Anne Frank was 15 years old when she died in a Nazi concentration camp. Yet her words outlived her body. Words scribbled in a diary from a secret attic in Amsterdam became one of the world’s most powerful mirrors.
This summer, I found myself in Amsterdam for Mindvalley U. By chance, my Airbnb was on the street next to Anne Frank’s house. Each morning, I’d step outside and see the same canals, the same cobblestones, and the same rooftops Anne may have glimpsed in stolen moments when she dared peek out from her hiding place.
A few mornings later, I opened the news and froze. The Diary of Anne Frank had just been banned in Florida schools under new book-ban laws. Imagine that. In 2025, one of the most important human documents ever written—the testimony of a teenage Jewish girl hiding from Nazi genocide—was deemed “inappropriate” for children to read.
The synchronicity hit me hard. I was standing before the building where those words were written. Words that survived Anne, even though she did not. Words that outlived war, genocide, and cruelty—only to be silenced again today by politicians who fear truth more than hatred.
And this got me thinking.
If Anne Frank were alive today, what would she say about America? About Israel & Gaza?
What I’m about to share may feel uncomfortable—but Anne’s words demand we face discomfort.
Who was Anne Frank
Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt in 1929. When the Nazis rose to power, her family fled to Amsterdam, hoping to escape persecution. In 1942, when deportations began, they went into hiding in a small annex behind her father’s office. For over two years, Anne, her sister Margot, her parents Otto and Edith, and four others lived in silence, relying on the courage of Dutch friends who smuggled them food and news.
Anne wasn’t just a symbol. She was a teenager—funny, sharp, sometimes rebellious, and always observant. She dreamed of being a journalist. She once wrote, “I want to go on living even after my death.” And, tragically, she did—not through her life, but through her words.
In August 1944, they were betrayed. The Gestapo stormed the annex. The Franks were deported to Westerbork, then Auschwitz, and finally Anne and Margot to Bergen-Belsen. In early 1945, both sisters died of typhus—just weeks before liberation. Anne was 15.
Only Otto Frank survived. After the war, Miep Gies, one of the helpers, handed him Anne’s diary. He published it, fulfilling her dream. Today, it has sold over 30 million copies and been translated into more than 70 languages.
Anne’s body was silenced. But her voice became immortal.
Anne’s words in today’s world
Anne once wrote:
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor, helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
She was describing Nazi roundups in Amsterdam.
But doesn’t that sound eerily like ICE raids in America today? Parents taken in the middle of the night. Children left crying, bewildered, abandoned. Different time, different uniforms—but the same cruelty.
Anne also wrote:
“We are chained to one spot, without rights, a thousand obligations… waiting for the inevitable end.”
That could be the voice of Gaza today. Entire families locked in. Starved. Bombed. Denied freedom of movement. Children asking, “Why must we suffer simply because of who we are?”
Her words, written 80 years ago, read like dispatches from the present. History is not past. It is a loop—unless we break it.
A hard, controversial mirror
Anne’s diary teaches us to look at cruelty honestly, no matter where it comes from. And one thing history proves: atrocities don’t start with bullets. They start with words.
Dehumanizing language always comes first.
So let’s talk about Gaza, as uncomfortable as this may seem.
Consider the echoes:
- Nazi leadership (1943): Heinrich Himmler at Posen: “I am referring here to the evacuation of the Jews, the extermination of the Jewish people….”
- Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (2023): On the Palestinian town of Huwara: “[Huwara] should be wiped out. I think the State of Israel should do it.”
- Hitler, Mein Kampf: Jews as “the typical parasite, a sponger who, like an infectious bacillus, keeps spreading.” Nazi propaganda routinely cast Jews as vermin.
- Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (2023): Announcing a siege of Gaza: “There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel… We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly.”
- Nazi propaganda (Goebbels echoing Hitler): Jews blamed collectively for war, threatened with “extermination.”
- Israeli President Isaac Herzog (2023): “It is an entire nation out there that is responsible….” — words widely criticized as endorsing collective punishment.
- Nazi euphemisms: “Evacuation” as code for extermination.
- Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu (2023): Suggesting a nuclear strike on Gaza was “one of the options.”
Different contexts. Different scales. But the same pattern.
Dehumanize → Justify → Destroy.
Anne Frank’s words remind us: when we hear this language, it is never “just rhetoric.” It is the runway to cruelty.
You see, cruelty always begins the same way: when leaders tell us to fear “the other.”
Fear the immigrant.
Fear the refugee.
Fear the neighbor who looks different.
Fear the people beyond your border.
That is the oldest political trick in the book. And it works—unless we refuse to buy it.
Anne Frank didn’t write her diary so we could cry in museums. She wrote it so we could recognize her suffering in others—and have the courage to stop it.
Why giving people a chance matters
This message hit me with even greater force because, while in Amsterdam, I also had a chance encounter.
