People Love Dead Jews – And That’s the Problem

 

Dara Horn’s People Love Dead Jews rips the mask off the pious West. It’s a book that screams the truth nobody dares say out loud: the world loves Jews when they’re victims, not when they’re alive, strong, and armed. Horn shows how “Never Again” is just a slogan for cowards. The West builds Holocaust museums, holds candlelit vigils, and pats itself on the back for feeling sad about six million murdered Jews. But when seven million living Jews defend themselves in Israel, the same people cheer Hamas rockets, excuse campus pogroms, and scream “genocide” at the only Jewish army in the world. This is the obscene hypocrisy Horn exposes. Anne Frank is turned into a feel-good saint of “tolerance”, while the living Anne Franks of Israel are told they deserve slaughter for “colonising.” The dead Jew is acceptable. The living Jew, with power and pride, is not. Western elites fetishise Jewish suffering because it makes them feel moral. But their morality collapses when faced with Jews who refuse to be victims. That’s why the Left calls Israel “apartheid” and Jews “white colonisers.” That’s why antisemitism is repackaged as “anti-Zionism” and given academic respectability. Horn’s fury is restrained, but the message is volcanic: the world wants Jews meek and dead, not defiant and free. And that’s why Horn’s book matters. It forces us to face a brutal reality: memorials don’t protect Jews. Candles don’t stop Hamas. Slogans don’t deter Iran. Only strength, real, unapologetic strength, keeps Jews alive. The lesson for the West is simple: Stop fetishising Jewish corpses and start defending living Jews. The lesson for Jews is even simpler: Stop asking for permission to exist. Get strong. Get armed. And never apologise for surviving. Because the West doesn’t need more dead Jews. It needs living Jews who scare their enemies.