There’s an election in Israel today. We know that because we are forced to know everything about that country, spending all our waking hours investigating it and trying to figure out why they are the way they are. I know more about Israel than I know about my own country of birth, and this is the most vile thing they could have done to us. I want to go back to a time when I didn’t have a single thought about them. But alas, because of the Palestinian people, we can no longer allow ourselves the luxury of ignorance.

Let me tell you all about the election today, what the rules are, who the candidates are, and how the Israeli electoral system works:

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Just kidding.

Who gives a fuck?

Nothing will change. You’ll get Netanyahu again, who will continue what he has been doing for 60 years, or you’ll get an XYZ continuing the same path.

You’ll get a genocide, or you’ll get a genocide.

About that genocide

There is a new UN report published by the New York Times stating Israel has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Occupied Palestinian Territory since the ceasefire has been declared.

Israel Has Committed Genocidal Acts in Gaza Since Cease-Fire, U.N. Human Rights Panel Says

“The report, delivered to the U.N. General Assembly, noted that between the cease-fire announced on Oct. 10, 2025, and the end of September 2026, Israeli airstrikes, artillery and gunfire had killed 1,431 Palestinians in Gaza, including 300 children. The report rejected a claim in May by the Board of Peace set up by President Trump that the cease-fire had “largely held.””

The panel also accuses Israel of committing crimes against humanity in the West Bank. Israel condemned the report.

Let’s repeat that:

Israel has continued the genocide of the Palestinian people during a declared and signed “ceasefire” agreement.

And the reporters in front of the Israeli poll places are conducting the exit poll results as I type this, asking Israelis about who they voted for. Almost every answer has to do with Arabs: “I voted for the one that will make sure we don’t see any Arabs here.”

And two days ago, Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted an AI pic of an atomic bomb over; what is that down there, Tel Aviv? It looks more like the Freedom One tower to me. Is he threatening to nuke New York if he loses the election?

Translation of his tweet:

I’m so fucking tired of these people. I’m exhausted by their bloodthirst and how absolutely shamelessly they lie. As if talking can bend reality.

They have been lying for so many centuries that they really actually think words can bend reality.

That’s why you see all their trash influencers still talking their heads off, even though they see the comment section and absolutely everyone on earth taking a piss at them. Well, that, and the 7k.

No apartheid, they say? Violently attacking their Arab citizens of Israel, preventing them from casting the vote? Also, what about 700,000 violent settlers who can vote, but not the Palestinians who live in the same area? “The only democracy in the Middle East.”

We have been breaking down these people for years now, and we can keep repeating it until we’re blue in the face. Nothing will change with this election. The only thing that will change, if Netanyahu loses, is the tone of voice.

This new person, if elected, will be more palatable to a world angered by Netanyahu’s (and his party’s) radical rhetoric while being exactly the same in action, if not worse.

If Netanyahu loses, you can be sure the Zionists’ goal is to put a softer image on more devious plans to come.

Israel will never change, because it was never meant to function as a proper civic state. It was only ever meant to maintain the appearance of one.

Everything that angers you about Israel, its crimes, its inability to live alongside its neighbors, its constant coercion of the world into supporting those crimes, can be traced back to this one quote:

Now go check who said it and who posted it on their website. Free Palestine, until Palestine is free!

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Have you ever seen a “ceasefire” looking like an inferno, where a toddler watches her mother burn to death?

Not a single mainstream media outlet reported on this horror. Once again, it’s up to all of us to inform the masses of what Israel has been committing in Gaza while the entire world pretends there is a “ceasefire.”

By Clash Report:

“A 3-year-old girl watched her mother burn to death after an Israeli airstrike hit their apartment. Maryam Ghanem was found on a bed surrounded by flames and heavy smoke in the Al-Rimal neighborhood, her mother Reem Asaad Awad, 33, burning nearby. Maryam suffered burns and was treated at Al-Shifa Hospital. Her father was already killed earlier in the war — her grandmother is now her only family. Israel claimed the strike targeted a Hamas member but gave no evidence.”

This latest massacre happened on day 1,104 of a genocide. Palestinian people, again and again, had to jump into a fire to save their own people, and they will all be called Hamas in a few weeks’ time.

Israel will not offer any proof to that claim. The world will accept it.

Maryam.

Her name is Maryam Ahmed Ghanem.

Her mother’s name was Reem Awad.

She watched her mother burn to death.

Her father was killed a few months ago, also during the “ceasefire.”

A journalist that saved her is Ali Aljafarawi. Yes, Saleh’s brother. Can you even imagine what the lives of these people amount to, due to Zionism?

Are you beginning to understand the case for the Palestinian resistance by now? No? Start here:

We all have reached the “limits of our ability to put words” to this level of evil. I didn’t put those words together, I took them from Trita Parsi, because I do not have words anymore to describe this level of evil; I used them all.

Does evil have levels?

This is what the Palestinian resistance is fighting. An abyss of evil beyond the limits of human comprehension.

Zionism?

This video below is what Zionism is. Maryam in the hospital, with third-degree burns, the morning after she watched her mother burn to death.

Zionism has nothing to do with the “right of the Jewish people to self-determination and statehood in their ancestral homeland.” Zionism is an racist ideology and a quest for an ethnostate that can only survive by doing this to human beings.

Evil.

When I saw this horror yesterday, I tried to come up with the words horrific enough to describe it. I have used the worst words I could possibly find over the course of the last three years, watching Israel’s war crimes in Gaza and the West Bank.

I don’t have any words that are worse; I have used them all. But Israel keeps committing the worst atrocity after another; how do we follow that with adequate description?

I then went on to commit a crime by asking ChatGPT to give me the right words to describe the unspeakable evil. The one I had no more words for.

This is what it gave me:

Abysmal: evil so deep and profound it seems to have no bottom.

Unimaginable: beyond what the human mind can conceive.

Unthinkable: so morally horrifying that the mind struggles to accept it as possible.

Ineffable: so extreme that language itself fails to describe it.

Abhorrent: so morally repugnant it inspires intense revulsion.

Monstrous: evil so extreme it seems to exceed the bounds of ordinary human cruelty.

Unfathomable: impossible to comprehend the depth or magnitude of it.

Cosmic: on a scale so vast and horrifying that it feels almost beyond human existence.

Eldritch: so horrifying and alien that it feels beyond human understanding, almost otherworldly.

Unconscionable: so morally outrageous that it defies any acceptable standard of human conduct.

Are these words enough to capture what we have seen happen to Maryam, her mother, and nearly a million Palestinians in just the last three years?

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October 7th needs to be the day where you find the courage to delve into the subject of Palestinian resistance. Every day, but especially on this day. And especially all of the people who got involved in this movement later than others.

It’s our duty to have this conversation.

I’m hopeful about the world. Israel grossly underestimated just how many of us refuse to believe that some people are better than other people. Israel worked on Islamophobia as hard as it worked to maintain its stranglehold on Western lands in support of its sick ideology. They unleashed their hell in Gaza, unbothered, not understanding that most people in this world simply refuse to see Muslim and Arab people as lesser human beings, less deserving of life.

Did you ever think about why Palestinian resistance is never allowed to have the airtime anywhere in the West to explain and plead their case? Instead, we have ghouls like Netanyahu, Galant, or Naftali Bennett, alongside all the IDF representatives, tell us what Palestinian resistance wants and plans to do.

They are feeding the world information that is incorrect, on purpose, never allowing the subjugated people to speak for themselves. If you were ever allowed to hear them, you would understand their plight. You would understand why armed resistance becomes necessary when all peaceful means fail. And most people in this world understood it after seeing what Israel has been doing to Palestinian families for three years straight, and 78 years prior.

Most people in this world have a sense of justice and can recognize it, despite centuries of propaganda. The truth always finds a way, and ideologies based on racist, supremacist foundations will always be exposed.

I have done extensive work on the Palestinian resistance for the past three years. A ton of research, and many pieces written on the subject. And I want to share with you the most important parts and the perspective everyone should examine, especially the newcomers who recently joined the support for the Palestinian people and have yet to understand the armed resistance part of this equation.

First of all, everything you have read in the mainstream media about Hamas and October 7th isn’t accurate. Even Israeli media such as Haaretz and numerous others wrote about it. I’ll let you investigate that on your own. Truth is about there.

