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The World’s Moral Collapse and Israel’s Light
IsraAID doctor providing primary-care services following Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, 2017. Photo: IsraAid.
Our foundation, Time To Stand Up For Israel, usually focuses on one central mission; defending Israel and her people. But today, silence itself demands confrontation. What we are witnessing is not just bias. It is moral collapse.
For years, Israel has been the preferred target of global outrage. Protesters flood the streets, campuses erupt, flags burn, and Jewish students are harassed, all under the banner of “justice.”
Yet when Israel defends her citizens from Hamas terrorists who use civilians as human shields, the same “humanitarians” cry “genocide.” When Hamas fires rockets from hospitals, Israel is condemned. When Israel warns civilians before a strike, she’s labeled “apartheid.”
Meanwhile, true genocides unfold across Africa — and the world looks away.
The Forgotten Genocide in Sudan
While the anti-Israel mob marches, the people of Sudan are enduring what the US State Department now officially calls genocide.
Since war broke out in April 2023 between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), tens of thousands have been killed. The RSF, descendants of the infamous Janjaweed militias, have unleashed another wave of ethnic cleansing.
Entire villages are wiped out. Non-Arab populations like the Fur, Masalit, and Zaghawa are slaughtered, starved, and driven into exile. Over 12 million people are displaced; 24 million face acute hunger. The United Nations and Human Rights Watch have confirmed systematic killings, mass rapes, and forced starvation.
Yet … silence.
No protests in London or Paris. No hashtags, no celebrity outrage, no “Free Sudan” campaigns. Because Sudan doesn’t fit neatly into a political narrative. There are no Jews to blame, and no headlines to weaponize.
The West’s Selective Outrage
Let’s be honest: this isn’t ignorance. It’s selective morality.
Those who rage at Israel while ignoring Sudan’s genocide are not defenders of human rights, they are performers of outrage. They cry for Gaza but say nothing for Nigeria’s Christians or Burkina Faso’s villagers, where Islamist militants have turned the region into mass graves.
In Nigeria, terror groups such as Boko Haram and ISWAP murder thousands every year. Up to 7,000 Christians are executed annually, often burned alive for refusing to renounce their faith. According to Open Doors, 70% of all Christians killed for their faith worldwide die in Nigeria.
In Burkina Faso, jihadist militias raid villages, destroy churches, and kill entire congregations.
And the world’s response? Silence. No marches. No petitions. No “Boycott Burkina Faso” movements.
Apparently, African lives don’t trend.
Israel: The Light They Refuse to See
While others stay silent, Israel acts.
Israel, the country accused of “genocide,” has spent decades saving lives across Africa through humanitarian innovation, aid, and technology.
- IsraAID, founded in 2001, operates in Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, and South Sudan, providing clean water, education, and health care. In Malawi, over 70% of local water leaders trained by IsraAID are women, a quiet revolution in empowerment.
- Innovation Africa, led by Sivan Ya’ari, brings Israeli solar and water technology to over 10 African nations, transforming villages once ravaged by drought into thriving communities.
- Fair Planet introduces high-quality Israeli seeds to Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania, multiplying harvests fivefold and improving food security.
- MASHAV, Israel’s Agency for International Development, has worked in 43 African countries over six decades, training doctors, engineers, and educators — the very essence of Tikkun Olam, repairing the world.
This is Israel’s quiet legacy: while others accuse, she acts.
Light vs. Darkness
The contrast could not be clearer.
Israel, endlessly vilified, sends doctors to Africa, engineers to the desert, and water to drought-stricken communities.
Her enemies send rockets, propaganda, and death.
Israel does not just defend herself, she lifts others. And that, perhaps, is why so many cannot stand her.
The Truth of History
We stand with Israel because she stands with humanity.
When hospitals collapse in Gaza, it’s because Hamas hides weapons beneath them. When hospitals collapse in Sudan, it’s because the world doesn’t care enough to help. There is a difference between a nation defending itself and militias exterminating a people.
The Jewish people know what it means to be hunted, demonized, and abandoned. That is why Israel helps, not because it is popular, but because it is right.
You cannot call yourself “pro-human rights” while demonizing the only democracy in the Middle East that actually saves lives abroad.
You cannot claim to oppose genocide and ignore Sudan.
You cannot claim to love peace while hating Israel.
Because in a world collapsing under moral hypocrisy, Israel remains a light unto the nations and those who curse her are standing on the wrong side of history.
Sabine Sterk is CEO of Time To Stand Up For Israel.
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UK adopts sweeping measures against antisemitism in schools
(JTA) — The U.K. has adopted sweeping measures to combat antisemitism in English schools, prompting pushback from the country’s largest teachers’ union.
The move came after a new government-commissioned review found that three in five Jewish students reported experiencing antisemitism in English schools. The most common incidents were jokes, stereotypes and comments about Jewish people. About half of respondents who witnessed or experienced antisemitism said the incidents were not reported, most often because they did not think they would be taken seriously.
The government on Wednesday accepted 27 recommendations from the report, including dedicated antisemitism training for leaders and staff, improved recording of antisemitic incidents and moves to build a better understanding of Jewish life, identity and contemporary antisemitism.
The government commissioned the report following a spate of high-profile attacks on Jews in Britain, including an attack on a synagogue in Manchester last year that left two men dead.
