Hen Mazzig
There are zero Jews alive in Iraq, a land that was once home to 150,000 Jews, including my own family. Until 1941 when pogroms by the Iraqi Government and the Nazis took the lives of hundreds of Jews and forced them to leave a decade later. In Israel, 2 million Arabs live freely as citizens, enjoying the same rights as any Jew. Meanwhile, in Gaza, only 59 Jews remain—but not free. They are underground, held hostage in tunnels, tortured, abused, and murdered—just for being Jews. Yet, protesters around the world insist that Israel and Israel alone should be destroyed.