The core of the Palestinian cause.

Why is the case for the resistance an important conversation we have to have three years into this genocide?

Because the greatest atrocities of the past 40 years have been committed under the guise of a terrorist designation, used as linguistic manipulation to justify Western war crimes. It’s time to move beyond the good West-versus-evil East paradigm of a Marvel superhero movie and awaken to this reality.

People resisting occupation throughout history have been labeled as savages, radicals, and terrorists. If we want to build a better world based on justice, tolerance, and peace, it’s crucial to understand that the designation of terrorism is used as a political label, not a behavioral one.

I watched a real last year that stayed with me even today. It’s by a Palestinian man living in the West, and his message plays exactly into what I’m trying to convey with this article—“Palestinian resistance is the core of the Palestinian cause. Not victimhood.”

Please read it in its entirety:

“It was not 470 days of genocide, it was 470 days of Palestinians resisting their colonizer. And our colonizer reacted with genocide. So if someone were to ask you what happened over the past year and a half in Gaza, the answer should be—Palestinians resisted, and the oppressor responded with genocide. Genocide was a consequence of Palestinians resisting, not the actual event itself.

This is a very important concept for you to digest and drill into your head. Because the core, the foundation of the Palestinian cause is Palestinian resistance which includes armed resistance. The Palestinian cause and the Palestinian people, we would not exist to this day if were not for Palestinians resisting.

West only likes to discuss Palestinians and the Palestinian cause when we are the victims, never when we are heroes, because maintaining this public image of Palestinians only as victims prevents society, prevents the world from remembering what the actual issue is and what the solution to the issue is — the issue being the colonization of our land, and the solution being resisting the colonization.

This is the poison of the West, conditioning the world to think that the solution to problems is charity, peace, and love, and not justice and fighting for freedom.”

We must listen to the Palestinian people when talking about the resistance, not the mainstream media and the Zionist donor class, who are working adamantly to silence their voices. And we must amplify them.

A linguistic manipulation.

Nothing made me more morally nauseated than watching the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, and the use of a terrorism designation by the Western empire as linguistic manipulation to rehabilitate Al Jolani, a designated terrorist affiliated with ISIS and Al-Qaeda—an organization the American government claims is responsible for 9/11—removing the $10 million bounty on his head, while giving him a CNN Western makeover.

A terrorist for hire, all of a sudden, not a terrorist anymore, as he aligns with the American interests in Syria.

Do you recall what was done to Muslims in America post 9/11? Are you even aware? I was in New York, and it was pure mayhem on the streets. A Morrocan Deli owner on my street who became a friend got his store tear-gassed by 1 pm on 9/11. The cars were sliding through my streets with “Nuke ‘em!” sprayed on the windshield. Homeland Security? Guantanamo Bay? Holding people without trial, human rights violations, torture, indefinite detention without due process.

What was it all for? To hypnotize the uninterested MTV generation to fight wars for profit under the guise of freedom and democracy?

A terrorist designation.

Where does the Palestinian resistance, Hamas, fit into this narrative? Where are they on a terrorism spectrum made up by the West, as they go along?

Caitlin Johnstone:

“Terrorist organization has a lot less to do with how an organization acts and operates and a lot more to do with whether or not they advance the strategic interests of the US empire.

The group that is committing the genocide is of course not a designated terrorist organization.

This is because the label “terrorist organization” is nothing more than a tool of imperial narrative control. In empire language, it just means “disobedient population who need bombs dropped on them”.

You can kill all the civilians you want using whatever methods you want without being considered a terrorist organization, so long as you are a friend of the US empire.”

Battle for your perception.

There’s nothing more dishonest on Earth than the portrayal of the Palestinian people fighting for their freedom and self-determination as radicals.

“As the discourse begins to open, more people are starting to understand this as a rights-based issue. Not an issue of radicalism. This is a movement for the rights of people who’s rights are being denied – who are living under occupation; who want to live in their country, freely, just like anybody else.”

— Yousef Munayyer

Battle for perception. Did you watch The Occupation of the American Mind? It’s a documentary with an All-Star assembly of the most insightful thinkers and experts who have dedicated decades to studying the injustices faced by the Palestinian people. Narrators break it down for you; this isn’t just about America—it applies to all of us, as Israel wages a PR war on the collective West, aggressively propagandizing us about terrorism while stealing Palestinian land.

Sut Jhally:

“There’s really no way to fully understand why the Palestinian people have resisted Israel for so long without understanding this basic history of dispossession and occupation. But for the most part, this isn’t the story we get in American media coverage. Instead, the legitimate grievances of Palestinians, including their right to resist an illegal military occupation, get pushed out of the frame by this constant discussion about extremism, terrorism, and anti-Semitism.”

Talking about Hamas isn’t as much of a taboo anymore as it was for the first year of Israeli onslaught on Gaza. People have caught on. We read the documwnts on Hanibal Directive.

Legacy media, social media, and institutions intimidating us into silence by merely invoking the word antisemitism achieved the opposite. We looked, we researched, we dug. In a healthy society, everything should be open to discussion—preventing people from investigating or analyzing specific groups, individuals, or events only signals that crucial truths are waiting to be uncovered.

Truth is vital to the health and progress of society.

Those who block the discovery of such truths are usually the ruling class or the media that serves their interests—neither of which benefit from you uncovering these realities. Their goal is to prevent you from giving reason, humanity, and purpose to those they label as terrorists, using these labels to shut down a necessary conversation.

And we must have this conversation. How did we arrive here? When did this conversation took a turn with more people understanding it?

I say we arrived here at the corner of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Yahya Sinwar. The release of The Message, a bestseller by Ta-Nehisi Coates documenting his visit to the West Bank, and the seismic death of Yahya Sinwar, in the same month, marked a pivotal moment for this conversation.

After all that we have witnessed over the past sixteen months—a wholesale slaughter, shredding of children, relentless bombing, displacement, deliberate starvation, the destruction of infrastructure, and the international community’s complete unwillingness to intervene—we must have this conversation. In fact, not having it would be insincere.

There are no more roads to take that don’t end at the subject of the Palestinian resistance.

There are no angles left to take on the injustice inflicted on the Palestinian people in 1948, an injustice the world continues year after year, decade after decade—as if its balance depends on harming these 2.2 million souls in that small, remarkable strip of land; not necessarily for its geography, but for the resilience and spirit of its inhabitants.

After all that we’ve learned about the history of Palestine, why does it feel like the world literally runs on the slaughter of its people?

For the past sixteen months, the empathetic segment of the world—those who felt the anguish of people slaughtered by the hundreds daily for nearly 471 days has faced one question. A question posed at the outset of every conversation, whether on TV or in private: “But do you condemn Hamas?”—deceptively, as Piers Morgan repetitively proclaimed, “So I can decide on your moral standing”, with sheer arrogance, as if he had been anointed judge and jury of global moral authority.

And look at him today, totally switching gears after casually ruining so many lives and the careers of Palestinian people who dare to stood up to his “moral quandry.”

Ta-Nehisi.

Ta-Nehisi Coates made a significant shift in the conversation about the Palestinian resistance. Award-winning author and journalist. Legendary scribe of the Black Panther and Captain America. Contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Sterling Brown Endowed Chair in the English department at Howard University. His words had weight.

The Message:

“Were I 20 years old, born into Gaza, which is a giant open-air jail, and what I mean by that is if my father is a fisherman, and he goes too far out into the sea he might get shot by someone off the side of Israeli boats. If my mother picks the olive trees. If she gets too close to the wall, she might be shot. If my little sister has cancer, and she needs treatment, because there are no facilities that do that in Gaza, and I don’t get the right permit, she might die.

And I grow up under that oppression and that poverty and the wall comes down. Am I also strong enough or even constructed in such a way where I say this is too far? I don’t know that I am.”

Morally dicey, hey?

However you frame the issue of resisting the occupation, unless you are a psychopath who benefits from the subjugation of others, you will arrive at the same moral predicament.

The labyrinth.

This moral predicament comes in shades. If you are a member of a military-industrial complex that profits from testing its latest weaponry on the Palestinian people, or if you have the slightly smaller but still significant privilege of being an American who can obtain dual citizenship (and take someone’s home) to frolic on the beaches of Tel Aviv, then you are both benefiting from the occupation and dispossession of the Palestinian people.

