By Sarah Stern | January 21, 2022 | Published on JNS

To be a Jew means your life will be defined by collective moments of agony and pride. The Jew may be admired by some for our resilience, our dignity, our courage and our tenacity to persevere in the face of a history of relentless hatred; but we are still reviled by others. These are groups of people who, for reasons that only philosophers and theologians might attempt to understand, buy into grand paranoid delusions and conspiratorial theories about our people. Theories that Jews are responsible for everything from controlling the U.S. government, to spreading coronavirus to replacing Americans with immigrants, to total genocide of another people. 

It all seems so familiar to us by now. Jews attacked for the “crime” of being Jews whether in Pittsburgh, Poway, Manhattan, Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Jersey City, Monsey and now Colleyville, Texas. Our despair as a people was heightened this Saturday upon the news of four people being held hostage in their synagogue by Malik Faisal Akram for over 10 nerve-wracking hours. 

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The United Nations Human Rights Council has voted on a resolution to fund a biased, one-sided “Commission of Inquiry” meant to demonize and delegitimize the state of Israel, labeling it an “Apartheid state”. Unbeknownst to many of us, this mendacious screed was concocted in Moscow during the Cold War, with the assistance of the Soviet propaganda machine. We are honored to host Colonel Richard Kemp, of the Royal British Army.