Different Tactics
Appeasement Has Failed
Jews do not proselytize our beliefs. But our haters do, converting people to their religion. For centuries, Jews tried to be quiet and use reason in the face of persecution. In response, we received placard statements shouted at us, insisting that there would be worldwide peace if it weren’t for our existence.
We tried diplomacy and endless volunteer missions, providing drip irrigation and water desalination to states to prevent disaster, and helping states after their natural disasters. We gave away our IP to the US, fueling endless Fortune 500 companies, only to receive complaints that we steal taxes. While our haters feign peaceful intentions without evidence, we point to more than a dozen occasions where our collective sacrificed our own land and people for peace. For decades, we provided utilities to our neighbors, allowing their carrying capacity to support millions of new citizens who teach their kids to hate us. We feed, educate, and do so much for those who openly protest they will never accept us, so long as we breathe on the same planet as them.
When our haters are so comfortable saying Nazi-level blood libel, conspiracies that make their comrade Flat Earthers look more sane, it is clear we are failing to educate people how to critically examine anything. When people post saying Israel drops more bombs than Russia, that more died in Gaza than anywhere else on Earth, that the whole world’s colonialist history can be summed up by Jews in Israel, only to receive likes rather than corrections and condemnations from their friends, we must acknowledge we are living in insane times.
We cannot afford another crusade, another pogrom, another Holocaust, another October 7, another media beating from irresponsible journalists. We need change.
Examples of absolutely insane things a racist white lady in New York, Megan Scanlon, posted, without a single critical thought or shame over it. Megan Scanlon won’t ever take any responsibility for pushing a marytrdom and suicide culture, then pretending to care about the consequences. It’s political theater. She does not care that 5+ million children are killed each year, becasue she focuses all her energy on harassing “Zionists” “by any means neccessary.” She doesn’t care who she reposts, if the content is true, so long as it fuels her scapegoat.
Similarly, pedophile Gabe Kortez in Ft Lauderdale, LOVES ranting about “Zionists.” He uses similar tactics of downplaying 100+ other wars, including the Russian war on Ukraine (which Palestine Supporters largely support) to obsess over Israel. Unlike Megan, child rapist Gabe Kortez likes to interject his vegetarian ideology into his hate speech, insisting “Zionists” are why we eat meat. Gabe Kortez ignores all the data on Arab behavior bc he chooses to believe that Palestine wishes to be vegan and abortion friendly. It’s narcism at unparalleled levels. One e-friend, Peter Riad, tells Kortez to not blame Capitalism for the war he wanted, but rather blame the “Jewish lobby,” because the Levant isn’t as resource rich as the other conspiracies claim.
PS Both George Lucas and Steven Spielberg are famously Zionistic, so suck it, you poser Star Wars fan. Israel is one of the most vegan friendly states on Earth, and Arab culture is famously meat focused. These people just really need to lie about everything.
Stop Focusing on Trauma. Start Focusing on Root Cause
In personal discussion and online comment sections, we need to stop focusing on trauma and focus on root cause. That goes for our own trauma and for our haters' trauma.
Yes, of course, it is hard for us living in a war—from the children being raised with daily sirens to the families of hostages who watch the world praise their kidnappers. It is even harder for the people in Gaza, being used as pawns in a war, taught they must commit a violent revenge against the ancestors of those they failed to kill. We can simply show the Pallywood videos and downplay trauma to mitigate it. We can not play what so many call Oppression Olympics, especially while we do all we can to lift up the world, and our haters do all they can to continue cycles of violence and oppression. Our haters have announced they won wars while losing more people. Listen and learn from what they’re saying.
We cannot just compare trauma. We must ask: Who is perpetuating the trauma?
Who are the historically illiterate, the useful idiots, the various morons perpetuating propaganda for fascist Islamist leaders that bring pain and suffering to their own supporters? Many are well intentioned people, harping on trauma. They are the people fed a steady diet of “gore porn.” They are ready to respond to any “Jewish organ recital” [an old joke about yentas who complain about which body parts hurt] with a video from 2015 Syria that they insist depicts a universal experience in Gaza. They ignore context and they are occasionally proud to admit it, insisting that the mere discussion of context is a hasbara tactic.
We are dealing with two hateful groups: One that chants about wishing to relive Khaybar, and one that pretends the former group doesn’t exist at all. One group is aware of their hate, the other is in denial. One group does not pretend to support secular rights, while the other insists not only that they support secular rights, but that they speak on behalf of the former group. For every synagogue burned down, every protest outside a hospital or special needs center, for every post about how Jews do not know what antisemitism really is, there will be a faux-woke person insisting that it is in the name of a greater good. It’s not.
The only way to handle both groups is discussion of trauma. That is how we change narratives and heal.