But if you are a human being troubled by this injustice and refuse to accept privileges built on the suffering of others, you will inevitably find yourself at the same spot in the labyrinth.

That is the exact spot where Ta-Nehisi Coates landed with his book. The storm that ensued in the aftermath was as if he waved a gun instead of his pen. Ta-Nehisi was called an antisemite, an Israel-hater, and so much more because he disturbed the Israeli battle for our perception.

Another person who inadvertently screwed Israeli perception being shoved down our throats was Yahya Sinwar. Because he died the way he did, not in the tunnel but fighting among his people, wounded, eye to eye with an Israeli drone, stick in his hand—he cemented himself as an actual, living, breathing personification of the Palestinian cause, one that will never, ever fade.

By throwing a stick at the drone that recorded his final moments, he didn’t actually throw a stick; he passed a baton to his people, who would later watch a live footage of it, thanks to the self-sabotaging arrogance of the Israeli Army. It was as if his last message to them was to persevere and keep resisting.

“But he’s a terrorist?”

How can people be terrorists in their own land?

Terrorism: /ˈterəˌrizəm/ noun—the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.

What political aims does the Palestinian resistance have? Is seeking freedom from occupation and self-determination a political aim? Since we all live in freedom and are self-determined, are we also terrorists?

Or is it a human right?

Or is Israel pursuing a political aim of trying to exterminate a population to take their land and create hegemony in the region while building a Greater Israel?

Labeling people whose existence interferes with your political, economic, or territorial interests as ‘terrorists’ is what allows you to commit terrorism against those you label terrorists.

Yes, resistance is also violent. Most resistance movements in history were violent; oppressors usually don’t oppress with nice words. After 76 years of subjugation, dehumanization, rape, massacres, dispossession, illegal military occupation, and the latest—live-streamed genocide of the Palestinian people—do you have the moral clarity to decide who the real terrorists are: those inflicting this pain, or those resisting it?

There is no way to understand the ‘problems’ in the Middle East that destabilize the entire world while filling the pockets of the 1% if we aren’t ready to take on this hard topic. However we try to frame the understanding of what the Palestinian people have endured — especially over the past 471 days — if you have a morally sound compass and view all people as equal, you will always arrive at the same conclusion. It’s like playing a labyrinth game and consistently ending up at the same spot.

I confront these questions daily:

What would I do if this was happening to me?

What would I do if my father was abducted one night and made to walk 30 kilometers at age 75, then arrested, tortured, tied, abused?

What would I do if my child was killed with one sniper shot in the head while playing outside?

What would I do if my brother was arrested for throwing a rock, then raped and abused in Israeli prison?

What would I do if I have to rush to a hospital and was stopped at the checkpoint to bleed or die, because an Israeli soldier was put there to abuse and dehumanize me for kicks?

It’s paramount to have these conversations.

Palestinian people have no voice in mainstream media. Before October 7th, these people were ghosts. Their perspective was non-existent. We have the Israeli narrative, propaganda so grand it even has its name—crafted to justify the violence inflicted on the Palestinian people. Have you ever heard of an occupation that wasn’t violent? The whole premise of any occupation in history is violence.

As Sean Illing aptly put it: “I don’t believe there is any such thing as a moral occupation, because whatever the reasons for it, you cannot occupy a people without visiting cruelties upon them.”

We must have these conversations because the Palestinian people aren’t given space to share their stories in Western media. They are reduced wholesale to ‘terrorists’ so that Western audiences feel no empathy for their extermination. When people are reduced to such a label, their suffering becomes justified.

Yousef Munayyer:

“And so this becomes the framing of the situation: Israel is defending itself, which means Israel is not the aggressor here. That doesn’t square with the reality on the ground, and we know that. You have a right to defend yourself. You don’t have a right to occupy people, deny them their human rights, and then cry foul when they resist. That’s not the right to self-defense. That’s the right to repression. That’s what Israel is asking for here: Let us do away with these dissenters, these Palestinian dissenters, and call it defense.”

Caitlin Johnstone delved deeper into this as well:

“You see a lot of genocidal rhetoric from Israel supporters. The argument is basically that because the Palestinians will never accept the existence of the Jewish state, then the Jews don’t have to accept the existence of the Palestinian people.

You can immediately see the flaw in this logic when it’s written out like this, though. A wildly unequal dynamic is being falsely framed as equal: Israel supporters want an end to the Palestinians as a people, while Palestinians just want an end to the tyrannical apartheid state which murders their children and has taken everything from them.

Palestinians don’t seek the extermination of the Jewish people, but Israel’s supporters absolutely seek the extermination of the Palestinian people — or at least their perpetual subordination.

This isn’t two groups mutually opposed to one another’s existence, this is an apartheid settler colony backed by the most powerful empire in history getting dropped on top of a pre-existing civilization, with the people who had been living there being told that they must either submit to losing their rights, their property and their dignity, or face extermination.”

Execution.

One specific nuance about this whole genocide we’ve been witnessing and the “conflict” in the Middle East, for me, is the sheer casualness with which Israel and the collective West discuss exterminating the resistance. What truly blows my mind, and I haven’t heard many people address this—is the globally accepted notion that people, even if they are labeled terrorists, should be exterminated rather than arrested and tried in the court of law. Since when has it been legal to exterminate people, even if they are criminals or terrorists?

To do this right, we must also be unequivocal and accountable, as it is the responsibility of every human being on this earth: war crimes were committed on October 7th. However, what truly highlights the unacceptable levels of inequality and the supremacy inherent in Israeli society is a belief that one group of people is worth more than another, asserting that all who participated in the acts of October 7th must be eradicated from the earth—then actually proceeding to execute the entire nation.

Since when do crimes, even war crimes, warrant execution? Anyone who commits any type of crime should be apprehended, arrested, tried, and jailed. During Milosevic’s aggression on Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia 30 years ago—a war I lived through—war criminals on each side, responsible for the worst crimes against humanity, weren’t executed; they were arrested, tried, and jailed. Many are still sitting in The Hague today.

Are you aware that you live in a time when one state holds so much impunity that it is allowed not only to execute those who participated in the October 7th, but an entire nation en masse?

Do you understand the damage done to the very foundations of civilization by witnessing people executing not just their opponents, but those they oppress?

Phyllis Bennis:

“October 7th, those are horrific attacks, which should be condemned. They are violations of international law, period. But the problem is that Israeli violence is assumed to be legitimate because it’s always self-defense.”

Are we living in a rule-based society?

We aren’t. As Caitlin Johnstone points out:

“This mass atrocity is being tolerated by huge parts of the population exactly because we see it as intolerable for large numbers of Jews to be killed by those who hate them, not understanding that the people who were killed on October 7 were killed not because of their religion, but because they were part of a settler-colonialist project which is premised on the perpetual abuse of a preexisting Indigenous population.”

This deliberate misperception is allowed to fester in Western society because there aren’t any Palestinian voices allowed in the mainstream spaces to plead their case. But for those of us who want to find those voices and listen—there’s nothing complicated about decades-long, brutally oppressed people burst for liberation.

A prison break on October 7th, whichever way you view it, was their manifesto. We won’t be prisoners anymore; we won’t be subjugated and oppressed. We’d rather be dead than imprisoned; we are going to be breaking free until we ARE free.

You cannot be reading this right now and tell me—but the violence on October 7th, unless you are a blatant supremacist, viewing one group of people as more worthy of another. The level of carnage, displacement, dehumanization, rape, torture, subjugation, prison without charge, slaughter, shredding of children, massacres, and finally a full-throttle genocide the Palestinian people had to endure for 78 years—will produce violent acts. Violence begets violence.

Hamas is a militant group resisting military occupation. These people have repeatedly told you—they want liberation.

Know thy enemy.

Palestinian resistance has managed to achieve the impossible for the past three years, militarily and politically, because they know everything about their occupier, who knows nothing about them.

Benjamin Netanyahu keeps throwing these lines to the US Congress: “The last thing Palestinians want is a political settlement. What they want is more demonstrations, more riots, more bodies—that’s what they want,” reducing the very people his party bankrolled and propped into existence to a blanket ‘terrorists’ label, battling for Western perceptions to feel no empathy for their experiences, thereby justifying their suffering.

