There is a brutal and painful truth that we as Jews, and many of our Christian friends, have come to accept—one that has been reinforced, again and again, by the world’s reaction to suffering and violence in our time: anti-Semitism remains the one form of hatred that still finds safe harbor in polite society.
Over the past few years, the wave of hostility that has been hurled at Israel—and by extension, Jews everywhere—has reached an intensity that is impossible to dismiss as coincidental. The slogans shouted on university campuses, the violent attacks on visibly Jewish individuals in global cities, the “ceasefire now” protests that thinly veil calls for Israel’s destruction—all of it has exposed what many of us have long known: this is not just a disagreement over politics or borders. It is an age-old hatred resurfacing in a modern form.
But even for those who still insist on some form of “objective proof” that anti-Semitism is behind this grotesque imbalance, we offer this simple comparison.
A recent article in Ynet reported on an African city—home to hundreds of thousands of people—that has been under a barbaric siege for over 15 months. The residents are starving. There is no medicine. No relief. No press coverage. Death is everywhere. And according to credible human rights observers, a real genocide is unfolding before our eyes.
And yet…
- Where is the world outcry?
- Where are the United Nations emergency sessions?
- Where is the international press, the live streams, the celebrity op-eds?
- Where are the marches in European capitals, the student encampments, the chants of “Free [insert name of the city]”?
- Where are the activist NGOs, many of which seem to appear out of nowhere with endless funding when the word “Israel” hits the news?
The silence is deafening.
And it tells us everything we need to know.
Let us be crystal clear: every human life is sacred. Every form of suffering, especially at the scale of mass starvation or genocide, is a moral catastrophe. But if there is one thing worse than global indifference to suffering, it is the selective moral outrage that only seems to activate when Israel or Jews are involved—whether as subjects or objects of blame.
That selectivity betrays the presence of something darker: a world more comfortable accusing Jews than defending them. A world where Israel’s right to defend itself is questioned, but terrorist rocket fire is rationalized. A world where false narratives about “colonialism” are taught in classrooms, while real atrocities committed by real regimes in forgotten corners of the earth are met with a shrug.
We don’t need a smoking gun or a caught-on-camera confession to name this phenomenon. The legal world offers us a concept for moments like these: Res Ipsa Loquitur—the thing speaks for itself.
Yes, anti-Semitism is real.
Yes, it is systemic.
And yes, the world’s silence in the face of real genocide—when the victims aren’t connected to Jews or Israel—proves it.
At Christians and Jews United for Israel (CJUI), we exist precisely because of moments like this. We are here to name what so many are too afraid to say. We are here to stand up for truth, even when it is unpopular, and to defend the Jewish people and the State of Israel, not because they are perfect, but because they are constantly under unfair, disproportionate, and often dangerous scrutiny.
We call on our friends, our partners, and our supporters—Jewish and Christian alike—to pay attention not only to what the world shouts about, but to what it ignores. The gap between the two reveals more than hours of news coverage ever could.
To the victims of genocide in that besieged city in Africa, we see you. We mourn for you. And we recognize the world’s silence toward your suffering as part of a larger and troubling pattern.
As Jews and Christians united in a moral struggle for truth and justice, we will not be silent.