For those Americans supporting and chanting “Free Palestine” and “from the river to the sea,” calling Israel colonialists and for the end of the state of Israel, are you ready to leave the U.S. and give back all this land to the Native American population? The same for Canada, Australia and New Zealand. These four countries came about by stealing the land from native populations.

The biggest difference between Israel and these other countries is that Jews are the native population of Israel, the Jewish homeland 2,000 years before there were Muslims, Arabs or Palestinians. The land was stolen from the Jews who were expelled and after the genocide of the Jews in Europe during World War II, the world gave Israel back to the Jewish people, the rightful Indigenous population.

There is one Jewish country in the world while there are numerous Christian and Muslim countries. It’s time to stop the double standard forced upon Israel and the Jewish people. This war needs to end, the hostages released, and a legitimate, peaceful Palestinian state needs to be established in Gaza and West Bank, and they must allow Israel to exist in peace. Israel did not start this conflict and they deserve the right to exist.

Jeffrey Dubins

Mystic