I bumped into a young Syrian man who once worked for me back in 2016. At the time, he was a refugee in Malaysia. He and his friend had escaped a country torn apart by war. One had seen his home blown to rubble. The other had lost a brother when a bomb fell on the very place his brother was resting.
Both had lived through horrors most of us can barely imagine. And yet, when I met them, I didn’t just see refugees. I saw brilliant young minds. I saw hope, determination, and resilience.
That year, I had an idea for a new learning model called Quest and needed someone to build the app. These two young Syrians built it in record time. That app became the Mindvalley app—today used by millions worldwide and even featured in 200,000 Apple stores on the iPad.
Yes, our app was built by Syrians. Yes, it was built by refugees who were given a chance.
Anne never got her chance. But when we give people that chance, look what can happen.
This is why I am so adamant about this message. When politicians tell you to fear refugees, or immigrants, or minorities, they’re not just lying. They are robbing humanity of its future.
The rule we must all live by
If there’s one rule we must all live by, it’s this:
The moment a leader tells you to fear refugees, minorities, or immigrants, you are looking at a tyrant.
Do not believe them. Do not reward their fear with your silence—or your vote.
Because fear divides. And division always leads to cruelty.
What the world needs now is unity.
Unity across stripes, colors, races, and ethnicities. Unity across cultures, religions, and especially across borders.
Because the only way we solve the greatest challenges facing humanity—from climate change to war to poverty—is to remember this truth:
We are one humanity.
And kindness cannot stop at the invisible lines of race, religion, or border.
The higher vision
Anne Frank once wrote:
“In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
That may be the most extraordinary line ever written. She believed it while hiding from people who wanted her dead.
If Anne could believe in human goodness then, we can believe in it now.
Let’s prove her right.
Let’s choose compassion over cruelty.
Let’s stand up for one another across borders.
Let’s silence the voices of fear not by shouting back but by choosing unity again and again.
Because Anne’s diary isn’t just a warning.
It’s a torch.
And it’s in our hands now.
So here’s what we can collectively do.
Stand for unity. Across color. Across race. Across borders. Across religions.
When you hear fear, answer with love.
When you hear division, answer with solidarity.
When a politician uses scapegoating, vote the other way.
The only way to honor Anne is to prove her right—that humanity is good at heart.
And that goodness becomes real when we act.
Because history doesn’t just happen to us. It is written by our choices—and our silence.
I’d like to hear from you: Drop a comment below—let’s create a conversation around unity, compassion, and what it means to stand for humanity in our time.
1,235 Responses
Thank you Vishen
This sharing is brave and moving. It is a terrifying time, and yet everywhere I am experiencing people’s kindness! From friends to strangers, there is this sense that we are all in this together. We belong to each other. Thank you for sharing Anne’s courageous message! I will share it with my friends. We must keep this book circulating !
I am recovering from ovarian cancer and have been repeatedly learning I cannot work at my old pace, my body is still weak, I am struggling to put on weight, and make my own ends meet, with very little energy. YET so many people are stepping up to help me make it through it, physically, emotionally and financially instantly. My heart is being blown open by all the love that is here. It is my intent to pass it forward and share that it is here! Thank you for your sharing today.
Hello Vishen,
Thank you for speaking up and bringing this truth to people’s attention. As an immigrant from the Czech Republic who has been living in this country for over 29 years, I still can’t believe what is happening here. This is a nation built by immigrants, yet too often the very families who come seeking safety or opportunity are treated as if they don’t belong.
From my own experience, I know how incredibly difficult it is to get a visa or work permit. Only a small number of people are fortunate enough to navigate that process successfully. For so many, there is no “right way” available — yet they are told to “do it the right way.” It is heartbreaking and unfair.
As a mother, what devastates me most is seeing families ripped apart. It goes against everything America has always claimed to stand for — family values, compassion, and opportunity. To see those ideals being eroded is both outrageous and deeply sad.
Your words shine a light on what too many would rather ignore. Thank you for your courage, and for reminding us that humanity, compassion, and unity are the values that truly matter.
With gratitude,
Lenka
Great News! You can always return to your country of origin! It shouldn’t be difficult to get a visa to work there!
And where will you go back to, brave Anonymous? We are all immigrants from Africa, this has been proven by scientific studies. Will you go back to Africa? Probably not. So keep your nasty comments to yourself.
Unfortunately he isn’t speaking the truth. Hamas started this war by invading Israel on October 7th. The things they did to innocent people is no different from what the Nazis did in WW2. Israel has a right to defend it’s citizens against evil regimes that wants to wipe them off the face of the earth. The antisemitism needs to end.
Thank you for speaking out about this. I couldnt agree more. More people with influence must speak out about the atrocities in Gaza. Our governments prefer to keep their eyes wide shut. Plausible deniability and intentional ignorance. We must force them to act.
Wow, so happy to unsubscribe from your newsletter and never hear from you again. No mention of the barbaric actions of Hamas or the complexities of the situation. Just another tired comparison of Jews to Nazis. Old, lazy, and deeply offensive.
