We were expelled from Spain.

We were murdered in Poland.

Hanged in Iran.

Forgotten in Germany.

And yet we survived.

We learned. We remembered.

In 1948, the world watched as nearly a million Jews were expelled or forced to flee Arab countries.

Their homes, businesses, and synagogues were confiscated or burned.

There were no refugee camps, no UN organizations, no global calls for justice.

No „right of return“ for Jews in Baghdad, Aleppo, or Tripoli.

They say we are tribal.

But we tried to fit in.

We changed our names.

We straightened our hair.

We abandoned our faith.

But every time we wanted to disappear, you reminded us who we were.

So we turned to ourselves.

We supported each other.

We built synagogues when your places of worship excluded us.

We built hospitals when we weren’t welcome in yours.

We founded organizations to defend ourselves when no one else would.

And when no country wanted us, we built our own.

Then came October 7, 2023.

You say you hate Israel because of its policies.

But on October 7, 2023, Hamas didn’t attack soldiers.

It didn’t storm checkpoints or military bases.

It raped women.

Beheaded babies.
Burned living families.
Slaughtered civilians in their homes, bombed accommodations, and murdered young people at a music festival.

This was the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.

And while our dead weren’t even buried, the world didn’t mourn us—it turned against us.

Students waved „Glory to the Martyrs“ signs.

Demonstrators shook swastikas in Sydney.

„Gas the Jews“ was scrawled on walls in Berlin.

Jewish students were locked in libraries in New York.

MIT students were prevented from attending classes.

At Harvard, they were told to remove their Stars of David for their safety.

While our hostages were still bleeding in tunnels.

So no—it’s not about borders.

You hated us before 1948.
Before the State of Israel existed.
Before a single border was drawn.

What you hate is that the Jew has power today.

A flag.

An army.

A government.

A home.

You preferred to make us weak. Strays. Beggars. Dependent on your pity or your permission to exist.

Israel is not a gift.

This is a necessity.

We didn’t colonize this land—we returned.

Jews have lived in Jerusalem, Hebron, Safed, and Tiberias for over 3,000 years.

For centuries, we prayed toward Zion.

We spoke Hebrew while the world told us to forget.

We made the desert bloom.

We drained swamps, planted forests, and revived a lost language.

We welcomed Holocaust survivors, Russian dissidents, and Ethiopian Jews fleeing famine.

We built a nation surrounded by enemies, boycotted by the world, haunted by the shadow of Auschwitz.

Israel wasn’t created because of the Holocaust, but in spite of 2,000 years of exile, genocide, and betrayal—and it is the only insurance against the next one.

„Never again“ is not a slogan.

This is the Iron Dome. This is the F-35.

The 18-year-old in khaki uniform is on guard duty so Sderot’s children can sleep.

Why this double standard?

When Russia invaded Ukraine, the world was outraged.

Blue and yellow flags everywhere.

Weapons, aid, solidarity—rightfully so.

But when Hamas burned Israeli children alive, we were told to „de-escalate.“

When we defend our cities, you call us monsters.

When we bury our dead, you protest our grief.

Why?

Peace is possible. We have proven it.

They say Jews are strangers in the Middle East.

But the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan say otherwise.

The Abraham Accords have shown that peace is not only possible—it is real.

Israel is sending aid to Syrian earthquake victims.

Arab doctors and members of parliament sit in the Israeli Knesset.

We seek coexistence.

You call out: „From the river to the sea.“

We choose life.

You call for death.

Yes – Israel is strong today. Baruch HaShem.

For a Jew without power is a dead Jew.

And history has taught us: No king, no pope, no president will save us.

We do not want to dominate.
We simply want to live.
Free. Proud. Without apologizing.

You don’t have to like us.
You don’t have to agree.

But you will never again decide whether we have the right to exist.

Am Israel 🇮🇱 Chai ❤️