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The Ummah Doctrine: Islamism’s Global Call To War Against Jews And Zionism

What began as a spiritual community of believers has been weaponized by Hamas, Hezbollah and their allies into a transnational ideology that casts Israel, and Jews everywhere, as the eternal enemy of 1.8 billion Muslims.

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WINNIPEG – The wordย Ummahย sounds benign to Western ears. In classical Islam, it simply means “community,” the global fellowship of Muslims united by faith in Allah and the Prophet Muhammad, transcending race, tribe, or nationality. The Qurโ€™an speaks ofย Ummahย as a collective on the path of righteousness. For centuries, this was a spiritual ideal of mutual support among believers.โ€‹

No longer. In the hands of Hamas, Hezbollah, the Muslim Brotherhood, and their global network of Islamists,ย Ummahย has mutated into a militant doctrine that paints the State of Israel, and by extension, Jews everywhere, as the primal enemy of 1.8 billion Muslims. This is not a theological happenstance. It is a calculated ideological weapon, designed to sanctify jihad against the Jewish state as a sacred duty binding every Muslim from Jakarta to Johannesburg.โ€‹

From Spiritual Fellowship To Civilizational Crusade

Hamas spells it out coldly in its founding covenant: the “Zionist project” is “the enemy of the Arab and Islamic Ummah.” Israel is not merely a neighbor to be negotiated with, but a malignant growth that threatens the very survival of Muslim civilization. Hezbollah echoes this, calling Israel “the ulcerous growth of world Zionism” lodged in the Islamic heartland. For these groups, the Palestinian cause is no local grievance; it is “the central cause for the Arab and Islamic Ummah,” a rallying cry that demands total mobilization.โ€‹

This rhetoric has consequences. When Hamas murdered 1,200 Jews on October 7, 2023, its leaders did not frame it as a tactical strike. They called it defense of theย Ummah, a collective response to supposed Zionist aggression against the global Muslim body. The blood of Gaza civilians becomes expendable currency in this narrative because victory for theย Ummahย transcends individual lives. Jews, meanwhile, are dehumanized as agents of a cosmic threat.โ€‹

Antisemitism Laundered Through Antizionism

Islamist ideologues like Sayyid Qutb and Hassan al-Banna laid the groundwork, blending selective hadiths portraying Jews as Islam’s “eternal enemies” with modern conspiracy theories about Zionist world domination. Qutb’sย Our Struggle Against the Jews, yes, he beat Hitler to that phrase, argues that Jews have opposed every prophet, including Muhammad, and now menace humanity through Zionism. This is not a critique of Israeli policy. It is a medieval blood libel rebooted for the satellite age.โ€‹

Theย Ummahย concept bridges the gap. By declaring Israel an assault on the entire Muslim nation, Islamists erase any distinction between antizionism and antisemitism. “Zionists” became shorthand for Jews tout court. When crowds in London or Dearborn chant “From the river to the sea,” or “Globalize the Intifada,” they invokeย Ummahย solidarity, a moral imperative to eradicate the Jewish state because its existence wounds the collective Muslim soul.โ€‹

Hizbullah’s charter makes it explicit: Zionism is a “racist… aggressive… expansionist… and colonialist” force using “the banner of pure humanity” as cover while plotting the ummah’s subjugation. Hamas adds that Jews use Freemasons, Rotary Clubs, and Lions Clubs as fronts for their “intrigue.” This is not 1948 Arab nationalism. It is Protocols of the Elders of Zion with Qur’anic citations.โ€‹

Global Jihad In The Name Of Ummah Unity

The genius of the Ummah weaponization lies in its transnational reach. A terror attack in Jerusalem becomes every Muslim’s fight. A synagogue vandalized in Winnipeg implicates “Zionist influence” everywhere. Pro-Hamas rallies in Toronto demand that the Ummah rise, because silence equals betrayal of the global body. Iranian ayatollahs invoke Ummah to justify arming proxies from Yemen to Lebanon, all aimed at Israel’s annihilation.โ€‹

This ideology thrives in the West. Islamist preachers in Europe and North America tell Muslim youth that supporting Palestine means defending theย Ummahย against Jewish perfidy. University encampments becomeย Ummahย battlegrounds, where divestment from Israel is jihad lite. The result? A 124% surge in Canadian antisemitism since October 7, with Jews targeted not for politics, but as stand-ins for the Zionist foe. โ€‹

Jewish students hide kippot. Synagogues fortify doors. Elderly congregants avoid public menorahs. This is the Ummah doctrine at work: a religious command to make Jewish life untenable everywhere until Israel falls.

