What Future Have Jewish People Left Their Children?

If you’re Jewish and of a certain age, the success of Israel once made you proud.

Jews proved that modernity isn’t just a matter of oil fields and good farmland. Jews proved that on intellect and sheer will alone, they can build a thriving city of skyscrapers in the desert.

We should accept that bad things happen in Israel because, well, bad things happen and we, Jews who have always been persecuted in history, must stick together.

Anyway, what difference can American Jews make? What harm is there in going about one’s life, hoping the problems will resolve themselves?

I don’t try to change anyone’s mind about Israel. No one wants to admit they were wrong, Jews included. They’d feel shame. Better to let them see it for themselves later — as I believe they inevitably will.

In the following I will ask how a Jew will feel in the year 2030 IF the political winds change direction.

If someone can put themselves into a Jewish person’s shoes in the future, perhaps they can understand why the time for them to speak up is now, not tomorrow, not next year.

Let’s get started.

Is this future impossible?

In 2026 stock markets around the world crash. Unemployment rises. Israel’s IDF pulls out of Gaza. Tons of food and medical aid flows into Gaza. Netanyahu is out of power. In Western media, Israel goes quiet.

Is the United Kingdom, or Europe, in a recession or a depression? That’s the question for 2027. Russia’s government falls apart. Its soldiers have pulled back from Eastern Ukraine, but not Crimea. The U.S. has blockaded Venezuela.

In 2028 A Republican candidate for office, perhaps the Presidency, prosecutes a Jewish banker for war profiteering, accusing him of using campaign donations to secure votes for arms deals with Israel. In return, he took bribes from a U.S. defense industry consultant.

The political gambit pays off.

Another Republican opens hearings against foreign influence on U.S. institutions of learning. They claim that Jewish interests threatened to pull money from various universities if they didn’t clamp down on anti-Israel student protests in 2024.

Every Jewish interest group and businessman is investigated for anti-American activities.

Most Republicans and Democrats who had received large donations from Jewish people, in the past, don’t interfere with various prosecutions against wealthy Jews — even ones who were against the bombing of Gaza.

Remember, the public is in a foul mood because of the depression. They need someone to blame.

Movie and TV studios produce entertainment detailing all the atrocities Israel committed in Gaza and the West bank. No one could be more evil than a Jewish villain in 2030.

The West is portrayed as trying to stop it but not getting the full picture because the Jewish people buy them off or pay someone to distract them. Americans feel good watching the shows. Even the Jewish people who were against the IDF’s actions today enjoy them.

The shows allow Americans to feel superior. To feel good about something. That they don’t believe killing medics and kitchen workers and blowing up their homes just for land (which is the only reason people understand from 2028 onward).

Jewish people in the U.S. no longer wear yarmulkes in public. The Hasidic Jews live in neighborhoods the police barricade for their protection.

Americans don’t ask Jewish people why they didn’t stop the genocide. When they do, they get the answer that they were just caught up in the angers from 10/7. But people point out they had 2 years to find another solution.

The continuous fictionalization and documentaries of torture, killing and destruction by Israelis (Jewish people to Americans) creates a society-wide pervasive narrative. It warps American minds against Jewish people in the same way as Israeli propaganda de-humanized Palestinians to its own population.

Which leads us to a great irony. When Palestinians were knifing and suicide-bombing Israelis in the 1980s-1990s, they made themselves a pariah in the eyes of the world. When Israel built a wall around Gaza no one questioned Israeli’s motivations.

In the following 30 years, many Palestinians and Israelis were born with no memory of those times. Even to the age of 50 most people have no real recollection.

Israel expected generations of Palestinians to live and die behind a wall.

Today, it is Israel bombing and killing Palestinians like terrorists — terrorists with F-35 fighter/bombers. Terrorists who level entire cities.

Why would anyone be surprised if the world builds a figurative wall around Israel? It’s beginning today. The motivations are clear. No one wants to be called a genocide enabler.

Why don’t American Jews fear long-term social and psychological changes, similar to the ones Jews faced in 1930s Europe?

Because they feel safe in America. Despite all the news today. They feel safe. How funny is that!!!

All tribes want to feel superior at the expense of others, especially when they’re depressed. In times of hardship politicians exploit this need.

Most concentrations of power and money eventually become arrogant, overreach, and are consumed by the mob, or other cabals of the rich.

All people are guilty by association; that is, Jewish people can be associated with Israel whether they individually want that or not.

If the above future is possible, then when could Jewish people have prevented it from from happening?

My argument is that when Israel used U.S. bombs to destroy people’s homes (when housing costs are a hot political issue) it makes a lie of U.S. politicians who claim they care about people’s homes. People aren’t dumb. Everyone who sees the destruction of Gaza makes a subconscious note to self. It could have been me.

Contrary to the best efforts of Zionist propaganda, most Americans don’t care, one way or another, about Muslims. Or about Jewish people for that matter.

Collective punishment is contrary to American culture, which is individual based. Israel will not win future arguments there.

Anyway, arguments are not what convinced American politicians to look the other way at Israel’s actions against Palestinians. Money is. Israel provides little to no economic benefit for the average American.

If it does, it has not been explained.

American Jews are operating under the illusion that reasoned discourse and gradual change will protect them, when history suggests otherwise.

Zionist propaganda ultimately won’t matter. Images burn deeper than arguments ever will. People react to what they see. They reacted to the bloody bodies of dead Israelis 30 years ago and they will react the same to the images of starving or dead Palestinians today.

People’s homes have been destroyed for no good reason whatsoever.

Dear Jewish friend. You can choose to speak up now while you still have agency and influence, or you can be swept along by forces beyond your control later when public opinion has crystallized against you.

For your children’s sake, do the math.

Jewish people are 2% of the United States and 0.2% of the world.

NOTE: This story reminded Meir Stieglitz of an essay he wrote in 2013. Well worth a read! https://medium.com/@meirstieglitz/integritys-demise-the-israeli-march-of-shiflut-7596b5f04a92