People can peacefully protest to express dissatisfaction with policies or actions, to raise awareness about a cause, connect with like-minded individuals, push for negotiation, compromise and policy changes.
Terrorism, however, is defined as the unlawful use of protest, force and violence against people or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives. This includes actions that cause death, serious bodily injury, or hostage-taking, with the intent to provoke a state of terror in the public or to intimidate a population or compel a government. Indeed, Hamas’s horrific attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, was an act of genocidal terrorism under the slogan of “Free Palestine.”
Historically, Nazi’s propaganda against Jewish people from 1933 to 1945 often used slogans and phrases designed to dehumanize, blame, and incite hatred. These slogans were a core part of the Nazi regime’s efforts to scapegoat Jewish people for Germany’s problems and justify their persecution.
The main purpose of Nazi’s antisemitic slogans was to blame Jewish people for Germany’s socio-economic problems; foster antisemitic sentiment; justify discrimination and persecution; and, ultimately, commit the horrific crimes against Jewish people during the Holocaust, exterminating six million European Jews.
Other forms of Nazi’s propaganda reinforced these ideas, including antisemitic publications; antisemitic public displays and signs; children’s books depicted Jewish people in a negative and hateful light and reinforcing harmful stereotypes. These slogans and other propaganda played a significant role in creating a hostile environment for Jewish people in Nazi Germany and, therefore, contributing to the atrocities of the Holocaust.
Today’s pro-Palestinian antisemitic slogan for freedom from the “Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea” is calling for a complete destruction of Israel and extermination of Jews worldwide.
The most well-known Nazi term for the extermination of Jews was the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question.” This was a euphemism used by Nazi leaders to refer to their plan for the systematic and intentional mass murder or genocide of six million European Jews.
The “Final Solution” represented the central part of the horrifying culmination of Nazi anti-Jewish policies and ideology, which viewed Jews as a dangerous threat to the German “race” and its racial purity. In fact, progression of the Nazi anti-Jewish policies evolved over time, starting with discrimination, exclusion, forced emigration, violent attacks of the civilian population, and culminating in the “Final Solution.”
The decision to systematically murder all European Jews, including my grandfather Roman Umansky and my uncle Shura Dolitsky, was made likely with the invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941.
It is well documented that implementation of the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question” was carried out through mass shootings by mobile killing units and in extermination camps with gas chambers in occupied territories. The Nazis used “resettlement” and “special treatment” tactics to hide the truth about their genocidal policies.
The Wannsee Conference in 1942 was a meeting of high-ranking Nazi officials to coordinate and formalize the implementation of the “Final Solution.” In summary, while the Nazis used various terms and slogans to promote their antisemitic agenda, the term “Final Solution of the Jewish Question” is the most direct and specific reference to their plan for the extermination of the Jews.
Today’s pro-Palestinian antisemitic slogan for freedom from the “Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea” is calling for a complete destruction of Israel and extermination of Jews worldwide.
American Jewry and all the civilized world must recognize a danger of the “Free Palestine” terrorist organization and its movement to all humanities and peace-seeking nations, and they must do all possible in preventing its growth
Clearly, the Free Palestine organization and its movement opposes the existence of Israel and its historic connection to the ancient land of Judea. In fact, Israel is the only country in the Middle East that was founded by Jews nearly 3200 years ago, while other countries in the region were artificial constructs of British and French mandates of the 20th century.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was formally established in 1932 by King Abdulaziz (Ibn Saud) after unifying various regions and Bedouin tribes under his rule. Bedouins in Saudi Arabia were traditionally nomadic desert-dwelling tribes; part of a larger group of Bedouins who inhabited the Arabian Peninsula and other regions.
The creation of Jordan as a modern state is a story of evolving borders and political transitions. It began with the formation of the Emirate of Transjordan in 1921 under British mandate. This entity was later transformed into the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan in 1946, gaining independence and eventually becoming known as the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
The modern Syrian state was officially created in 1946 after World War II, gaining independence from the French mandate after a long period of Ottoman rule and then French administration. Prior to this, Syria was part of larger empires and regions, including the Ottoman Empire, and was later administered by France under a mandate from the League of Nations.
The creation of Iraq as a modern nation-state followed the end of World War I (1914-1918) and the official collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1922. Initially, the region, encompassing parts of the Ottoman provinces of Baghdad, Basra and Mosul, was placed under a British mandate by the League of Nations in 1920. This mandate period, lasting until 1932, saw the establishment of a Hashemite monarchy under British protection. In 1932, Iraq achieved independence and became a constitutional monarchy.
