Let me make this even clearer for those who think this is just about perception.
In just over a year, the number of recorded antisemitic incidents in the United States more than doubled. Over 10,000. Globally, that spike hit 107 percent. This isn’t abstract. These are attacks. These are threats. These are acts of hate tied directly to the war in Gaza. More than half of them referenced Israel or Zionism.
This didn’t happen because people started revisiting medieval conspiracy theories. It happened because they’re watching a military campaign that has killed over 59,000 Palestinians, starved tens of thousands more, and erased entire neighborhoods from the map. And the response from most Jewish institutions has been silence, deflection, or outright support.
The world isn’t stupid. It knows the difference between a government’s actions and a people’s identity. But when that government keeps escalating and the global Jewish voice refuses to meaningfully break with it, that difference starts to disappear in the eyes of billions.
There is a cost to saying nothing. There is a cost to circling the wagons. And now the data proves it. These are not just “opinions.” They are the consequences of moral collapse.
There was an Israeli grandmother just arrested for plotting to kill Netanyahu. Let that sink in. Even inside Israel, people are done pretending this is sustainable. So if Israelis themselves are trying to pull the emergency brake, what excuse do Jewish leaders around the world have for still stepping on the gas?
You want the world to stop hating Jews? Then show them that Jews are leading the charge to stop this madness. Because if you don’t, the numbers are going to keep climbing, and it won’t be the bigots you’ll have to blame. It’ll be the silence.