Changing the course of this biblical billion-dollar battle for our perception—do you realize just how much the Palestinian resistance achieved in the past three years?

Aaron Mate:

“When you are a colonial power, you are so consumed by hubris—you can never really understand your enemy. Whereas if you are on the receiving end of the colonial power’s violence, you do have a much better understanding of your enemy.”

Scott Ritter:

“It’s not possible for the mindset of Israelis to understand Hamas. They have so dehumanized the Palestinians that they’re incapable of instilling notions that we normally attach to movements that lead to nation-building.”

People who defend Israel’s actions on the ground always claim Israel has reasons for doing things the way it’s doing them. They have to bomb Gaza — they suffered an unprovoked attack from a bunch of evil terrorists. They have to bomb all the hospitals and schools and mosques — that’s where Hamas are hiding. They have to bomb areas that are packed full of children — Hamas is using those children as human shields.

But those who commit mass atrocities always justify their actions. They always have reasons for doing them. They always frame it as a necessary act of self-preservation.”

Claim to the land.

Israel’s biggest fallacy lies in its parroting of a Biblical claim to this land. No one is denying the Jewish people’s claim to that land. The issue is their quest for an ethnostate, not their presence on the land. When supporters of Israel challenge you with the classic question—“Do you think Israel has a right to exist?”—well, why can’t they exist there, living alongside the Palestinian people (or, as they like to call them, Arabs), as they did many decades prior?

The fact that Israeli people who declare themselves Zionists insist on having an ethnostate on land where others already live tells you this is about dominance, economy, and power—not a yearning for the land they once inhabited.

Our part in all this.

The last three years have been a gift for us, a litmus test that Palestine has given us all. We were granted a rare opportunity to see how the people around us—friends, family, strangers, and even celebrities we once admired—think. Celebrities without a spine whose lives we no longer envy. We realized the world is divided into those who can empathize with others and see them as human beings, regardless of cultural differences, and those who simply cannot understand or support anyone rallying for the Palestinian people because they do not see the other as equally worthy.

This truth came from the most unexpected places, from people we would least expect to exhibit this sense of supremacy. I saw it in friends who have very little, yet feel as though their birthplace in the West grants them moral superiority. That realization has been the hardest pill to swallow for many of us.

We must confront ourselves, our part in this, and our privileges, even those we aren’t fully aware of—when discussing the people of Palestine and especially their resistance.

Aaron Maté, on Judge Napolitano, raised some imperative points:

“Hamas is a resistance force fighting the occupation and people in the West judging Yahya Sinwar; I think the most important thing is—we’re responsible for our own actions, our own violence, and that in our case means being involved in one of the world’s longest-running military occupation, an occupation that Hamas was founded to resist and it’s our obligation to end that occupation. Whatever you think about Hamas, that’s what they were doing—their goal was Palestinian liberation.”

This part is crucial:

“There were elements of Hamas, including sometimes Sinwar if you pay attention to what he said, who were willing to accept a major Palestinian compromise of a state just within 22% of historic Palestine in the West Bank and in Gaza, which happens to be the international consensus. It’s Israel which is so extreme that it refused to even accept a Palestinian compromise, which basically put Hamas in the position where something like October 7th could happen—concluding that there was no hope at all for negotiations with Israel, and Netanhayu was openly vowing that there would never be a Palestinian State.

Netanyahu thought he could use Hamas toward that goal by splitting the West Bank from Gaza and propping up Hamas and making it sort of the symbol of the Palestinian struggle, therefore making it off limits to the rest of the world.

That’s why October 7th happened, and it didn’t have to be this way if Israel had seriously engaged with not just the global consensus all the Arab states have offered. If Israel supported this, even members of Hamas including Ismail Haniyeh supported a Palestinian state, if Israel had engaged with that and negotiated seriously for a Palestinian State, October 7th likely never would have happened.”

Before you go.

I want you to marinate on my case for the resistance I laid out for you here. Read it a few times. Send it to your friends who still don’t understand it. Research it more. Read books on it. Know the history, understand the context, and know what preceded the last 3 years you’ve witnessed:

Haifa Massacre 1937, Jerusalem Massacre 1937, Haifa Massacre 1938, Balad al-Sheikh Massacre 1939, Haifa Massacre 1939, Haifa Massacre 1947, Abbasiya Massacre 1947, Al-Khisas Massacre 1947, Bab al-Amud Massacre 1947, Jerusalem Massacre 1947, Sheikh Bureik Massacre 1947, Jaffa Massacre 1948, Deir Yassin Massacre 1948, Tantura Massacre 1948, Qibya Massacre 1953, Khan Yunis Massacre 1956, Jerusalem Massacre 1967, Sabra and Shatila Massacre 1982, Al-Aqsa Massacre 1990, Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre 1994, Jenin Refugee Camp April 2002, Gaza Massacre 2008-09, Gaza Massacre 2012, Gaza Massacre 2014, Gaza Massacre 2018-19, Gaza Massacre 2021, and Gaza Genocide 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026.

But it’s complicated.

I have no better closer than the author Ta-Nehisi Coates; when he was told that the conflict in Palestine was “complicated,” he called that word “horseshit.”

“Complicated was how people had described slavery and then segregation.”

“It’s complicated when you want to take something from somebody.”

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And I thought I would have an uneventful Labor Day weekend.

I decided to stay in New York these last couple of days and refused all invitations to get out of the city. My summer was pretty exhausting, with the Knicks, the World Cup, and so many people visiting who needed to be entertained, all while fighting daily fascism, nationalism, and tribalism. I’m spent.

Summer is almost over, and I needed this last weekend of nothingness and chill before the professional demands of fall in New York start chipping away at me.

No can do, said the universe.

My phone had been ringing all weekend. I don’t think I’ve heard my ringtone in over five years (it’s Come Together, by the Beatles), and my inbox is so full that I can barely even reach the messages from the people I know.

Breaking news, a scandal, an expose—all in one: Mayor Mamdani’s New Media Team is revealed. Call the SWAT Team; we have a Signal chat! I’m on the infamous team, and I’ll break it all down for you. Apparently, we need to do the job these mainstream newsrooms are paid for.

There’s virtually nothing that better showcases the downfall of legacy media, its donor system, and its gatekeepers than the phenomenon that is Zohran Mamdani. For the first time in my life, I see their helplessness. Irrelevance, really.

Don’t get me wrong, they can still inflict significant damage; there are so many media illiterate people believing the information served to them by the donor class that funded it, and they are loud. They act on it. But social media murdered legacy media, and they know it. Money doesn’t help when people willing to do something unite to do that thing.

Thirteen years ago, Julian Assange predicted this, at his Oxford Union address:

“Working against the corrupt, powerful organizations who are producing a distorted perspective through mainstream media vehicle has been the internet. It has allowed one person with one truth to speak to every single person who wants to hear that truth.”

This man was arrested, repeatedly targeted for assassination, and had his life ruined for sharing information—showing the world what our elites are funding: the killing of innocent civilians in the Middle East, carried out by an U.S. Apache helicopter crew who knew they were firing on civilians and laughed as they did it.

Information is that important. Sharing the truth can get you killed. And we are the Wikileaks today. Information, your phone, and your platform make you dangerous.

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New Media Team

A few days ago the New York Post decided to publish one of their famous investigative reports about Mayor Mamdani’s New Media Team. When I say famous investigative reports, I mean Bill Ackman calling the Post saying, “I can’t have this Muslim running around being liked, appreciated, and praised—think of something,” and voila—an expose.

This is how they titled their “investigative” piece: Mamdani’s 200-strong ‘influencer’ army revealed — with some PR peddlers pocketing taxpayer cash.

I’ll just hit you with a few of their greatest hits:

“They’re under Zo’s influence.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani assembled an army of nearly 200 “influencers,” giving the social media stars VIP access to push the lefty administration’s talking points, a new bombshell report revealed.

The web of online personalities are being fed talking points by City Hall through an encrypted Signal group text, potentially running afoul of local record-keeping laws, according to the study by the Columbia Journalism Review.

Some influencers are even pocketing taxpayer funds “for work on particular messaging campaigns,” though not for their coverage, the report states.

The secret Signal chat – named “NYC Creators Announcements” – combined with murky money left many watchdogs aghast.