You can whitewash terrorism all you want, but the fact remains: Hamas slaughtered, raped, and kidnapped innocent civilians on October 7th. Entire families butchered in their homes. Over 200 people taken hostage. That didn’t happen in some theoretical debate—it happened in real life. To erase that reality, or reduce it to a footnote while drawing exaggerated Nazi parallels, is not only dishonest but morally bankrupt.
Criticizing Israeli policies is one thing—healthy democracies thrive on criticism—but collapsing everything into “Israel = Nazis” is lazy rhetoric that fuels antisemitism worldwide. It erases the Jewish people’s history of persecution, denies their right to self-determination, and ignores the very real genocidal ideology of Hamas, whose charter explicitly calls for the destruction of Israel and the murder of Jews everywhere. That’s not nuance—that’s propaganda.
If you truly cared about human rights, you would acknowledge both truths: that Palestinian civilians are suffering terribly, and that Hamas deliberately puts them in harm’s way by hiding weapons in schools, hospitals, and mosques, ensuring that every escalation becomes a tragedy. Pretending there’s only one villain in this story is dishonest and dehumanizing to everyone caught in the crossfire.
Anne Frank deserves better than to be weaponized as a prop for your one-sided politics. Her legacy is not served by cherry-picking quotes to score points, but by honestly confronting hatred in all its forms—including the antisemitism that thrives when people repeat lazy Nazi comparisons instead of engaging with the full, painful complexity of this conflict.
You talk about “unity” and “compassion,” but compassion without truth is meaningless. Compassion means condemning Hamas’s atrocities just as loudly as we mourn Palestinian suffering. Unity means acknowledging that Israelis deserve to live without fear of rocket fire and massacres, just as Palestinians deserve dignity and freedom.
If you can’t hold both truths at once, you’re not promoting unity—you’re spreading division. And I want no part in it.
I agree with you 100%. I commented in a very similar way. This is how the hate spreads.
Agree 100% as well. Happy to see other people also take the time to respond to this.
There is no nuance when it comes to intentional starvation (which several of Israel’s most powerful leaders have openly espoused, it’s not an anomaly.) And snipers targeting children in the head, chest and groin – as countless healthcare workers and journalists (who have also been targeted and killed in unprecedented numbers) have told us again and again, showing us xrays of dozens of children with bullets in their heads.
Every time I hear someone justify Israel’s war crimes I wonder if they have ever tried to put themselves in the shoes of a Palestinian (bad metaphor, many don’t have shoes and have to walk 8-12 kms one way in blazing heat with no access to water, just to access some dry pasta – as green beret Anthony Aguilar has testified.) What would you do if you were born a refugee inside a walled city you couldn’t leave? Where IDF spent their shifts breaking into random homes in the middle of the night, separating men and women, intimidating and terrorizing you (this is former IDF testimony.) Where you weren’t allowed to collect your own rainwater? Where you were regularly ‘put on a diet’ by the occupying power? Where you had tried non-violent resistance (2018/19 Great March Of Return) but saw unarmed disabled people and children killed by snipers? Are you telling me you wouldn’t resist this with every fiber of your being? Of course you would. You would do everything in your power to reclaim the homes of your ancestors and build an actual future for your kids.
You are listening to the wrong people< Anthony Aguilar has been proven wrong. And Israeli soldiers DO NOT target children. Please find more accurate sources.
Anthony Aguilar is a 25 year veteran of the US army, and a Green Beret who was THERE, personally witnessed, and took video of GHF ‘aid’ workers shooting unarmed aid seekers then celebrating hitting one, killing him. He’s faced personal hardship, doxxing and other attacks in order to come forward and share his testimony. Should, I listen to you instead, brave Anonymous person?
How about we listen to the literally hundreds of healthcare workers who have testified that they personally treated children who were targeted in the head, chest and groin, and who have provided x-ray evidence to that effect? Maybe, if you don’t want to listen to a person who was actually there, you will listen to:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/09/opinion/gaza-doctor-interviews.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/02/gaza-palestinian-children-killed-idf-israel-war
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/26/world/open-letter-45-us-physicians-gaza
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/10/16/gaza_doctor
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/07/19/gaza-hospitals-surgeons-00167697
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7893vpy2gqo
https://www.hrw.org/report/2024/09/30/they-destroyed-what-was-inside-us/children-disabilities-amid-israels-attacks-gaza
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/feroze-sidhwa-new-york-times-children-gaza-shot-in-head-israel-palestine-doctor/
Or maybe you will only listen to Israelis. In which case, maybe you want to check with their 2 leading human rights groups, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, that have come forward accusing Israel of genocide. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c776xkvz6vno
If you can look at any of this and still remain entrenched in your belief that there is, or could ever be, some kind of justification for killing kids, I am afraid you are a lost soul. Even if Israel ‘accidentally’ killed tens of thousands of children, HOW COULD YOU POSSIBLY JUSTIFY THAT? As the occupying power they have a responsibility under international law to protect the people they are occupying.
