100 facts to mark 100 days
Debunking the "Free Palestine" narrative and exposing the truth behind Jews, Israel, Palestine and the October 7 massacre.
It has been 100 days since Hamas and Palestinian terrorists committed the massacre of October 7 and, mirroring a historical pattern with every antisemitic massacre throughout history, propaganda and baseless accusations against the Jews began to spread around the world like wildfire attempting to turn the victims into villains.
Here are 100 important facts to remember.
Jews are not a religion.
Jews are an ancient civilization who also have a distinct set of spiritual beliefs oriented around their sacred land, Israel (aka “Judaism”).
Jew is short for Judean, not short for Judaism.
Jews are indigenous to Judah/Judea and the Land of Israel.
Israel is the alternate name of the Jewish forefather Jacob. Judah is one of his sons. The Jews are a family.
Israel and the Jewish nation have been conquered and colonized by foreign powers for centuries.
Jews were forced to spread all over the world due to colonization, forced exile, slavery, massacres and genocide.
Because of their persecution, the global Jewish population is tiny—only 15 million people (0.2% of the world). The Arab population is 450 million. The Muslim population is over 2 billion (25% of the world). Their voice is loud.
The word “diaspora” was coined to describe the dispersion of Jews beyond Israel.
Jews have maintained a continuous presence in their ancestral land for thousands of years.
For all Jews in exile, the longing to return to “Zion” (an ancient nickname for Jerusalem and Israel) has been an integral part of their identity.
Zionism is the national liberation movement of the Jewish people.
Zionism, the movement that asserts that Jews have a right to self-determination in their ancestral homeland is thousands of years old.
Modern day Zionism revived the will of the Jewish people to actively restore sovereignty in their indigenous land in 1897 under the leadership of Theodore Herzl.
The vast majority of land in Israel/Palestine prior to 1948 was owned by the British Empire.
The Jews bought land legally from absentee landlords and Arabs decades before 1948.
King David named Jerusalem the capital of Israel 3000 years ago. 1600 years before Islam.
Jews have endured slavery, genocide, torture, massacres, forced conversion, rape, theft, public executions and discrimination all around the world simply for being Jewish for thousands of years.
Israel has been the cultural, national and spiritual heartbeat of the Jewish nation for 3700 years.
The people in the world who were most violently targeted in the last century for not being “white” are Jews who lived in Europe (Ashkenazi Jews).
Hamas brutally tortured, raped and killed Jews in a manner exactly like the Nazis. What happened on Oct. 7 was the Holocaust on a smaller scale.
The Middle East and North Africa (the “Arab” world) was home to ancient indigenous people that were conquered and brutalized by Muslim imperialist armies from Arabia in the 7th century.
Non-Arab, non-Muslim native populations have suffered under Muslim Supremacy for 1300 years, especially the Jews.
Jews speak the same language, follow the same calendar, perform the same indigenous rituals, bear the same names and sing the same songs in the same land as their ancestors did thousands of years ago.
Antisemitism (not anti-semitism) is a word that was coined to describe the exclusive hatred towards Jews, not the hatred of other people who are “semites” (speakers of a Semitic language).
Israel was re-established in 1948 as the only liberal democracy in the region.
Palestine is a colonial name that was imposed on Judah (Israel) by the Roman Empire to erase Jewish identity and connection to their land.
Palestine comes from the name Philistine who were an ancient Aegean people that migrated to the southern Canaan region (modern day Israel and Gaza) and who were biblical enemies of the Jews.
Modern day Palestinians and the ancient Philistines have no connection whatsoever.
Before Israel was established in 1948, all inhabitants of the land, which had been continuously occupied by foreign powers since Jewish sovereignty was destroyed were referred to as “Palestinian.” In fact, “Palestinian” typically referred to the Jews living there.
“Palestinian” was always a regional designation, never a national one.
The people who are referred to as “Palestinian” today are either descendants of 7th century Arab colonizers or recent migrants from surrounding Arab countries who came to the land of Israel in the last 120 years to benefit from the economic opportunity that the Jews were creating through agricultural and transportation development.
The father of Palestinian nationalism is Amin Al-Husseini (1897-1974), the grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who believed Jews were an enemy of Allah and allied himself with Hitler during the Holocaust.
Palestinian nationalism (the idea that the Palestinian Arabs are a distinct people) emerged in the last century to combat both Jewish immigration leading up to and during the Holocaust and Zionism: the movement for Jewish freedom in their ancestral land.