“We don’t know who is getting paid and who isn’t, and the public has no way to tell a paid supporter from an organic voice. There needs to be disclosure, and we need clear rules of the road.”

To be clear, the biggest Zionist rag on earth, who never published one letter that someone didn’t pay for to be written, is arguing that there needs to be a disclosure and clear rules about paid supporters and organic voices.

Do we even act surprised at their standard dose of weekly hypocrisy?

The New York Times

The NY Post is a laughable media outlet in the same category as the National Enquirer. No one really loses sleep over the NY Post. But the fact that the New York Times decided to get involved and do a deep dive of its own is what makes this story fascinating.

They are that afraid of the free flow of information.

We are all well aware that The New York Times lost all its credibility by inaccurately posting about Israel’s assault on Gaza. They have spent 4 years manufacturing consent for a livestreamed genocide, shielding Israel from the worst war crimes known to mankind.

Are we really surprised they conspired to plant the seeds of doubt about our team?

Legacy media is angry that our team of independent thinkers who believe in this administration found a way to bypass the media gatekeepers and take the power to shape the public narrative out of their hands.

It’s unbelievable, just how deceived we have been for so long, thinking this is the coolest, most reputable magazine on earth.

I mourn the NY Times every single day.

This is their “investigation” into a group of citizens rallying around a politician and the policies we chose to support: Inside Mamdani’s Private Army of Public Influencers. And a free version for you, because, fuck this system:

“Zohran Mamdani is seen as a social media wizard. Some of his popularity stems from an influencer operation run by the mayor’s office.”

This “report” is written by Sally Goldenberg and Emma Goldberg. You draw your own conclusions.

I’m going to break down this piece in a live commentary, as a member of Mayor Mamdani’s New Media team, therefore a subject and an insider into this story, unlike the NY Times, grasping at straws:

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What irks me the most in life is disingenuity. Of any kind, in all sorts of people, from all walks of life. Knowing what you’re doing is a grift, a ploy to manipulate and shut down criticism, yet having the audacity to front like you’re serious.

Please stop torturing us with antisemitism as a linguistic manipulation to get away with crimes that uphold your privilege. The jig is up.

Is there anything more annoying in this world than the people who simply cannot understand something is just over? Your wife caught you cheating; stop finding excuses and trying to manipulate your way out of it. You have been found out. Just give it a rest.

The great noticing is here

How are we still entertaining this conversation in 2026? How are we still explaining ourselves to those who consciously and dishonestly use antisemitism to shut down conversation and escape accountability?

We have watched 1,063 days of livestreamed genocide unfolding on our phones; the images of children’s limbs blown off their bodies are imprinted in our minds and will stay there until the end of our time. And yet, we’re still discussing antisemitism, not the genuine one, but the one used to shut down legitimate conversation.

It’s grotesque what the Zionists are doing to this man, day in day out. They are attaching an antisemitism smear to a man who spent the last four years bravely advocating for halting the mass murder of toddlers and civilians, regardless of what that stance professionally cost him.

And that is precisely what bothers them: a man whose moral compass is tuned so correctly that nothing, absolutely nothing, no threats, no smears, no lies, can make him falter in standing up for the humane treatment of all human beings.

The merger

In this latest attempt of trying to slap an antisemitic label on Mark Ruffalo, the issue is a Paramount/Warner Brothers merger, a grotesque consolidation of power that would crush job opportunities and, as Mark pointed out, see a loss of 4500 direct filmmaking jobs and the loss of another 10k ancillary jobs.

Mark voiced a legitimate concern about an $111B merger that would put enormous power into the hands of one family—a family headed by the largest single donor to the IDF and a company whose former CEO just casually stated on camera is producing “profoundly scary technology” for Israel.

A profoundly scary technology for a state currently committing a genocide and set out to create a surveillance state for us all.

We are not angry enough, folks.

These people are taking us for a ride, and we’re still not getting off.

Mark’s Instagram story about the merger

This is what Mark Ruffalo wrote on his Instagram story about this merger. All legit concerns:

Why are we always explaining ourselves? Why is Mark, anyone, all of us constantly needing to explain what we meant?

The biggest criminals on earth are known for this classic MO: audacity and an accusatory tone, deliberately misinterpreting their opponents’ words when those words are right there for all to see, forcing you to explain yourself rather than forcing them to explain their crimes.

I want to literally puke on my living room sofa if I hear one more time that “it’s not antisemitic to be critical of the Israeli government,” followed by calling every single sentence directed to that crime syndicate pretending to be a state—antisemitic.

“It’s not antisemitic to be critical of the Israeli government.”

Unless you are a student on a campus calling out the Israeli apartheid.

Or a singer calling out the IDF’s war crimes.

Or Ms. Rachel saying Palestinian kids should live too.

Or a flotilla activist carrying baby formula to Gaza.

Or a person boycotting food associated with the apartheid state.

Or someone protesting an Oracle executive threatening the world with “profoundly scary technology.”

Or an American actor opposing consolidation of power.

Or the NBC crew attacked by violent settlers in the West Bank.

A grift to end all conversation

Just take a look at this piece made by our favorite hasbarist for hire, Noa Tishby; only, I broke her down too. Not a single word she said about Mark is accurate, and every single word Mark uttered is verifiably true.

And yet, her video full of propaganda, lies, and smears about this man ended up on his Google search profile. Media consolidation? How can a nobody’s video, unrelated to this man, end up on his Google search?

Let’s finally have the honest antisemitism conversation, shall we?

There is only one correct and intellectually honest definition of what antisemitism is. It’s not thoughts or feelings or paranoia. Antisemitism is an actual, tangible action taken against an individual. Not a feeling. Or discomfort.

You will not find a more honest breakdown of antisemitism than what Norman Finkelstein, a son of Holocaust survivors, explained at the Robinson Erhardt podcast. He gave this man a schooling that only Norm can produce:

Robinson:

For the sake of comprehensiveness, there are two more arguments I'd like to touch on. I think it's pretty undeniable, at least from my own experience, that there is very rampant antisemitism in the United States, at least.

Norman:

I don't agree with that at all. There was an era in which one calculated antisemitism not by a person's thoughts, because you can't control a person's thoughts, there was an era where, when you talked about discrimination, when you talked about antisemitism, it meant—does it affect your job opportunities, does it affect your access to certain institutions of higher education, does it affect where you're going to live, does it affect negatively your interactions with the law—that's what antisemitism meant.

There were quantifiable, palpable, and lucid expressions of this phobia, whatever you want to call it, antisemitism or a hateful genocidal intent.

Can you name me a place in the United States where a Jew would have trouble purchasing a home or renting an apartment? Name me one place; I'd be curious where that person would have trouble purchasing a home or renting an apartment. Can you name me one university, one college in the whole United States where a Jew would have trouble getting in because he or she was Jewish?

Could you name me one profession? Does the medical profession discriminate against Jews? Law, there was once a problem; that's why Jewish law firms were created because they couldn't get into the WASP law firms. Does that exist anymore?

It’s just completely and totally ridiculous to talk about antisemitism in the United States. On the contrary, being Jewish gets you into professions because Jews are such a dominant force in the medical field and the law field. There is clannishness; every group has its clannishness. It's an asset, not a disability. It's an asset in our society.

In publishing, being Jewish makes a big difference. You know what they used to call the New York Review? They called it a review of each other's books because they were all Jewish. So in the face of that reality, to speak about antisemitism strikes me as ridiculous and self-indulgent on a Herculean scale.

Antisemitism is not thoughts passing through your head.

Brothers Bloom

I met Mark in 2006, during the shoot for Brothers Bloom. The club I was running at the time was one of the film’s locations, and my then-boyfriend had a tiny role in the film. I hung out with the crew for almost a month; one day the first AD (the First Assistant Director) on the film developed a little crush on me.

“I’m going to put you in the film; I need someone like you in the scene,” he declares to me one day.

“Nah, I don’t act, I pass,” I say, thinking that’s that.

A few days later an assistant calls me to confirm I’m on the call sheet for tomorrow. What? No. I said I’m not interested in being in front of the camera. “Well, you are on the call sheet, so you have to come,” she says matter-of-factly.