Well said… I have been to Gaza twice for charity work. I have seen how normal men, women and children- Palestinians are held behind 9 meter concrete walls. More should be done for them, by leaders across the world.
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please enough with Hamas propaganda… open your eyes, stop listening to jew haters… you are a disgrace believing all those lies. Do you ever hear anything positive about Israel ? have you ever met an Israeli ? you want to stop hate start with yourself ! learn and maybe get their side of the story for once… pathetic
Totally agree.
Disgusting
exactly!
Amazing Just what I was thinking So happy to see other people think the same as me. Gullible people will believe his gobbledygook and this is how hatred is spread. Vilification of the Israel in support of Hamas and the terrorists. Incredible… I am considering to unsubscribe from the company
Amen Paul. Its good to know someone is capable of critical thinking.
Agree 100%!!!!!!
thank you ! how disgusting ! unsubscribe but also expose him ! he has a huge reach – he s manipulating vulnerable people !
100% agree with Paul, considering to unsubscribe too.
Totally Agree with you , what a dangerous message . and I’m happy to unsubscribe as well…
Thank you Paul for telling the truth, against this atrocious & vicious , one- sided viewpoint!
bravo Paul ! please continue exposing this man ! he is either a total fool or a diabolical man ! either way he is an antisemite… he may not know it but thats what antisemites do ! compare Jews to Nazis ! how vile
I echo your sentiments as a sufferer of same ideology of hatred.
And my comments present the other side of the coin too.
Agree with you 100%. I commented in a very similar way. Thank you for commenting, as well.
Thank you. Well stated.
EVERY. SINGLE. WORD. IN. STONE. Thank you for this comment!
I was reading this article with my jaw dropping more and more with each paragraph. I wondered if I should spend any time and energy on responding. It’s starts true, aligned with history and some facts, but then, continue offensive, disrespectful – I am speechless. My family was related to Anne Franks’; they also fled from Germany to Holland in hopes to escape from the Natzi… My grandfather, with a number tattooed on his arm, survived Auschwitz. Quoting those stupid politicians out of context is foolish, ignoring the rest of the story and the second holocaust the Jewish people of Israel experienced (Oct 7th, 2023) is not foolish, it is cruel.
The children of Gaza… we all hope better for them. But talking Israel-Gaza with not a single mention of Hamas… red light.
The poor children of Israel, the 1500 young, happy, dancers who partied for the name of unity and peace – and were slaughtered – where’s a word on that too? Cause Anne- would resonate with that, you know. Being murdered and chased for being a Jew.
A message for a better world can be less one-sided and less offensive.
Thank you 🥹🫶🏽
Thank you Vishen for sharing this, I hope it can make people reflect on what is happening and think about how we can make a positive impact on this world, no matter how small.
I just want to thank you, Vishen, for this posting and for all that you are doing. You are an important international voice. You have a broad perspective that most of us in the west don’t have. Please keep up the good work!!
With gratitude,
Vicki
I first read AFD when I 15, my mother was Dutch and I was able to visit her house and the room up the ladders behind the book case where she and her family hid. It sadness me to hear her book is banned, not because it denies children the opportunity to grow, but more because it shows man kind has not learned anything from her message. It sadness me because history will repeat itself because politics, money and greed prevail while a very important message from history is ignored. Life is short why do we seem to strive to make even shorter?
I’m fine with you hand selecting quotes from the right wing element of Israel government but for the sake of a balanced view:
How about including language from the Hamas charter that has been present for decades about eradication of Israel and Jews?
How about including quotes from October 8th and beyond from jubilant Palestinians about the murder and abduction of Israelis?
Where’s that genocidal language or do you believe it to be justified, Vishen?
Conflating Israelis with Nazis is just unfair as in WW2 the Jews (including Anne Frank) did nothing to be the victims of Nazi genocide. Whereas Israel was flat out attacked by Hamas and had equivalent of 40,000 Americans murdered on 10/7. We can certainly have a debate about the severity of Israel’s response, but the two situations could not be more disparate.
100% agree!
Love the fact that you seem to have no perspective of history since 1948 and its rich of you to think that Israel has done “nothing” to the Palestinians. Do better.
