Amy Caplan Guterman🟧✡️🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦

There’s an age old adage of “innocent until proven guilty”. Most people, at least in the West, are quite familiar with the term and its meaning. It’s a concept in law, that suspects are to be presumed to be innocent, unless and until they are actually found to be guilty in a court of law. This principle is intended to put the burden of proof on the prosecution, or the accuser, which must present compelling evidence to prove the guilt of the accused beyond a reasonable doubt. Reading an article about a crime, you’ll often see words like “alleged” and “suspect”, to help drive home the point. Since Oct 7, 2023, I’ve discovered that Israel is not entitled to that same presumption of innocence. Jews, are not entitled to that same presumption of innocence. No, the principle that seems to apply for Israel and Jews, is guilty until proven guilty. Now, what does “guilty until proven guilty” mean? When something happens, everyone presumes Israel is guilty, because Hamas and the propaganda says they are. Examples include the hospital bombing that killed 500 people, the strike that killed the 7 aid works and the Rafah strike that killed 45 civilians. In all cases, Israel was blamed instantly. Israel was condemned. Headlines were made as big and as loud as possible, world leaders couldn’t get their announcements out quickly enough to condemn Israel. Investigations happened, Israel looked into what happened, how it happened, and presented the truth to the world, even if that truth showed that Israel messed up, or that Israel was guilty. But the truth didn’t matter. The fact that the hospital bombing was a misfire by Palestinian Islamic Jihad that hit a parking lot and not the hospital, and that about 30 were killed and not 500 – these facts were irrelevant. Because Israel had already been determined to be guilty by the international court of public opinion. This is guilty until proven guilty. Any corrections, if main stream media bothered to make them at all, were tiny and hidden. Any revised statements, if global leaders bothered to make them at all, were quiet and hidden. No matter what the evidence shows, no matter what the facts show – no matter what actually happened – Israel is found to be guilty. People often say “where’s the evidence”, “show me the evidence”, and as soon as you show it to them, you’re a “Jewish liar” because “Jews always lie”. Apparently, we too, are guilty until proven guilty. When one is guilty until proven guilty, there’s no pathway for them to ever end up in any other state. They start as guilty. They’ll stay that way until they’re proven guilty. This is the fight that Israel, Zionists and the Jewish people are fighting. An ideology that has pre-determined that every single thing is our fault. Every single thing in the past, is the fault of Israel and Zionists and Jews. Every single thing in the present, is the fault of Israel and Zionists and Jews. And every single thing that will ever happen, will be the fault of Israel and Zionists and Jews Regardless how hard we try to meet the standard the world holds it to, we seem to always be, guilty, until proven guilty.