“Free Palestine” is the New “Slaughter the Jews”

From the President’s Desk
The Anti-Semite Corner of the Week

The dwarfs are in shock: Even “Snow White” has joined the trend. Therefore, it’s important to explain: “Free Palestine” is not a call for peace, but for war and the murder of Jews.

By: Anat Vidor, WIZO President

What sound does a rooster make? “Cock-a-doodle-doo.” And what sound does an anti-Semite make? “Free Palestine”! This pair of words masquerading as an enlightened and legitimate call for freedom is actually a war cry for killing Jews – the whitewashed “Itbach al-Yahud” (“Slaughter the Jews”), if you will. When even Snow-White waves this poisoned apple, it seems the time has come to explain.

“Snow White” is, of course, Rachel Zegler, the actress starring in the new film, which is currently right in the middle of its 15 minutes of fame. The 23-year-old American, an age at which ordinary people are still figuring out what to study, feels knowledgeable enough and confident in her positions to release absolute political messages from her black-and-white world. She tends to sign off her posts with the mischievous wink “Free Palestine,” like the modern global anti-Semitism that has adopted the PLO flag as its banner.

Now let’s interrupt this fairytale with some facts: The PLO organization, and the aforementioned flag, appeared in 1964, with the goal of “liberating Palestine” from the Jews who had settled there. The war three years later, which aimed to destroy Israel, did strike at Arab aspirations, but gave the haters of Jews an excellent justification for their activities: “the occupation.” Since then, Palestinians have been offered, and they have rejected time after time, full peace under the concept of “two states,” with Israeli withdrawal to 1967 borders and Arab recognition of the Jews’ right to exist in their territory. In the absence of agreement to peace from the Palestinian side, Israel unilaterally withdrew from the Gaza Strip, and immediately a terrorist state was established there, united behind its national goal – “liberating” the rest of the land.

Zegler joins this “liberation.” Those using this term don’t mean a Palestinian state alongside a Jewish state, but a Palestinian state instead of a Jewish state. If that were not the case, it would be logical that supporters of “liberating Palestine” would disassociate themselves from Hamas, which by its own actions proves that coexistence, even with two states with a border between them – is a more absurd idea than a princess who dies and reawakens, discovering that meanwhile a kind-hearted prince has fallen in love with her. But the opposite happens: supporters of “liberating Palestine” are automatically also supporters of Hamas, which essentially teaches about the “liberation” of blood they aspire to – like what happened on October 7, which was just the appetizer they had been waiting for. “Freeing Palestine” (with or without the current clarification “from the river to the sea”), is therefore not a call for peace and security for two peoples, but rather active support for the Arabs’ campaign of extermination against Jews. The ultimate goal is, and every Gazan would confirm this – a barbaric and bestial massacre of all Jews, compared to which the Holocaust would seem polite and civilized.

Snow White is a beautiful story. Snow White is as pure as snow, good-hearted, whom the villains seek to harm. In contrast, the actress portraying her character stands alongside the essence of evil, who under a naive and manipulative guise hides a black and dark heart that aligns with the evil in the human species, and gives moral encouragement to the most monstrous terror of our time – from magical Hollywood. We too would like to believe that life is a Walt Disney film, where the villains suddenly disappear and the good people live happily ever after. But we know the reality in the Middle East a bit better, and our neighbors from time immemorial. So, excuse me, Snow White, keep your poisoned apple to yourself. Palestine will not be liberated; a new Holocaust will not happen!