Are you saying that the children in Palestine have ‘done something’ to deserve being eradicated? Like, the more than 1000 infants that have been killed were ideologically impure and deserved it? And all of the unarmed civilians in Gaza ‘deserve’ to be eradicated, because some small percentage of those who are still alive voted for Hamas almost 20 years ago? You condemn anyone who allied with Hamas along with the rest of the population (half of whom are children and weren’t even born when the last vote occurred), but Israel elected a ‘right wing’ openly genocidal leadership and at least 6 of the most powerful leaders there have said and done openly genocidal things (not really an anomaly), while the population of Israel has been either totally silent, or having picnics and parties while watching bombs fall at viewing stations and war tourism boats, and/or blocking/destroying food aid at the border crossings. About 15,000 Palestinian hostages are rotting away in Israel, having no due process, with well documented torture and sexual assault in those prisons (the legitimacy of said SA’s being debated in the Knesset!) and we have only heard about the 200 Israeli hostages in mainstream media coverage for the past 2 years, most of whom remain have served in the IDF. The IDF whose favourite pastime before 10/7 was (this is in their own words) breaking into random homes in Gaza in the middle of the night, separating the men and women and, ‘making their presence felt’. There’s another word for this, it is terrorism. The world is just supposed to pretend this wasn’t happening for years before 10/7. We’re only supposed to have sympathy for Israelis and condemn any resistance against this oppression. Nevermind that under international law, an occupied people have a right to armed resistance against their occupiers. Yes, there were war crimes on Oct 7, but it was both IDF and Hamas. Since then, 2 years of constant war crimes, daily, by IDF. And IDF soldiers have testified in the Knesset that they were ordered not to patrol the wall between 520am and 9am on Oct 7. Again, we’re just supposed to pretend we don’t know that. We’re just supposed to cry for Israelis and ignore the 377,000 Palestinians that a new Harvard study shows have been killed. That’s the only kind of ‘balance’ zionists will accept, it seems.
377000 people killed ? I think it is 37 milions isn’t it?
Vishen – I appreciate you sharing your thoughts. I think it’s important to recognize the difference here. Before the Holocaust, Jews were not murdering German civilians or calling for the destruction of Germany. By contrast, Hamas not only murdered 1,200+ Jews/Israelis on October 7, but its charter openly calls for wiping Israel and Jews off the map. That threat to Israel’s very existence is why the situation in Gaza, as tragic as it is, cannot be equated with the Holocaust.
Maya, thank you for your respectful dialog. I hope you are able to reflect on the conditions that gave rise to Hamas. History did not begin on Oct 7th and armed resistance is a UN charter right for an oppressed population. Of course I wish Oct 7th did not occur, but you have to place it in the context of what’s happening since 1948.
and the context is that arabs in Palestine never wanted Jews there ! they all benefited from the presence of Jews when they moved back to their historical homeland from the end of 19th century – the jews developed the barren land. Arabs from the region moved there for work (from Egypt, Iraq, Syria, the rest of the mandate which them became transjordan and today Jordan). And then the arabs pushed by some nefarious figures such as the muslim brotherhood in Egypt, the Green shirts, the arab legion, also the Brits and of course the nazi collaborator the Mufti of Jerusalem – Al Husseini- started attacking the Jews : because Islam cannot accept Jews on islamic land ! of course, it didnt matter that Judaism is indogenous of this land, that all holy sites of Judaism are there. So the arabs started attacking the Jews – Hebron massacre – 1929, arab revolt 1936 – collaboration with the nazis, then the war of 1948 and all the other wars. Stop listening to Palestine for dummies ! it is not real. It is fake history to manipulate you. Not sure if Vishen is ignorant or pushing these disgusting comparisons on purpose. But they are antisemitic ! He needs to remove and apologize ! and you read Cairo to Damascus from John Roy Calrson – written in 1951. You ll learn a lot !
Cassie, you’re an Angel!
Sanity still exists!
Dear Mark, What happened in 1948 is that the Arabs refused to have a U.N. given Palestinian state. They then ganged up on Israel because they wanted the land that Israel had received, without the Jewish people. The whole population of people living in Israel had to defend themselves against 7 countries. The Arabs lost and left but were deeply bitter. They definitely had to flee as they caused a war. The same war is going on now. Too bad they are so aggressive and anti-western civilization. (Death to the Infidels.) They still believe this. People adhering to radical Islam in Europe have made it crystal clear that Europe is next – spoken publicly on many occasions.
Exactly Maya. Another huge set of facts conveniently left out by Vishen.
True, of course. Though the story didn’t start on October the 7th, I dare say it started with the creation of Israel state.
Maya – this is a misinformed response. Israel is the illegal occupier and now war criminal. They have carried out war crimes and genocide mostly against civilians. Harvard university estimates that they have killed over 377,000 people in Gaza. This includes doctors, healthcare workers, aid workers and journalists. This did not start with October 7th or Hamas, and it is Israel that does not recognize the rights of Palestinians. Their leaders have stated so. Although the killings of October 7th are not acceptable, you need to inform yourself of the context. Israeli military control of Gaza and the West Bank included kidnapping, violence, murders, torture, daily intimidation of Palestinians and the ongoing illegal occupation of Palestinian homes and lands for decades.
As awful as the killings were on October 7th, Hamas isn’t the only one to blame. Educate yourself on the role of Israel and Netanyahu. It also doesn’t justify 700 days of war crimes, genocide, 1000s of detentions, and starvation of millions of civilians.