I roll up to the unknown, my then-boyfriend slightly annoyed, pretending to be supportive; that man never did enjoy sharing the spotlight. I report to the lady that called me, slightly puzzled why I need to be here and what for. The first AD sees me, rolls up, and says, “Do not worry, you’ll be great; you have a scene with Mark Ruffalo, the assistant will escort you to your coordinator to practice with the knives a bit, because you will have to stab Mark through his fingers several times but not actually stab him.”

I never acted in my life (except for fun, in real life), and I need to stab-not stab Mark Ruffalo on cue.

But Mark was great. He helped me tremendously and made me feel comfortable and wasn’t impatient, and I managed not to hurt him. We spoke about so many things about this world while rehearsing and shooting the scene, and I saw this streak in him—having a need to instantly correct the wrong, call it out, and expose it.

My then-ex did something silly a few days earlier, a self-serving act that was not exactly in the spirit of teamwork, and Mark called him out on it instantly. From what I gathered during that entire month of spending time with this cast and crew, Mark’s sense of right and wrong was so deeply ingrained in him. He had this strong combination of logic, justice, and empathy that made it completely unsurprising to me that he would become what we see today: a stand-up human being, a friend and colleague willing to fight for and risk his career for the benefit of people less privileged than him.

Imagine what this world would be if every single one of us, famous or not, powerful or less influential, with big or small reach in life or social media, had the courage to take on this rotten system of power that is running our lives?

A superhero, in the literal sense of the world. A real-life Avenger.

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After two years of creating cover for Israel’s war crimes in Gaza and the West Bank, mainstream media finally published a piece this week informing us that Israel did, in fact, slaughter a 5-year-old child, her family, and the paramedics who came to rescue her.

CNN informed us that “Israeli military admits for first time to firing on car carrying 5-year-old Hind Rajab as it opens criminal probe,” while the BBC informed us that “Israel confirms soldiers fired at car in which Hind Rajab was killed and opens criminal investigation.”

Huge undertaking. Do they have enough people?

Two and a half years later, we finally know the truth, thanks to CNN, BBC, and co. Top-notch journalism.

Israel admitted it killed her, and it will investigate itself to determine how a 5-year-old child was riddled with 355 bullets in an area where Palestinian children represent a demographic threat to the state of Israel.

Legacy media openly writing about Israel’s war crimes; times are changing, right?

No, times aren’t changing. Mainstream media didn’t suddenly grow a conscience. This is a journalistic trick. These reports mean absolutely nothing. Mainstream media are once more assisting Israel to manipulate their war from accountability.

What’s the play here? Why now?

Media + Israel, two historical partners in crime, took on this project in tandem. There are two parts, two missions, and each is doing its part to make sure Israel never answers for its monstrous war crimes.

Mainstream media’s part

I wrote this article in 2023, exactly one month before Hind Rajab was murdered. Check it out; it’s a very useful detection tool, or a shit-o-meter for your favorite media, something I figured out very early in this Zionist-powered game.

There are three tricks media is playing on us in order to cover, justify, and help Israel complete its ethnic cleansing endeavor without interruption.

Trick #1 — Reporting on something we already know about

The New York Times does this impeccably. Throughout Israel’s genocide in Gaza over the past four years, they have repeatedly published articles like Israeli Military Admits Fault in 2 Deadly Strikes in Central Gaza, months later, about crimes that have already happened, crimes they never reported on, and crimes we already know about. Or articles like What Happened in Israel’s Deadliest Attacks in Gaza, again, something we already saw on our phones, months before they published it.

These months, or even years late “reports” are always published in an obligatory passive voice, a directive straight from Tel Aviv, no doubt. Palestinians are never killed, only mysteriously found dead.

When respectable, legacy media reports on something we already know about, there’s nothing at stake for the ethnostate they are trying to shield from public scrutiny. We already know this information from social media. This is not journalism—it would be if they actually reported on it, when it actually happened, to inform you. The reason why they’re publishing these reports after the fact is to create an illusion of impartiality.

Trick #2 — Making both sides in this “conflict” equal

This trick is a masterclass in media manipulation—understood only if you have knowledge of world history or are willing to spend hours daily informing yourself.

“It’s not a genocide; it’s a war. Israel is fighting Hamas militants.”

A nuclear superpower cannot fight a militia made up of orphans whose only means of resisting their occupiers are makeshift rockets and stolen rifles.

When mainstream media reports on both sides in the manner of—well, they sent the rocket, and then we launched an airstrike, and then they sent some fireworks, and then we bombed a refugee camp—it makes this “war” appear equal. It’s not equal, and it’s not a war. It’s a deliberate erasure of an entire people.

Mainstream media invite guests on TV shows in a tit-for-tat format, inviting people on both sides to condemn the actions of the opposite side; will you condemn the Hamas rockets, or will you condemn the Israeli airstrikes—this is a deliberate editorial process, a well-thought-out tactic for you to forget the context and the issue here: 5.5 million people from one population are living at the mercy of, under the rule of, and under the military occupation of another population.

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Trick #3 — “Criticizing” Israel

Notice the words legacy media never uses while criticizing Israel. Media will never say the word genocide even when the number of victims crosses the threshold of other declared genocides in history, even when the genocidal intent has been heard from the mouths of Israeli government officials, soldiers, and supporters. Media will criticize some particular policy of Israel’s state but won’t ever discuss the apartheid and the military occupation carried out by the Israeli state.

They won’t print how the structural situation is fundamentally one of occupation and dispossession. This is how legacy media is assisting in upholding Israel’s status quo. To convince you of this circle of violence from both sides. Use the guise of safety to keep the military occupation running, indefinitely. Maintain the ethnostate.

Israel’s part

Why is Israel finally admitting that it riddled Hind Rajab’s tiny body with 355 bullets and killed the paramedics who came to rescue her, after vehemently denying it for two and a half years?

Because they want to create an illusion of accountability.

Why now?

Because Israel is facing renewed legal scrutiny over its genocide in Gaza and its strikes in Lebanon and in the region.

TRT World reports:

Under the Rome Statute’s complementarity regime, the International Criminal Court is only meant to step in when a state is “unwilling or unable” to genuinely investigate its own nationals, which means a state facing prosecution has a direct incentive to manufacture the appearance of domestic proceedings before the admissibility question is decided against it.

“Israel is currently subject to active ICC proceedings, faces genocide referrals before the ICJ, and is operating under the July 2024 Advisory Opinion finding its occupation violates peremptory norms. Under Article 17 of the Rome Statute, a state may challenge admissibility before the ICC by demonstrating that genuine domestic investigations are underway. The timing of the announcement lines up with Israel losing ground on its case before the ICC, not with any new evidence coming to light.”

— Nasir Qadri, international law practitioner and critical legal scholar at Koc University.

TRT continues:

That framing captures what two years of watching Israel investigate itself has taught rights groups and the family alike: an internal probe has never once translated into meaningful accountability for Palestinian deaths, and there is little in the record to suggest this case will be the exception.

In other words, nothing will come out of this, as usual, when Israel conducts these performative criminal investigations into their own SS Division.

According to the Hind Rajab Foundation, of 52 publicly known Israeli military investigations into violations in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, 88% were closed without any finding of wrongdoing or left open indefinitely with no outcome ever published, and only one produced a prison sentence.

“We see this new probe as a pattern, not a genuine pursuit of justice, but a charade meant to whitewash crimes against Palestinians,” a spokesperson of the Hind Rajab Foundation told TRT World.

“The timing is obviously strategic. These announcements come when international pressure is high, and they serve to create the illusion of accountability.”

“Given Israel’s history of such probes ending without meaningful consequences, this appears designed to deflect criticism, not to deliver justice,” the spokesperson adds.

If that part the TRT just laid out for us needs any clarification: Israel very well knows what they are committing are grave war crimes; they know they are erasing an entire population whose land they covet, and they are intentionally murdering them while trying to get away with it.

And they always do get away with it.

Israel has been doing this for decades

• Whether it’s killing 10 activists on the Mavi Marmara flotilla.

• Or murdering paramedics, then burying their ambulances and belongings while lying about it before the phone of one of the paramedics was also discovered, buried, containing video evidence.

• Or striking a World Central Kitchen convoy, killing seven humanitarian workers.

• Or double-tapping Nasser Hospital and killing 22 people, including health workers, emergency response crews, and five journalists.

• Or riddling a 5-year-old with 355 bullets, accompanied by some of the most disturbingly graphic audio a human being could ever hear.