Palestinian nationalism was antisemitic from its inception. Its primary goal was (and continues to be) the destruction of the Jewish people and their country, Israel, instead of the building of their own state.
Prior to 1948, Palestinian Arabs and Palestinian Jews did not coexist peacefully.
While Arabs across the Middle East were attacking Jews in Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen, Egypt, Syria, etc. Palestinian Arabs were also committing unprovoked massacres against Jewish communities for centuries leading up to 1948.
Nearly every single Jewish person alive today is a recent descendent of a Holocaust survivor, pogrom survivor or refugee fleeing persecution.
The Palestinian Arabs who accepted peace with the Jews in 1948 are the 2 million Arab Israeli citizens that make up Israel’s diverse civil society. They live with full equal rights. They do not want to live in a Palestinian Arab state.
The Palestinian Arabs who waged a genocidal war against the Jews in 1947-48 (and lost) or fled are the ones referred to today as “Palestinians” and “victims” of oppression.
There was never a sovereign Palestinian state.
Palestinian Arabs never “legally” owned the majority of the land and the minority of the land that they did own was not stolen from them. This is an antisemitic conspiracy theory.
The UN proposed a state to the Palestinian Arabs for the first time in history, alongside a Jewish one in 1947 but they rejected it and tried to kill all the Jews.
Israel’s re-establishment constitutes the greatest story of decolonization in history.
The “Free Palestine” narrative is not about freedom. It is about brutal Islamic conquest.
Hamas is a terrorist group.
Hamas is not a small group of random Palestinian extremists. Hamas is the government of Gaza.
Hamas leaders are billionaires. Their net worth is more than the GDP of Gaza itself.
Hamas leaders steal billions of international aid that sympathetic Westerners have donated to the Palestinians in the aftermath of wars that they start.
Hamas and Iran are masters of propaganda.
Hamas is supported by 75-85% of Palestinians.
Hamas is a proxy of Iran.
Hamas is also funded by Qatar.
Any Palestinian who is even suspected of working with Israel is publicly executed by Hamas.
Qatar and Iran are two of the world’s worst abusers of human rights. They are both very powerful Islamic states.
Al Jazeera (and AJ+) is state-run Qatar media. They are a propaganda machine used by Hamas and their supporters to skew facts and alter public perception of Israel.
Hamas is the latest iteration of Palestinian terrorism, not the source of it.
Tens of thousands of Jews were murdered by Palestinian and radical Islamic terror attacks before Hamas even existed. And before Israel was re-established.
Hamas directly benefits from the death of its own civilians. The more they die, the more sympathy they receive, the more money they get and steal.
Hamas leaders encourage their people to become a “shaheed” (martyr) for what they consider a holy war against the Jews. They glorify death. Many Muslims around the world blindly support the Palestinian “cause” as a perceived religious obligation.
Hamas knows that Jews value life above all else and exploit this in their military strategy. This is why they use civilian infrastructure, including hospitals to store weapons and launch rockets. This is why they brutally slaughter and kidnap innocent Jewish men, women and children.
Hamas built hundreds of miles of terror tunnels for their militants but not a single bomb shelter for their civilians.
Hamas bombed Palestinians who were trying to evacuate the war zone through the route Israel established. And blamed Israel.
Hamas bombed multiple Israeli hospitals and there was no global outrage. Palestinian Islamic Jihad misfired a rocket from a cemetery and hit the parking lot of a Gazan hospital; Israel was falsely blamed and the world become enraged.
Palestinian society is deeply radicalized and antisemitic, just like German society was under Nazi rule.
Palestinian children are taught in UN schools that Jews are the “children of apes and pigs” and are taught how to kill them.
Thousands of Palestinian UN teachers were found celebrating the October 7 massacre online.
On October 7, thousands of Palestinian “civilians” invaded Israeli homes and joyfully tortured, raped and murdered innocent Jews.
On October 6, Israel had no military presence in Gaza. There was no “occupation” when Hamas invaded Israel on October 7.
The blockade on Gaza only began in June 2007 after Hamas came to power and vowed to destroy Israel.
Gaza also has a border with Egypt, who also enforces the blockade out of security concerns.
Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005 with the hope that Gaza would become a viable, prosperous state. Instead, it turned into a terrorist base for Iran.
Since Hamas seized control of Gaza in 2007, they have launched thousands of rockets every single year targeting civilians, terrorizing them.
