony. That same propaganda not only dehumanizes Muslims, it also manufactures fear and urgency among Jewish people, including those who are not Zionist. It tells them that without Israel, annihilation is inevitable. But when that veil is lifted, the alternative: coexistence, equality, and justice, becomes far less frightening.
The real existential threat has never been Muslims or Arabs. It has been the Western powers themselves: the British empire that was collapsing and the American empire that was rising, both using the region as a chessboard to preserve dominance.
As incomprehensibly destructive as this strategy is, the simple act of seeing it for what it is becomes incredibly threatening to them. When people truly see it, their power and credibility vanish instantly.
They (western powers) justify their cruelty by convincing themselves that if they did anything less, they would lose everything. And they should lose everything.
In my view, Israel’s actions betray the moral and humanistic traditions that many Jews themselves see as central to Judaism.
The conclusion is simple: Israel does not represent all Jews, nor does it speak for any individual who practices Judaism. Its actions reflect political and colonial interests, not the spirit or letter of Judaism.
By weaponizing Jewish identity to justify violence, the state of Israel commits an act of antisemitism against Jewish people themselves. It makes Jewish safety contingent on oppression and equates Judaism with conquest and cruelty, the opposite of its moral core.
The Israel experiment must end, not through vengeance or destruction, but by dismantling the systems of apartheid, occupation, and impunity that endanger both Palestinians and Jews. If it continues on this path, Israel will not only destroy Palestine, it will destroy the richness and moral integrity of Jewish culture itself.