The Politics of the Chant and the Politics of War
The War Against the Jews
I. The Politics of the Chant
Words, Symbols, Marches — And the Ideological Assault on Jewish Existence
There was a time when calls for genocide came from the margins. Now they echo in town squares, university quads, music festivals, and U.N. halls. This is not spontaneous hate. It is a strategic ideological assault, disguised as a protest and normalised through language.
This is the politics of the chant — a war fought with slogans, symbols, silence, and applause.
“Go, Hitler.”
“Death to the IDF.”
“Free Palestine, from the river to the sea.”
“Globalise the Intifada.”
These are not metaphors. They are instructions. They are not critiques of policy. They are incitements to eliminate a people and a state.
“Go Hitler” — The Trevor Noah Anecdote Becomes a Global Chorus
In Born a Crime, Trevor Noah recounts a moment from his youth when his dance crew, the “South African B-Boys,” performed at King David, a Jewish school in Johannesburg. Their star dancer was named “Hitler”, and as he took the stage, the group chanted:
“Go Hitler! Go Hitler! Go Hitler!”
The room froze. The pain was real. But the performers didn’t understand why.
The crowd froze in horror. But Noah and his crew were oblivious. They didn’t understand why a Jewish audience would find this offensive. When the teacher cried, “You people are disgusting,” Noah thought she was being racist, not realising she was reacting to the invocation of genocide in a Jewish school.
This moment, captured with irony in Noah’s book, reveals a deeper truth: The world does not understand Jewish pain. It does not understand Jewish history. And it rarely wants to.
The room froze. The pain was real. But the performers didn’t understand why.
That moment of ignorant offence has become today’s deliberate cruelty. When Kanye West released his song “Heil Hitler” — timed with the anniversary of Nazi Germany’s defeat — it was no accident. When the BBC aired Glastonbury’s “Death to the IDF” chants, it wasn’t oblivious. It was the politics of performance turned to propaganda.
“Globalize the Intifada” — From Street Theater to Strategy
The call to “Globalize the Intifada” is not a slogan. It is a demand to export terror.
The Intifadas — especially the Second — were not about peace or resistance. They were about suicide bombings, the murder of children on buses, and the random targeting of civilians. To “globalize” that is to say: “Let’s take that to London. To New York. To Paris.”
And people are chanting it with pride.
From Boycott to Burnings: BDS and Beyond
BDS campaigns, campus disruptions, and economic pressure aim to strip Israel of legitimacy. But make no mistake — this is not about ending settlements. It’s about ending the Jewish state itself.
When art galleries cancel Jewish voices, when LGBTQ+ groups exclude Jewish activists, when diversity seminars erase Jewish trauma — that is also the politics of the chant.
A New Kind of Blood Libel
The old libels said Jews poisoned wells or killed children for ritual purposes. The new libels say Jews are colonizers, apartheid enforcers, and genocidal aggressors.
Same poison. Different packaging.
II. The Politics of War
From October 7 to Lebanon — and the Torah’s Moral Response
If the politics of the chant prepared the battlefield, then October 7 was the opening shot. Hamas didn’t simply attack a border. It launched a calculated, barbaric war to break Israel’s spirit and invite global condemnation of its response.
This is the politics of war — not just of missiles and tunnels, but of sexual violence, hostage-taking, and legal inversion.
The Dinah Report: Rape as a Weapon of Terror
The Dinah Report, compiled by forensic and legal experts, confirmed what survivors and first responders saw:
Women were found naked, mutilated, and burned.
Corpses showed signs of gang rape and post-mortem sexual violence.
Children and elderly civilians were targeted, tortured, and desecrated.
And yet — instead of global mourning, we saw denial and silence.
Where were the feminist voices? The human rights leaders? The campus activists?
Absent — because the victims were Jews. And in the politics of war, Jewish suffering is too often discounted.
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The ICC and the Return of the Blood Libel
While Hamas celebrated its crimes, the International Criminal Court prepared charges — not against the perpetrators, but against Israel’s Prime Minister and Defence Minister.
This isn’t a legal process. It’s ritual inversion. It’s calling the defenders genocidal while ignoring the mass rapists and child murderers.
This is the blood libel of our time.
Hezbollah and Iran: The Northern Front
In the aftermath of October 7th , Hezbollah fired rockets into Israel’s north. Iran arms its proxies. And attacked Israel directly. Rockets fall from Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen.
In a heated Piers Morgan debate, Israeli envoy Fleur Hassan-Nahoum laid it out plainly:
“This war ends when:
1. Hezbollah withdraws.
2. Hamas surrenders.
3. The hostages return.”
And yet, global voices call for restraint — always from Israel, never from its enemies.
Appeasement Has a Price — Parshat Pinchas Shows the Cost
In Parshat Pinchas, we read of another moment when leadership froze in the face of desecration. A prince of Israel violated God’s command in public. The people stood still. Only Pinchas acted — and in doing so, he stopped the plague and restored sanctity.
God did not rebuke him. He rewarded him:
“Behold, I give him My covenant of peace.” (Numbers 25:12)
Peace in Torah is not appeasement. It is not weakness. It is moral clarity in action.
Pinchas becomes Elijah the Prophet — the one who will announce redemption. Why? Because sometimes, peace must be earned through courage.
The Jewish Response: Covenant Over Chaos
We are not meant to respond with vengeance. But neither are we meant to be confused.
When the world chants “Go Hitler,” we must declare “Am Yisrael Chai.”
When the U.N. condemns our defence, we must stand firmer.
When the ICC rewrites morality, we must root ourselves in Torah.
This is not just about Israel. It is about the Jewish mission in history — to pursue truth, justice, and life, even when the world turns upside down.
Conclusion: Two Fronts, One War — and One Covenant
We are living through a moment where the politics of the chant and the politics of war have converged. Words are not just words. They become weapons. Silence becomes complicity. Legal proceedings become propaganda.
But we are not without guidance.
We have Torah.
We have history.
We have a covenant.
The world chants. The world attacks.
We remember. We defend. We rebuild.
Like Pinchas, we may be misunderstood in the moment, but we must never abandon the fight for truth.