Shame on You

As someone who has loved Israel since childhood — who has lived among both Jews and Arabs in Israel and Syria, who speaks Arabic, who has read the Torah, the Quran, and the Bible — my heart bleeds every day. I’ve studied every history book I could find to understand the truth of the Middle East. I’ve followed every pro-Israel media channel, and even created a fake identity just to infiltrate and monitor the vile hatred spewed by anti-Israel platforms.

And yet, despite all this, it has become unbearable to read a newspaper, to watch a documentary, to scroll through social media—without sinking into a state of despair. The world is in decline, and it is shameful.

Shame on you.

Israel—this small, shining light in a sea of darkness—is vilified while the worst of humanity is defended. It makes me want only one thing: to come home to Israel. Sadly, I haven’t completed the search for my ancestors, so I cannot make Aliyah through the regular path. I cannot officially come home as a Jew, though no one can deny the Jewish soul that beats within me any longer.

And then, this morning, I opened the news. My heart is still pounding. I cannot stay silent. So I say it loudly, clearly, and with every fiber of my being:

SHAME ON YOU, NETHERLANDS. SHAME ON YOU, WORLD.

Shame on you, Femke Halsema, Mayor of Amsterdam—how dare you condemn Israel while never uttering a single word of sympathy for the victims of October 7th? You stayed silent on the massacre of innocent civilians by Hamas terrorists, yet you bend over backwards to express “concern” for Gaza. You allowed pro-Hamas thugs to scream hatred at the opening of the Holocaust Museum, forcing survivors and their families to walk past mobs calling for their death. You allowed November 2024’s Jew Hunt in the streets of Amsterdam—yes, a Jew Hunt—and said nothing. You are not a protector of democracy. You are a disgrace. Shame on you, Femke Falsema. Shame on you, Amsterdam—once a safe haven, now the antisemitic capital of the Netherlands.

Shame on you, Dutch government, for lobbying the EU to boycott and punish Israel—your supposed ally—while coddling regimes like Iran, Syria, Yemen, and Qatar. You summoned the Israeli ambassador to lecture him on Israel’s internal affairs, yet you’ve never dared to confront the ambassadors of terrorist-supporting states. Your hypocrisy is vile. Shame on your double standards.

Shame on you, NOS, for refusing to witness the horrors of October 7th—turning down invitations to view raw footage of the massacre—and still pretending to offer balanced coverage. You knowingly mislead the public, distorting truth, ignoring context, and feeding antisemitic lies to an ignorant population.

Shame on you, Europe, for defending radical Islamists in the name of tolerance while sacrificing your Jewish citizens. For passing laws against kosher slaughter and circumcision. For labeling Jewish self-defense as aggression while excusing terrorism as “resistance.”

Shame on you, Belgium, for outlawing fundamental aspects of Jewish life. You criminalize our traditions and then dare to say you support religious freedom?

Shame on you, so-called “Jews” of Een Ander Joods Geluid (A Different Jewish Voice)—you betray your own people to march with those who call for our destruction. Have you no shame? No memory? No loyalty? There is no lower place to sink.

Shame on you, Donald Trump, for abandoning Israel to serve your own ego, to chase political gain while Israel bleeds.

Shame on you, Israeli protesters, who destabilize your own country in a time of war. Unity is not a luxury now—it is a necessity. When your nation stands alone, division is not democracy—it is destruction.

Shame on you, Pro-Israel groups in the Netherlands, who refuse to unite. This is not a time for pride, ego, or competition. This is a time for one voice, one cause, one heart.

Shame on you, Big Tech—LinkedIn, Meta, and others, for silencing pro-Israel voices, shadow-banning truth, and allowing the spread of lies, libel, and pure antisemitic poison.

Shame on you, universities, educators, and institutions, for brainwashing an entire generation, for teaching them to hate, to judge without knowledge, and to treat Jewish lives as lesser.

Shame on you, the so-called “experts”—paraded across media platforms—who dare to speak on Israel with ignorance as deep as it is arrogant. You’ve never been to Sderot. You’ve never wept at the sight of a kibbutz in ashes. You have no right.

Shame on you, BLM movement, for staying silent while Jews of color were raped, mutilated, and murdered by Hamas terrorists. Where was your outrage for the Ethiopian Jews slaughtered in cold blood? For the Thai and Filipino workers dragged through Gaza like trophies of war? You chant about justice, but your silence on this massacre reveals your hypocrisy. When Jews bleed, you look away. When it’s not politically convenient, you fall silent. Shame on your selective outrage. Shame on your moral bankruptcy.

Shame on you, Feminist movements, for not raising your voices for the Israeli women raped, tortured, and mutilated by Hamas. You stayed silent while their bodies were desecrated. You abandoned them. You ignored the Arab women in Gaza, Iran, Saudi Arabia—women still oppressed, silenced, beaten, and treated as property. What happened to “believe all women”? What happened to “my body, my choice”? Or does that not apply when the perpetrators are not white Western men, but Islamist terrorists? Your silence is complicity. Your cowardice is shameful.

Shame on you, so-called humanitarian organizations—the Red Cross, Amnesty International, UNRWA, Oxfam Novib, Artsen zonder Grenzen. You have utterly failed your mission. You cry for humanity but ignore the humanity of Jews. Where is your outrage for the 58 hostages still rotting in the tunnels of Gaza—held in inhumane conditions, tortured, starved, used as bargaining chips by monsters? Where is your voice for them? You scream about Gaza casualties based on unverified numbers handed to you by Hamas itself—but you say nothing of the Israeli civilians, the babies, the elderly, the women burned alive, the families wiped out. Your silence is not neutrality. It is betrayal. It is complicity. It is antisemitism with a new face and a polished logo. Shame on you.

I could write twenty books filled with this shame. And still it would not be enough.

This grief, this fury—it is too much to bear. It pushes me toward one conclusion: it is time to leave Europe. It is time to come home. To Israel.

If anyone can help me find a path, I am ready. It is time to go where I belong. It is time to live among my people. To stand with them. To defend them.

Because despite the hate, despite the betrayal—Am Yisrael Chai.