The modern State of Lebanon has existed within its current borders since 1920, when Greater Lebanon was created under French and British mandate, resulting from the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I.
The murder of two Israeli diplomates Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., on May 21, 2025, by a pro-Palestinian terrorist, along with the recent attack in Boulder, Colorado on a march in support of hostages held in Gaza (both terrorists were yelling “Free Palestine”) reverberates and resembles a beginning of the Nazi’s-like “Final Solution.”
European Jews and others were silent when antisemitic atrocities emerged in Europe, naively hoping that the “wind of the Final Solution” will eventually stop or change its direction; but it did not, resulting in a massive extermination.
American Jewry and all the civilized world must recognize a danger of the “Free Palestine” terrorist organization and its movement to all humanities and peace-seeking nations, and they must do all possible in preventing its growth, advance and being of existence. Indeed, the slogan “Free Palestine” is a call for the destruction of Israel and extermination of Jews worldwide.
The views expressed here are those of the author.
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The state of Israel is an international terrorist organization. That America supports it with lifetimes of money is reprehensible. We are partly to blame for daily deaths of Palestinians.
https://www.hoover.org/research/why-there-no-palestinian-state …. https://www.hudson.org/node/44363
It is sorry I am Alexander that you lost your grandathers to Hitler. Unfortunately, religious genocide as been going on for thousands of years and scripture tells us it is going to get worse. I weep for the families of my brothers and sisters around the world who are standing up for Christ and being martyred for their stand. It happens on an almost daily basis in places like Nigeria and India and no one says anything about them. Only last week, 30+ Christians in Northern Nigeria were murdered. I choose to focus my prayers on the World’s forgotten ones. I see history repeating itself.
free palestine! stop the genocide of palestinians!
Hey, does anyone else remember when the Radical Left like “FREE PALESTINE” here were defending the Kurds or something like that? Yeah? Lol, that’s narrative didn’t last long. I remember when everyone had the French flag in their profiles. The NPCs like the commenter above are so hopelessly controlled. If not for the news orgs, they would not have anything of their own to think about. These aren’t real people, they are simply puppets of the narrative.
Zionists like you find any way to support killing innocent children all because “the children were secretly hamas”
Hey, does anyone still have one of those “Free Tibet” stickers on their car or binder cover? What ever happened to Tibet anyways?
QUOTING LAW TO A LAWLESS SOCIETY IS PISSING UPWIND DURING A STORMY GAIL! THE BASICS OF A CIVIL SOCIETY ARE NO LONGER IN PLACE AND CANNOT BE RELIED UPON! BEST YOU RERIGHT YOUR ARTICLE WITH A MORE ACCURATE STARTING POINT!
Mr Dolitsky you are a wise man, thanks for your writings.
The Jews are God’s chosen people. Beware if you mess with God.
God loves all of his followers and will destroy the evil ones.
The From the River to the Sea… slogan is based on an Arabic chant, “Min el-mayeh lil-mayeh, Falastin Arabiyeh!” That doesn’t translate directly, though. The literal meaning is, “From water to water, Palestine is Arab.” It’s neither a call for equality nor freedom; it’s genocidal rhetoric.
The Palestinians chose Hamas as their government. Hamas has a track record that is global, No one can deny their direction. What Isreal is doing would be done by any country that that wants to have their children grow up in a free world.
The apartheid state of Israel ( occupied largely by colonization of Palestine by European Jews ) is the largest and most corrupt terrorist organization in the world. That the U.S. supports Israel and finances it’s many atrocities is reprehensible. War criminal Ben Netanyahu and his lies of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq hurled America into the gulf war. End all US support of Israel now!
You should write a letter directly to Mr. Netanyahu. The rest of us don’t care about your mental problems.
locker. I care about the subject of David Jone’s writing. I care that torture, maiming, starvation , absence of medical care and death are being supported by Americans and American dollars. So much for a christian nation.
Well Manny, you are free to move to your new favorite country and offer assistance.
We know you don’t care about America or Americans, you only care about your precious virtue signals.
So be it. Maybe you should stop paying taxes to end the war.
I am not sure why you keep attacking Christians. Your mental health must be really bad if you keep believing those who love God are somehow the enemy. Or are you trying to equate my comments to Christianity? Well, that is just another one of your fallacies. I have never claimed to be a Christian. Besides that, I have been assure that “Diversity is our Strength”, which would us assume that our Nation is not just a “Christian Nation”.