The pattern is always the same: first, they say Hamas or Hezbollah did it; then they deflect or shut the conversation down with accusations of antisemitism or counterattacks. Then, after international pressure, when even their mainstream media partners in crime can no longer run cover for their war crimes, they investigate themselves, find inconclusive results, and conclude it was a “grave error.”

The result is always the same. No accountability. No legal action. No time served. Case closed.

186 humanitarian workers killed.

260 journalists killed.

Never stop talking about this. The only accountability they currently face is the judgment of humanity itself, in the court of global conscience, reminding them of their crimes with every step they take outside their ethnostate.

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Zionist ideology isn’t compatible with civilization outside of their community. Everyone sane knows that. We can also stretch our brains wide enough to inhabit the reality of Zionism being deadly to Palestinian people, having watched limbs being blown off the bodies in Gaza since Israel’s invasion of the Palestinian lands, but what is it to the rest of us?

They aren’t killing us; we’re good, right? Everything that’s not killing us is not that bad, right? Zionism is just incompatible for anyone that doesn’t believe in it or support it, right?

We need to be more serious about this. Zionism is much more nefarious to the rest of the world outside Palestine than we realize, and it is damaging an entire planet, in addition to committing war crimes in Palestine, Lebanon, and throughout the Middle East.

Dual citizens are deciding our future.

This post by Nikki Shapiro Vinckier showcases it well. As Nikki reports, many Jewish voters in Michigan are deeply afraid by Abdul El-Sayed winning the Democratic primary. Many have said they will leave the Senate race blank in November, and others are considering voting for Republican Mike Rogers.

These choices, made by people who have been gaslit about the “evil” Muslims all their lives, are not considering what is best for their fellow Michiganders. They are willing to hand this seat to MAGA because their priority is Israel’s interests in the American midterm election.

As Nikki rightly points out, this is a seat we cannot afford to lose. This is the seat that could help determine who controls the U.S. Senate. A seat that will vote on federal judges, reproductive rights, healthcare, voting rights, and the future of our democracy. A seat that could either challenge Donald Trump’s agenda or give him another vote to advance it.

This slide in Nikki’s post was particularly telling. Check out what Stacy thinks about electing a medical doctor, an epidemiologist, and an Oxford Rhodes scholar whose priority is passing a Medicare for All bill. So devoted to this issue, he wrote a book on it—Medicare for All: A Citizen’s Guide.

But Stacy, patient zero in the Zionist cult agenda, confidently calls other people brainwashed, warning us all about the Rhodes scholar Abdul El-Sayed and his entire family “Islamic terrorists.”

But Stacy confidently calls other people brainwashed, warning us about the “Islamic terrorism” of Rhodes scholar Abdul El-Sayed and his family.

Whether it’s regular people allowing their obsession with Israel and the Jewish victimhood narrative to prevent desperately needed social and economic policies from being represented in the U.S. Senate, this is hurting American citizens.

The issue with Stacy’s worldview wouldn’t be a problem if she lived in Israel and despised all the Muslims living in her vicinity. But Stacy lives in America, and like millions of other people devoted to Israel and gaslit by the Israeli government and their upbringing, she will deprive the American people of the benefits and policies we need because she lives in a country where she has voting rights, while the interests of that country and its people are not her concern.

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Wouldn’t this be something that would make people around the world angry? Not only do we have to watch the wholesale slaughter of an entire people on our screens, paid for by our tax dollars, and feel powerless to stop it, we also cannot have a government that will work in the interests of its own citizens.

How bloody insulting is it to package it all into antisemitism—to prevent us from voicing our disdain.

What about the politicians?

Nearly all politicians in all of the Western countries around the world work for the benefit of Israel. Politicians are not chosen by what they can do for you; they are chosen by what they can do for Israel.

All the policies that these politicians put out are just a smokeshow; they work for Israel. Therefore, the nice, well-spoken, palatable contenders camouflaged as progressive candidates are even more dangerous.

Like Barack Obama, who dutifully completed the task of expanding the U.S. involvement in Afghanistan and clipped Gaddafi before he managed to implement his gold-backed currency, which would have allowed Libya and its partners to trade oil and resources directly for gold, bypassing the U.S. dollar and the entire Western banking system, protecting Libya from Western economic sanctions.

Israel could not have that.

Who did it benefit?

And how many lives and futures were destroyed for it?

Michigan.

In November of 2025, Michigan State Senator Jeremy Moss, a Democrat and an openly gay politician who made history as the first out LGBTQ+ person elected to the Michigan Senate, was caught on tape saying:

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People in power do not want to share their power or resources. Throughout history, the way they maintained control was by controlling information through mainstream media, which, contrary to what we thought, was never truly reporting on the halls of power but instead sitting comfortably too close to them.

Politicians and powerful corrupt organizations have always produced a distorted reality through the mainstream media vehicle, and as Julian Assange rightly predicted some ten years ago, what will eventually work against that trend will be the internet. Social media, to be exact. In Julian’s own words, “It will allow one person with one truth to speak to every single person who wants to hear that truth.”

The phenomenon of social media allowed us all to finally discover what the Palestinian people have been trying to tell the world for decades—Israel is an occupier, an aggressor, and a manipulator embedded in the US government, lobbying for armaments they use to kill their families.

There is no way to fight this, Israel learned, as buying TikTok and investing $150 million in global public diplomacy (hasbara) in 2025, followed by a record-high public diplomacy budget of roughly $730 million for 2026, changed no minds about Israel's crimes in the Middle East.

Reality, simply, cannot be censored. As of today, 69% of US adults hold an unfavorable opinion of the Israeli government.

Ceuta

What happened at the Spain-Morocco border at the city of Ceuta this past Thursday?

The internet was flooded with the scenes of nearly 60,000 Moroccans flooding into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, a small Spanish autonomous city that, alongside Melilla, sits on the northern coast of Africa, shares a land border with Morocco, and sits near the Strait of Gibraltar.

The images were straight out of a far-right wet dream. Far-right parties and politicians around the world, building their political projects on anti-immigrant fearmongering, had their talking points ready to go.

What happened at Ceuta has no relevance to the US, and yet Donald Trump, aware that serving Israel’s interests had damaged his standing with his base ahead of the upcoming midterm elections, used an incident unrelated to the country he governs to score political points by exploiting anti-immigrant fears.

His statement was ready to fly into the world:

“You know, I saw Spain yesterday, and I watched the catastrophe that took place. It looks like an invasion of a country by hundreds of thousands of people. And that same thing is going to happen to us if the Republicans don’t get elected. If we’re not in office, our country will be invaded at levels that made Spain look small time.”

Donnie is whoring himself for your midterm votes in November.

The same echo came from the UK. Per Zeteo:

“Christmas came early for the global far right, as images showed tens of thousands of migrants from Morocco breaching the borders of the Spanish enclave Ceuta.

From Donald Trump to Nigel Farage, the far right reacted exactly how you would think – by stirring up fear about a fake “invasion” and weaponizing the so-called crisis to rally their bases.

Trump said the surge should be used as a “talking point” in the midterm election, while Farage used it to promote his Reform UK party.”

What actually happened in Ceuta

The hordes of people that entered Ceuta didn’t look like desperate refugees. The Nation reports:

The human wave that entered Ceuta, including the dozens who drowned trying to get around the border fence sticking out into the sea, were not such desperate refugees, however. Video footage indicates that virtually none of them were carrying bags or other personal belongings. There are also videos showing truckloads of young men, apparently organized by the Moroccan government, being ferried to the edge of Ceuta, as well as scenes of Moroccan border guards waving them through. It even appears that Moroccan intelligence agents were among the crowd in an apparent effort to get a better sense of border security and the Spanish response. Indeed, having tens of thousands of people simultaneously appear at the frontier undoubtedly required major logistical support.

This provocation appears to have been designed by the Moroccan regime to embarrass Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez in response to his efforts to warm relations with Morocco’s longtime geopolitical rival Algeria, a key supplier of natural gas made scarce as a result of the Ukraine and Iran wars and whose president he met with the previous week. The Moroccans orchestrated a similar cross-border influx in 2021 in retaliation for Spain’s allowing Western Sahara President Brahim Ghali, whose nation Morocco claims for itself, into the country for medical treatment.