The Zionist Response: Clarity Over Compromise

Zionism’s answer must match this clarity. Israel is not the aggressor against 1.8 billion Muslims. It is the nation-state of the Jewish people in our ancestral homeland, including Judea and Samaria, the biblical heartland where Jews have lived continuously for 3,000 years. Theย Ummahย narrative inverts victim and aggressor, casting the 900,000 Jews expelled from Arab lands as colonial “settlers” while ignoring Arab armies that sought Israel’s annihilation in 1948, 1967, and 1973.

Pro-Israel advocates must expose this fraud relentlessly. Every “Free Palestine” chant is a vote for Hamas’s charter, which vows never to recognize Israel and sees peace treaties as tactical pauses. Every “Ummah” invocation at anti-Israel rallies ignores that most Muslim states, the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan, have made peace through the Abraham Accords, proving Islamistย Ummahย unity is a fiction when prosperity beckons.โ€‹

A Call To Jewish Resilience

Canadian Jews know this threat intimately. From swastikas on Winnipeg synagogues to “Go back to Russia” taunts in Bathurst Street protests, theย Ummahย ideology fuels local hatred. Yet Zionism teaches resilience. Israel thrives despite encirclement. Jewish communities endure despite pogroms.

Theย Ummahย weaponized against us is no different from Amalek or Haman, a timeless foe dressed in modern slogans. Our response: build stronger synagogues, bolder federations, fiercer hasbara. Support Israel’s victories in Gaza, Iran, and Lebanon. Demand that Canada designate Hamas glorifiers as hate criminals, not free speech martyrs.

The Islamists want a clash of civilizations where theย Ummahย crushes the Jewish state. Zionism says no. We are the indigenous nation of our land, the guarantors of our future. Let theย Ummahย rage. Israel endures. The Jewish people triumph.


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Ron East
Ron East
Born in Jerusalem and raised in Metulla, Israel, Ron brings a global perspective shaped by years living in Germany, South Africa, and now Canada. A proud veteran of the Israel Defense Forces, he has worked as an educator, community leader, and public speaker, publishing newsletters, award-winning magazines, and online platforms throughout his career. As the founder and Publishing Director of TheJ.Ca, Ron is dedicated to advancing thoughtful, principled conservative values while amplifying the pro-Israel, Zionist voice of the Jewish community in Canada and beyond.

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  1. THREATENING TO ANNIHILATE JEWS

    * Exodus 1:9-15 (by Pharoah).

    * Esther 3:13. (by Haman)

    * Ca 135 BCE (The Roman Emperor Hadrian imposed prohibitions that were intended to uproot religion [such as the prohibition of circumcision, the Sabbath, and the ordination of sages]. The Sages describe this period as a struggle for survival under the threat of complete annihilation for the observance of the Torah commandments).

    * 167โ€“164 BCE (historical decree by the Syrian-Greeks during the Seleucid persecution, where they demanded Jews publicly deny their faith by writing an explicit declaration of apostasy [before ‘Hanukkah’).

    {Not an exhausted list. But some highlights}

    * Spring of 1096 (Crusaders first attacked Jewish communities in the during the First Crusade: they marched through Europe toward the Holy Land, they carried out the Rhineland Massacres. An estimated 5,000 to 10,000 Jews were killed or driven to mass suicide — to avoid forced conversion — in German and French cities like Mainz, Worms, and Cologne).

    * 1099 (The Siege of Jerusalem by the second Crusades: When the Crusaders successfully took the Holy Land, they trapped and massacred the city’s Jewish populations inside the main synagogue and the wider city).

    * 1144-1946 (Blood Libels: The first recorded blood libel in Europe occurred in 1144 in Norwich, England. It began after a 12-year-old boy named William was found murdered; a local monk later fabricated a claim that Jewish residents ritually tortured and murdered him.
    While the myth’s origins trace back to anti-Jewish writings in the second century BCE, the Norwich incident established the medieval archetype of the blood libel.
    The last major, widely documented blood libel that resulted in mass violence occurred on July 4, 1946, during the Kielce pogrom in Poland after tge Holocaust. Historians estimate that there were between 100 and 150 recorded cases of blood libel that directly resulted in violence, torture, and massacres against Jewish communities between 1144 and 1946. Countless other unrecorded rumors, trials, and local pogroms took place during this 800-year span).

