When genocide is a fig leaf for something worse

Shame to those who single out the Jews and Zionism to blame as if it was the root of all evil

Apr 17, 2026

The war in Sudan just reached a grim milestone: four years of carnage. In that time, 14.3 million Sudanese have been displaced, which is a third of the country’s population, with over four million fleeing to Chad or Egypt. The world’s biggest refugee population is in Syria, where nearly 14 million live, while 11 million Syrians who fled during the decade-long civil war are displaced or have fled the country. In Ukraine, the war has displaced over 10 million people; between 20,000 and 35,000 children have been abducted and taken to Russia for indoctrination; if adults are included, the number swells to between 900,000 and 1.6 million. At least 900,000 Afghanistan has not had a stable population since the days of the Russian invasion; nearly 10 million there are considered refugees. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the brutal regime’s war over valuable mineral deposits against a plethora of armed militias, including the Rwanda-backed M23, has displaced 8.7 million.

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Russia has made it their goal to eliminate Ukrainian culture and assimilate all Ukrainians into Russia; literal genocide. Iran’s evil regime has executed or murdered in cold blood at least 30,000 of its own citizens, for protesting against the government.

The total population of Israel, the West Bank (Israelis call it by the ancient name of Judea and Samaria), and Gaza is about 15.5 million. Of the 10 million estimated Israeli citizens, 20 percent are Arabs. There are about 500,000 to 700,000 Israeli “settlers” in East Jerusalem, while 3.2 million Palestinians live in the West Bank. In Gaza, the population is about 2.2 million, at least half are under 20 years old.

Both the IDF and Hamas agree that at least 70,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza war. While Israel believes that around 50,000 or more are actual fighters, of course Hamas claims 70 percent are women and children. This is not a minor discrepancy. In Hamas’ version, they are not fighting at all, just lambs to the slaughter. It’s as if 10/7 never happened. Deniers keep saying that Hamas didn’t murder 364 civilians at the Nova Music Festival, or slaughter 36 children and even babies. They say there was no rape, or texting of parents, or joyful displays over dead Jews. Of course, there were; all those things happened.

Israel’s reaction to losing 1,200 citizens in one bloody morning is no different than the U.S. reaction to losing 2,977 on 9/11. As a percentage of total citizens, 10/7 was a dozen times more deadly than 9/11. In the Iraq war, up to 432,000 civilians died as a result of the violence. In Afghanistan, the U.S. killed between 46,000 and 47,000 civilians. As military operations go, the U.S. and Israel are among the most careful when dealing with collateral damage. U.S. forces have embedded lawyers (JAGs) who have tremendous influence to call off an operation due to risk of civilian deaths. In Israel, military lawyers also have input into the quick-reaction systems in place to eliminate targets of opportunity. The main difference between the U.S. and Israel’s military structure is that Israel is always fighting on its own borders, while the U.S. fights expeditionary battles 10,000 miles from home.

Israel’s AI-assisted targeting is designed to destroy Hamas and Hezbollah assets before they can attack Israelis, or to remove command-and-control elements of those groups, and the myriad tunnels used to store, move, and fire rockets. The U.S. has similar goals in the Iran war, while its misses (a school) become public spectacles.

Outside of the Iran war, and Israel’s war in Gaza and southern Lebanon, none of the safeguards are present. The other wars are simply brutal and deadly. Syria’s civil war made no distinction between rebels and civilians. The Russians grind entire villages and cities in Ukraine into rubble. Israel tells civilians to evacuate before attacking. They go so far as to drop leaflets, text cellphones, and “knock” on buildings using flash-bangs before attacking. Yesterday, Russia attacked Ukraine in the deadliest wave in 2026: 17 people, including a 12-year-old child, were killed, along with many more wounded, by drones and missiles. Russia does not care if civilians die; in fact, they target civilians to inflict more pain.

It’s fine for the American people and American media to hold the U.S. to higher standards than the rest of the world regarding civilian deaths and collateral damage when we use our military might. The U.S. is the strongest nation on earth, and as the de facto leader of the free world, should be accountable on a moral level. Israel is fighting for its existence.

Those who scream and holler when Israel acts in its own interest, on its own borders, or against enemies who have sworn to destroy it, I think have a different agenda than simply opposing genocide. They are using genocide as a fig leaf.