If Israel didn’t invent the Iron Dome, a revolutionary anti-missile defense system that shoots down incoming rockets, over 100,000 Israelis would be dead since Oct. 7 alone.
Hamas has launched over 14,000 rockets at Israeli civilians since Oct. 7. Each one with the intent to murder as many innocent Jews as possible. This is a war crime and attempted genocide.
The security barrier that people falsely label the “apartheid wall” was constructed in 2005 after Palestinian terrorists killed 1000+ Israelis in suicide bombings and terror attacks during the second intifada. Sadly the inconvenience of innocent Palestinians who need to go through checkpoints became necessary to protect the lives of Israelis (Jewish and Arab alike).
The “West Bank” is a term that came to be after Jordan occupied it between 1948-1967 to refer to the region that was on the western bank of the Jordan river. The correct name is Judea & Samaria and it is the ancient heartland of the Jewish people. Jews cannot be “occupiers” in the land they come from.
When Palestinian activists use the term “occupation” - they are not referring to disputed areas in Judea & Samaria. They are referring to the entirety of Israel which they consider illegitimate.
The “Free Palestine” movement is a radical Islamic, antisemitic, genocidal death cult that has masterfully crafted a story in order to elicit a strong emotional response with no basis in history or reality.
Israel is not at war with the Palestinians. 20% of Israel’s population is “Palestinian” and they support Israel. Israel is at war with Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran and their common thread, radical Islam, which is a very real, very dangerous threat to the world.
Israel is a vibrant, multiethnic, liberal democracy that exists in a part of the world wrought with Islamofascist dictatorships.
Israel was founded with the desire for peace with all of its neighbors. As a result, it has made peace with all countries who wanted it too.
After Israel declared independence in 1948, 5 Arab armies along with the Palestinian Arabs who rejected peace invaded Israel with the intent to commit genocide against the Jews. The October 7 massacre was a continuation of this war.
The “Free Palestine” narrative was carefully designed and perpetuated for decades to gradually dehumanize Israelis and Jews in the eyes of the West so that when Hamas would attempt to fulfill their promise of a genocide against the Jews, as they did on Oct. 7, the world would either remain silent or attempt to justify it as some form of resistance. This isn’t just a page out of Hitler’s playbook, it is the entire playbook.
The Palestinians are only victims to the tyranny of their own corrupt leadership, who brainwash them and use them as pawns in their twisted pursuit of more money and power. Peace is not profitable to them.
Israel was about to sign a historic peace agreement with Saudi Arabia, Iran’s biggest threat to regional hegemony. Iran facilitated the October 7 massacre in an attempt to destabilize the entire region and stop this process.
Hamas and other Palestinian terrorists exist in the “West Bank” as well.
Palestinians who are under 18 and attempt to kill Israelis by shooting, stabbing, car ramming or stoning are not “innocent children” — they are terrorists.
Hamas started the war on Oct. 7, knowing exactly what Israel’s response would be.
The people in the region who had the most stolen from them in terms of land, assets and freedom are the Jews. 850,000 Jews in the last century alone were ethnically cleansed from every Arab Muslim country.
There is no resistance movement in the history of the world that kidnaps children, rapes dead women or plays soccer with the heads of people they beheaded… except the Palestinian one. Why are they the exception?
Everything that comes out of Gaza, including the inflated death tolls and the graphic social media imagery from “journalists” is Hamas propaganda. They control everything.
Hamas is holding 136 people hostage in torturous conditions, including the elderly and babies for 100 days now. Nobody except Jews seem to care.
Ceasefire is not a solution. Advocating for one is advocating for another October 7th massacre and perpetual war. Instead, call for the release of the hostages and the surrender of Hamas.
90-95% of Jews in the world are Zionists. When they say they hate Zionists, they mean Jews.
Being anti-Zionist does not mean being critical of the Israeli government. Israelis and Jews are some of the most self-critical people in the world. Being anti-Zionist means not believing Israel has a right to exist at all.
Antizionism is antisemitism.
If there is any group of people who have a “right” to a land, it is the Jews to the tiny piece of land that they come from and that their entire identity is centered around.
The war on Israel is a war on Jews. The surge in attacks against Jewish institutions and communities around the world are not by fluke, it’s by design.
The nation of Israel is eternal. עם ישראל חי
Is there a printable version of this? I'd like to leave it at the door of neighbours who have free Palestine signs. I don't have an address to email it to them.