
Israel did not make Eurovision political. The boycott campaign against it did. Israel did not make believing rape survivors political. The people who mocked Hamas victims did. Israel did not make Hebrew, the Jewish language, political. Authors who refuse to translate their books for Israelis did. Israel did not make Jewish safety in the diaspora political. Politicians who ignore violent hate against Jews when it disguises itself as ‘criticism of Israel’ did. Israel did not make freeing civilian hostages political. The terrorists who took those hostages, and the world that ripped down their posters, did. Israel did not make the word genocide political. The people who insisted, long before October 7th, that Israel’s existence constitutes genocide, did. Jews exist. Israel does too, and half of us live there. And we are going to keep existing. You can make it “political,” or you can learn to accept we are human beings.





