By L. Matthew Meyers

So, I wrote an essay here at RedState not long ago, “Solidary Stops with The Jew.” Heart on the page. Blood. Fire. The whole thing. About Jews.  Not theory, not metaphor.  Jews. You remember us? People. Real. Suffering. Dead. Vanished. And guess what?

The fine readers at RedState naturally came through, to the tune of several dozen supportive comments. Thank you. Each one really means a lot to me.

Meanwhile…

Seven likes on my social media.

Five unfriended me. Five. Like I’m the problem.

But hey, one mensch reached out to meet in person. Brave soul. Two offered condolences, which were heartening and appreciated. One said they’d “do better,” and God bless them, I know they will.

Yet two young women, whom I’d regarded as kind and compassionate individuals, did this delicate, oh-so-empathic dance: “We stand with the Jewish people, but…”. 

Always a “but.” Like they’re allergic to a clean conscience. Like Jewish suffering needs a co-signer.

I called them out repeatedly, practically typed the sentence for them to cut and paste back to me, but they could not, would not say an empathic word about Jews in isolation, much less, as their friend, "This must be a really hard f***ing time for you."

I imagine that someone at least offered that to Jesus, right before jamming the vinegar sponge in his mouth.

So I guess (and forgive me if I sound bitter, but maybe it’s justified) 22 bullets pumped into two Israeli kids doesn’t quite stack up against a picture of little climate goblin Greta Thunberg, scowling like she’s Moses with a TikTok account, handed a sandwich, made by a Jew, gobbling it down with a smile, then marching right back to her PR stunt and demand the elimination of his country -- after passing through six filters of propaganda.  Not to mention the other 19,000 antisemitic incidents since October 2023.

So this essay is for those who “stand with the Jewish people.”

Let’s test your “stand,” shall we?

Where were you on October 7?

Not one post. Not one story. Not one little broken-heart emoji. No candle. No, “We see you.” No, “We hear you.” Just silence. A silence so thunderous, it collapsed the pretense. As it has been since that horrible day.

And yet, come October 8, you found your voice. And my God, what a voice it was. Suddenly you were posting Gideon Levy clips, and quoting Gaza Health Ministry casualty figures as if they descended from Mount Sinai carved into stone – those same figures that were cooked like a mob accountant’s ledger, stacked with ghosts and bodies that were never born and never died, that included deaths from Hamas rockets that blew up in their face but were blamed on the IDF.

You weep performatively for Gaza “victims,” for the people who elected Hamas, sheltered its terrorists in hospitals, dug its tunnels under their children’s beds, and who, by overwhelming margins, supported the October 7 massacre.

Yes, supported it. A poll conducted inside Gaza by the “Palestinian”* Center for Policy and Survey Research found over 75 percent of Gazans supported the October 7 attack. Other polls place it even higher, close to 90 percent.  

But of course, you never mention that. You just post about the “innocence” of Gaza.  Tell me, where are your posts mourning the “innocent Germans” during World War II? The ones bombed in Dresden, starved in Berlin? You don’t bring them up. Why? Because everyone understands: when your government starts a war, your civilians suffer. That’s how war works. You don’t get to launch an attack and then stage a moral meltdown when consequences arrive.
 
My God, at least some German citizens and even SS officers assisted Jews. Not a single Gazan has stepped forward to aid a single Israeli hostage, while Israel trucked in 1.3 million tons of aid.

And yet, you post Gazan suffering as if it fell from the sky. As if they themselves aren’t responsible.  As if every hospital Hamas built a tunnel under, every school they used as a weapons depot, wasn’t a conscious, strategic exploitation of the very children you now hold up like sacred relics.  These are the very children that multiple international agencies, sources, and video have confirmed are taught in their schools only to hate and kill Jews.
 
You want the suffering to end? Then “stand” with us. Go on a non-stop social media campaign demanding that Hamas return the hostages.
 
 You haven’t and you won’t.   Because you actually “stand” with the people who want us all dead.  You “stand” only with Gaza as far as I can tell, but no other people.  Because Gaza is a chance, finally, to feel morally alive, so long as the villain is the Jew.

You didn’t post when Assad gassed civilians or starved out children in Yarmouk.

You didn’t post when Sudan descended into genocidal chaos.

You didn’t post when Myanmar began its coup and its torture and murder sprees, which have continued for four years.

You didn’t post when the Druze in Syria were ethnically cleansed this past week, even though they’re Semitic, too.  
 
Maybe you couldn’t post because you weren’t standing at all, but sitting on your hands, your ass crushing your typing fingers and draining them of feeling.

You think you’re being brave. You’re not. You’re the easiest thing in the world: a coward with a cause that flatters you. How perfectly obscene that the thing that makes you feel good is to side with a death cult and those who willfully support their every move.  

And here’s the thing: you never post Hamas videos. You never show the beheadings, the rape, the kidnapped toddlers, the babies burned alive in ovens, the parents who threw themselves on grenades to protect their children, or the survivor stories of the horror they endured. These are the very butchers you cannot condemn who gleefully photographed themselves as they carried out the worst atrocities imaginable.

You can’t. Because if you did, the spell would break. The narrative would collapse. You’d be forced to choose. And you’ve already chosen.

So don’t tell me you “stand with the Jewish people…”

Let’s be honest.

You don’t stand with us at all.

You despise us.

You pathologize us.

Because here’s what Zionism is:

“The right of the Jewish people to self-determination and nationhood.”

A Zionist is:

“Someone who supports the right of the Jewish people to self-determination and nationhood.”

If you oppose that — if you only oppose that — then congratulations. You are not a humanitarian. You are not “anti-racist.” You are simply what Jews have known since Pharaoh: an enemy.  Our enemy.  My enemy.

So come out. Loud and proud.

Say it.

You don’t think Jews have the right to self-determination. You don’t think we get to live unless we live meekly, or die ignobly, or perform as villains in someone else’s morality play.

So if you’re an anti-Zionist, bugger off.

You hate Jews.

You hate me.

And I see you.

*There is no such place or people known as “Palestine” or “Palestinian.”

L. Matthew Meyers is a veteran communications professional and policy analyst.

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