Do your research before commenting and don’t rely on a genocidal government wanted for crimes against humanity for your argument. They have been documented now to lie and deceived. Use your personal development to raise your understanding and awareness of authoritarianism and how it works especially in the case of the US and Israel governments.
darling I think you are the one who needs educating. Stop listening to Palestine for dummies because it is really for brainwashed dummies. Where are Jews from ? Judea ? rings a bell ? There is no context that justifies burning people alive, shooting pleading women in the head, raping, puting a knife in a womans vage, kidnapping 9 months old babies… if you think anything justifies that you need something stronger that MindValley honey, You need a lesson in humanity ! now regarding all the fake stuff you believe ? where to start your education ? maybe a simple book from Noa Tishby – I am sure it is at your level. I can recomment Cairo to Damascus written in 1951 by a journalist infiltrated with the muslim brotherhood. You ll know the savagery of the time already. But maybe just read Hamas charter that will give you something to start with. And then talk to Israelis – you ll learn something. Go to the holocaust museum ! should be easy enough for you. There is no genocide, only a decade old strategy to demonize Israel and the Jews and look at you – it is working like a charm
So just 1 question – Why the Palestinians of the West Bank (palestine authority) are not fighting for those in Gaza?
* please answer from knowledge
Ich stimme mit ihnen vollkommen überein. Aus einer muslimischen Familie bin ich auch als Flüchtling nach DE gekommen aber ich sehe wie mit falscher Toleranz die Gefahr der Islamisten (nicht nur Hamas) im Nahen Osten und auch hier in Westen nicht gesehen wird und leichtgläubig an die Propaganda der Hamas und ähnlichen Organisationen und Anhänger man glaubt. Recherchieren sie bitte gründlich wenn sie in Freiheit, Frieden, Demokratie (alles Feinde der Islamisten) weiter leben möchten und an die Zukunft ihrer Kinder denken.
Maya, you’re right that it’s not exactly the same, just like the Rwandan genocide, or Holocaust, was not the same. And still, the rhetoric from those committing the genocide is evergreen, and could be placed in either context. That’s the point.
Every single healthcare worker on the ground has told us this is a genocide, and every reputable aid organization on the planet, including two of Israel’s leading orgs, have called it that. Many have used the word Holocaust, in part because of how blatantly announced Israel’s intent has been. The claim of genocide is a legal one, based on the fact that Israeli leaders have been committing war crimes, with a clear intent to do so, on a daily basis, for two years – but also because they are illegally occupying this territory, which means that Hamas has a legal right under international law to resist that occupation.
I also wish that Oct 7 hadn’t happened, perhaps if there were not 2 million people trapped inside those militarized walls, being oppressed and living under apartheid conditions for decades, this would not have happened. Maybe every single human should be granted equal rights, regardless of their place of birth, religion or ethnicity?
This genocide also has the distinction of being the first live-streamed Holocaust, where all of us who have had the courage to peer past the “sensitive content” warnings have witnessed 2 years of charred, shredded, beheaded, terrorized, starved, traumatized, orphaned and maimed children, and unarmed civilians. Day after day after day, under Israel’s powerful military. A nuclear armed military, with tanks, planes, helicopters, drone missiles, ships, an unlimited number of guns and bullets, and a blank cheque from western countries (primarily the US.) What does Hamas have again? Guns, rockets, tunnels. Guerrilla warfare. This is no war, which would require having 2 militaries. This is genocide. And it didn’t start Oct 7.
What do you think about the 200 Palestinians that were killed, and thousands that had their kneecaps blown out by Israeli snipers, during the peaceful, Great March Of Return protests in 2018/19?
https://www.un.org/unispal/document/two-years-on-people-injured-and-traumatized-during-the-great-march-of-return-are-still-struggling/
And what does it say to you that IDF soldiers have testified in the Knesset that they were ordered not to patrol the wall between 520am and 9am on Oct 7? And they were ordered to use the Hannibal Directive, to shoot their own? Forensic evidence shows us that Hamas was responsible for about 600-800 of those deaths, and the IDF intentionally allowed and worsened the attack in order to justify everything that has come since.
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/08/01/752231/Evidence-grows-that-Israel-let-Oct-7-happen-to-justify-Gaza-invasion
https://thecradle.co/articles/israeli-soldier-reveals-strange-order-to-cancel-gaza-border-patrols-on-7-oct
Thank you for this post. Recently I have been reflecting on this situation and I concluded that war doesn’t start with bullets it begins with us thinking others are different from us. It starts with us seeing ourselves as “Better than” when in fact the very thing that we are attempting to annihilate is something deep in us. A reflection we do not like.
To stop the war is to come back to love and compassion. For self and by extension for all around us.
