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Ending the era of Arab “Palestinianism”

Since the days of Napoleon's landing upon the shores of Egypt at the very end of the 18th Century bringing with him the modern era to the Middle East, the Islamists of the region have been unable to free themselves from the shackles of inferiority and self-destructive primal rage that typifies the hatred of modern day Islamism against Western civilization. Islamism is anti-Semitic in promoting the view that all Jews are evil. Because Jews live in Israel, it is also anti-Israeli, and it is also anti-American due to its distorted view of the Jews' role in the United States. "Jews are evil, they run America, therefore America is evil" -- this is the mantra of Islamist thinking. Over the past half century, as the Palestinian Arab organizations, and in recent years the Hamas Palestinian Arab terror organization have adopted an Islamist ideology based on an increasingly venomous anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish rhetoric.

Arab Palestinianism has evolved into the Muslim vanguard of Islamist ideology that has enlisted the Arab nations of the region into never ending cycles of wars with the State of Israel. Arab Palestinianism embodies the "right of return", the idea that all the Palestinian Arabs who have fled or were expelled from Israel in the 1948 war and all of their descendants have an inherent right to return to Israel as full citizens, effectively ending the State of Israel as the homeland of the Jewish nation. The Palestinian Arabs have been unable to utter the word “yes" when presented with repeated opportunities to attain sovereignty and an independent statehood alongside Israel.

Arab Palestinianism is the complete and full devotion to the non-existence of a Jewish state. Since the brutal and barbaric invasion of Israeli communities located adjacent to the Gaza Strip on Oct 7th, the floodgates of rage, hatred, and revulsion against Jews have also swept the streets and campuses of America. Palestinian Arab demonstrators and their supporters seem invincible and immune from being held accountable or even close to being prosecuted for assault or incitement. Police forces, district attorneys, and judicial courts adopted an overly forgiving response to pro-Palestinianism aggression, a policy that invites escalation of anti-Semitism and terror against the Jews of America. The real question that we should be asking ourselves is why modern democratic societies pander and apologize for the actions of the most radical, violent and intolerant of the pro-Palestinian Arab demonstrators. Since October 7th, we have witnessed an unprecedented intensification of violence against Jews, with no expected de-escalation in the near future. Israel, Zionism, and the Star of David have become equated with all that is evil in the world, so the logical conclusion is to rid the world of that evil by any means necessary.

Arab Palestinianism equates the State of Israel with colonialism, imperialism, racism, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, genocide, and Nazism. These baseless accusations are a knowingly mendacious libel, some chosen for their Holocaust associations. As a result we are stuck in a cycle where Israel is never allowed to win and the Palestinian Arabs are never allowed to lose, which is, as you can see, a guarantor of never ending repeats of wars and terror. The way that wars actually end is one side clearly losing, sometimes even officially surrendering, and one side clearly winning, operating based on the acknowledgement of defeat and victory. Arab Palestinianism has created an unsustainable and self-defeating reality where they are the only belligerents in the world who are constantly allowed to go back to square one. They attack Israel, they fail to defeat Israel, and then they are restored to the conditions prior to when they attacked Israel, till the next round. Israel is the only nation on the planet that is expected to wage wars without waging a war. Israel has a right to defend itself, but only conditionally, and so effectively Israel has no right to defend itself. When Israel wages wars, it does so under a prejudicial international magnifying glass creating a myopic perception of winners and losers, with Israel always being the loser. This historical injustice ended on Oct 7th and as a result, Palestinianism will come to an abrupt end.

Arab Palestinianism was created for the singular purpose of destroying the Jewish state. Early sponsors included Hitler’s’ Nazi government with extensive cooperation documented between Nazi and Palestinian leaders of the 1930’s and 1940’s of the previous century. Next came the Sunni Muslim nations that established a pan-Arab front against the State of Israel until their defeat by Israel. Then came the Soviet Union until they were defeated in the Cold War by the United States.

Over the past two decades, the Islamic Republic of Iran has become the main sponsor of Arab Palestinianism. Both the United States and the State of Israel have expressed that the main goal of the war with Iran is the Ayatollah regime collapse. An important historical observation shows that nations that became obsessed with anti-Zionism, which is, again, merely a politically correct mask for antisemitism, always end as failed societies. Anti-Zionism, historically speaking is the ideology of losers. It’s the ideology of societies that do not solve their internal problems but instead blame the Jews.

