The Fate of Israel Lies in Repentance, Not Power
An ancient pattern of sin and suffering echoes in modern Zionism.
Zionism is trying to restore Israel through power, not repentance—repeating a biblical pattern where the few sin, the many suffer, and the faithful are forgotten.
By Nick Holt
In the past year, a phenomenon has gripped social media platforms like X: denunciations of Zionists, condemnations of Israeli violence, and images of suffering children in Gaza.
These aren’t marginal voices. They come from influencers, celebrities, scholars, and ordinary users—many who rarely spoke of geopolitics now speak of little else.
At first glance, the outrage may seem righteous: it is right to grieve for the dead, to question state power, to name atrocities. But look closer, and the moral clarity begins to bleed into something darker.
The word “Zionist” no longer refers to a political ideology. It is a slur, flung with venom, often directed at anyone who is Jewish. Posts about Israeli military action metastasize into tropes: Jews run the banks. Jews control the media. Jews are colonizers. Jews are evil.
The line between anti-Zionism and antisemitism has collapsed—not in theory, but in practice. A legitimate critique of a state’s policy has become a convenient cover for an ancient hatred. A new generation is learning to hate Jews—and calling it justice.
And yet, something about the scale of this rage feels off. Disproportionate. Ferocious. Designed. What if the visibility of antisemitism is not just a consequence of political violence—but a kind of strategic permission?
Israel has long understood how to weaponize its enemies’ hatred. The more monstrous the opposition appears, the more untouchable the state becomes. Criticism folds into paranoia, paranoia hardens into immunity. The slur becomes the shield.
This doesn’t require a grand conspiracy. Just optics. Just algorithms. Just timing. Let the grotesque go viral. Let the truth drown in its proximity to ugliness. In the fog of outrage, everything blurs—until real critique is indistinguishable from complicity.
So the question emerges: Is the line between real hatred and manipulated hysteria more blurred than we think?
To understand what’s unfolding, we have to look beyond politics—and back through Scripture. Because this has happened before.