Gigi have a look at images of October 7 2023 in Israel. I can suggest some websites or even telegram channels. Or youtube video. What should be the response to a barbaric massacre ? Which was what Yoav Galant was talking about. As for this propagandist post ? I will not talk about American issues because I am not American. But I am Jewish and my family lives in Israel and I will not let this man spread lies to his million followers ! Not happening ! He needs some holocaust education! How dare he talk about Anne Frank and put words in her mouth. She was murdered by the same barbaric evil
Forces that pushed Hamas to murder babies and women and old people in Israel on October 7 ! If Anne Frank had been able to escape to Palestine she d be alive now ! This message sent to millions is equivalent to nazi Goebbels propaganda ! This will not stay unanswered! Disgusting
Thank you for sharing this, I as a jew find this article disturbing,
Hamas was wrong to kill on October 7. Does that justify murdering over 60,000 Palestinians, most of them innocent women, children and older people. ?? Now Israeli troops are shooting and killing people trying to get food. Millions are starving.
when you pick up a weapon, you are no longer innocent, when you hide guns in school, hosptials, mosques, you are no longer innocent. IDF gave out millions of tons of aids, why are the Gazen starving when Hamas members shown on news videos are plump and overweight?
Yes!!!! So true.. thank you for bringing the truth.
October 7 was not “wrong,” it was mass atrocity against civilians. And Israel is not targeting Palestinians for being Palestinian. Israel is targeting Hamas, who hides inside civilian areas and uses families as shields. Every innocent life lost is tragic and it breaks us too, but the responsibility lies with the group that has ruled Gaza for nearly 20 years, stealing aid, digging tunnels under schools and hospitals, and promising to repeat October 7 again and again.
It is dangerous misinformation to say Israel is “murdering” 60,000 people. Words like that erase the truth of Hamas’s strategy and spread hate against Jews worldwide. If we want Palestinians to eat, to live in safety, and to build a future, the first step is ending Hamas’s control. Otherwise, both Israelis and Palestinians will continue to suffer.
Thank you for saying this. This article is very disturbing and creates even more anti-semitism.
Yes Gigi every thing start with “thinking”. The problem of any type of murder start with what is in the brain and our conditioning. Anger is the source of disorder. Enormous amount of vengeance in our brain. So how are we going to clean this brain , with all this memories of hatred , sufferances,…how do we start? If anger is gone then there is a place for compassion. Love , compassion is INTELLIGENCE…but how to clean the “thinking process” with this awful memories and desire to destroy.
I hear the call for love and compassion, and I agree that in the deepest sense, peace begins with recognizing our shared humanity. At the same time, it is important to be very clear about what is happening here. This war did not begin because Israelis “saw themselves as better than” or because we projected something we dislike in ourselves. It began because Hamas, an organization whose founding charter openly calls for the murder of Jews, launched a brutal massacre on October 7 that included rape, mutilation, and the killing of children and families.
When millions of people are told that both sides are equally reflecting each other’s shadow, it erases the reality that one side is fighting to exist and the other has declared its mission is to annihilate us. That kind of framing might sound spiritual, but it is dangerous. It tells the world that Jewish lives lost to terror are not really about terror, but about some universal lesson. That dehumanizes the victims and gives cover to those who want more violence.
Yes, love and compassion are vital. But love without truth is empty. Real compassion means naming the ideology that fuels genocide and rejecting it clearly, not glossing over it as a mirror of our own flaws. If we truly want peace, we have to begin with honesty: Israelis long for peace, but Hamas has built a culture of hate and murder. Pretending otherwise is not compassion, it is misinformation that endangers us all.
Hi Vishen, thanks for this email. Absolutely point on. We need to stand united not only to defend the human rights already established by the UN, but to absolutely amplify the UN to include all the nations in the globe.
The internet can be the most powerful tool to do this and promote love where tyrants promote polarity.
Thank you for lending your voice and audience to this end.
With love
I also want to see human rights defended everywhere. But part of defending them is refusing to spread misinformation that equates Israel with tyrants. Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005, and Hamas took over with the goal of destroying Jews, not building peace. When millions hear only half the story, it fuels hate against Jewish people and erases the reality of Hamas’s crimes. True unity can only grow when truth is spoken, even when it is uncomfortable.
I despair for my country. IF we have elections again that aren’t a sham, I fear we are stuck with this authoritarian ideology for some time. I struggle to understand how anyone, any group of people can be so purposefully cruel…then or now!
I feel the same despair when I see cruelty, but it is very important to be clear about where it is coming from. On October 7, Hamas carried out atrocities against Israeli civilians that were deliberate and calculated. Since then they have continued to hide behind their own people, using families as shields. Israel is not perfect, but to equate its fight for survival with the ideology of those who openly call for the extermination of Jews is dangerous misinformation. It spreads to millions and puts Jewish lives everywhere at risk. Cruelty must be named honestly if we want to stop it.
