Palestinians are oppressed, right? Who oppresses them? The Jews--or Progressives?

The anti-Israel drumbeat doesn't wane. If anything, it grows stronger. It pops up continuously like teenage acne. 

It's a scourge. It scars its advocates with hate.

So far in 2021 alone, anti-Zionism, anti-Semitism and anti-Jew rhetoric appear to have risen to historic heights (see here and here). Even the anti-Israel Human Rights Watch has become concerned at the level of Jew-hate in the US (here). The jerusalempost seems indeed correct to suggest that global anti-Semitism is expected to jump dramatically this year (here).

Just today, June 30, 2021, a report has surfaced that the UK now experiences the highest number of anti-Semitic incidents on record (here). In the US, anti-Semitic attacks are considered to be persistent--and worsening (here). In Europe, a "surging" anti-Semitism provokes concern for many (here).

Make no mistake. Jews everywhere are under assault.

In many of the anti-Jew incidents reported in the media this year (here), Israel has been the trigger for much of the anti-Jew rhetoric we see. It is Israel that triggers rally expressions of violence, not "Jews". 

No longer is it the Jew who must be driven off in order for a community to feel safe or pure or wholesome. It is Israel that must be driven off to make the world safer or purer or more wholesome. 

This idea is, of course, nonsense. If anything, Israeli high-tech advances have been one of the main reasons the world has become safer and healthier. Israel has become the fabled 'start-up' nation--the smallest nation in the world to  enhance at such a high level our daily lives. Though tiny, Israel has successfully developed new technologies for everything from cell phones to autos, medicine and even water resources for nations literally dying of thirst. 

Israel is one of the world's leaders in high tech. In the world of high tech, Israel's "punch" is far, far greater than its tiny size. 

Israel and the Palestinians play on the same geographic stage. They are neighbors. We know what Israel has done. It has become a science powerhouse. What have the Palestinians done? Nothing.

Curiously, according to a spreading international rage, it seems that the more Israel brings high tech miracles to the world, the more it is demonized by an evil intent--to destroy the Jewish state simply because it is Jewish. That is what we have seen this year. Israel is evil because it is Jewish!

So far as much of the world is now concerned, the 'Jew-Israel'--despite its passing the tests to be named the only democracy in the Middle East--has become the world's worst human rights violator. 

It is impossible to be termed a democracy and also at the same time to be called the world's worst human rights violator. Yet for many, Israel is both. Israel is the new Nazi Germany.  

You might not know this epithet has been attached to Israel. But the world's "Progressives" know it. They believe it. They promote it. They teach it at almost all the West's colleges and universities. 

"Progressives" don't just teach their anti-Israelism/anti-Jew beliefs. They indoctrinate their students with their anti-Jew/anti-Israel lies. 

Today, this is easy to do. Better than 90% of today's college/universities are now staffed by "Progressives"--and by those now too afraid to stand up to "Progressives". The "Progressive" anti-Jew/anti-Israel political agenda appears to have become academia's education agenda.

Therefore, some form of Jew-hate will now be taught to your children and grandchildren when they go to college. Today, learning Jew-hate is what it means to be called, 'educated'.

Here's a "Progressive's" poster that tells an interesting story. Take a look  (from here):  

In this poster, you see what kind of lives Palestinians lead in the Palestinian Authority (PA) and in Gaza. They live under a dictator's thumb. They live in fear. They have few--if any--freedoms. Helping to improve the lives of Palestinians certainly should be a "Progressive" Cause.

But it isn't. The plight of Palestinians will not be relieved precisely because "Progressives" control the narrative about Palestinians. "Progressives" do not work to alleviate Palestinian suffering. Instead,"Progressives" are not very progressive at all. They have a different goal: to proclaim that crimes against Palestinians are all Israel's fault because Palestinians do no wrong.

Naturally, you may not believe that it is Palestinians who are guilty of the crimes listed in this poster. You may well believe what "Progressives" say--that it is Israel who is guilty of these crimes. 

