A growing number of woke communists around the world are fervently claiming that Benjamin Netanyau is not Jewish. The dirty work is handed over to social networks and little by little it attracts more followers and corporate media. They argue passionately that the Prime Minister of the state of Israel is "really just a Polish foreigner with no historic connection to the land".
The mother of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Tzila Segal, was an Israeli-born Jew. Her family had roots in Lithuania and had relocated to Mandatory Palestine via the United States. The issue is resolved at the outset. A son of a Jewish mother is a Jew.
Claims that Netanyahu is not Jewish based on his paternal family's original surname, Mileikowsky. When the family immigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1920, his grandfather, the great Zionist rabbi Nathan Mileikowsky, Hebraized the family name to Netanyahu, meaning "God has given" in Hebrew.
The background of the family name highlights historical realities rather than a hidden identity. Many early Israeli leaders adopted Hebrew surnames for similar ideological and cultural reasons—including Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, born David Grün.
Prime Minister Netanyahu's family traces its bloodline directly back to the ancient Israelites. In discussions, such as with commentator Dinesh D'Souza, he has asserted a genealogical connection extending to the biblical figures of the ancient land. Netanyahu is also a direct descendant from the 18th-century Talmudic scholar known as the Vilna Gaon.
It is an old Soviet tactic well known by corrupt regimes of attacking the Jews they seek to destroy by saying that they are not Jews. Ultimately they claim that the targets are "bad Jews" in the sense that they do not respect the "Jewish religion", itself defined to the liking of the communists themselves.
Benjamin Netanyahu's family has rendered great service to the Jewish people, from his grandfather (Rabbi Nathan Milikovsky), to his father (the historian Benjamin Netanyahu), to his brother (Yoni Netanyahu), and to the Prime Minister himself. Communist tactics are the same always and everywhere.