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Don't Chase Celebrities. Chase the Losers and Unknowns.
Legally and in our marketing, we need to stop focusing on big names. Our haters do not thrive because of billionaires in Hamas, Qatar, and elsewhere who fuel the flame. They exist because of millions of poor and working-class people who blindly follow anyone promising an easy answer to complex realities of life.
We need to sway millions, not millionaires.
Our haters have learned to go after the defenseless: the working-class bus riders, the people eating lunch at Sbarro, the people in line at nightclubs—not big names that act as leaders of their hate groups.
Their social media advocacy uses placards, cartoons, AI, and viral trends to sway naive children and dumb adults, while we write long essays for fogies reading newspapers, not sure what TikTok is.
And so we should have these defenseless act as our voice. We should only have the bus riders speaking. Instead, we allow our affluent and our celebs to dominate conversations, despite many causing harm. The people representing us are not the people in danger of dying in an intifada bus bombing. They are celebs, often with a following big enough to be considered Jewish famous, but unknown to the rest.
I’ll stray from my Jewish focus for one comparison: The UK commits horrors impeding free speech. The UK police arrest people for social media posts and Jews for waving the Israeli flag. The UK’s politicians bar other politicians who speak up about unchecked immigration, while demanding Israel lets in people who swear violence. The BBC posts libel about events and does not apologize. And there is one reason this persists. They arrest nobodies, not people with loud voices.
We cannot and should not censor or arrest our haters, and this may be the one thing we get right.
Our tactics have been to be kind to the nobodies and focus on the loudest voices. We try to reason with accounts that have 0-10 followers, while Canary Mission, Jewhate DB, Stop Antisemitism and JInsta influencers post about the horrific things that JVP leaders and irresponsible journalists do. It’s not working. It’s causing all media to focus on inflated claims of censorship, over people who have never shut their mouths for a second, and amass more followers than there are Jews. We are told we are fascists, by people flocking to defend rich celebrities, artists bandwagoning the cause de jour, and Palestine Supporter Group leaders who receive 12 lawyers in response. Britain and Arab state’s very real, very serious, very fascistic censorship is largely ignored because they focus on people who aren’t famous. Our calls for debate are turned into allegations of censorship by people who have the means to lawyer up.
We should always amplify their words. When the NYTimes tries to bury very real quotes about wanting violence and intifada, we must point to the words our haters used. We need to hold receipts, screenshotting the horrific things we see. This is how we can demand accountability. Censorship, the kind the Palestine Supporter media engages in, just sweeps issues under the rug. Even as blood libel becomes the number one topic online, littering people’s feeds, our haters cry that they are censored from saying the things they never stopped saying for a second. Let them know they can say whatever they want.
Our message should be that we do not want any censorship at all. Quite the opposite—we are listening, and we want them to defend their violent and bigoted beliefs. However, this means teaching the public that censorship is when the media leaves out important details of a news event, not when someone faces consequences for saying “Jews should suffer,” or that they ‘want to murder Zionists.’
Some of the unhinged LinkedIn posts that are OK by their standards.
Responding to Fashion-Focused Propaganda
As stupid as this change sounds, we need to play our enemy’s fashion game. Yes—fashion. Dressing cool. Trimming our beards. Make passerby see that Zionism is sexy, and hate groups are ugly.
We need to pretend to be the cool kids, even if we are the dorks.
Our haters use fashion because their words expose their violent bigotry. They have carefully told their zombie following to not speak to the media, not get creative with signage and statements, and instead fall in line, repeating their chants, insisting on their narrative, avoiding discussion and debate. So calls to kill Jews are replaced with fashionable slogans, emojis, and the Ba'ath flag.
The Palestine Supporters have fashionable uniforms. The 1% of Jews, ultra-orthodox Jews… you know how they dress. They’re much like the ultra-orthodox Islamists, who reek of similar anti-secular values. Their louder faux-liberal counterpart has a very different fashion. They are taught to wear scarves and mirror Gen Z trends, something that would be labeled “cultural appropriation” just one decade ago.
The American and Dutch models supporting any anti-Israel statement they find hip typically fashion Jordanian keffiyehs. They do this while ignoring the gender apartheid they fight to enforce in Gaza, knowing full well that Israel allows women to show their hair and knees, but their sharia state does not. They do this without a care that Gaza had banned the keffiyeh. They post pictures with sunglasses, reading carefully laid-out Nazi zines and propaganda backed by the finest illustrators.
Clearly, the average Palestine supporter spends more time picking out an outfit for their performative acts than thinking about the sharia hell they support. And some Jewish allies do too. It is a tragedy, but one we need to accept. And fortunately, Zionists are sexier. Israel does have some of the hottest people on Earth, sometimes with stupid haircuts and out of date fashion styles. When someone thinks about the hottest celebrities in Hollywood, they think of proud Jews like Gal Gadot, Jake Gyllenhaal and Paul Rudd (voted the hottest man). I do not care if someone dressed like a curtain finds our skin offensive.
