Oct. 7: What Antizionists Steal from Humanity
The story of the October 7 massacres isn’t just about death and destruction. It’s about the future that the terrorists and their global supporters stole from humanity.
This is one of the many basics that the mainstream media fails to understand. I dig into it in the new episode of They Stand Corrected.
Antisemitism – including its latest incarnation, antizionism – is the story of our species shooting itself in the foot.
When members of this tiny peoplehood aren’t having to fight for survival, they deliver extraordinary contributions. Norman Lebrecht, author of Genius & Anxiety, put it this way: “Between the middle of the nineteenth and the middle of the twentieth centuries, the most fertile period in human history, about three dozen individuals changed the way that we see the world. Almost half of them are Jews.”
It’s astounding for a group that composes only 0.2% of the world. Mark Twain wrote that the Jew’s “contributions to the world’s list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers. He has made a marvelous fight in this world in all ages; and has done it with his hands tied behind him.”
Much has been written about the inventiveness of Jewish people. Israel is a living embodiment of it, a world leader in life-saving scientific and technological advancements. All this is often explained as being the result of a culture that prioritizes learning, hard work, and never giving up even in the face of the most profound obstacles.
These days, alarm bells go off when anyone mentions this phenomenon. People fear that it connotes some sort of suggestion involving biology. But that makes no sense. Anyone can become a part of Am Yisrael, the People of Israel, the Hebrew term for “Jews.” We don’t proselytize or force anyone to be like us, so we remain a minority. But anyone who chooses to join is just as Jewish as anyone else.
Many of the 1,200 people slaughtered by Gazan terrorists on October 7, 2023, were hard-working creators committed to peace and trying to build relationships across the border. They tried to help Gazans build an agriculture sector that Hamas wouldn’t destroy. They reached out to offer jobs.
At Kibbutz Kfar Aza, people gathered musical instruments, sent bicycles, did anything they could think of. That day itself was an annual kite festival in which residents tried to send messages of peace and love to Gazans. “We thought maybe if the children will be happy, the family will be happy,” filmmaker Ronit Ifargan told me on a visit to the kibbutz. “We were really naive.” Gazans crossed the border, raped, murdered and butchered members of the kibbutz and others, sparking yet another Israeli war for survival.
Since then, as the antizionist hate movement has grown worldwide, more and more Jewish people have had to pivot away from other activities to focus on fighting this bigotry and protecting their communities.
Imagine if they were all free to work on other things that benefit humanity. That could happen if Gaza’s Iran-backed Hamas apparatus and U.N.-run schools stopped training kids to be terrorists and taught them to build a flourishing society right where they are.
Instead, great minds have to flee the clutches of Gaza in order to thrive. Take Mosab Hassan Yousef, known as the “son of Hamas,” and Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, an activist and writer. They face death threats for speaking the truth. They’re only alive to do so because they got out.
On October 7, 2023, Islamist, antizionist terrorists carried out a historic massacre. They also lit a match, turning the world’s ignorance and hatred into a global conflagration against Jews. In doing so, they stole the world’s progress.
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