Love seeing this being expressed here on such a powerful platform. The comparison between the two regimes is in place for sure and they were best friends meaning: nazis and zionists and they both engineered the holocaust and the zionists also engineered a big part of the narrative after it as well. It is time to stand against these big systems that in one form express through genocide but in many other ways are controlling us also through media, medicine, fashion and many other outlets
Such a powerful platform has some responsibility for its contents. A shallow, unaccurate chey-picking facts is exactly the opposite.
🩷 same!
Thank you for using your platform to call out injustice, and to clearly show how history repeats itself, if we allow it to. It is up to all of us, to collectively stand up against tyranny and inhumanity. No one is coming to save us. The future of the world is in our hands (and voices).
I am grateful for the courage and clarity you have modeled for all your students.
Well said ! You will probably lose lots of your Israely customers now but it needed to be said !
Such a disgusting email. You talk about unity yet sow division! Pushing you political agenda is wrong on this platform! Joe Biden called black men super predators and Didn’t want his kids growing up in a racial jungle..his words. Where is the contempt and uproar when he was president?? How dare you send me a email like this.
How dare you speak against someone using their voice to speak their words? Silencing someone, even with your abhorrent views, isn’t the way forward. Find another place to take your fascism.
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You are so right! How dare he!
You are very confusing. Hope your rage subsides, but your statement makes no sense. Especially since comments can’t silence anyone… Hope you’re ok..
When millions of people in Gaza face a human-caused famine and there are many bone-thin children dying due to starvation, that’s not a political agenda. This blog post is a basic call for human decency.
Very well said, thank you
Pure evil.
When did you last visit Valerie? I’d love to know how you have such precise information.
pff stop believing antisemitic propaganda ! why no Hamas quote in this blog ? because I can list pages of their vile nazi propaganda quotes ! selective indignation and lies as usual… disgusting ! he needs to retract and remove !
Oh please….you just believe the propaganda? Those children in the NYT had genetic issues. There is TONS of aid just waiting to be delivered but the UN is stopping it. And Hamas steal it anyway for their fighters. I can tell that Mind Valley has turned your once smart brain to mush. Too bad.
Thank you Dale for saying what we ALL should! Keep your political opinions to yourself!
He is basically saying that when you see others being dehumanized by political power, vote the other way. A big point he is making is that it doesn’t matter where the bad deeds come from. What matters are the deeds themselves. When Republicans dehumanize the other, stand against them. When Democrats dehumanize the other, STAND against them. That’s what it means to have values. In today’s culture, people -and media especially- justify their own side and blame the other, no matter what they do. It works like a game where the only goal is defeating the opponent, even if that means harming innocent people.
This Vishen thinks he is a “leader” or “guru” …. there are more intelligent people out there. He must realise that! Vishen’s political views are not only wrong but criminal too Because he has a huge platform created on different subjects and he decided to spread hate and shows support for criminals and terrorists on this platform! So false pretences to splash his leftist wrong propaganda based on lies!
Totally agree with you!! The way Vishen manipulates people in this community is absolut disgusting!
Vishen, while I respect your political viewpoint, I would encourage you to stay in your lane of personal development.
Vishen’s contribution to helping humanity shouldn’t ignore how we organize our societies (i.e. politics). If his comments / article ruffle your feathers, I invite you to have the courage to look further into that..
YES!
if you think this man is helping humanity you have a weird idea of how to help humanity. And it is not by spreading lies about Israel and pushing hate against the Jews… he clearly needs more than a trip to Amsterdam to understand the holocaust. And also he needs to forget all the lies about Israel he was taught in Indonesia and learn real history. Israel is not the nazis and this comparison is textbook antisemitic. Today Anne Frank would have been murdered by Hamas if she had lived in one of the kibbutz. In her journal she talks about going to Palestine, that would have saved her. SO stop putting words in the mouths of Holocaust victims it is sooooo disrespectful and stop talking about Genocide in Gaza because it is blood libel. Jews are not Nazis ! enough !
Disgusting is ignoring and enabling the genocide, injustice and hatred that has infected humanity. Biden did say those things in what the 70s, seeing as we are in a personal development community do you think its possible he’s changed? trump is racist and the president now, its him and his administration making ice kidnap people including citizens and putting them in concentration camps, not Biden
Agree
Glad to see someone else calling this out. This is not leadership. Forcing your political views on your membership in such an insidious way is actually disturbing.
Exactly. I cancelled my membership because of his misguided political, misguided religious and misguided ideological rhetoric.
Great Yes Brilliant said.
Exactly. Thank you for saying that, Frank. Don’t use your venue to push political issues. That is not what we pay for.
humanity is part of the personal development. so what are you talking about?
Agree with Frank
Isn’t that so typical. Stay in your lane. Shut your mouth. Don’t have an opinion. If we can’t voice our observations, what is the point of having a platform?
Thank you for this powerful and beautifully written call to awakening and action. It is needed.
I agree. I took as in Amsterdam this summer and the legacy of Anne Frank must live on in our hearts minds and deeds. Dr.Louise Stanger http://www.allaboutinterventions.com