Why Jews and West is the best ally. · Liberty Politics Discussion

Why Jews and West is the best ally.

When anti-Western voices—whether Muslim or Chinese nationalists—dismiss my admiration for the West by hurling slurs like “colonial product” or “self-hating,” they unwittingly reveal why the West and the Jewish people form the ultimate alliance: a shared, uncompromising commitment to human progress, individual liberty, and defiance of the very tyrannies those critics still romanticize.

The West did not merely invent modern science, democracy, and human rights; it created the only environment in which Jewish genius could fully breathe. Under Islamic rule, Jews lived as dhimmis—tolerated, taxed, and periodically massacred or forcibly converted (Almohad Spain, Hebron 1929, Damascus 1840). In imperial China, the ancient Kaifeng community was slowly assimilated into oblivion under a system that had no conceptual place for a people who refused to dissolve into the Han whole. In contrast, post-Enlightenment Europe and especially America threw the doors wide open. Einstein, Freud, Oppenheimer, von Neumann, Salk, Feynman—these names did not flourish in Baghdad, Isfahan, or Kaifeng; they exploded in Berlin, Vienna, Princeton, and Los Alamos because the West finally offered meritocracy, rule of law, and free inquiry instead of jizya or forced assimilation. Jewish minds and Western institutions proved symbiotic: Spinoza and Locke birthed modern liberalism together, Rothschilds and Rockefellers financed the industrial age together, Brin and Page built Google together.

The partnership is more than cultural—it is existential. The West fought the Nazi evil that set out to exterminate Jews first and liberal civilization second; Allied boots liberated Auschwitz and planted the flag of freedom on the same soil. Today, when jihadist rockets fall on Tel Aviv and Paris alike, when Chinese state media parrots blood libels and funds anti-Israel blocs at the UN, Israel stands as the West’s forward operating base in a region that has never reconciled itself to either Jewish sovereignty or Western values. Tel Aviv’s start-up ecosystem, its cyber-defenses, its medical breakthroughs do not just benefit Israel—they keep the free world ahead of its enemies. In return, the West’s unwavering support is not charity; it is enlightened self-interest. A strong, innovative, democratic Israel is the living proof that Western civilization can take root anywhere and out-produce every autocracy around it.

The critics’ hypocrisy is glaring. The same voices that celebrate the conquests of Umar (who ended Jewish autonomy in Jerusalem) or the Qing annihilation of the Dzungars clutch their pearls when a brown or yellow person dares prefer Shakespeare, Newton, and Jefferson over caliphal decrees or the Mandate of Heaven. Jews, more than any other people, have experienced every empire those nationalists lionize—from Babylonian captivity to Ottoman pogroms—and emerged to find their most reliable home in the West. Together, West and Jews abolished the Atlantic slave trade, split the atom for peaceful energy as well as defense, landed on the moon, sequenced the genome, and built the internet.

So yes, the West and the Jewish people are the ultimate allies because they co-authored the only story that still points forward: the story of individuals judged by their minds, not their bloodlines; of societies that reform their sins instead of sanctifying them; of a civilization that put twelve men on the moon while its enemies were still debating whether women can drive. If admiring that makes me a “colonial product,” I wear the label proudly—because the alternative is nostalgia for empires whose greatest dream is to make the 7th century or the Middle Kingdom great again. I’ll take Beethoven, Bellow, and Bibi over that any day.

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