30-Something, Not 109: Correcting the Palestine and Nazi Victim-Blaming Line
A look into the dumbest propaganda shared by Palestine Supporters, Nazis and Flat Earthers, groups that overlap.
Intro: Numbers Never Mattered
The claim that Jews have been expelled from 109 countries has no origin in academic or historical research. This lie was popularized by Nazi-allied websites like Stormfront, where neo-Nazis, desperate to imitate the obsessively organized genocidaires they worship, cooked up a list without a source, without detail, and—most tellingly—without names of states.
The first mention of this lie I could find was a site called “Bible Believers,” a church in Sydney, Australia, that spews plenty of Holocaust denial and bizarre conspiracy theory, including reprinting The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Today’s Nazis, much like their ideological cousins in Free Palestine circles, lack the fastidiousness of the Nazis they idolize. They're unkempt, bad at math, and seemingly incapable of producing anything beyond chants, regurgitated lies, and genocidal fantasies. They seek blame, not truth. Jews have always been easy to blame. The reason they use 109, sometimes 110 or 113, is simply that they can’t cite the real number.
I’m here to give these racist morons a hand with research they were never interested in.
States That Forcibly Expelled Jews
Below is a non-comprehensive list of states that expelled Jews, so you can look for even one that modern societies have a reason to emulate. Spoiler: They’re not societies anyone should emulate, having 1000x the income inequality of today.
1012 – Mainz (Germany): Expulsion by Henry II
1182 – France: Expelled by King Philip II
1290 – England: Expelled by Edward I
1306/1394 – France (again): Re-expelled under Philip IV and Charles VI
1421 – Austria: Vienna Gesera
1492 – Spain: Alhambra Decree
1496 – Portugal: Expulsion and forced conversions
1541 – Naples: Expulsion under Spanish control
1593 – Papal States: Expelled from most areas except Rome and Ancona
1744 – Prague (Habsburg Empire): Expulsion ordered by Maria Theresa
1933–1945 – Nazi Germany + Allies (Hungary, Slovakia, Croatia, Romania, etc.): Holocaust, extermination, ghettos, deportation
1948–1970s – Iraq, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Iran: Mass expulsion or hostile flight post-Israel
Total:Around 30 documented, state-level expulsions,with additional pogroms and persecution by mobs, militias, and governments not listed. The majority of this list are Christian and Muslim states that expelled, tortured, and murdered all minorities—not just Jews. “First they come for the Jews…”
Note 1: Most states are repeated, so a unique count would be under 30.
Note 2: States, as we know them today, are a post-WWII invention. This complicates the counting.
States and Empires That Participated in African Slavery
I have seen Africans and African Americans share this lie that Jews were expelled from 109 states, as if it is something to gloat about. This anecdote speaks to the ignorance and lack of morals in the Free Palestine movement.
If you want to respond to such individuals, the truth behind the real number (closer to 30) is irrelevant. Instead, remind them that the world had far more states that legalized slavery. A large number of states participating in an act does not justify it on a deontological level, otherwise slavery would be even more justified than expelling Jews. Of course, the origins of the 109 lie come from the very people who would justify African slavery in their next breath.
I asked Chat GPT to help compile a list of states that participated in African slavery:
European States
Portugal
Spain
Britain
France
Netherlands
Denmark
Sweden
Belgium
German Empire
Italian States (Genoa, Venice)
American States and Colonies
United States
Brazil
Cuba
Jamaica
Barbados
Haiti (pre-revolution)
Argentina (early colonial)
Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, and other Spanish colonies
Middle Eastern & North African States
Ottoman Empire
Egypt
Morocco
Tunisia
Algeria
Saudi Arabia
Yemen
Oman
African Kingdoms and Confederacies
Dahomey
Ashanti
Oyo Empire
Kongo
Futa Jallon
Aro Confederacy
Sokoto Caliphate
Total:Well over 60 known historical states and empires engaged in African slavery. Many profited from it. Some still deny it.
Note 1: Some of these states still have slavery, especially Arab states.
Note 2: All states that still have slavery also have negative relations with Israel.
Note 3: Palestinian (and Lebanese) rule has largely forcibly kept their very own people in “refugee camps,” including forcing Afro-Palestinians to live in a place called Al Abeed (The slave). There is ample evidence that Hamas and Gaza rulers have no interest in reducing racial inequality in their attempts to liberate a hostile sharia state.
