WhatsappAs Jews around the world mark Yom HaShoah and solemnly vow “Never Again,” those words have become hollow for far too many.
Because it is happening again. Right now.
Across the Western world, raw Jew-hating antisemitism has been legitimized in the streets, on campuses, in the media, and even mainstreamed in politics. Jews are attacked in broad daylight, synagogues are vandalized, Jewish businesses are boycotted, and Jewish students are harassed and excluded simply for being Jewish or supporting Israel. The masks are off, and what was once whispered in dark corners is now chanted openly with pride.
People like to think the Nazis were defeated in 1945 and that the nightmare ended. They didn’t disappear. They simply morphed.
The genocidal cause known as “palestine,” with its signature chant “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” did not begin in 1967 or even in 1948. It originated with Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem, Hitler’s close ally and active partner in the effort to exterminate the Jews, and the patron of arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat.
The Mufti brought Mein Kampf to the Arab world, recruited Muslim soldiers for the Nazi SS, and explicitly planned the annihilation of every Jew in the British Mandate of Palestine and the Middle East with Nazi assistance.
Today, that same spirit leads the global charge against Jews, from the streets of New York, London, Toronto, Sydney etc. to university campuses and beyond.
Yet far too many Jews still cling to the illusion of the “two-state solution,” and coexistence with “palestinians”, failing to recognize that it is nothing more than the sharpened tip of the spear in the same centuries-old strategy to ultimately annihilate the Jewish people and erase Israel from the map.
“Never Again” must begin with the Jewish world openly declaring that the cause called “palestine”, with the invented identify called “palestinians”, is the direct continuation of Nazism.
Without that moral clarity, no amount of Jewish organizational campaigns, Holocaust education, or interfaith dialogue will protect Jews living outside Israel. At least here in Israel we have the IDF to defend us. In the West, as city after city falls under the demographic and democratic weight of jihadi influence, like Paris, London, NYC etc. Jews will find themselves increasingly unsafe, unprotected, and alone.
The biggest failure of the Jewish world has been our collective refusal to acknowledge the direct historical and ideological continuity between Nazi antisemitism and today’s jihadi Muslim antisemitism under the cause called “palestine”.
The Nazis were defeated on the battlefield in 1945, but the poisonous ideology they partnered with, the 1,400+ year-old jihadi ideology that seeks to subjugate or destroy all non-Muslims so that the world can be ruled by Islam, never died. It simply adapted, found new sponsors, and continued its war against the Jewish people under different flags and new slogans.
Here’s a stronger, more flowing rewrite in your voice:
October 7th was not an isolated terror attack. It was the latest chapter in the same ancient war against the Jewish people.
It is the same hatred that drove the Muslims to slaughter the Jews of Khaybar in the 7th century, a massacre they still proudly chant about today at protests worldwide with the cry “Khaybar, Khaybar ya yahud.” It is the same hatred that drove the Mufti of Jerusalem to ally with Hitler and actively instigate the massacres of Jews in Hebron, Jerusalem, and across the land in the 1920s and 1930s. And it is the same hatred that today drives Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, and the Islamic regime of Iran to plan the destruction of Israel and the murder of its Jews.
The very same hatred that once celebrated the gas chambers now celebrates the burning of families in Gaza border kibbutzim and the mass rape of women at the Nova music festival.
This is not new. This is not “resistance.” This is the continuation of a 1,400-year-old war against the Jewish people — and we must finally recognize it for what it is.
And yet, too many in the Jewish world and in the West still refuse to see the continuity. They treat Jew-hating antisemitism as a series of unfortunate “incidents” rather than the persistent, irrational, spiritual disease it has always been.
This is why “Never Again” rings hollow today. Because while we light candles and read names, we still hesitate to name the enemy clearly and act with the moral clarity our ancestors lacked when they were powerless.
The only way to make “Never Again” mean something is to stop pretending this hatred is new, stop apologizing for our existence, stop making concessions in the hope of being loved, and start standing strong in our indigenous homeland with unapologetic Jewish sovereignty and strength.
Israel is not the cause of Kew-hating antisemitism.
Israel is the antidote to it.
A strong, proud, sovereign Israel, one that no longer seeks approval from those who wish us dead, is the only thing that has ever deterred this eternal hatred.
The Jewish people have survived every empire that tried to destroy us. We will survive this wave too. But survival is not enough. We were never meant to merely survive. We were meant to thrive, to lead, and to fulfill our mission as a light unto the nations, from our own land, with our own strength, under our own sovereignty, connected to God.
The time for hollow slogans is over.
The time for Jewish strength, clarity, and courage is now.
The time has come for Jews in the West to start making concrete plans to return home, because this is home.
Not to run away from the rising Jew-hating antisemitism that will only grow worse, but to come home for themselves, for their children, and for their grandchildren, to take part in the most miraculous story in human history: the return of the Jewish people to their ancestral, indigenous homeland, where we are meant to be, to fulfill our mission both as individuals and as a nation.
Am Yisrael Chai, not as victims begging “never again,” but as a proud, sovereign nation living “never again” every single day in our eternal homeland.
