An Open Letter to the West

The streets are filled with comical chaos, with millions sharing memes and videos, and everyone seems to be laughing. But I’m not. It’s baffling to see how the Western world has descended into such hypocrisy and absurdity. It’s as if comfort and luxury have dulled our senses and distorted our perception of reality.

Over 11,000 people have been tragically killed in Yemen, with many more millions suffering from ghastly human rights violations. That rarely makes the news. Simultaneously, the IDF accidentally kills one American protester in a raid in the West Bank, and it’s the cover story for nearly a week, with outright condemnation and insistence on a probe by President Biden.

Israel was viciously attacked on October 7, 2023, With Hamas committing heinous war crimes, burning babies, and raping women while simultaneously violently mutilating and abusing their bodies, and the world immediately urged Israel to give a “proportional response” and show “reasonable restraint.”  A Palestinian terror organization openly declares its intent to wipe out Israel and then come for America. They are praised worldwide for “standing up to the Occupation.”

Hamas kidnaps over 250 innocent civilians, and the world is up in flames by pressuring the government to consent to their demands instead of pressuring the terror group to release the hostages. Many people will not even call them a “terror group.” Rather, they are “resistance fighters” who should be lauded.  The list of hypocrisies is endless. But here’s the truth – it’s not the Jews I’m worried about; it’s the Western world that keeps me up at night. Everyone knows that if it’s not the Jews, it’s not the news. There’s an odd obsession with the Jews. But those are not the ones I’m troubled about.

They say Jews control the media, manipulate politics, wield financial power, and are the root of global chaos. But let’s set the record straight: AIPAC was founded in 1951, not as a tool of manipulation, but as a response to the Holocaust – to ensure there would always be an advocate for the Jewish people in Washington after years of indifference.  It was a proactive step born from the ashes of genocide, not a secretive ploy for control. Similarly, the ADL, founded even earlier, was established to combat prejudice against all minority groups amid rising antisemitism. The ADL was founded to promote civil rights and secure justice and fair treatment for everyone.

Then there’s the age-old myth that Jews own Hollywood to control the masses. The reality is quite different: Jews didn’t just own Hollywood – they built it. At the turn of the 20^th century, Hollywood was one of the few industries that allowed Jews to work! Many of Hollywood’s founding studios – Fox, MGM, Warner Brothers, Universal Pictures, and Paramount were created by Jewish immigrants who were shut out of other industries.  Hollywood was in its incubation stage at the time, with nothing prestigious about it; it was simply one of the few open doors. It wasn’t about controlling narratives but creating opportunities in a world that had largely rejected them.

How about the justification and support for terror groups to utterly terrorize the citizens of Israel because we have “occupied and colonized” it from the victimized Palestinians? I implore you to research before parading down your college campuses with keffiyehs on your head. The Palestinian nation never had an official, internationally recognized independent state. “Palestine” was governed by various powers throughout the ages, and by 1948, it was ruled by the British, not the Palestinians. Israel, in fact, offers more rights and freedoms to Arabs than they would find in many Arab states; an Arab can travel freely within Israel, while Jews are forbidden in Arab villages. What happened to that “apartheid” you scream about?

Additionally, if you argue that Israel is an occupied land, then I regret to inform you that Canada, the USA, Australia, and most modernized countries are as well. Yes, instead of “occupied,” the academic discourse uses the term “settler-colonial,” a simple rebranding of occupation. This means that settlers displaced indigenous populations and established their own governance structure. And if we really want to be detailed about colonization, The Jews were historically in Israel first, before Islam was ever a religion; so, who colonized whom?

The double standard Jews are held to doesn’t infuriate me because the Torah predicted this well over 2,000 years ago; it’s a tale as old as time.  Professor Michael Curtis of Rutgers University said so eloquently: “Everybody has a people that they hate; a group you don’t like, that are threatening you. But the uniqueness of antisemitism lies in the fact that no other people in the world have been charged simultaneously with alienation from society and with cosmopolitanism, with being capitalist exploiters and also revolutionary communists, with having a materialistic mentality or being a people of the book. We are accused of being both militant aggressors and cowardly pacifists, adherents to a superstitious religion, and agents of modernism. We uphold a rigid law and are also morally decadent. We have a chosen people mentality and an inferior human nature; we are both arrogant and timid, individualist and communally adherent; we are guilty of both the crucifixion of Jesus to Christians and to others. We are held to account for the invention of Christianity. Everything and its opposite becomes an explanation for antisemitism.”

So, I repeat, it’s not the Jews I’m worried about; it’s the Westerners. How can you stand for such hypocrisy? How do you glorify Jewish deaths while condemning a terrorist one? How can you march for a cause that you have never even researched? No, an informative Instagram reel does not cut the intellectual honesty expected of you. This is not just another menial dorm-room debate—it’s a question of moral clarity and the courage to confront uncomfortable truths.

When the lines between good and evil, right and wrong, become blurred, history teaches us that destruction inevitably follows. The West’s obsession with convenience, preference for comfortable narratives, and blind eye to atrocities are not just appalling—they are dangerous. It’s easy to point fingers, find scapegoats, and mock those who try to defend their right to exist. But beware because the complacency that allows you to turn away today will be the very force that undermines your freedoms tomorrow.

Mark Twain once pondered, “All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?” Perhaps it’s time we asked a different question: What will be the secret to the survival of the West if it continues down this path of moral disarray and hypocrisy? Will we have the strength to see through the noise and stand on the side of truth? Or will we, too, become casualties of our own contradictions? The choice and the responsibility are ours.