Jewhad To Launch Shortly
April 7th, 2006 adminJewhad was created in response to anti-Jewish hatred. Anti-Jewish sentiment is not new – it has been happening for about 3500 year – since the beginning of Jewish history. While early Jewish history had some incidence of fighting, it is known that Jews fought very little between the destruction of the Second Temple (73 CE) and the creation of the State of Israel (in 1948). We have learned from our history that often “the pen is mightier than the sword”.
While the Jews of Israel were forced to fight for their survival from 1948 (and continue to fight for their survival today), Jews in the Diaspora have carried on the pacifist nature of our ancestors, at least when it comes to physically fighting. We continue to have to fight a war of ideas, against those whose irrational hatred of Jews infects the minds of those ignorant of Judaism and Jewish history. History has shown the world that irrational hatred has led to mass slaughter of Jews and others during the Holocaust and other genocides. We intend to educate our fellow human beings and help them fight hatred.
Our choice of our website name is obviously a play on the word “Jihad” – want to show the world the Jewish way of fighting Jihad – by reasoning and loving all humankind.