Well, if you believe that, congratulations. Your anti-Jew/anti-Israel indoctrination training has been successful. Very successful.

But it's not Israel which commits the crimes listed in this poster. It's the Palestinians themselves who commit these crimes--against their own people.

Want the truth? Just look at the Palestinian Authority's (PA) track record of offenses against its own people:

--No real freedom of speech or freedom of the press (here, here and here). 

--Gay rights: the PA has outright banned gays (here). In both the PA and Gaza, gays are being arrested, jailed without trial and even executed (at least in Gaza, but possibly also in the PA) just because they are gay (see a 2-minute video by the Israeli NGO Shurat HaDin here; and here)

-While "Progressive" media has lots to say about allegations of Israelis torturing Palestinians in Israeli prisons (which may or not be true), no "Progressive" news outlet will tell you about Palestinians being tortured in the PA by PA Security forces. "Progressives" want you to believe only one thing: it is Israel that tortures Palestinians. 

Nevertheless, in the PA and in Gaza, where rule is maintained by just two authorities (Fatah in the PA; Hamas in Gaza), there is only one way to speak or to think--and zero dissent allowed (here). Both Fatah and Hamas "have established machineries of repression to crush dissent, including through the use of torture" (ibid).

--Palestinian Christians are actively persecuted and harassed in the PA by the PA. Too often, when Christians are attacked in the PA, PA security forces will not intervene, leaving these Christians terrified--or worse (here);

-The PA offers little-to-no protection for women in the PA (here);

--Honor killings and the abuse of women in the PA has reached such a high level that Palestinians are outraged (here). But PA officials do little to address this issue. 

Naturally, if you are yourself a Social Justice Warrior, such a poster should, in theory, speak to you. After all, it suggests how, in 'Palestine', Palestinians face oppression. That's what you fight against, right? It's what you want to fix, right? It's why you--or your children--go to anti-Israel rallies, right?

Unfortunately, too many well-meaning Jews (and non-Jews) do not understand the first thing about the lies generated to demonize Israel--and to exonerate Palestinian crimes. Too many simply accept as gospel what "Progressives" tell them. 

By believing lies about Israel--and with those lies, protecting PA criminals--these well-meaning individuals who support the "Progressive" narrative against Israel actually end up hurting Palestinians, not helping them. They end up protecting the abusers. They shield the Palestinians who kill their own. They hurt the innocents by supporting and honoring their Palestinian oppressors. 

Eighty years ago, the silence heard across America about the evils of an unfolding European Holocaust helped Nazis to exterminate 6 million Jews. Few from America complained about what Hitler was doing to Europe's Jews, so of course Hitler felt perfectly comfortable he could proceed as he pleased with his 'Final Solution' program.

Today, America's (and Europe's) silence in the face of rabid Jew-hate only thinly disguised as 'anti-Zionism', does the same thing--it abets the PA's drive to exterminate Israel. It helps to bring the Palestinian dream of wiping Israel off the face of the earth closer to reality. 

Here's the dirtiest truth of all: the only people in the Middle East who actually care about Palestinians are the Jews.

Only the Jews give Palestinians jobs with decent benefits. Only the Jews take into their own hospitals Palestinians who need cutting edge medical assistance. Only Jews give Palestinians a chance to enter almost any field of endeavor. Only the Jews give Palestinians who commit to Israel a chance to vote far more often than once every fifteen+ years.  Only the Jewish Israel gives Palestinians the right to sue other Palestinians in Israeli courts in order to seek justice for Palestinian crimes. Only the Jews allow Palestinian the right move freely within large Israeli cities.

 Few if any Israelis are granted these same rights within the PA. 

Listen: the Palestinian people are oppressed, all right. But not by Israel. Until the world wakes up to this horror, Palestinians will continue to be condemned to suffer--and to die.

Is that the true goal "Progressives" are after? Is that your goal?