Thank You for Making 2024 a Success for the African Jewish Alliance!
As we look ahead to 2025, we want to express our sincere gratitude to our partners, supporters, and readers for making 2024 such an amazing year for the African Jewish Alliance.
In the wake of the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, the Jewish community was thrown into confusion. Instead of horror, sympathy, and understanding from the international community and the general public, there was denial, equivocation, and justification. Decades of diligent work on European and American college campuses by the Muslim Brotherhood’s propaganda army had resulted in at least two generations of Westerners indoctrinated into the false proposition that the attacks on Israel and its Jewish supporters were not the result of jihad ideology, but were the result of “Zionist colonial aggression” that had provoked “indigenous Palestinian resistance.”
According to this narrative, anything Israel did to protect its citizens was construed as violent oppression, while any acts of terrorism committed against Israel (or even Disapora Jews), no matter how unspeakably heinous, were whitewashed as justifiable efforts to achieve freedom and self-determination.
The fact is that terrorism against Israel was not “freedom fighting” by one group of Muslims who wanted their own nation. It was, instead, part of an ongoing jihad by Muslim extremists in the region to establish Islamic rule over the Middle East and Africa (and, eventually, the rest of the world as well). The crimes that were committed against Israelis by Hamas on October 7 were horrific, but the very same atrocities were being perpetrated against Africans by Boko Haram, ISWAP, and other militant Islamic groups as well, and on a much more frequent basis.
There were already many groups, both within Africa and the African Diaspora, working to raise awareness of this issue, but they had faced stiff resistance. While the jihad against Jews had been ignored because Israel was perceived as the aggressor, the jihad against Africans had been ignored because it undermined the liberal Western narrative that “all liberation struggles” are both virtuous and should be pragmatically connected. But if Islamists were fighting only for freedom from Zionist oppression, why were they also murdering African men, raping and kidnapping African women, and burning African villages?
Reporting on the jihad taking place in over 8 African countries gives the lie to the most favored left-wing theme of the day: that the fight against Israel is about colonialist oppression and is therefore worthy of the support of decent people everywhere. And so the left-leaning media and entertainment industry in the West has been burying the African horrors for decades – either refusing to cover it at all, or depicting the violence as “tribal conflict,” rather than acknowledging the truth: that it is part of a 1,400-year-long campaign of Islamic conquest targeting not only Jews and Christians, but also moderate Muslims who only wish to live in peace.
Leaders from the African and Jewish communities in America realized that their voices would be stronger together. In the words of Ecclesiastes, “Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up the other; but woe to one who is alone and falls and does not have another to help.”
The message of the newly-formed African Jewish Alliance resonated with both everyday people and public officials. A multi-day summit in Washington, DC, a successful launch for the AJA across all major social media platforms, and the development of numerous communications campaigns quickly came to fruition.
As 2024 draws to a close, we are happy to report that the Wall Street Journal just published our letter (which you can read here), informing the world of the African Jihad and of the existence of the AJA.
All of us at the African Jewish Alliance wish to express our gratitude to everyone who has read, listened, shared, or engaged with us over the past year. We hope and pray that 2025 will be a year of peace, progress, and prosperity for all people who currently struggle against jihadist violence, and that the promise of Leviticus will come to pass: “you shall lie down and no one shall terrify you.”
In Freedom,
The African Jewish Alliance