chapotraphouse

Holy SHIT the article to go with it LMAO

Again, this motherfucker lives in DENVER

As I was about to leave Israel after my last trip in February, I posted on Instagram, “Golda Meir famously said that Israel has a secret weapon: We have nowhere else to go.”

And @jeanade5 responded: “Okay, but you have the whole world to go to just like everyone else on the planet.

@jeanade5, I generally don’t respond to hateful comments but I assume yours is not spiteful, just uninformed. Unfortunately, throughout our long history, including today, Jews cannot just go anywhere else like everyone else on the planet....

Jews don’t feel the same sense of security to go wherever they please in the world, which is why we need a place to call home when our current home outside of Israel is becoming increasingly inhospitable. As Martin Luther King said, “Peace for Israel means security, and that security must be a reality.”...

Today in America, more and more Jews are getting the message that we are not welcome here...

There are 27 official Muslim countries and 33 official Christian countries in the world, but only one Jewish state. Only one place where Jews can always have a home no matter how the tides shift in our host countries. It doesn’t mean that no one else has the right to be there. Rather, it assures that the Jewish People, who have been expelled more times than we can count, always have a place to return...

So @jeanade5, we do not have the “whole world to go to just like everyone else on the planet.”