Last Monday was Yom HaShoah, the Day of Remembrance of the Holocaust. In Israel, sirens blare, and everyone, in vehicles, or at work, stops—cars pull over to the side of the road—and stands in silence over the deaths of six million Jews at the hands of the Nazis and other Jew-hating people during WWII. These died for no other reason than they are Jews. Not over land, or property (though the Nazis used their property), or knowledge, or power, but only because they are Jews.

There are only two countries in the world right now where large populations of Jews live in relative peace and prosperity: Israel and the U.S. In the U.S., consistently for decades, the highest number of hate crimes have been against Jews. Since 1991, when the FBI started tracking statistics, Jews have made up 60-70 percent of religious hate crimes, reaching over 1,100 since 2020. In Israel, Jews are the target of terror simply because Israel is the only Jewish state in the world. There are over 50 official Islamic countries in the world, and other nations have adopted state religions (though most only as a token), but only one is for Jews, and regardless of how brutal wars against and between Muslims might get in other countries, it is the Jews who get blamed for all genocides.

Regardless of how terrible the Ukraine war is, it’s the fact the Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a Jew that gets people all into conspiracy theories. It’s the fact that Jews punch above their weight in population, in media, in entertainment, in the medical fields, and in scientific achievement, that gets some Americans, like the awful Candace Owens, or even Tucker Carlson, to believe that there’s some cabal of Jews making decisions about the whole world, or somehow forcing President Donald Trump to make war on Iran on behalf of Jews.

The fig leaf of genocide, as Israel wins wars it’s been fighting since 1948, when the loss of even one means the country’s destruction, is used when the real motivation is hatred of Jews.

There is a lot of hate to go around in the world. In Syria, Lebanon, Sudan, the DRC, and other places, millions have been displaced, and hundreds of thousands killed, in the name of some religion, or over the reins of raw power. But the hate reserved for Israel and Jews is of a different category and nature.

I believe the best argument of the existence of God in the world is the presence and persistence of Jews. Over centuries, so many have tried to dispose of the Jews, convert them, assimilate them, or expel them. Yet the Jews are still here. In WWII, the Nazis nearly succeeded in emptying Europe of all Jews, leaving 600,000 as refugees, living in the same death camps that were liberated, two years after the end of the war. Commissioners from the Allies and the U.N. said it was impossible for the ancient land they called Palestine to support that many people, not to mention an equal number of Arabs paid to occupy the territory to maintain a 1:1 ratio of Arabs and Jews. Now that land supports about 15 million, with those who live in Israel enjoying one of the highest standards of living in the world.

There’s something that eats at people who believe the Jews should not prosper in the world, that Israel can defend itself, and win. There’s something that eats at people who attack Jews in New York City and other places, that Jews should have influence or contribute to their own society. I believe this is a spiritual sickness; it is the darkness that stands against the light of God. There is a God, and He chose the Jews to be His people, and He has sustained them and protected them through thousands of years. Those who reject this notion want to prove themselves right by destroying the Jews. All they prove is that there is a God, which is the whole point the Jews exist. It’s not a blessing to be chosen, to have so many in the world blame and hate. It’s a sign and a wonder over generations.

There is no limit to how much humans can hate. But there is a special hatred reserved for Jews, because it is fueled by the enemies of God in the spiritual realm. If the Bible is correct (and I am a believer), then satan’s main goal is to defeat God. It is satan who places the hate for Jews above other hate. It is the enemy who sends the delusion of blaming Jews for genocide when others commit worse crimes. That’s what I believe and I think the evidence is overwhelming.

You don’t have to agree with me. You can say there are other explanations, like culture and family and education, and you’d be right in many instances. But to be consistently right, you’d have to discount all the other civilizations in the world that value family and culture and education, and all the other dead civilizations, like the Roman Empire, or some of the ancient dynasties in China and southeast Asia, that no longer exist in their original form. But the Jews exist in the same form as they did in 90 A.D. when Titus, who became emperor, destroyed the Temple. The Torah has not changed one jot or tittle. I ask how this can be, that a people could endure such hate for so long?

As for today, the only emotion I have is shame for those who ignore all the death, brutality and hate in the world, to focus on one small nation fighting groups sworn to destroy it from all sides. Shame on those who use the fig leaf of genocide to cover their hatred of Jews.

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