Victim-Blaming: The Shared Tool of Tyrants, Liars and Absolute F-ing Losers
This grotesque 109 lie is parroted proudly by Nazis and Palestine supporters throughout social media channels, who may or may not realize they’re quoting Nazi Propaganda, and may or may not know they’re lying. In the case of alleged Palestine Supporters it’s the height of irony: a group is championing itself as protecting indigenous rights, while also poking fun at Jews for being expelled from countries. They chant, “Free Free Palestine… by throwing Jews into the sea.”
Yes, a people who were themselves expelled from multiple Arab states repeating victim-blaming tropes. They do this while never asking the most basic question—“Where’s the list?”
Spoiler: there isn’t one.
The comparison the 109-countries crowd never wants to make should be why Jews and Palestinians were expelled from various states. Jews were expelled not because they were deceitful or disloyal, but because they were convenient targets. Africans were enslaved not because they were inferior, but because they were vulnerable and dehumanized by societies that needed a labor force. In both cases, the acts were clearly unjust.
To blame Jews for being expelled from countries is like blaming Africans for being enslaved. It’s a moral inversion—twisting the violence of others into evidence of the victim’s guilt. And for Palestine supporters to echo this Nazi claim while ignoring the fact that Palestinians themselves were expelled from Egypt (1948–today), Jordan (Black September), Kuwait (1991, post-Gulf War), Lebanon (repeated conflict with PLO), and Syria (ongoing)—often for serious offenses, such as coups, assassinations, or backing Saddam Hussein—exposes just how selective and hypocritical this victim-blaming really is.
You can’t credibly cry injustice for your own people while pushing lies that justify centuries of oppression against another. Well, you can, and they do—but don’t pretend there’s any morality behind it.
The expulsion of Jews from 30 states underscores the very need for a sovereign Jewish homeland—not as a reward, but as a refuge. This is a core tenet of Zionism: that a people repeatedly scapegoated and expelled must have at least one place where they are safe, self-determined, and not subject to the whims of hostile majorities. The irony is that antizionists and Nazis use the history of persecution to argue against safeguards for minorities.
Death Cults: Free Palestine vs Neo-Nazis
Let’s be clear: the people pushing the 109-countries lie are not scholars. They are not truth-seekers. They are not meticulous archivists like the Nazis they worship, who, sadly, had real lists. They are lazy, gullible, lonely people who need a Jew to blame because otherwise they’d have to face their own failures. They are failed fascists clinging to memes and Telegram channels, incapable of building anything—only of burning it down. They are fascistic and hateful.
Fortunately, they are also losing. Both the Islamist and Neo-Nazi causes will lose.
They talk of lists because they want to sound serious. But their data is nonexistent. Their numbers don’t add up. Their history is made up of rage and rumor, not research. And worst of all, their lies are not mistakes—they are sacred.
This is how a lie, repeated without challenge, becomes dogma among the dregs of society. There does not need to be truth—much like the lie that killing Jews will help ‘free Palestine.’ But to use actual reasoning and critical thought would expose that the people echoing these lies are part of a death cult—a group that glorifies violence and death (often called martyrdom and intifada).
No one in these circles dares correct the record, because they are bound not by ideology or economy or law, but by a common hatred of Jews. Lies about Jews—especially blood libel—are their currency, their handshake, their initiation ritual.
So here’s my correction: There were more than 30 real expulsions of Jews by state actors and many more by non-state actors. Today, the BDS groups are trying their hardest to add to that list, desperate to push regressive politicians into boycotting the one Jewish state—and especially boycotting defense measures. Also, there were at least twice as many states involved with slavery. Victim blaming and numbers don’t dictate morality.
The people who hate Jews, whether they describe themselves as Palestine Supporters or Nazis, do not want truth. They will not rebut this with a real list and ethical arguments about why it is OK to persecute non-violent minorities. They will rebut with the standard blood libel. And frankly, it’s pathetic.
Sources
[1] Anti-Defamation League. “Hate Symbol: 109/110.” https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/109110
[2] GnasherJew. “The Claim That Jews Were Expelled From 109 Countries.” https://gnasherjew.com/claim-jews-expelled-from-109-countries/
[3] Wikipedia. “Bible Believers.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_Believers
Next up, read 1 in 193: Can you explain this disproportionate focus? — where I do the bare minimum of research into anti-Israel claims and reveal the only truly unique thing about the country: it has a Jewish majority. Oh, and it's one of just two countries on Earth with more trees today than when it was founded. The horror!