Israel has almost destroyed Hamas, almost destroyed Hezbollah, destroyed the Syrian Army, assassinated the leadership of Hamas, of Hezbollah, and of Iran. Israel has created a new reality in the Middle East in which the Sunni Muslim nations of the Middle East have begun to recognize the State of Israel as a regional superpower that no longer accepts the evil of Arab Palestinianism as seen by the world on Oct 7th. Arab Palestinianism has run out of sponsors, and Middle East nations will no longer mortgage their strategic interests to its fate. Regime survival, regime security, and material gains have taken precedence over ideological solidarity. The era of Arab Palestinianism will soon come to an end.

Danny Lewin H'yd: The very first victim of 9/11

Danny Lewin first walked into Samson’s Gym in Jerusalem in 1985 accompanied by his best friend, Aviad, the son of Peace Now pioneer activist Janet Aviad. Despite Danny not yet being 15, he came armed with a series of questions about Jerusalem’s legendary fitness facility, the first of its kind in Israel, and the much-talked-about new attraction in Israel’s capital. After asking about the equipment, the rates, the hours, and the type of workout program that he had hoped to get from one of the muscular instructors who seemed to epitomize the gym’s name, Danny asked a question that would seem haunting a decade and a half later. “Why are there no Arabs here and what are you afraid of?” His question seemed more a comment that stood to support the argument that would soon follow when his close friend brazenly challenged the gym’s unspoken policy.

The gym owner’s responded in his typically blunt manner: “Because we don’t want any trouble—”; yet, before he could further clarify, Danny Lewin boldly asked again: “What about the good Arabs?!”

Less than a month into their initial three-month membership, Aviad dropped out. The sport was simply too demanding. Danny, on the other hand, became more and more committed, visiting Samson’s Gym even on the days he didn’t train. He saw it as his home away from home, convinced that it would serve as the vehicle by which he would transform his life, helping to develop a finely-tuned body that complemented his noticeably gifted mind. His friends marveled, and the mirror reflected evidence of the rapid development of a determined, motivated, and aspiring muscle man.

There was something special about Danny; he radiated a sense of independence more fitting of someone twice his age. Only weeks into his membership, he asked if he could get a job at the gym and join the small team of instructors who were already well recognized as they walked the streets of Jerusalem wearing the coveted Samson’s Gym trainer tee shirt. Not taking no for an answer, he asked again a few weeks later. And yet again, a few weeks later, offering to “do anything” to become part of the team. Anything! And so it was. Still new to the iron game, 15-year-old Danny Lewin rushed to Samson’s Gym from school every day—to sweep the floors, mop the showers, and, yes, to clean the toilets. He could finally call himself part of the Samson’s team. A year and a half later, the now-muscular Lewin was ready to be an instructor—training a cadre of Jews, young and old, to believe in themselves and their inner strength that they possess.

After breezing effortlessly through high school and the challenging matriculation exams, Danny volunteered and served in Sayeret Matkal, the IDF’s most coveted elite commando unit. He married at 21 and raised two young boys with his wife. He completed his B.S. from the Technion, working long hours as a teaching assistant and as a researcher for IBM in Haifa.

In 1996, Danny accepted a scholarship to study computer science and mathematics at MIT. Two years later, while working on his Ph.D., he founded Akamai Technologies which offered a new and revolutionary way to deliver content over the Internet. By 2001, Danny was widely recognized as one of the most influential technologists of his generation. One well-known trade publication ranked him as the seventh most important technologist in the world. His impact on people was so strong that, even today, battle-hardened CEOs and IDF sharpshooters get choked up when talking about him, in part, because his rise was so quick, so spectacular, and so tragically short.

On the morning of September 11, 2001, Danny Lewin boarded American Airlines Flight No. 11 in Boston, expecting to reach Los Angeles. Instead, the flight was hijacked and commandeered by Arab terrorists, crashing into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. On that fateful flight, Danny Lewin became the very first victim of the largest terrorist attack in history in which more than 3,000 Americans died. An internal memorandum of the Federal Aviation Administration says “that in the course of a struggle that took place between Lewin, a graduate of Israel’s elite commando unit, Sayeret Matkal, and the four hijackers who were assaulting that cockpit, Lewin was murdered by Satam Al Suqami, a 25-year-old Saudi.”
Sometime after the attack, the Lewin family in Jerusalem received a telephone call from the FBI offices in New York. On the line was the agent responsible for the investigation of the attack on Flight 11. He told Danny’s parents that there is a high degree of certainty that Danny tried to prevent the hijacking. The FBI relied, among other things, on the testimony of the stewardess Amy Sweeney.