Even the "Queers for Palestine" became a fashion statement, albeit an idiotic one. As the people with the only Pride Parade in MENA, the only country to recognize gay marriage and to have openly gay leaders in office in MENA, we missed our chance to win over these naive, poser gays, who genuinely believe dying their hair is fighting oppression, who think a piercing or tattoo is fighting heteronormativity.
In thanks, we are regularly blamed for the existence of the LGBT+ community, while members of the LGBT+ community still fight against us for some suicidal narrative that it is better to support those who behead homosexuals than their LGBT+ allies.
Some may say we should ignore the posers. I say we can't. The Nazis won over many by having clean fits, sexy cars, and big-breasted Aryan women holding giant beer steins as their representatives.
We get criticized by anti-feminists when sexy IDF soldiers have their own personal TikTok and Instagram accounts—which apparently Rolling Stone and others feel our people should apologize for. I say we shouldn’t.
I say we should make more sexy Zionist accounts and remind our haters of the root cause of why Palestinians aren’t out in bikinis when they visit the beach.
Some of the fashion statements for “Free Palestine” include wearing the same inverted red triangle that people were forced to wear in concentration camps, a symbol Hamas adopted. In the following images, Poppy Liu wears sunglasses while pretending to read, next to a setup that took hours to make. Poppy Liu and (Jew-in-name-ony) Hannah Einbinder are wearing the Nazi/Hamas symbol to promote abortion rights. No, I’m not joking. They are manipulating the Free Palestine cause to discuss an act that was legalized in Israel well before the US, and that is illegal and completely irrelevant in sharia states. They do not care that their conservative Free Palestine cronies explicitly blamed Jews for abortion, or what they’re wearing, so long as it’s fashionable. Similarly, in the next pic, Cyntia Nixon, a lesbian, promotes a TV show using her jihad-forward fashion. She does not care that her cronies regularly blame Jews and Zionists for the existence of the LGBT+ Community.
Pacifists Don’t Write History
People may say to repeat what we’ve done, but it clearly didn’t work. The last time we were persecuted, two-thirds of us died. That was less than 100 years ago, but it is completely absent from the younger generation’s memory. We have lost ten times more than what our haters have, without instigating wars, yet we continue to allow false comparison.
Enough is enough.
People may say that we lose even when we win wars, neutralizing the various Islamist groups attacking us. I myself don’t believe “might makes right,” but I also don’t want to die out of naive beliefs that violent people exist because of our prosperity. We must call out how the pacifists love to tell us alone to put down our weapons—but are shockingly silent about those who seek to kill us.
We need to prove they’re not for a ceasefire—they’re for Hamas and Hezbollah, and use “ceasefire” as a means to hide their advocacy.
Not once have I heard the fake pacifists start by calling for the return of the hostages. Call it out. The world—especially legacy media—needs to reject the “pacifist” label for those who call only one side to lower their weapons.
History has shown that victors write history, not pacifists.
I don’t believe the world would be better if the U.S. had tried more diplomacy with the Nazis. I believe it would have been better if the U.S. had acted swiftly in response to Arab, Austrian, German, and Italian provocation—before acting out of self-interest because Japan forced them to. I think the world would be a lot worse—culturally, socially, technologically, healthcare-wise, and regarding every paradigm except support for eugenics.
Minorities would be affected hardest by blind pacifism. And minorities—like our Druzim, our citizens who came home with generational detours in Africa, our LGBT, and our marginalized—gain the most from excelling in military and political positions that exist to defend all.
Lead. And Let Them Follow.
Finally, maybe—just maybe—if we change our tactics, we will convince our enemies to change theirs too. Imagine they try accepting that Jews are here to stay, and diplomacy instead of intifada. They so frequently copy us. When we make posters to honor our kidnapped, they copy them verbatim, replacing our trauma with theirs. When we make memes, they replace the people and post it as their own. When we march, they counter-march.
So how about a “show your face” challenge? Let’s see if they copy that. How about an “encourage secular rights” challenge? Let’s see how that goes in Gaza, where even practicing yoga is taboo. Let’s hold coed concerts and dances because we know our haters cannot. Let’s continue to highlight our charity and volunteer work while our haters disrupt traffic and fight social service workers.
We need to change our tactics if we want our haters to change theirs. They tried child suicide bombings, plane hijackings, and working with hate groups in response to our calls for peaceful negotiation.
They boycott because they can’t build. They hurt because of their own actions and advocacy—so we have a moral imperative to convince them to change their ways too.
The best way is by leading.
