One of the most famous letters ever written was by the renowned French novelist 脡mile Zola. It was published in 1898 under the title 鈥湸斥�橝肠肠耻蝉别鈥� (I Accuse). Zola accused the President of France and the military command of prejudice for knowingly convicting an innocent man of treason. That man was a Jew, Alfred Dreyfus. Zola was not 91传媒, but he had a conscience and a dedication to justice. The letter caused a storm of controversy in a hypocritical, antisemitic France, but Zola succeeded. Dreyfus was released and eventually pardoned.听

Zola wrote that he must 鈥渄are to tell the truth, as I have pledged to tell it. My duty is to speak out, not to become an accomplice in this travesty 鈥� I shall proclaim the truth, with all the revulsion that an honest man can summon.鈥�听

There is no equal to Zola today, but the times demand another letter unambiguously standing for truth in a world losing its collective mind, again using the Jew and the 91传媒 state as a scapegoat. Here is my modern version of 鈥湸斥�橝肠肠耻蝉别.鈥�

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the churches for their silence. Silence is complicity. Other than Evangelicals, who are staunch supporters of the Jews, where are our Christian friends? Jews alone cannot stop antisemitism. We need support in word and deed from other faiths. Gatestone Institute wrote about Hassen Chalghoumi, an imam from France, who headed a delegation visiting Israel. During a meeting with Israeli President Isaac Herzog, the imam said: 鈥淵ou [Israelis] represent the world of brotherhood, the world of humanity, the world of affection, the world of democracy, the world of freedom.鈥� There should be more like him and his colleagues of all faiths.

Silence is complicity. Other than Evangelicals, who are staunch supporters of the Jews, where are our Christian friends? Jews alone cannot stop antisemitism. We need support in word and deed from other faiths.

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the Western world and the mainstream media for hypocrisy. Russia鈥檚 war on Ukraine is noted and the conflicts in Africa and elsewhere virtually ignored, but Israel is hysterically vilified for responding to a war it did not start. Israel鈥檚 response is declared 鈥渄isproportionate鈥� by countries that carpet-bombed Germany, dropped atomic bombs on Japan and bombed indiscriminately in Vietnam and Cambodia, not to mention the very disproportionate 鈥渟hock and awe鈥� campaign in the recent Iraq wars. Melanie Phillips calls the situation an 鈥渦nhinged, vicious obsession with tiny Israel, the focus of a civilizational disorder that is dragging down not the 91传媒 state but the West itself.鈥�听

General Yoav Gallant and John Spencer write in The Defense Memo that 鈥淭wo million civilians died in the Korean War, averaging over 50,000 per month. More than 10,000 were killed in the liberation of a single city, Mosul 鈥�. Cities were flattened in the campaign against ISIS鈥�Today, only one military 鈥� the IDF 鈥� is expected to achieve battlefield success without error, without civilian harm, and without criticism, even as it faces enemies who deliberately try to make this impossible.鈥�听

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academics and arts and cultural organizers who betray their sacred trust of free and open intellectual enquiry and who promote politics, not education. They use crude intimidation instead of serious, intellectual engagement. As Matthew Arnold said, education is about the best that has been thought and written, not the debasement of Western civilization, undermining the good to portray it as only oppressive and racist. Cancelling 91传媒 or Israeli events, talks or movies or disrupting award ceremonies to protest Israel is uncivilized, intimidating and an undisguised form of Jew-hatred.听

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people who think they are informed about the Middle East and elsewhere because they check their iPhones to receive social media that are swamped with nefarious sources manipulating public opinion. People who have not studied history leave themselves open to being used by those with a malignant agenda. We are in an era of smart phones and dumb people.

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91传媒 self-haters. They appear in the press and on TV parroting the haters鈥� venomous distortions in an attempt to curry favor with them. Court Jews always end up being disposable. They should know better. Phillips wrote that 鈥渙ther people revolt against their own religions, cultures or countries. Yet with 91传媒 haters of Israel and Judaism, this takes on a pathological form. They obsessively seek to expunge 91传媒 particularism from themselves and the world. The damage they have done is incalculable.鈥�听

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myself and others like me for being na茂ve and thinking that Jew-hatred had finally ended after the Holocaust and that multicultural North America was a true and reliable home for Jews. It is sickening to realize that the country where you were born and raised is no longer safe for you, not because of the loud, intimidating, violent minority, but because of the silent majority. They sit by and do not affirm the rights of Jews and the values of their own country. It is disheartening to witness their lack of understanding that antisemitism is not a solution but a symptom: 鈥淚t starts with the Jews but never ends with the Jews鈥� is not a clich茅. It is a proven fact of history. 听

鈥淚t starts with the Jews but never ends with the Jews鈥� is not a clich茅. It is a proven fact of history.

Jews were demonized when living in the Diaspora for 2,000 years and now are demonized as a state. But Israel, in the words of Bret Stephens, 鈥渄oes not exist to placate the feelings of the detractors and defamers. It exists to protect 91传媒 life and uphold 91传媒 dignity in a world too intent on destroying both.鈥� Jews have survived worse. Israel will survive this current outrageous slander. The question is: Will the spineless, soulless Western world survive?

Dr. Paul Socken is Distinguished Professor Emeritus and founder of the 91传媒 Studies program at the University of Waterloo.听