Sweeney succeeded in clandestinely getting a call out during the flight to a flight services supervisor in Boston, from the rear of the plane: “A hijacker slit the throat of a passenger in business class and the passenger appears to me to be dead.” To this day the American investigators are not convinced that Danny Lewin was murdered on the spot. An additional stewardess, Betty Ong, who succeeded in calling from a telephone by one of the passenger seats, said that the passenger who was attacked from business class seat 10B was seriously wounded. It turned out that 10B was the seat of Danny Lewin.

The Lewin family, Danny’s parents and brothers, have no doubt that Danny battled the hijackers. And it is for them a tremendous consolation. “I wasn’t surprised to hear from the FBI that Danny fought. I was sure that this is what he would do,” Yonatan, his younger brother, said. “Danny didn’t sit quietly. From what we heard from the Americans, the hijackers attacked one of the stewardesses and Danny rose to protect her and prevent them from entering the cockpit. It is a consolation to us that Danny fought. We see it as an act of heroism that a person sacrifices his life in order to save the lives of others. That battle in the business section ended quickly. Lewin was overcome and bled to death on the floor. Two additional flight attendants were knifed and the captain was murdered. The hijackers were already inside the cockpit. They announced to the passengers to remain quiet in their seats.

As we fathom the tragic details of the incredible life journey of Danny Lewin, Hy’d, from mopping up the locker rooms of Samson’s Gym in Jerusalem to the pinnacle of the high tech industry in America, I am reminded of Danny’s question back in 1985, “What about the good Arabs?” Indeed, as we grasp the dimensions of 9/11 from a 25-year perspective, where were these “good Arabs” who rejected this compulsive need to murder one’s way to Islamic glory? Where are they today?

Danny Lewin H'yd –father, son and husband, a veteran of the Israel Defense Force’s elite commando team, the outstanding graduate of Israel’s Technion Institute, an accomplished PhD student at MIT and co-founder of the Internet giant Akamai Technologies will be forever remembered for his heroic attempt to prevent the hijacking of Flight 11 becoming the very first victim of 9/11.

*this article was prepared based on the personal testimony of Mr. Meir Jolovitz, the legendary founder of Samson's Gym in Jerusalem

**this article was cited as a footnote in Wikipedia for being the very first source ever, to personally name by name the very first victim of 9/11.

Hollywood’s Ten Commandments

The Hollywood film “The Ten Commandments” is a 1956 American epic biblical drama and based on the Old Testament, the Book of Exodus. The film dramatizes the story of the life of Moses, born a Hebrew baby, yet adopted to be brought up as an Egyptian prince. Moses becomes the deliverer of his real brethren, the enslaved Hebrews, and thereafter leads the Exodus to Mount Sinai, where he receives, from God, the Ten Commandments. Had the film been released during the current era with Hollywood’s contemporary crop of celebrities embracing the anti-Jewish and anti-Israel progressive agenda, the drama would unfold differently…… Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two holy tablets, IPad 1 and IPad 2.

Many of Hollywood’s leading actors have in recent years consistently adopted a clearly anti-Israel agenda, with many critics claiming that their declarations have a stench of anti-Semitism masquerading as criticism of the Jews and the State of Israel. Recently, Javier Bardem a vocal and prominent critic of Israel's military actions in Gaza, repeatedly characterized them as a "documented genocide". He has used major international platforms—including red carpets, award shows, and festival appearances—to call for diplomatic blockades, and sanctions against Israel. Bardem has worn a traditional Palestinian keffiyeh at high-profile events like the Emmy Awards and stated from international stages (such as the Oscars) "No to war, and free Palestine". Jennifer Lawrence has actively expressed her opinion and spoken up against Israel’s defensive war in Gaza. Speaking at a press conference for her new film Die, My Love at the San Sebastián film festival. When asked about Israel’s violence in Gaza, Lawrence replied: “I’m terrified. It’s mortifying. What’s happening is no less than a genocide and it’s terrible.” Actor Mark Ruffalo has been a highly vocal critic of the Israeli government, strongly condemning its military actions in Gaza as a "genocide" and a "man-made disaster". Has labeled defensive military operations and blockades as ethnic cleansing, forced displacement, and deliberate starvation.

The notion that Hollywood is uniformly hostile to Jewish people and Israel stands in sharp contrast to the industry's historical roots. Early Jewish founders turned to cinema because they faced widespread discrimination and were barred from traditional American industries like banking, law, and politics. Jews built the industry from the ground up in a manner that was often dismissed by the cultural elite of the United States. These Jewish entrepreneurs brought business skills from industries like vaudeville and the garment trade to establish major studios. Jewish writers, directors, and actors have been highly influential in shaping American cinema for over a century.

