Myths & misconceptions

The stories told about Israel and the Jewish people, answered with the record.

• Myth: Jews secretly control the banks, the media, and world governments.
• Myth: People get paid $7,000 a post to defend Israel online.
• Myth: AIPAC is an all-powerful foreign lobby that buys America’s Middle East policy.
• Myth: The anti-Israel surge on campus is a purely organic, grassroots awakening.
• Myth: Jews are a single race.
• Myth: Hebrew is a fake language that Israel invented.
• Myth: All Jews are white Europeans.
• Myth: Jews and Arabs have always hated each other.
• Myth: Judaism is just Christianity without Jesus.
• Myth: The Nazis invented antisemitism.
• Myth: Yiddish and Hebrew are the same language.
• Myth: The Talmud commands Jews to hate and kill non-Jews.
• Myth: Jews are colonizers in Palestine.
• Myth: Jews claim Israel because God promised it to them 3,000 years ago.
• Myth: Israel is an apartheid state.
• Myth: Jihad just means a peaceful inner struggle.
• Myth: The keffiyeh is Palestinian, and Jews who wear it are appropriating it.