JEWISH JOURNAL
If I Had Lived: Anne Frank on Why Israel Must Always Defend the Jewish People
Shmuley Botach
August 21, 2025

…On October 7, 2023, Jews again saw what happens when their enemies believe they are weak. Hamas, heirs to the same murderous Nazi hatred that consumed Europe, invaded Israel’s borders, massacring families, raping women, burning homes, and dragging children into captivity. It was a pogrom in the modern age, proudly broadcast on social media. I saw in those horrors the same dark patterns I once lived: babies torn from mothers, women degraded, Jews shot and burned alive for the simple fact of being Jews. And just as in my time, there were those who rushed to justify the slaughter. Intellectuals, activists, politicians explained it away as “resistance.” “The one great difference between my time and now is this: the Jewish people have a state. The Jewish people have an army. The Jewish people are no longer lambs to the slaughter.” READ MORE

Naomi Ragen: Israel War Diary  In many ways, the war we are now involved with is a Holocaust replay, except that now the Jews are armed and dangerous, not helpless victims. This is because they are no longer just Jews, oppressed, barely tolerated outcasts from mainstream Christian or Muslim societies, they are proud Zionists in their own country. This is the fundamental, underlying cause of the cult of hatred now engulfing the entire world against Zionism. They long for the days when the Jews were easy victims. I use the word cult deliberately. Because no amount of information, facts, photos, reasonable discourse will budge the Israel-haters. Despite the well-documented piles of food literally flooding Gaza, we still have people like Keir Starmer talking about a “catastrophic failure of aid…