For about 400 days now Jewish communities around the world have lived in fear. We see the rising hate directed at us. We are told we are exxagerating. anti-Zionism is not antisemitism and by the way are you a Zionist. We are told there’s no Jewish hate at the anti-Israel rallies. We are told it’s free speech not hate. Slogans like “From River to Sea” are not antisemitic at all.

Meanwhile Jews are being cancelled. Synagogues, and schools, and Jewish students are being targeted. We are called Nazis. But the attacks are becoming more vicious. Nazi flags were waved outside a Michigan theater showing a production in Anne Frank. Violent mobs roamed Amsterdam attacking Jews. Just like the Nazis some are stating the attacks are the fault of Jews. Some politicians condemn these acts but do nothing to stop them. Police stand by and watch and rarely intervene.

We’ve seen this before. Persecution involves several stages. Nazi Germany used a combination of laws and decrees, propaganda, intimidation, and violence to segregate Jews from German society, remove them from the economy, and force them to leave the country.

First is the propaganda. Age old tropes are reappearing. Jews control everything. They can’t be trusted. Intimidation has been going on since the day after October 7. Jews are being isolated on college campuses, in workplaces and in the community. And now the violence has begun. Two teens were arrested recently in Ottawa for planning to plant a bomb at a pro-Israel rally. It’s only a matter of time until Jews are killed. And who’s fault will it be? Jews. They brought on themselves.

Some people have reached out to me. Is it time to run? Well where can we run to? It’s worse in Europe than North America. There’s only Israel and they are under siege by Iran and their many proxies. But I would rather die defending a Jewish homeland than a country that won’t fully accept me.