Who Fuels Jew-Hatred Today?

Since October 7, 2023, when Hamas unleashed its massacre, an orgy of violence that shattered families, razed communities, and dragged hostages into the abyss, a seismic shift has echoed beyond Israel’s borders. The physical assault on a sovereign Jewish state is harrowing. Yet, it is dwarfed by the resurgence of Jew-hatred, an ancient specter now metastasizing across the Western world with sophistication and audacity that defy reason. This is no vestige of crude bigotry confined to history’s fringes; it is a hydra-headed ideology cloaked in the guise of justice, wielded by a sprawling coalition of architects, intellectuals, diaspora agitators, digital influencers, and self-righteous moralists, converging to cast the Jewish people as perpetual outcasts once more. As a journalist, I stand not as a passive recorder but as a witness to this moral implosion, compelled to unmask its perpetrators and demand the West confront its culpability.

The evidence is stark, and the pattern is undeniable. Since October 7, antisemitic acts have erupted across the United States, Europe, and beyond, with synagogues vandalized, Jewish students hounded, and communities terrorized. To wear a kippah in an Arab-owned barbershop or taxi is to risk assault; to raise an Israeli flag is to trigger a manhunt. Pro-Palestinian extremists compile “enemy lists,” targeting Jews and their defenders for daring to speak out. This is not speculation; it is the grim reality of a people forced into silence, their solidarity with Israel a peril that begins with a click online and ends in physical menace.

When the murderers speak, the world listens. When their victims cry out, the world covers its ears.

Who bears responsibility for this descent? The perpetrators are legion, their roles distinct yet intertwined. Western academics, tenured professors at institutions like Harvard, Columbia, and the Sorbonne, craft treatises that reframe Hamas’ savagery as “resistance,” their classrooms incubators of terror apologia where Jewish students flee under escort. The Muslim diaspora in cities like London, New York, and Berlin foments venom in everyday spaces, barbershops, kebab stands, and taxis, turning routine encounters into flashpoints of hate. Social media amplifies this poison exponentially: TikTok, a platform awash with millions of users, churns out viral videos glorifying Hamas, peddling “genocide” libel, and lionizing “Intifada,” content that racked up billions of views, radicalizing youth and normalizing Jew-hatred under algorithmic indifference.

The coalition widens. Self-styled “child rights” advocates think ambassadors or NGO figureheads deplore Gaza’s casualties yet remain silent on the slaughter of Israeli innocents, their selective outrage a veneer for bias. Anti-colonial theorists, from campuses to think tanks, rail against Israel while excusing jihadist tyranny. Progressive activists, queer collectives, and climate crusaders condemn Israel’s existence while embracing its would-be executioners, their hypocrisy stark at protests from Berkeley to Brussels. Jordanian CEOs and Gulf financiers bankroll this hatred, funneling millions to anti-Israel networks in the West, while Hollywood celebrities lend star power to the cause. Physicians, psychologists, teachers, and public broadcasters sanctify it all, wrapping Jew-hatred in humanitarian platitudes: “genocide,” “child-murderer Israel,” phrases chanted at rallies in Times Square, Trafalgar Square, and the Brandenburg Gate, reviving medieval blood libels with a contemporary gloss.

The West’s complicity is not incidental; it is foundational. Governments pour millions into Gaza under the banner of aid, knowing full well that Hamas siphons these funds into its war machine, tunnels, rockets, and propaganda, while Western leaders stay mute as Israel faces relentless barrages. Politicians preach restraint to a nation under existential threat yet offer no condemnation when Hamas’ atrocities cry for justice. Democratic states heralded as bastions of equity forsake their Jewish citizens, refusing to prosecute mobs who torch embassies, chant for Intifada, and brandish Hamas’ red triangle, a marker of targets now paraded with the watermelon emoji at Western demonstrations. “From the river to the sea,” they shout, a cipher for Israel’s eradication, its Jewish population extinguished, its legacy effaced.

This is intimidation perfected. Pro-Israel rallies in the West shrink not from apathy but from terror; Jews spat upon, vilified, and assaulted, their voices choked in a digital and physical vise. Universities, once beacons of reason, have crumbled: faculty and students alike exalt Hamas, their campuses cauldrons of radicalization where intellectual honesty withers. TikTok’s algorithm fuels this fire, pushing antisemitic tropes to impressionable minds, videos of “Zionist conspiracies” or “Palestinian liberation” garnering millions of likes, drowning out dissent. Solidarity from Muslim communities is a whisper, overwhelmed by the din of hardliners, clan leaders, protest ringleaders, and ideologues, who stoke annihilationist dreams, storm diplomatic outposts, and fetishize “armed resistance.” Banned groups like Samidoun persist in the shadows, their banners and chants imported from foreign offshoots, mocking the West’s feeble crackdowns.

Yet this is not merely a dirge of desolation but a summons to resistance and accountability. Israel encircled yet defiant, dismantles Hamas with surgical resolve; its military triumphs are a testament to a people who spurn annihilation. The Jewish diaspora, though assailed, endures with a tenacity that defies history’s brutal repetitions. Every Star of David displayed, every Shabbat upheld, stands as a rebuke to a world intent on their erasure.

History is not kind to those who stayed silent while their neighbors burned.

I write not as a detached observer but as a partisan in this fray, my pen a blade against the tide of Jew hatred, my voice a bulwark where others waver. The journalistic ranks have largely capitulated, peddling ambiguity or silence; I reject their faintheartedness, standing firm with a people whose survival is imperative beyond compromise.

Antisemitism is not a burden for any one group to bear alone; it is humanity’s disgrace to uproot. Let it be met with unrelenting truth, unshakable resolve, and the enduring cry of a nation that has outlived every empire that sought its end: Am Yisrael Chai.