I’m Not Jewish....

A few weeks ago, Vice President JD Vance said Washington cannot allow its Middle East policy to be “subservient to the State of Israel.”

Former Vice President Kamala Harris - called out the Biden Administration, in which she served, for its "failure to use our leverage to curtail the Israeli government's horrific conduct in the war in Gaza." 

Then, Former President Barrack Obama, said that Israel ceded the moral high ground in the conflict with Hamas because Israel "took land off people and they were excessive.”

While these American politicians were opining on Israel’s conduct, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to former International Criminal Court Judge Navi Pillay, who ignored the legal definition of genocide and used uncorroborated casualty numbers in order to falsely accuse Israel of committing genocide in Gaza.

Finally, Miss Rachel – who is ostensibly a singer for preschool children, but doubles as an anti-Israel political activist – posted on social media about the Senatorial race in her home state of Maine.  She had four reasons for people to vote against Senator Susan Collins and all four had to do with Israel.  Of course, she took the opportunity to repeat the genocide libel against Israel.

It’s enough to discourage any Jewish supporter of Israel.   

But, at the exact same time, something crazy started happening on ‘X’ (the social medium formerly known as ‘Twitter’).  Non-Jews started posting the following: “I’m not Jewish.  I’m [fill in a nationality]. And I’m Zionist.”  Hundreds and hundreds of non-Jews have participated in this trend.  It’s still going!

It’s no small coincidence that these non-Jewish allies of Israel would post these messages just as Jews around the world are reading the Torah portion of Noach.  In the Talmud, the rabbis use the term “B’nai Noach – the Children of Noah” to refer to all of our non-Jewish brothers and sisters.  

In the Torah portion, Noah is described as being “righteous, blameless in his generation.”   The rabbis go back and forth as to whether that’s a backhanded compliment – he was only righteous compared to the rest of his generation – or a true compliment.  Ultimately, the rabbis of the Talmud conclude that it must have been so much harder for Noah to be righteous when living among such wicked people, and he surely would have been even more righteous in a different generation.

That’s how I feel about this social media trend.  It is so hard to say anything pro-Israel in today’s anti-Israel social media landscape.  It took so much courage for these non-Jewish people to declare their solidarity with the Jewish people and the Jewish state.  I am so grateful.  They are truly “righteous, blameless in [their] generation.  Thanks to all of them!

Shalom,

RAF.