NIKKI HALEY: America must expose the left's dangerous falsehoods about Israel

Surging antisemitism is among the astir disturbing trends successful our nationalist beingness and astir the world. But wherever is the corresponding defence of the information astir the Jewish radical and the Jewish State of Israel? There is an urgent request for elected officials connected the near and close to face antisemitic falsehoods and state without fearfulness that America is close to basal with Israel for the involvement of our ain nationalist information and theirs.

I saw antisemitism each time erstwhile I was astatine the United Nations. I besides saw however antisemitic lies rapidly dispersed erstwhile leaders don’t regularly combat backmost with the truth. This is however the Democratic Party has go a hotbed of hatred toward Israel. 

Today, the default presumption of leftist politicians and candidates is that Israel is an occupying colonizer perpetrating genocide successful Gaza. The recently elected socialist politician of New York City, Zohran MamdaniZohran Mamdani, built his run astir specified lies. Clearly, the lies struck a chord with leftist voters.

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The information isn’t said astir enough. Enemies of Israel loudly outcry astir its "occupation." In fact, not a azygous Israeli worker oregon civilian was successful Gaza aft 2005. That’s astir 20 years of Palestinian governance with zero Israeli presence. 

Similarly, leftists denounce Israel’s actions successful the Gaza War arsenic genocide. In fact, successful the past of modern warfare, nary service has taken much steps to debar civilian casualties than Israel’s has, often to the detriment of its ain soldiers and warfare goals. Its troops person been killed due to the fact that Israel has painstakingly tried to prevention the civilians whom the terrorists fell behind.

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Here’s different truth. Worldwide protests against Israel began connected Oct. 8, 2023. That’s 1 time aft Hamas invaded Israel and massacred implicit 1,200 guiltless men, women, and children, including 46 Americans, and took 254 hostages, including 12 Americans. It was besides weeks earlier Israel took immoderate subject actions successful response. Obviously, these protests weren’t successful effect to Israeli actions successful Gaza. There hadn’t been immoderate yet.

In reality, the cries of "occupation" aren’t astir Gaza. They’re astir the entirety of Israel, the Jewish radical who unrecorded there, and the antisemitic content that determination should beryllium nary Jewish State whatsoever. And the cries of "genocide" aren’t astir quality rights. If that were so, the outrage would beryllium directed not astatine Israel but astatine Russia and China. They are the world’s worst quality rights violators, some of which are engaged successful existent genocide. 

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The disapproval of Israel is simply a plain effort to defame and delegitimize the state to beforehand its extinction. Yet the left’s leaders either repetition this hateful connection oregon let it to proceed unchecked.

A antheral carries 2 Israeli flags during a pro-Israel rally extracurricular the Israeli Embassy connected October 8, 2023, successful Washington, D.C.  (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

Democrats’ crook toward antisemitism is disturbing enough. But the aforesaid evil is present creeping into the right, though it’s not yet arsenic wide arsenic it is connected the left. It’s besides heartening that galore conservatives are vigorously pushing back. But there’s inactive an urgent request for each person connected the close to unequivocally authorities that lasting with Israel is successful America’s interests.

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Israel is simply a subject and quality juggernaut successful a strategically captious portion of the world.  When America supports Israel, we are straight investing successful the extortion of our ain citizens. Israel is warring enemies that question our demolition too. When we merchantability weapons to the Israeli military, we spare our ain troops from being sent into harm’s way. 

In the past 2 years, America hasn’t sent a azygous solider into conflict against Hamas oregon Hezbollah, though some are committed to America’s destruction. If America abandoned Israel, it wouldn’t beryllium agelong earlier we had to nonstop our sons and daughters into conflict against the aforesaid terrorists and tyrants.

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These truths are the champion antidote to the lies of antisemitism. History shows wherever those lies lead: to the existent genocide of the Jewish people. Preventing that calamity is simply a motivation imperative and a nationalist necessity.

It starts with leaders who person the courageousness to accidental — and bash — what’s right.

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