Rich Toronto@rich_toronto
Hey. Planet Earth.
I am not ok.
Your Jewish friends, relatives, neighbours, co-workers and acquaintances. We are not ok.
80 years ago, 35% of our race was exterminated. Ethnically cleansed. That would be the equivalent of a genocide today that took 116M American lives.
After the Holocaust ended, Israel was declared a state, giving the Jewish people a homeland. And a promise that they’d always have somewhere to go, for when people next tried to conquer them.
Ever since then, Israel has been attacked. Bombed. Sanctioned. Threatened.
And then. Oct 7.
The most savage, barbaric massacre imaginable. Shattering the security, not only of people in Israel, but of Jews around the world who consider it our homeland.
And then every day since.
Chants for the destruction of Israel.
Calls for “Intifada”, or “global uprising” against the Jewish people.
Harassment and intimidation of Jews in their homes, businesses, places of worship or just on the streets.
Anti-Jew posters and vandalism throughout cities across the globe.
Threatening of Jews on college and university campuses.
Attempts to delegitimize Israel and Jewish people.
The same types of events that happened in the 1930s.
The same type of events that led up to the Holocaust.
So no. We are not ok.
We are not ok seeing the same signs today in 2025 that saw the ethnic cleansing of 35% of our global population 80 years ago.
We are not ok having our lives threatened, knowing there is an ideology whose objective it is to rid the world of our people.
And mostly, we are not ok that most of the world stays silent.
Thankfully, you cannot empathize with us, as I don’t know of another race that has gone through this.
But hopefully, you can see what’s going on, and you can sympathize with us.
And most importantly, we hope you find your voice, as many of us have found ours since Oct 7. And that you stand up and speak up against hate. Against the evil ideology that wants to rid the world of Jews and of anything that isn’t them.
And hopefully, together, we can beat that evil.
Because this time, they won’t stop at 35%. Nor will they stop with the Jews.
