Exactly 97 years ago today, on August 24, 1929, Arabs armed with knives, axes, and iron bars broke into Jewish homes in Hebron. Within two hours, 66 Jews were slaughtered, most of them defenseless. Two- and three-year-old children, young girls, and yeshiva students experienced horrors difficult to comprehend: heads were severed, throats were slit, women were raped in front of their families, eyes were gouged out, and hands were cut off.
2+Pharmacist Ben-Zion Gershon, who had devotedly treated Arab residents for decades and saved many of them, was tortured before being murdered along with his family. At the Slonim house, 22 people were massacred, and infants like two-year-old Menachem Segal met their deaths with horrifying brutality that can be read about online. The incitement came directly from Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem, who spread lies about the “theft” of the Western Wall and incited the masses with cries of “Allahu Akbar” and “Itbah al-Yahud” (slaughter the Jews). The Mufti built his power through extremist religious education systems and the spread of deep-rooted Jew-hatred—the exact same hatred that Hamas adopted in its 1988 charter.
מה הקשר של הפלסטינים לשואה?
נכון, הזהות הפלסטינית עוד לא הייתה קיימת אז בניגוד לשקרים של הפלסטינים. אך לערבים שחיו באותו זמן בשטח של ארץ ישראל שנקראה פלשתינה תחת המנדט הבריטי היה מנהיג מקומי בשם חאג’ אמין אל חוסייני. כיום הוא נחשב לאחד הסמלים של המאבק הפלסטיני.
הוא היה קיצוני… pic.twitter.com/gbd9IKEHZl— יוסף חדאד – Yoseph Haddad (@YosephHaddad) April 13, 2026
But the central historical dimension that emerges again and again isn’t limited to religious-Muslim nationalism—it’s the partnership with the radical left. Already in 1929, Marxists celebrated the slaughter of Jews. The communist newspaper “Morning Freiheit” in New York published cartoons condemning the Jews who defended themselves. The Soviet Comintern called for establishing a “Soviet Arabistan” and supported the pogroms based on a view that echoes to this day: “In a country like ‘Palestine’, a revolutionary movement without pogroms is impossible,” the communists wrote. These ideological roots go back even further, including in the writings of Karl Marx (“On the Jewish Question”), where he identified Judaism with capital and usury and saw the liberation of the world as liberation from Judaism, and supported Ottoman jihad against Russia, hoping it would ignite a regional revolution.
2+Since October 7th
Nearly a hundred years have passed since the Hebron massacre, but the red-green alliance hasn’t disappeared—it has only taken a new form and strengthened in the public, academic, and political spheres in the West, and even more so since the October 7, 2023 massacre. The moment the scale of the slaughter, rape, and kidnapping carried out by Hamas in the Gaza border communities became clear, we expected to see universal condemnation across the board. Instead, we witnessed a stunning and disturbing phenomenon: large segments of the progressive and socialist left at leading Western universities rushed to justify, beautify, and even celebrate the atrocities. The crowds that filled the streets of New York, London, and Berlin under the slogan “from the river to the sea” weren’t just protesting Israeli government policy; they were recreating the same historical pattern of action in which violence against Jews is justified as an “anti-colonial struggle” or part of a “global revolution.” Modern socialist organizations adopted the narrative of Islamic jihad, converting religious language into the terminology of “social justice” and “resistance to oppression.” This is how murderous terrorists became “freedom fighters,” and innocent massacre victims became representatives of “colonialism.”
2+Today’s organized antisemitism in the West presents a perfect symbiosis: radical socialism provides the theoretical framework and public legitimacy on campuses and in parliaments, while radical Islamism provides the execution and religious-fanatic motivation. From Mufti al-Husseini to the progressive student cells of the 21st century, the goal remains the same: demonization of Israel and undermining the very right of Jews to live securely in their homeland. History teaches us that when the radical left joins forces with jihad, the target and victim have always been and remain the Jews—and today, more than ever, it is our duty to identify this alliance and fight it without compromise.