Get out of your mind box kid.
https://www.hudson.org/node/44363
1,200 Israelis were killed in the Oct. 7 attacks. To date Israel has retaliated by killing over FORTY TIMES that number in Palestinians. If a Palestinian child who is out in the open searching for food is spotted by an Israeli soldier, that child will be shot either in the head or the chest, and no one in the Trump administration will dare question Netanyahu about it. What Palestinians are left are being systematically starved into submission. And I don’t appreciate the fact that if I express any concern about these abuses, I’m called “anti-Semitic.” And all Trump does is post AI-created videos showing Gaza as a luxury high-rise playground for the rich, complete with bearded belly dancers.
The local Palestinian people are more Semitic than the folks genociding them in the name of Israel.
I support Israel & the Jewish people. Not because they are a perfect nation!!No nation is perfect! I will never support destruction of the Jews!! I can’t believe this is up for debate in my lifetime. So sad!! Evil people support this!!
It seems that the American Jewish community can’t simply exist. Instead they have to be under extermination all the time. Never mind the fact that Israel has held Palestinian people in the world’s largest open-air prison for decades, and stripped them of every right under the sun. Many people simply ignore the fact that the Palestinian people includes a minority of Christians, who are treated no differently than the 90% majority of Muslims held in said prison. If Jews want to live in freedom, they should start by respecting the human rights of non-Jews around them. And American Jews may have run away from Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s USSR, but that also was 80 years ago. 3 generations ago. American Jews today are NOT and NEVER HAVE BEEN living under an extermination policy. Instead, their fellow Jews living in Israel have put Palestinians under an extermination policy. Stop using a worn out victim mentality to excuse your radical hypocrisy and simply treat others as you would want to be treated. American tax dollars should NOT continue to fund the extermination of the Palestinian people. If Israel (as a state) wishes to continue to exterminate its Palestinian prison population, they should do it without my money. I do not support that behavior, even if the nation is mostly peopled by “God’s Chosen.” Free Palestine!
locker. Bummer for you to be so full of anger and hatred that you can’t condemn torture, maiming, starvation, absence of medical care and death. Instead you trot out weak charges and insults. Try again. Try again to explain why supporting Israel is the right thing.
One of my long-time friends responded, via private correspondence, to my current article published here as follows:
“Good points, Alex. It really is surprising how silent most Jews seem today about all the widespread antisemitism sweeping the United States and Europe. Your Juneau synagogue does not seem unusual in that respect. I suppose so many Jews, at least in the United States, find it confusing to be so strongly committed to the Democrat party and then see that party embrace the “Palestinian” cause, even with its extreme and violent antisemitism. Maybe that’s an example of how wed people can become to some political self-image of who they are. (“I’m a liberal Democrat,” cries my brother as he spouts the latest party talking points taken without question from Democrat politicians.) But, wow, you’d think a lot of Jews would be questioning their unswerving allegiance to a political party in this case, by now. Your points about the historical background of Mideastern nations is an important perspective, too. As very few people alive today (including myself) know anything about that history and simply assume that all those nations have had very long histories as such, like so many of the major nations of the world. If it weren’t for all the petroleum in that region, all those “nations” would still be poor and “backward” (primitive, undeveloped) as shit even today, I bet. But even though Israel has real and very long historical claims to its “homeland” and nationhood there, they are at a disadvantage of being a minority, peaceful religion surrounded by religious fanatics of an especially violent religion and basically having been given their land by a political fiat at the end of World War II. I don’t see how today’s politics cannot be terribly upsetting to any Jewish person anywhere in the world.”
As a Jew descended from 1500+ years of documented rabbis/community leaders, it worries my that people do not check verified sources before writing articles and or construct timelines that miss huge chunks of history. How did this all start?
What everyone needs to remember is that when the British army marched into Palestine in November, 1917, the population was 90% Muslim and Christian and 10% Jewish. By 1937, several years before the Nazi’s intents manifested, 1/3 of the country were Jews. (stats at jewishvirtuallibrary.org) That is a profound demographic shift within TWENTY years. There were many forms of Zionism, but the one that won, and which is referred to and held up by by Netanyahu and his government is that of Ze’ev Jabotinsky who wrote in the Iron Wall in 1923 that Jews had to take the country ‘unilaterally and by military force, (because Arabs of Palestine would not willingly give up their homes.)’ And that’s what’s happened. The concept of democracy was knowingly avoided and the Palestinians felt/feel that they have been left to pay the price for the world’s guilt over what happened decades later during the Holocaust. How many of us would willingly give up our homeland for any reason? Context is key when trying to understand what is going on today in the Holy Land.