Way of the Brave

Israel has been open to peace from day one. Read its Declaration of Independence to learn more.

It is nothing but a lie that Israel is or ever intended to be an ethnostate for Jews only.

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The Hebrew men who were thrown into a fiery furnace for refusing to worship a wicked man with a god complex miraculously survived and brought with them from the fire a testament to the power of being sure in one’s identity (Daniel 3).

Similarly, although their physical bodies did not survive, Holocaust victims loudly declared their faith and clung to their Jewish identity as they marched bravely into the gas chambers. Many on their death marches sang a hymn called ‘Ani Maamin,’ declaring “I believe.” Like our ancestors, we must be strong in who we are, come what may.

When Jew haters succeeded in turning the world against us time and time again over the past several centuries, the Jewish response has largely been to run. We hide our Jewishness, we back down and yield to our oppressors, we submit and do our best to blend in. And we all get it…who wants to be persecuted?

But I would ask, how well has that worked for us? Not so well, I’d say. From October 7th onward, Jewish pride has hit all-time highs. We must keep it this way. We must be bold and courageous; we must refuse to bow. We are Jews, we exist, and we will exist forever — deal with it.

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If those calling for a ceasefire do not redirect their fury toward Hamas for rejecting Israel’s proposal (they won’t), the whole world will see how antisemitic double standards work in real time…as if it hasn’t been made abundantly clear already.

Could the Jew hate be any more obvious? 🇮🇱

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Reducing Jews to a religion only serves as an ill-fated attempt to sever our ancient ties to Ertez Yisrael. We are a people, a nation, with our own closed religious/spiritual practices. 🇮🇱

You cannot believe your way into being a part of the Jewish people — unlike Christianity and Islam, in which you can make a faith declaration and instantly join the club. Does this make us better? No, just different. 🪬

Don’t try to fit us into a binary narrative we were never meant to exist within. We are much older than your understanding.

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Complicity refers to the act of helping someone else behave inappropriately or illegally (vocabulary.com). This one’s for all the kings and queens of complicity out there who don’t think Jewish lives matter. 👑

FYI - Jewish lives do matter, and we will outlive your hate. It’s not our first rodeo. 🪬

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Until very recently, no one doubted the Jews’ place of origin or had the audacity to claim that Jesus, a Jew born in ancient Judea, was Palestinian. Make no mistake — this is a strategic effort on the part of antisemites to erase Jewish history and our indisputable ties to the Land of Israel. 🇮🇱

One need only pick up a history book to confirm the history of the Jews and our origins in Israel — many centuries before Islam even existed, and thousands of years before any sort of Palestinian national identity came to be.

Nonetheless, Zionism holds that the Jews have a right to establish and maintain a homeland. It does not invalidate others’ rightful claims to share the land or aspire to Jewish supremacy. Those are other lies designed by Jew haters who want to keep us as permanently displaced victims, at their not-so-merciful mercy. Help stop the lies.

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Bernie Sanders, “informed” anti-Israel Jewish converts, JVP(ick me Jews) — oh my! 🤡 Welcome to another day in upside-down world.

It is not possible for a body to survive with its heart cut out. The same is true of the Jewish people—our connection to Israel is, and has always been, at the center of our tribe, our culture, and our spiritual practices.

Self-hating Jews who have severed the connection between their Jewish identity and Israel are a stain on the Jewish people. Just ew. Fight me on it.

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What other populations get indefinite refugee status even after being resettled?

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We Jews are the biological descendants of Abraham through the line of Isaac, to whom Abraham willed the land, and our Arab cousins know that it is the Jews who are the rightful heirs of the Land of Israel. Our haters in the land seek to delegitimize our status as rightful heirs by painting us as European colonizers masquerading as Jews. Even though history has recorded our ancient journey of expulsion from Judea into the Diaspora, the haters seem to believe that history began in 1948.

While the Western world inserts themselves into the affairs of a misunderstood land far, far away, it is important to remember that our haters in Palestine are not calling for a “free Palestine” or using logical reasoning — they’re calling for Jewish genocide and using religious extremism. That is because the existence of a single Jew, even a baby, is perceived as a threat to their land grab mission.

They are not going to concern themselves with our rational arguments. Their position is one of religiosity, and neither logic nor reason will change their minds. Until they accept that we are who we say we are — the Children of Israel — they will never concede. Yet, as history has demonstrated, only the true heirs of Abraham may successfully possess and occupy the land — Eretz Yisrael expels invaders, eventually.

*I do not support violence against or forced displacement of Palestinians.

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Ironic, don’t you think? 🤡

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In one caption, (can’t tag, I’m blocked) managed to accuse Israel of genocide, invoke blood libel, and affirm solidarity with Jewish Voice for Peace, which we all know is neither Jewish nor for peace.

Stand up to antisemitism being given a public platform and contact Time Out via the contacts listed in the final slide on this post. Yeo’s arrogance in updating her caption to double down on Jew hate is appalling and should be condemned by Time Out Group.

DM if you need suggested language for an email or social message to Time Out.

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Words have meaning. Yet those seeking to demonize Israel are attempting to redefine words such as ‘apartheid’ and ‘genocide.’

The only way to apply those allegations to Israel is to lie, but isn’t surprising that they would take this unethical and shameful approach. After all, they constantly rewrite and erase Jewish history to sever Jewish ties to the land.

Apartheid is to hold different racial/ethnic groups within a citizen population to different standards under the law. This does not occur in Israel. All Israeli citizens are equal in the eyes of the law. No apartheid.

Genocide is the targeted, intentional annihilation of a particular people in part or in whole. Israel is not targeting a particular people — Israel is targeting Hamas members (aka murderous, ra**st terrorists). No genocide.

Stop redefining terms to fit a narrative.

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