Why the World Judges Israel Differently
- Hananya Naftali
- Jul 26
- 4 min read
Updated: Aug 14
Why is Israel, the only Jewish state on earth, held to a moral standard that no other country is asked to meet? Why do international bodies, media outlets, and self-proclaimed human rights defenders trip over themselves to condemn Israel, while turning a blind eye to regimes that rape, starve, and torture their own people?
This isn’t about criticism, Israel is not above critique. This is about obsession. About a sick global addiction to blaming Jews for the world’s problems - just wrapped in a modern package labeled “anti-Zionism.”
Who Gets a Free Pass?
Take Yemen. For over a decade, the country has been caught between Iranian-backed Houthi militias and Saudi-led forces. But in the past year, the Houthis escalated to full-blown international piracy. Since late 2023, they’ve launched over a hundred attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea. On July 9, 2025, they sank the Eternity C, killing four sailors and leaving fifteen others lost at sea. That same week, dozens of UN workers and aid personnel remained imprisoned by Houthi forces—one of them, a father of four, died in detention in February.
Then there's Syria. Just this past month, the southern Druze city of Sweida erupted in violence. Over 900 people were killed in clashes between regime-backed forces and local Druze tribes. Homes were destroyed. The dead included men, women, and children. Meanwhile in Damascus, a suicide bomber detonated himself inside Mar Elias Church, murdering thirty Orthodox Christians as they prayed. It barely made a blip in the international news cycle.
South Sudan? Famine, tribal massacres, and a cholera outbreak are threatening millions. In Nasir and Ulang, over 30,000 people are already facing starvation. Armed groups burn villages, rape girls, and kidnap children. No UN emergency session. No trending hashtags. Just quiet suffering in the dark.
These are not old events. This is happening now. In 2025. And the world says almost nothing.
Learn more about global persecution in our article on the deadly attack in Congo and the UN’s silence.
Meanwhile, Israel
Contrast that with Israel. After October 7, when Hamas terrorists murdered, raped, and kidnapped civilians inside Israeli territory, Israel responded militarily, as every nation would. And what followed? Wall-to-wall condemnation.
The International Criminal Court requested arrest warrants for Israel’s prime minister and defense minister. UN bodies passed one-sided resolutions ignoring Hamas's use of human shields and weapon stockpiles under hospitals and schools. Western activists screamed “genocide” while Hamas continued to fire rockets from populated areas and hold hostages underground.
Let’s be clear: no country on earth is expected to fight a terror organization embedded in civilian neighborhoods without making mistakes. Yet only Israel is treated as if self-defense itself is a crime.
Why the Obsession?
This isn't about what Israel does—it's about what Israel is.
Israel is Jewish. Strong. Democratic. Successful. A country that has survived war after war, terror wave after terror wave, and still builds tech, grows food in the desert, and teaches Torah to its children. That alone enrages its enemies. But it also triggers guilt and jealousy in the West.
European nations project their colonial shame onto Israel, forgetting that Jews are indigenous to the land. The global Left hates Israel because it doesn’t fit their victim/oppressor narrative. And Islamic regimes hate Israel because it exists. Period.
It’s not complicated.
The Spiritual Root
The double standard against Israel is not just political. It’s spiritual. Isaiah said it thousands of years ago:
“No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue that rises against you in judgment, you shall condemn.” — Isaiah 54:17
The tongues are rising now, louder than ever. UN speeches. Newspaper columns. Campus protests. “Israel must be punished.” “Israel is the problem.” “Israel is the evil.” These lies are weapons. But the promise remains: they will not prosper.
What Real Justice Looks Like
Real justice starts with one standard for everyone.
If targeting civilians is a war crime, then Hamas, the Houthis, and any regime should be condemned.
If self-determination is a right, then the Jewish people who’ve lived in Israel for over 3,000 years deserve a homeland.
If morality matters, then Israel, where Jews, Arabs, Christians, and Druze vote, work, and live under the same law, should be recognized as a model, not a menace.
The Hope That Refuses to Die
Israel is judged differently because the world is afraid of the truth: that the Jewish people came home, and stayed.
We have survived Babylon, Rome, Crusades, pogroms, the Holocaust, and the hatred of nations. We didn’t just survive—we built a state, defended it, and made it flourish. That story offends those who prefer lies over truth.
But we are not going anywhere.
So speak the truth, even when it’s unpopular. Stand with Israel, even when it’s lonely. Because this is not just politics—it’s prophecy.
And prophecy always wins.
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