Did you know that Jews make up only 0.2% of the world’s population?

One-fifth of 1%. Statistically speaking the Jewish population is only a rounding error. And if many people get their way, Jews will be rounded up and then rounded down to 0%.

At the risk of being provocative, the past 3 weeks of "we're not Antisemitic, we're Anti-Zionist" rhetoric is somewhat failing at making the case against the need for Israel.

AP: "Crowd storms Russian airport to protest flight from Israel"https://t.co/UTCNyNig3W

— Daniel Katz (@Prof_Katz) October 29, 2023

Despite being so few in number, or perhaps because they are both few in number and easily identified, they have become the world’s whipping boy, blamed for all the troubles in the world. They are the object of the 2-minute hate, the subject of the conspiracy theory, and the convenient target for the rage of people unhappy with their lives.

BREAKING:

The lynch mob which stormed the airport in Dagestan, Russia to search for Jewish passengers are now looking for Jews in cars near the airport and are clashing with police officers trying to stop them.

Here, they can be seen trying to flip over a police car pic.twitter.com/0I2CczJ4uB

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 29, 2023

During the Middle Ages, in dark times rumors would spread of Jews committing atrocities, and it was those secret atrocities that were the underlying cause of whatever ailed society. Where Jews weren’t available to hate, witches were invented as a convenient substitute.

BREAKING: A group of Muslims have broken onto the Makhachkala-Dagestan, Russia airport looking for Jews on a suspected plane from Tel Aviv.

The group could be heard yelling "Allahu Akbar" as some of them reportedly tried breaking into some of the planes.

“Crowds of Rioters on… pic.twitter.com/9JCnwDXltx

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 29, 2023

Out of this dark history came the pogrom, the sudden and violent outburst of rage directed at the Jews. Pogroms were localized, as such things were when communications were slow and social media immediacy nonexistent. Russia was famous for its pogroms–the word is Russian in origin–but it was hardly alone in its Jew hatred. It’s just that, as in so many things, Russia remained unsophisticated and brutal long after the Western Europeans became more sophisticated and subtle, expressing their hate and suspicion more in whispers and discrimination.

genuinely never thought i’d live to see the return of pogroms https://t.co/dlZOmMrGUT

— Mike Solana (@micsolana) October 29, 2023

The Jews, for the most part, responded in one of two ways: emigrate or assimilate. The US has such a large population of Jews, relatively speaking, because of the first solution. In Germany, however, Jews went to extraordinary lengths to assimilate, and we all know how that worked out. In the most civilized and sophisticated country in Europe at the time the instinct for blaming the Jews led to one of the great mass slaughters in history.

Emigration looked in retrospect to be the better solution.

It looks like savagery, and it is a pogrom. But it’s also got an objective: to begin a trend that cities with large Muslim populations—including in all-but-occupied Europe—will be afraid to allow flights from Israel to land in their countries. https://t.co/NccHN1b6n8

— David Reaboi, Late Republic Nonsense (@davereaboi) October 29, 2023

After the Holocaust, the world agreed, generally, that the formal creation of a Jewish homeland made sense, and the ancestral home of the Jews–where many still lived–was reborn as Israel. Contrary to current myth, there never really was a Palestine–the region was part of the Ottoman Empire which collapsed after World War I. The Ottoman Empire was multi-ethnic and relatively sophisticated (it was considered a European power), and nobody in 1914 could have predicted that the Middle East would turn back into a medieval dystopia.

It’s Pogrom season, once again https://t.co/4KFeNU0jdE

— Annika H Rothstein (@truthandfiction) October 29, 2023

Since its creation, Israel has assumed the role of international whipping boy, just as Jews as a people have occupied that role for millennia. No country has been as vilified by the United Nations as Israel. Atrocities can be committed against Israelis and fail to be condemned, while Israel’s mere existence is often treated as an affront.

When word spread that a plane from Tel Aviv was landing in Dagestan, Russia, a mob stormed the airport in what can only be described as a modern-day pogrom. pic.twitter.com/1G6phfdraz

— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) October 29, 2023

Over the past 3 weeks, we have seen a remarkable–to us, if not to many Jews–explosion of Jew hatred around the world. Within hours of a vicious, barbaric attack on Israeli civilians the haters of the world jumped up to blame the Jews for existing. They deserved the horrors inflicted upon them, we were told.

Islamic Jihad in Europe. Muslim immigrants in Milan shout: "Open the borders to us, so we can kill the Zionists. Open the borders to us, so we can kill the Jews!" After Israel, whose turn will it be? Italy? Germany? Spain? UK? The only solution is mass expulsions now. pic.twitter.com/NpNLe36NRv

— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) October 23, 2023

Here in the Western world our best and brightest stood alongside the most barbaric people in the world and declared their fealty to Jew hatred. But for the Jews, all the problems in the world would evaporate. Jews are “settler colonialists” in their own homeland. They deserved to be raped, murdered, tortured, and kidnapped.

“The amazing, brilliant offensive waged on October 7th.”

This is real, Natalie Knight at a Pro-Hamas rally in Vancouver, Canada.

To see people celebrate the massacre of Jews only a few minutes from where I grew up makes me sick to my stomach.@KenSimCity @CIJAinfo pic.twitter.com/gOFZEBrtpV

— Eli Kowaz (@elikowaz) October 29, 2023

It is resistance!

It’s the same impulse to pogrom as has existed since God taught Abraham that human sacrifice was wrong.