{"id":27844,"date":"2025-12-17T10:47:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T08:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jppi.org.il\/?p=27844"},"modified":"2025-12-17T10:47:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T08:47:59","slug":"make-terrorism-backfire-rescinding-recognition-of-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jppi.org.il\/en\/make-terrorism-backfire-rescinding-recognition-of-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"Make terrorism backfire: Rescinding recognition of \u2018Palestine\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"Albanese claimed that Australia\u2019s recognizing of a fictitious Palestinian state didn\u2019t encourage the Jew-slaughter.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As the world is shocked by the Bondi Beach Hanukkah massacre<\/a>, and as experts pontificate about fighting abstractions like \u201chate,\u201d too many ignore the most effective move Australia \u2013 and other countries \u2013 can make.<\/p>\n

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese should say: \u201cPalestinian terrorists and their supporters keep trying to advance the Palestinian cause by slaughtering innocents, Jews and non-Jews alike. Today, rather than impotently claiming \u2018terrorism doesn\u2019t work,\u2019 we will prove it with one action. Terrorism doesn\u2019t work \u2013 it backfires: Australia hereby rescinds its recognition of a Palestinian state.\u201d<\/p>\n

Instead, after two antisemitic anti-Zionists murdered 15 innocents and wounded dozens, Albanese<\/a> guaranteed that the problem won\u2019t end; he claimed that Australia\u2019s recognizing of a fictitious Palestinian state didn\u2019t encourage the Jew-slaughter.<\/p>\n

Such head-in-the-sand thinking is like denying the link between Hitler\u2019s Mein Kampf and the Holocaust. Mein Kampf wasn\u2019t just a bestseller, and Australia\u2019s pro-Palestinian stance isn\u2019t just a policy. Since the 1970s, the world has repeatedly rewarded Palestinian terrorism by advancing the Palestinian cause. Since Hamas\u2019s unspeakable barbarism on October 7, it\u2019s become super-trendy to enable terror and greenlight Jew-hatred.<\/p>\n

When terrorism is rewarded<\/b><\/p>\n

Ghazi Hamad<\/a>, a Qatari-based Hamas leader whom Western useful idiots deemed \u201cpragmatic,\u201d called Australia and other countries recognizing a Palestinian state one of the \u201cfruits of October 7.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hamas celebrated the recognition as an \u201cimportant step\u201d and a \u201cdeserved outcome of our people\u2019s struggle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Terrorists aren\u2019t stupid. Western leaders claim \u201cterrorism never works,\u201d yet their appeasement and cowardice spur more violence. That\u2019s why since 2000, over 106,000 terrorist attacks worldwide have murdered 249,941 people. Since October 7, 8,670 terrorist attacks \u2013 including stone-throwing \u2013 occurred in Judea and Samaria.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a fine line between exploiting a tragedy for political reasons and disincentivizing terrorism. But Bondi Beach wasn\u2019t some natural disaster.<\/p>\n

It was an unnatural aberration, perpetrated by monsters and fed by a monstrous anti-Zionist ideology blurring support for a Palestinian state, traditional Jew-hatred, and a desire to eliminate the Jewish state. Just because this anti-Zionist antisemitism gets traction in reaction to Israeli actions or leaders, it\u2019s still motivated by a fury that Israel is \u2013 not what Israel does.<\/p>\n

The logic is clear. Terrorism is politically motivated violence. Punishing the political cause discourages the terrorists. That\u2019s why the way to stop antisemitic terrorism is to rescind recognition of the Palestinian state and encourage Palestinian civil society.<\/p>\n

Bondi Beach should challenge the Jewish world too. Jews in countries emboldening terrorists by recognizing this bound-to-be-undemocratic Palestinian state must ask: have we truly shouted our displeasure, pressured our leaders, and shown the kind of spine we want Albanese and others to grow?<\/p>\n

For decades, Jews\u2019 accommodation politics worked in Australia, Great Britain, and Canada. But as their governments turn on Israel, communities there must master a new politics of confrontation \u2013 understanding that fighting against antisemitism and for Israel is a fight for true liberal democracy and the West\u2019s soul.<\/p>\n

Second, everyone must ask: are we raising our children to have the courage, grit, and strength demonstrated by Ahmed al-Ahmed, the fruit vendor turned hero who tackled a terrorist?<\/p>\n

Israeli parents can answer \u201cyes.\u201d Can others? If not, why? Many should stop raising their kids to fit in and start teaching them to stand up, strong and tall, for others, including their own. They need a new conception \u2013 and new parenting guides \u2013 understanding that a strong sense of particular identity, including loyalty to your people, actually is the best way to create rooted, grounded, civic heroes who are gutsy and self-sacrificing.<\/p>\n

Finally, beware of the conversational winds shifting in New York, as Jews risk catching Stockholm Syndrome, accepting Zohran Mamdani,<\/a> who is still campaigning to be America\u2019s leading anti-Zionist antisemite. Yes, Bondi Beach proves again how antisemitic anti-Zionists are, how the Palestinian national movement has intertwined the two, and how the burden of proof is on anti-Zionists \u2013 not Jews \u2013 to prove they aren\u2019t Jew-haters.<\/p>\n

No, I don\u2019t agree that Mamdani \u201cunderstood the fissures of our community better than we ourselves did\u201d \u2013 why give him such credit? That\u2019s not what happened. Does anyone believe anti-Zionist Jews went woke because American Jews don\u2019t criticize Israel enough?<\/p>\n

Bibi-bashing has long been a favorite sport among American Jews. Moreover, although Google AI notes that \u201cprominent American Jews have been criticizing Zionism and Israel since before the state was founded in 1948,\u201d for 30 years, at least, American Jews have been \u201chugging and wrestling\u201d with Israel \u2013 a phrase coined in 2004, eight years after the radical Israel-bashing group, Jewish Voice for Peace, was founded.<\/p>\n

Perhaps, rather than rabbis blaming Israel for the Jews\u2019 alienation from Judaism and the Jewish state, we should re-examine how rabbis \u2013 and parents \u2013 teach about Israel, Zionism, and Judaism. Do they view Israel through the B-B-B \u2013 Bibi-bashing partisan lens \u2013 rather than the B to B \u2026 Bible to Birthright identity-building lens?<\/p>\n

Have they taught Jews to recognize their true enemies, even if they\u2019re perfumed with human rights talk or masked by Mamdani-style high-flying rhetoric? Can they distinguish between those who criticize what Israel does and those who reject that Israel is?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no coincidence that a disproportionate number of the young Jews leading Hillel proudly today \u2013 and much of the Jewish community \u2013 are day school graduates. They lead not because they\u2019re programmed to be mindless, pro-Israel right-wingers but because they\u2019re educated to be thoughtful, nuanced, caring Jews, who recognize how central Israel is to their Jewish identity and our Jewish future.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s too easy to blame Israel for letting Jews down; sadly, too many Jews have let Israel down.<\/p>\n

Originally published in JPost<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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