The conflict between Arabs and Jews over the rebirth of the Jewish state has persisted for over a century. However, it entered a volatile new phase after 1967. Once Israel no longer fit the modern script of the “perpetual Jewish victim” – once Jews were no longer seen as powerless or confined to a post-Holocaust narrative of displacement – hostility took on a more existential shape.
This is the thesis, stated plainly because it explains the pattern: this isn’t policy criticism. It’s identity assassination. “Jews aren’t Jews” is not a confused take; it’s a purification ritual. Strip Jews of ancestry, strip them of history, then recast their survival as a crime. That is the modern form of Jew-hate. Delete the people, and the rest becomes paperwork.
Much of today’s anti-Israel rhetoric has drifted away from what the state does and toward what Jews are. The debate is intentionally pulled into frameworks of genetics and “belonging.” If Jewish continuity can be rendered doubtful – if Jews can be reframed as recent, foreign, or fabricated – t
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