Nowhere Feels Safe: How Israel’s Gaza War Sparked a Global Backlash against Zionists

Following the Al-Aqsa Flood operation in 2023 — and the brutal, disproportionate reaction of Netanyahu’s government — a wave of global outrage has engulfed the world.
Across continents, millions have taken to the streets, rallying against Israel’s crimes in Gaza.

Public perception of Zionists has shifted dramatically. Once able to travel freely and confidently across the globe, Zionist Jews now face hostility, protests, and open rejection. For decades, this group portrayed itself as a perpetual victim; yet, after months of televised atrocities in Gaza, that narrative has collapsed.

Rising Fear among Israelis Abroad

According to recent reports, over 80% of Israelis now feel unsafe while traveling overseas.
Cases of harassment at airports, hotels, and public venues have surged.
In September 2025, the Israeli regime issued an official travel warning — a clear reflection of the growing insecurity that has gripped its society.
What the devout followers of Zionism are now experiencing stands in stark contrast to the promises once made by the founders of this extremist ideology.
Many Jews around the world had embraced Zionism with the hope of restoring their historical dignity and earning global respect.
Yet, after years of relentless genocidal campaigns against the Palestinians, global public perception has dramatically shifted — turning sympathy into anger and moral distance.

As a result, the sense of insecurity among Zionists worldwide has intensified.
Reports of violent incidents targeting Zionists have emerged from major cities across the globe.
Tourist destinations are witnessing a growing wave of hostility toward Israeli travelers, exposing the depth of global resentment against the Zionist project.

Radical Jews who once traveled freely and openly expressed their beliefs are now facing a new reality: they can no longer do so safely.
Prime Minister Netanyahu’s official travel warning serves as a symbolic acknowledgment of this decline — a recognition that those who long portrayed themselves as eternal victims are now struggling to find safety in the very world whose compassion they once sought to exploit.

A significant increase in reports of anti-Zionist measures in Europe, Britain (400%), France (1000%), and Germany (over 5000 incidents) have seen a record number of anti-Semitic incidents. Reports of discrimination in public transportation have also emerged in Eastern Europe. The rising statistics of anti-Jewish actions in Europe, in a way, carry the message that Europe, which until recently was a 100% supporter of Zionists in the world, no longer has a brotherly pact with them due to the genocidal situation created by Netanyahu's government in occupied Palestine. This message is painful for European governments that are entirely at the disposal of the Zionist government. In the past two years, the people of European countries have repeatedly pressured their respective governments regarding their support for the Netanyahu government through the massive demonstrations they have organized. Changing the public opinion, which has been strongly opposed to the violent actions of the Zionists in recent years, is not easily achievable.

In summary, it must be said that Netanyahu's government, with its brutal actions in the genocide of the Palestinian people, has destroyed the credibility that the founders of the Zionist movement dreamed of at the time of its establishment. The feeling of insecurity that Jews around the world have been enduring since the events of October 7th is somewhat unprecedented. At the media level, when a domino effect of anti-Semitism occurs in different cities around the world, the butterfly effect of this event is repeated in far-flung parts of the world. The decline in the social capital of the Zionists in the medium term could cause many immigrants living in occupied Palestine to flee their homes and lead to a significant increase in the statistics of reverse migration of Jews from occupied Palestine. The reality in today's world shows that there is no longer any place of absolute security for Zionists anywhere in the world—a situation that never existed in the imagination of Western governments. In the future, we must see how long the global wave of discrimination and the feeling of insecurity that Zionists are experiencing worldwide will last.

Translated by Ashraf Hemmati from the original Persian article written by Amirali Yeganeh

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