    * 1343 (Roman Emperor Louis VI in , โ€˜You belong to us, body and belongings, and we can dispose of them and do with you as we pleaseโ€™).

    * 1348 – 1351 (Jews were blamed for causing the Black Death. Christians falsely accused Jewish communities of poisoning public wells and water supplies to spread the bubonic plague).

    * March 31, 1492, (Edicto de Granada: by Catholic Monarchs Isabella I and Ferdinand II. It mandated that all unconverted Jewsโ€”approximately 150,000 to 200,000 peopleโ€”be expelled from Spain or face execution, completing the religious unification of the Iberian Peninsula).

    * December 5, 1496: Expulsion from Portugal King Manuel I issued a decree of expulsion for Jews in Portugal. However, to prevent economic flight, he quickly banned Jewish emigration, resulting in mass forced baptism and birthing a new population of crypto-Jews who practiced in secret.

    * 1506: The Lisbon Massacre.
    Over three days in April, a violent Catholic mob murdered between 2,000 and 4,000 “New Christians” (recently converted Jews) in Lisbon, looting their property and burning their bodies.

    * 1516: The Venetian GhettoThe government of Venice established the Ghetto Nuovo, requiring all Jews to live in an enclosed, guarded quarter of the city. This introduced the term “ghetto” and initiated a new era of urban segregation.

    * 1543 (Martin Luther, a foundational figure of the Protestant Reformation, published his highly antisemitic treatise. It advocated for the burning of synagogues, destruction of prayer books, and forced expulsion, deeply influencing later German cultural antisemitism).

    * July 1555 (Papal Bull Cum Nimis Absurdum: Pope Paul IV issued a papal bull confining all Jews living in the Papal States to segregated, walled ghettos. It stripped them of property rights, restricted them to selling second-hand goods, and required them to wear distinctive yellow badges).

    * September 1648: (‘Tach veTat’ – The Khmelnytsky Uprising. During a massive Cossack rebellion against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Hundreds of communities were destroyed in what is recognized as one of the largest single massacres of Jews in European history. Jewish chronicles from that period cite very high numbers of approximately 100,000 to 600,000 dead.).

    * April 1819 (The Hep-Hep Riots: Anti-Jewish riots and violent pogroms erupted across the German Confederation. Mobs attacked Jews in response to emerging emancipation laws and early efforts to integrate Jewish citizens into European civil society).

    * 1897 to 1903 (The notorious antisemitic forgery known as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was produced in Russia. The forged document was created by agents of the Okhrana (the tsarist secret police), who plagiarized and adapted earlier 19th-century political satires. It has been used to incite and for murder ever since).

    * 1918โ€“1921 (The pogroms in Ukraine: In the most severe waves of violence known to European Jews before the Holocaust, estimates range from 50,000 to 200,000 Jews were murdered).ย 

    * 1903 (Kishinev Riots: In this event, 49 Jews were murdered, hundreds were seriously injured, and enormous property was destroyed).ย 

    * 1905โ€“1906 (Odessa and Chernigov Pogrom: A wave of brutal riots in the area of โ€‹โ€‹the settlement, in which hundreds to a thousand Jews were killed in various locations).ย 

    * September 16, 1919 (Hitler’s Gemlich Letter: “removal of the Jews altogether…”)

    * February 24, 1920 (The Nazi Party 25-Point Programme: Officially published by Adolf Hitler, Point 4 declared that Jews are explicitly stripped of citizenship and the right to exist as part of the nation, laying the legal groundwork for their systematic removal).

    * April 1920 (Arab mob in the Holy land at Nebi Musa massacre: “We will drink the blood of the Jews” [Arabic: Nashrab dam al-Yahud] and “Muhammadโ€™s religion was born with the sword” – after instigated by Islamic clerics).

    * January 30, 1939 (Reichstag Speech)

    * December 18, 1941 (Heinrich Himmlerโ€™s Logbook: Following a meeting with Hitler regarding the Jewish population in occupied Soviet territories, SS Chief Himmler noted the direct operational directive: “als Partisanen auszurotten” [“annihilate them as partisans”]).