Adolph Zuckor, one of the three founders of Paramount Pictures, was a Jew from Hungary. Another Jew from Hungary, William Fox, founded Fox Film Corporation. Louis B. Mayer, born in Russia, co-founded Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, with another Jew, this one from Austria, Marcus Loew. Warner Bros. was founded by the Jewish brothers Warner: Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack, three of whom were born in Poland (Jack was born in Canada). With David Sarnoff, a Russian Jew who founded RKO, these were the five major studios of Hollywood's Golden Age. In addition, two of the three minor studios of the time, Universal Pictures and Columbia Pictures, were founded and run by Jews. Carl Laemmle, one of the founders of Universal Pictures, was a German Jew while Harry and Jack Cohn, along with Joe Brandt were Jews from New York City who founded Columbia Pictures.

During the heyday period of Hollywood, classic Hollywood movies shaped American culture; Ben-Hur (1959) Spartacus (1960), The Ten Commandments (1956), Gone with the Wind (1939), Citizen Kane (1941), and Guess who’s coming for Dinner(1967) are only the tip of the iceberg and are still considered today cinematic masterpieces that resonated within American culture for generations after their premiere. Hollywood didn’t shy away from dealing with anti-Semitism or the establishment of the State of Israel by producing films that made a major impact on American attitudes and culture; Gentleman's Agreement (1947) Exodus (1960) and Schindler's List (1993).

Hollywood’s leading actors who willingly speak against Israel’s right to defend her borders refuse to accept the simple truth that Israel’s wars have been wars of self-defense, in accordance with international law. Israel does not target civilians but does indeed target military assets such as: armed combatants/terrorists, rocket launchers, terrorist headquarters, and other infrastructure used in a military capacity. Any civilians killed during these operations is a tragedy, but, by no measure constitutes genocide or ethnic cleansing.

It is also important to remind Hollywood that Genocide and ethnic cleansing always results in a significant decline of the local population in any given geographic area. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, in 1948, the Palestinian population of that period: Israel, West Bank (aka as Judea and Samaria), and the Gaza Strip totaled 1.4 million Palestinians. Today, that total is 5.5 million (approximately 2 million Arab citizens of Israel, 2.7 million Palestinians in the West Bank, and 778,000 Palestinians in Gaza). This undeniable statistic that belies any claims of genocide or ethnic cleansing against Palestinians and seems to evade the attention or even basic common sense of Javier Bardem, Jennifer Lawrence, and Mark Ruffalo and many others in Hollywood.

I feel a deep disappointed as Hollywood has evolved into a hotbed of anti-Jewish and anti-Israel sentiment unwilling to free itself from the shackles of being subservient to a false and libel progressive agenda that spreads the message that Israel is an enemy of humanity. For almost three years Israel has been at war opposite seven fronts. Javier Bardem, Jennifer Lawrence, and Mark Ruffalo and many others from Hollywood and the film industry have not uttered a single word of support, not a word of encouragement for the people of Israel, nor a word condemning the Hamas terrorists who invaded Israel on October 7, 2023 – murdering, looting, raping, and burning men, women, and children in a massacre unlike anything the Jewish people have seen since the horrors of the Holocaust. Every other sovereign nation in the world has the right to defend itself, only Israel is held to a different and double standard. Israel is denied this basic right to defend herself only because Israel is the only home of the Jewish nation, and behind their criticism is blatant anti-Semitism.

"What’s good for Russia and China Is Bad for the United States"

It would be naïve to believe that proclamations or a set of guidelines in and of themselves can solve the issue of online hate speech against Jews and Israel or the proliferation of antisemitism in recent years. Yet maintaining internal cohesion within American society, enabling Jewish Americans to live in peace with their respective neighbors, within their communities, and preserving a strong strategic alliance with Israel are all vital components of America’s national security interests-and the clearest proof comes directly from America's chief geopolitical adversaries. As documented in unsealed U.S. Department of Justice affidavits targeting Russia's Doppelgänger network (operated by Kremlin-linked firms) and threat assessment intelligence reports from Open AI, Graphika, and Microsoft tracking Chinese networks - the governments located in Moscow and Beijing are actively deploying covert digital online campaigns to stoke antisemitism to unprecedented levels and drive a wedge between the United States and Israel.

