The lynch mob against Jews is back

Three years ago, anyone referring to Jews as pigs would not have gotten away with it. Nor would suggesting that an entire race be annihilated or their homeland be wiped off the map.  

Those unforgivable and highly prejudicial sentiments would have resulted in being looked upon as an evil, uncouth person who should be shunned and dismissed as a sociopath, lacking total empathy and completely indifferent to social norms.

The fact that these comments have become accepted in our world, over a period of a few short years, only attests to a rapid deterioration of humanity, evidencing a regression of returning to a more primitive time of tribal infighting, acting out one’s internal hatred towards others.

To imagine it happening in 2026 is inconceivable, but how else can you describe a pro-October 7th massacre conference which is scheduled to be held in Toronto this November?

The Canadian group known as the Masar Badil Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, already labeled a terrorist organization, is set to host the gathering, under the banner of “Resistance and Return from the Belly of the Beast.”  

The Masar Badil organization, said to be “closely linked to Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidary Network, is only one of many such groups that openly and unashamedly espouse bigotry. Sadly, they are all too reminiscent of the darkest days humanity has ever known, when it comes to the profound cruelty that is able to be shown towards one’s fellow man.

Describing itself as a “radical popular political movement, established by Palestinian, Arab and international will … to be a framework and a popular resistance movement confronting Zionist colonialism…” there’s not much doubt that it is an ideology meant to mainstream Jewish bigotry. Their concept of resistance is manifested in the call for violent attacks against Israel.

Since it supports youth and student movements, it’s not hard to connect the dots when hearing some of the loudest bigotry coming from the mouths of campus protestors, many of whom have called for the death of fellow Jewish students.   

But why wouldn’t they? Because when you characterize Israel as a “Zionist colonialism,” entity, that super-charged term is understood by young people as a force of oppression, of which they have a personal responsibility to end. 

So, is it any wonder why the hatred grows, feeling that their justified bigotry can be expressed as a reasonable reaction to a serious perceived threat?

It is this kind of normalization that brings about societal acceptance, putting aside the need for any diplomacy or dialogue that might have a chance to facilitate a better understanding and a way forward to dispel the mounting hostility. 

But nowadays, open hostility serves as a useful weapon, when endeavoring to erase a despised ethnicity, such as the Jews.  It’s the new mob mentality of getting people riled up enough to stigmatize their enemy group, calling for their isolation, followed by their extermination.  

It was how vigilante groups worked. These self-appointed enforcers of justice would inform locals about those they held out to be criminals. Rather than allowing for a hearing or proper court proceeding, they would, instead, take the law into their hands, by organizing posses or civilian patrols who would, then, find the so-called perpetrators. 

Once found, they were usually lynched, hanged, or beaten to death, only later to find out that they were falsely accused of a crime they’d never committed. But, by then, it was already too late.  

That was the case of Leo Frank in 1915, who probably has the unfortunate distinction of being the most infamous case regarding the lynching of Jews in America. Frank, a factory superintendent in Atlanta, Georgia was falsely accused of murdering a 13-year-old-employee. Although his sentence had been commuted, an antisemitic mob kidnapped him from prison and lynched him. 

In the end, historical consensus concluded that he was innocent but the victim of “an antisemitic, sensationalist media and an intimidating mob atmosphere outside the courtroom.”

History is filled with similar troubling incidents which should have never happened, but the hatred towards Jews has, sadly, always been present ever since God created the people through whom world redemption would come.

Today, this same type of posse, seeking to bring about their own distorted form of justice, is being reorganized through social media platforms, podcasts, biased human rights organizations, including the U.N., the prejudicial system of world courts, which are anti-Israel from the get-go, the print media, as we recently saw in the shocking NY Times accusations of dogs being trained to rape Palestinian prisoners and, now, finally, through a pro-massacre conference.

How much more depraved does it get than that?  

It’s so easy to look at Jews through the lens of mob hatred.  Designed to draw you in, you’re immediately confronted by angry allegations of treachery, evil and depravity, committed by the worst offenders – in this case the Jews.

The hope is to appeal to your sense of justice and the need for immediate recompense.  It gets easier the more that demonization is applied. After a while, there is a numbing of the conscience, which helps to accomplish the societal alienation that must precede the lynching. 

In the case of Masar Badil, which already had a prior 2023 Ottawa conference, attended by “nearly 100 people representing 25 organizations, parties, associations and unions” they employed inflammatory rhetoric, including expressions of support for U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations such as Hamas, the PFLP and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and a call to “confront Zionist colonialism, racism and settler colonialism in Palestine and North America.”

Now they’re back, obviously by demand, expecting to draw their largest audience yet, under the guise of “Palestinian resistance so we can live in a free world.”

What can come out of such a conference, other than an intensified agitation of inflamed emotions, the very ingredients needed to construct a lynch mob, whether real or symbolic. 

With the help of today’s many social media platforms, word will spread like wildfire, building a frenzied momentum that will effectively mount its case against the Jewish people and their homeland.  

We don’t seem to learn from the past. The lynch mobs are at it again, and they won’t stop until they deliver a battered and beaten Israel which has been unfairly judged, along with her people. But that’s social justice in 2026!