The report’s author, Sir David Bell, the vice chancellor of the University of Sunderland and former chief inspector of schools in England, recommended addressing antisemitism distinctly from other forms of racism. He argued that antisemitism was a “uniquely complex” problem because of intertwined racial and religious dimensions, since Jewish identity can encompass both an ethnicity and a religion, along with expressions of prejudice that hold all Jews responsible for the actions of Israel.
The government will also encourage English schools to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism. The definition is supported by many mainstream Jewish organizations and has been adopted by 47 countries, including the U.K., but critics say that it conflates some forms of antisemitism with criticism of Israel.
British Education Secretary Lucy Powell called Bell’s review a “generational moment” and said that “implementation is now my priority.”
However, the National Education Union, the largest union representing teachers, lecturers, teaching assistants and support staff in the United Kingdom and Europe, raised concerns on Wednesday about recommending the IHRA definition for schools. NEU general secretary Daniel Kebede said in a statement that the definition “risks deepening the problem rather than tackling it, and actively undermining efforts to confront antisemitism.”
“The IHRA’s contested framing risks blurring the line between antisemitism and legitimate criticism of the Israeli government and the genocide in Gaza, leaving teachers with uncertainty when they need clarity,” said Kebede. He cited a risk that “children who cannot critically explore issues through classroom discussion will instead seek their answers in online and unsafe groups.”
Kebede also encouraged Britain’s Department for Education to strengthen guidance on all forms of racism, not only antisemitism, saying that 65% of teachers report they have not received any antiracism training in the past year.
The Board of Deputies of British Jews, an umbrella organization for British Jewish communities, celebrated the antisemitism report and the government’s adoption of its proposed measures. The group specifically praised the report’s “clear recommendations that schools and local authorities follow government guidelines by adopting the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism as a tool to deepen understanding of contemporary antisemitism.”
“We remain concerned about undue external influence on schools driven by narrow political agendas, and tendentious materials seeping into schools and increasing disharmony, and we will continue to press for vigilance against this,” said the Board of Deputies.
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Orthodox Jewish man stabbed in midtown Manhattan
(New York Jewish Week) — An Orthodox Jewish man is in stable condition after being stabbed on Wednesday evening in the Diamond District of midtown Manhattan. Police are investigating the attack as a possible hate crime.
Police told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating the incident as a possible antisemitic attack, and Manhattan Shomrim — the Jewish community watch group — has asked people to share footage as police search for the suspect. No arrests have been made.
The victim was identified by police as a 26-year-old man, and Orthodox Jewish outlet COLLive identified him as a resident of Crown Heights, the neighborhood that is home to the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement’s headquarters.
He was taken to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition. Police said they were called at about 5:50 p.m. on Wednesday after the man was stabbed in the back with “an unknown sharp object” on 47th Street near Fifth Avenue. ABC7 reported that the victim told investigators he believed he was stabbed with a needle or syringe.
According to the Chabad website, which published an interview with the victim, he is a recently ordained Hasidic rabbi named Joseph, who commutes to Midtown each day to wrap tefillin with Jewish merchants. The attacker, Joseph told the website, was a woman who seemed to be following him prior to the stabbing.
The attack comes as Jewish New Yorkers have been targeted in more than half of the hate crimes committed in New York City this year, despite making up about 12% of the city’s population.
In July, an assailant stabbed two men on the Upper West Side, including one who was leaving a synagogue, while yelling “Allahu akbar,” and was charged with committing hate crimes.
Louis Keene contributed reporting.
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VIDEO: A Hasid gives us a tour of Morocco in Yiddish
דער ירושלימער יוטוב־שטערן וועלוול קירשנבוים האָט לעצטנס אַרויסגעשטעלט אַ ווידעאָ אויף ייִדיש פֿון אַ פּרעכטיקן וויזיט, וואָס ער האָט געמאַכט אין מאַראָקאָ. עס באַגלייט אים זײַן חבֿר אַבֿרהם פּרץ.
אינעם ווידעאָ זעט מען ווי קירשנבוים דאַוונט שחרית מיט די אָרטיקע ייִדן און באַזוכט אַ גוט אָפּגעהיטענעם בית־עולם, וווּ עס ליגן באַערדיקט גרויסע צדיקים ווי למשל הרבֿ חיים בן עתר (1696–1743), באַקאַנט ווי דער „אור החיים“. „מענטשן מיינען, אַז נאָר אין אייראָפּע זענען דאָ קבֿרים פֿון צדיקים!“ זאָגט קירשנבוים.
מיר זעען אַ גרויסע, שיינע שיל מיט אַ פֿײַנער אַרכיטעקטור אין קאַזאַבלאַנקאַ; דעם גרויסן אַראַבישן שוק, וווּ קירשנבוים קויפֿט זיך אײַן מלבושים פּונקט ווי די מאַראָקאַנער גייען אָנגעטאָן. ער באַוווּנדערט אויך די שיינע טיי־גלעזער און טשײַניקן, וואָס מע פֿאַרקויפֿט דאָרט, און באַקענט זיך מיט אַ ייִדישן סוחר וואָס האַנדלט מיט זילבער און גאָלד, פּונקט אַזוי ווי זײַן טאַטע און זיידע האָבן געטאָן פֿאַר דור־דורות.
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