Since the founding of the State of Israel, millions of Jews have fled anti-Semitism and come Home to Israel. Israel has always been there for the Jews running from Germany, Iraq, Iran, Morrocco, Russia, Bosnia, Yugoslavia, Ethiopia, Venezuela, France etc. This is one of the main and minimal reasons why Israel was founded, and has been justified time and again until this very day regarding the Jews from the Ukraine.
The current war in Israel has been an economic blow. With the drafting of over 300,000 young men into reserves, the backbone of the national workforce, there is a noticeable shortage of hands to milk the cows, pick the olives, do civilian guard duty, deliver the mail, not to mention a need to help out mothers who are home alone with their children, as many schools and nurseries are not functioning. As during the Yom Kippur War, Jews of all ages (but mostly students) from all over the world are volunteering to come and help out wherever Israel needs them.
As in any mature and good relationship, we are happy that our brothers from the diaspora come to Israel when they need us, so they should also come when we need them.
We have recently witnessed unthinkable anti-Semitic events throughout the world, but especially on college campuses (supposedly the bastion of tolerance) in England and the U.S. On this outrageous issue, where Hamas in one day indiscriminately murdered, decapitated, maimed, raped and kidnapped thousands of innocent Jewish civilians from their homes: elderly, women and small children, rabbis, professors, housewives, hi-tech workers, farmers and even a busload of retirees, one would have thought that mankind, and especially the idealistic intellectuals, would be united against the Hamas. If in the past, the world was divided between pro-Israel and anti-Israel, it is now divided between the objectively humane and the anti-Semitic; the good against the bad; the truly progressive and open-minded against those who pretend to be so- as long as the issue doesn’t involve Israel- where they will even side with sadistic terror against democracy.
When tens of innocent, not necessarily Zionist, Jewish students are attacked by pro-Palestinian protesters in New York (!) and need a police escort to leave the campus, it’s time to understand that today, both you need Israel and Israel needs you. It’s illogical to stay in a place that doesn’t welcome you, when BH you have the natural and logical alternative, to come study and live in a place that welcomes you home.
This is the ideal loving relationship: Israel needs you, and you need Israel! Let’s stand together for all of our sake, especially together in the State of Israel, where we can and do defend ourselves as Jews. Where we can raise our children with Jewish pride and without apologetics, and everyone feels free to express their views and be themselves without fear. Where we can and do unite against all of our common enemies! True love is about living together, meeting life’s challenges as a team. Brothers and Sisters in the diaspora, it’s time to come home.