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My name is Eitan Chitayat. And #IMTHATJEW

This has been simmering with me for a while.
And I’ve been wondering when would be the right time to let it out.

The time is now.

Last year, after the Charlie Hebdo massacre went down in France, radical Islamic terrorists entered a kosher supermarket and gunned down innocent Jewish shoppers who were just out to buy some groceries. They were killed because they were Jewish – no other reason. The world remained largely silent.

And look at anti-Semitism now. It’s 2015 and it’s everywhere you look. In the streets. In the media. In the classroom. It’s practically en vogue.

Is this really what we’ve come to?

Lest any Jew forgets – because of all the violence directed at us, the hatred, the incitement to harm and kill, the vile words, the missiles, the rockets, the knives, the rocks, the deafening silence of the world that we all feel right now – we should be proud of our heritage, accomplishments and spirit. Just like anyone else on this planet. And we shouldn’t be shy about it.

Rise up, speak up and keep your chins up. We'll get through this because we love life and we're strong and smart and funny and beautiful and talented and resilient and educated and hard-working and positive and so much more.

We’re okay. In fact, we’re more than okay.
We rock. And here's a little reminder.

Love and peace to all.
#IMTHATJEW

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Eitan Chitayat is the founder of natie.com, a boutique global agency that specializes in branding, animation, storytelling, and design. Throughout his 15-year career he's received a bevy of advertising awards and shares the credit with the creative partners he finds himself lucky to work with everyday. He's spoken at events in NYC, Barcelona, Zurich, Berlin, Budapest and Jerusalem amongst other cities, and recently served as a jury member on advertising's prestigious One Show. He's also the co-founder of the5percent.club. He's lived in Hong-Kong, London, Tel Aviv, New York and Boston.

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