Foreign intelligence agencies recognize that classical anti-Jewish conspiracy theories-such as "secret cabals" and "puppet master" tropes-act as a low-cost, high-yield Trojan horse. By convincing Americans that their government is controlled by the State of Israel or hidden anti-American interests, these campaigns systematically erode public faith in national and local elections, national security policies, and democratic institutions.To achieve this, foreign adversaries of the United States have turned Generative AI (Artificial Intelligence) into an automated engine of asymmetric warfare. Russian and Chinese operations use Large Language Models (LLMs), AI image generators, and synthetic voice cloning to churn out thousands of fake news articles across spoofed domains (like washingtonpost.pm or Holy Land Herald), deploy photorealistic caricatures, and coordinate bot swarms that amplify real-world provocations. Whether staging physical acts of violence, vandalism or flooding social platforms with multi-directional rage to pit domestic groups against American Jews, the overall objective is total civic paralysis-making Americans enemies of one another, and paralyzing U.S. foreign policy. Ultimately, if America's primary adversaries spend millions of dollars leveraging AI to incite hostility against American Jews, the State of Israel and to sabotage the U.S.-Israel relationship, the end game leads to one undeniable conclusion: protecting Jewish citizens and preserving the U.S.-Israel alliance is not merely a moral or diplomatic issue, but an essential shield for maintaining American national security.

The explosion of Jew hatred and anti- Semitic rage against the State of Israel in recent years throughout the United States can now be conclusively associated with extensive exposure to social media and the widespread use of the Internet in all spheres of human endeavor. Digital antisemitism is defined as the spread of anti-Jewish hatred, anti-Jewish conspiracy theories, and graphic harassment of Jews through online platforms. Algorithmic amplification, generative AI systems, and lax social media content moderation by mainstream internet networks/platforms such as Meta, X, TikTok, and YouTube, have enabled and technologically facilitated high-engagement emotional content, rapidly pushing extremist anti-Jewish tropes and calls to violence against American Jews into mainstream feeds. Artificial intelligence tools have been exploited to generate historical revisionism such as Holocaust denial or Holocaust distortion.

The use of Conspiracy Theories and anti-Semitic tropes has become a cost effective tool in the digital war against American Jews and American society: Medieval blood libels and fabricated global control conspiracies (like The Protocols of the Elders of Zion) are repackaged as modern memes and QAnon narratives (QAnon is a baseless far-right conspiracy movement centered on the core belief that a secret cabal of satanic, cannibalistic elites operates a global child sex-trafficking ring. The narratives claim that Donald Trump is secretly fighting this group, anticipate a mass reckoning known as "The Storm", and recycle older anti-Semitic tropes). A new report by the Gino Germani Institute traces how anti-Semitic narratives have been used by Russian power - from the Tsarist era to Vladimir Putin - as tools of disinformation and cognitive warfare aimed at destabilizing Western democracies. The report focuses on disinformation, hybrid warfare and political dynamics in the post-Soviet space.

The report also examines how anti-Semitic narratives have been integrated into Russia’s long tradition of “active measures" - influence operations designed to manipulate public opinion and destabilize Western adversaries. Why it matters? Antisemitism is not just a historical prejudice in Russia. According to the report by researcher Massimiliano Di Pasquale, it has repeatedly been used as a strategic instrument of influence operations - from Tsarist secret police to Soviet intelligence and, today, the Kremlin’s information ecosystem. The study argues that anti-Jewish conspiracy theories have become part of Moscow’s broader effort to fragment Western societies and undermine trust in democratic institutions.

And so - the October 7 invasion of Israeli communities bordering the Gaza Strip by Hamas, a Palestinian Arab terror organization (which perpetrated a barbaric mass murder of 1200 men, women, and children, mass kidnapping and sexual assault of hundreds), the responsive wars in Gaza and Lebanon, and the war initiated by the Islamic Republic of Iran against the United States, Israel, and other American allies in the Middle East resulted in online vitriol surges against the United States, American Jews, and the State of Israel. Big Tech was purposely used as an amplifier of antisemitism and conspiracies online, fuelin real-life violence against American Jews and Jewish communities.

There is no Jewish conspiracy to dominate the world, but there is a widespread global anti-Jewish conspiracy based on the principles of digital and online anti-Semitism. The first airplane that was hijacked was an Israeli airliner, and today at every airport in every country in the world, we now all line up for invasive and time consuming security checks, so the world should be concerned about the results of this cabal. The danger of dismissing the inherent threat of digital and online anti-Semitism lies in its danger not only for American Jews but for all Americans and all of Western civilization. What starts with the Jews never ends with the Jews.