Jews are not natural born killers, but anti-Semites and racists think of us that way. They really love it when we kill Palestinians.
Trump and his minions want to deport international students who criticize Israel for its genocide in Gaza. But Mahmoud Khalil and the others are the Jews's best friends.
At Columbia University today, Jewish students chained themselves to a fence to protest the attempted deportation of Mahmoud Khalil. In doing so, they expressed the highest and most lofty principles of Judaic values: A passion for social justice, a hatred for dishonesty, an abhorrence for murder.
Those who want to deport Khalil are often racists and anti-Semites. Recently, President Donald Trump managed to get both brands of bigotry into one short comment, when he said about Senator Chuck Schumer:
“As far as I’m concerned, he’s become a Palestinian. He used to be Jewish. He’s not Jewish any more. He’s a Palestinian.”
First Trump decides who is Jewish and who is not, and then he strongly implies that there is something wrong with being a Palestinian. Anti-Semitism and racism, all wrapped up and tied with a bow.
Those who claim to be the friends of Jews, as so many others have pointed out, should not encourage us to betray our core Judaic values as Benjamin Netanyahu and current “leaders” of Israel have done. Israel is now a pariah nation, accused by nearly every human rights organization and human rights expert in the world—including in Israel itself—of committing war crimes at the very least, and probably genocide as well. This is what the trained experts in international law are saying; uninformed personal opinions on the matter are irrelevant, or should be.
How are we viewed by those gentiles and so-called “Christians” who cheer Israel on as it slaughters Palestinians? They see Jews as natural born killers, quick to seek revenge, too arrogant to follow international laws against collective punishment, instinctual murderers ready to do the dirty work of killing Arabs. And they like it.
If it sounds as though I am exaggerating, ask yourself why known anti-Semites and neo-Nazi groups and parties in the United States and Europe are now so “pro-Israel.” It’s because they see us Jews as means to their ends. And way too many Jews have fallen for this stereotype of who we are. In the Old Testament, God supposedly commanded us to kill every man, woman, and child at Biblical places like Jericho. And with Joshua leading us, we did it!
Funnily enough, some of those who egg us on the most to kill Arabs are Evangelical Christians, men and women who supposedly follow the New Testament. If the God of the Old Testament had the apparent emotional maturity of a two year old, the God of the New Testament—at least as embodied by his supposed son, Jesus—seems to have realized that killing everyone in sight was not the way to go.
But for some of today’s alleged Christians, it’s okay for Jews to go on murderous rages and kill thousands of children, because that’s how they see us. As I said, in their eyes, we are natural born killers.
All of this is pretty harsh, I know. But as at Columbia, where the movement against genocide in Gaza has been led to a large extent by Jews themselves, there are those of us who are not going along with the murderous program others have set down for us—whether it be Netanyahu, Trump, Vance, Pam Bondi, or all the rest of our false friends who claim to be fighting “anti-Semitism.”
They are using us to carry out their own racist goals. But fortunately, every day, more and more of us Jews are refusing to be fooled.
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