    * January 20, 1942 (The Wannsee Conference): SS General Reinhard Heydrich formally coordinated the “Final Solution” [Endlรถsung], explicitly mapping out the systematic deportation and industrial murder of all 11 million European Jews.

    * November 21, 1941 (Arab-Palestine Islam leader Mufti – Hitler meeting: ‘the Jews are yours’)

    * March 1, 1944 (The Muft’s address via Nazi Radio Berlin [Radio Zeesen]: “Arabs, rise as one man and fight for your sacred rights. Kill the Jews wherever you find them; this pleases Allah, history, and religion. This saves your honor. Allah is with you”).

    * September 29, 1947 (we’ll “drench the soil of our beloved country with the last drop of our blood” – Jamal Husseini)

    * 1947-1948 (Arab League’s Azzam on October 11, 1947; Fawzi Kaukji – 1947-8, and Muslim Brotherhood on Aug 1, 1948: throwing the “Jews into the sea”)

    * March 8, 1965 (President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt: In a speech to the Arab National Assembly, Nasser stated, “We aim at the destruction of the State of Israel. The immediate objective is the total annihilation of Israel”).

    * May 27, 1967 (“Our basic objective will be the destruction of Israel. The Arab people want to fight . . . The mining of Sharm el Sheikh is a confrontation with Israel. Adopting this measure obligates us to be ready to embark on a general war with Israel.โ€ โ€“ Nasser).

    * May 31, 1967 (โ€œThe existence of Israel is an error which must be rectified. This is our opportunity to wipe out the ignominy which has been with us since 1948. Our goal is clear โ€“ to wipe Israel off the map. We shall, God willing, meet in Tel Aviv and Haifa.โ€ โ€“ President Abdel Rahman Aref of Iraq).

    * June 1, 1967 (PLO’s Ahmad Shukeiri: “none of them will survive”).

    * February 20, 1970 (Muammar Gaddafi of Libya: In a public address broadcasted via Cairo Radio, Gaddafi stated, “The only solution for the Palestinian crisis is the destruction of Israel… The Jews must be wiped out from the map of the Middle East”).

    * August 7, 1979 (Islamic Revolution’s Ayatollah Khomeini – addressed Muslims worldwide and called for the eradication of Israel, which he characterized as a “cancerous tumor” that needed to be cut out).

    * August 18, 1988 (The “Pakestinian” Hamas Covenant Quote: “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.” – Article 7).

    * January 30, 1996 (“We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is spilt” – PLO’s Yasser Arafat).

    * December 14, 2000 – 2025 (Islamic Republic’s Ali Khamenei – referred to Israel as a “cancerous tumor” that must be removed, and has publicly stated that the “Zionist regime is a true cancer tumor that must be excised ..” Such utterness on: February 3, 2012, June 3, 2018, May 22, 2020, May 17, 2025).

    * May 25, 2002 (Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrallah: During a speech in Beirut, Nasrallah explicitly stated, “If Jews all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide”)

    * October 26, 2005 (President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran): In a speech at the “World Without Zionism” conference in Tehran, Ahmadinejad quoted Ayatollah Khomeini, explicitly stating that “Israel must be wiped off the map.”

    * December 12, 2006 (Iran International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust: Convened by the Iranian government, the conference served as an official state platform explicitly calling for the “dissolution” and total dismantling of the Jewish population center in the Levant).

    * July 12, 2019 (Hamas’ Fathi Hammad called for the eradication of Israelis globally, declaring that “we must attack every Jew on planet Earth โ€“ we must slaughter and kill them.”

    * April 7, 2023 (Sermon by Hamas’ Hamad Al-Regeb – Prayed for the “annihilation” and “paralysis” of the Jews, describing them as “.. like apes and pigs,” and calling for followers to “get to the necks of the Jews.”

    * October 7, 2023 (Hamas Military Commander Command: In a recorded broadcast launching the October 7 massacres, Mohammed Deif called upon armed groups worldwide to join the assault, using the explicit Arabic phrasing “to cleanse the land of its occupiers” and liquidate Jewish targets).

    * October 24, 2023 (Hamas’ Ghazi Hamad stated that Hamas intended to repeat the October 7th attacks “again and again” until Israel is “annihilated.” When asked explicitly if the goal was the complete annihilation of Israel, he replied, “Yes, of course”).

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