Antisemitism. Antischmemetism. Anti–Yo Mama.
We’re Taking Back the Word Zionist — And If You Don't Like It, Get Bent
I’ve been saying for months that the fight for The Jewish Future — the newest slate in the World Zionist Congress — will kick off our campaign by taking back the word Zionist. Our identity will not be defined by heinous antisemites who hate us, have twisted our history, and dared turn our existence into a slur. Zionism is the story of our dignity, our survival, our belonging. And if that bothers someone, that’s their problem. We’re done being put upon by a slew of nobodies.
At the same time, we need to stop fretting about the word “antisemitism,” let it roll off our backs, and say what we must to give it less power. It’s giving Glinda the Good Witch hag-dogging Elphaba: “Be gone, before someone drops a house on you, too! You have no power here! Pooh — what a smell of sulfur!”
And if we can’t learn from The Wizard of Oz, then at least take a few pages from Mel Robbins’s book, The Let Them Theory, and start allowing idiots simply to exist as idiots. Pay them no mind — it will drive them mad — while we focus on owning who we are and strengthening our community. Yes, the vitriol is real and exhausting, but we’re not going to cower or let them spew venom and pathetic rhetoric at us without consequences. Not gonna happen. It does not serve the greater good.
Yes, there will always be Jews who collapse at the first sign of hostility — many who side with the enemy out of fear or a desperate need for acceptance. Our job is to cultivate a fresh community of strong, ready, proud Jews — in partnership with our Christian Zionist friends — who refuse to be bullied by extremists hiding behind faux moral outrage or performative activism.
Nothing these clowns stand for is real; it’s all an illusion crafted by powerful foreign actors who use their massive wealth to manipulate movements, with thousands of yuckleheads lining up to lick the lollipop of the Big Bad Wolf.
My family survived pogroms and the Holocaust. So please, let’s not flatter these keyboard warriors into thinking they’re some all-powerful Wizards of Oz. They’re closer to the Wizard of Id — tiny, insecure dweebs pushed around by forces they pretend to control.
Most of them hide behind slogans, scarves, and screens. Their bark is worse than their bite. My Chihuahua, Alfie, is a better tactician and more ferocious than half of the performative leftists and their extremist lovers. Honestly, we should be singing “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?” because their boogeyman act is beyond embarrassing.
The Jewish story has always been about resilience, grit, and survival against impossible odds. Yet too often, the Diaspora reacts to every slight like we’re made of glass. That doesn’t earn respect — it undermines us. People respond to strength. They follow confidence. They do not respect fear.
The way forward is simple: reclaim Zionism with pride. Lead with resilience. Build coalitions based on shared humanity. Be our own best friends, our own advocates, our own backbone — and let the loudest haters continue to expose themselves for the fraudsters they are.
This is all about The Jewish Future. Join us. We’re taking flight.
’Cause there’s no place like home.
Am Yisrael Chai.
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