Perhaps not coincidentally, this comes at a time when the American and Israeli governments have been furious at Spain’s Socialist government over its support for Palestinian rights and opposition to the Iran War.

The problem

The ruling class is in a bind. They can no longer distort reality and control the flow of information as they once did. Ordinary people on social media, armed with a different political perspective, influence, and nothing more than a phone in their hand, have become a threat to the halls of power.

And the far-right powers around the globe are not in the mood to share their power or any of the resources; they want to continue hoarding.

After four years of watching the absolute blasphemy of global politics—the people allowing, arming, protecting, and justifying a state committing a livestreamed genocide—we have become trained to detect bullshit within milliseconds.

Anti-colonial, colonial lesson

The Nation, again, calls it all out brilliantly:

While having any European territory on African soil is certainly problematic regardless of its particular history and demographics, it is hard to imagine that these right-wing figures are actually motivated by anti-colonialism.

In addition, the wave of border crossings has created images that far-right parties in Europe are now using to claim that there is an uncontrollable refugee crisis, feeding racist and xenophobic attacks against Sanchez and other left-leaning governments for allowing a foreign “invasion” of EU territory. Conservative European governments have demanded that Spain be removed from the Schengen Zone that allows for passport-free movement within most of Europe despite the fact that Spain maintains tight internal migration control between the presidios and the Spanish mainland and that none of 50,000 who illegally crossed into Ceuta have made it onto the European continent.

Meanwhile, in the United States, Vice President JD Vance blamed the border crossings on “radical left-wing globalist policies that have enabled the Invasion of the West,” while Trump warned that scenes similar to those of the tens of thousands of dark-skinned people storming the border in Ceuta would occur in the United States as well if Democrats get back into office.

Important part

Ironically, rather than being anti-colonial, Morocco itself is a colonial power, having illegally invaded, occupied, annexed, and colonized the nation of Western Sahara, a full member state of the African Union and recognized by the United Nations as a non-self-governing territory. The United States and Israel are the only two countries to formally recognize that occupied country as being under Moroccan sovereignty.

Who benefited the most from this manufactured “crisis”?

Far-right parties and politicians around the world who are building their political projects on anti-immigrant fearmongering. Regardless of video records of truckloads of young men coordinated by the Moroccan government to bust through Ceuta, the far-right, anti-Muslim, immigrant-hating, racist base will eat this up.

Who paid the price?

The 67 people who died as instruments of someone else's political agenda. Per NPR, “The death toll in Spain's Ceuta border crisis with Morocco has climbed to 67; they included some who drowned and some who were killed in a stampede to cross a breakwater barrier.”

Whether this global far-right wet dream was orchestrated in D.C., Tel Aviv, Rabat, far-right Europe, or all of the above; whether it was the Moroccan authorities calmly leading the "immigrant crisis" out of the trucks or mainstream media using language such as "military-age men" and "Islamist invasion," the result of this, and of every political theater built around someone's ideology, is the same: dead bodies.

Brilliant researcher, going deeper to explain this fake “invasion.” Take a listen:

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On Wednesday, the United States House of Representatives passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), including Section 219, a provision sneakily inserted into this bill by the deviant mind of Benjamin Netanyahu to ensure its passage—an act of treason that will permanently embed the U.S. and Israeli militaries.

A merge, so they call it, a polite, romantic term that disguises the loss of sovereignty, the erasure of national identity, and the catastrophe it represents.

Was the American identity ever really anything other than what American Zionists decided it would be, with the benefit of Israel always operating on the backend of American pride?

Tucker Carlson called this treacherous act a humiliation ritual. More on that later. In preparation for this piece, I checked the Twitter grapevine to see what people were saying about this treacherous act by our sitting representatives.

And this thread I stumbled upon captures this moment in our history so perfectly that it could tell the entire story without any help from me. It contains everything needed to reveal the absurdity of this bill, the provision buried within it, what it represents, and how we arrived at this point. It is a masterclass in storytelling, a performance art:

What to even add anymore? There isn’t a better way to describe this moment in American history than to repeat Tucker’s humiliation ritual.

Zionists in power are lying to you by describing this bill as sharing “defense supply chains while also including joint collaboration on military technologies, data sharing, and research & development.”

In reality, Benjamin Mileikowsky understands the American citizens are appalled by Israel’s war crimes; the approval for that genocidal state is in such a gutter, the Congress cannot fight the public disapproval for yearly military funding for Israel for much longer, and his 10-year deal is soon over.

Per NBC News, in 2016, the U.S. and Israeli governments signed a memorandum of understanding for the 10 years through September 2028 that provides $38 billion in military aid, $33 billion in grants to buy military equipment and $5 billion for missile defense systems.

How do you continue getting the military aid while the entire world saw you maim children en masse for 4 years straight?

By deviously implanting the Section 219 provision into a defense bill to prevent a separate vote on it. By placing the Israeli Army inside the Pentagon, removing the need for yearly military funding to have to be approved yearly by Congress—voila, problem solved.

Netanyahu didn’t hold his breath for long, claiming an idea to “shift the framework for US-Israel defense cooperation from aid to partnership.”

This letter, his words and rhetoric, this arrogance in such a transparent takeover of American sovereignty for Israel’s gain, bypassing the scrutiny of military aid being approved every year amid a climate of a raging, disapproving American citizenry, is the scariest document I have ever read.

213 Republicans voted for this bill, every single one except for Thomas Massie. 5 Democrats voted for this bill and committed a blatant act of treason. They are Don Davis, Jared Golden, Adam Gray, Vicente Gonzalez, and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez.

The bill still needs to pass the Senate. The Senate will vote for it. Our government is fully captured.

“Oh, how convenient that there are always *just enough* Democratic votes to help the Republicans get their agenda through!” — Blakeley

What is left for us citizens to do?

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“Never Again” offends me. Every time I hear it, I recoil. It’s a sham, a myth, a lie — the most cynical pretense of all.

Never Again is a platitude. We convinced ourselves that those two words signified a lesson learned, that the memory of past genocides would stop us at even the slightest hint of another, and that the phrase itself carried the power to prevent it. But in reality, Never Again means nothing. It's as hollow as "How are you?"—a ritual we recite without expecting an answer.

Never Again is a lie, a moral leash the West uses to police the rest of the world while continuing to commit the very atrocities it claims to condemn.

Never Again is a comfort mantra. It’s said for show, to make the person saying it feel as though their moral compass is properly calibrated. Never Again is an entire performance, a phrase repeated out of habit, not conviction. It’s no longer a vow, just noise.

July.

Today marks the 31st anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide. Peculiar word to use, anniversary, like we’re celebrating a joyful event or a happy union worth commemorating. It’s dreadful, yet necessary, because it’s Never Again, hey?

July is a hard month for all my Bosnian friends. I see them posting online, sharing remembrance posts that explain what happened for those who don't know. After each one, they draw a parallel with Gaza. A few posts about Srebrenica, followed by posts about Gaza. Then more about Srebrenica, followed by more about Gaza. The little lines on their Instagram Stories are full today.

Their pain is never singular, never just their own. They use it to warn you about today. Even on this dreadful day, they don't make it about themselves but about Never Again. For anyone. Just reading their words, it bleeds through the screen and stings me. It's not normal to be this strong.

Bosnian people are some of the best people I know. In many ways, they remind me of Palestinians. There's a kindness in them that you don't often find elsewhere. A warmth in their eyes, as though the depth of their pain is matched by the softness it leaves behind. They carry a kind of knowledge about the world, as if they're privy to something the rest of us aren't. It's a club reserved only for those who have endured the most devastating forms of injustice.

Hate.

And yet Bosnians, like Palestinians, don't hate. They don't hate the world for letting them down. They don't even hate the perpetrators of their genocide, some of whom were never convicted and now live and walk among them, taunting them with what they got away with. I often wonder how people like the Bosnians can exist in a world that seems far too harsh for such illuminated souls.

They never ask for anything. They're grateful to anyone who acknowledges their pain. They don't rage. They come gently, simply to let you know that July is hard for them—a summer month that, for most of us, is filled with warm nights, sand in our bathing suits, and ice cream stains on our clothes. But for them, it's an unsettling month, a reminder that not all the remains of their 8,372 dead have been found.

They still search for their dead, and every year, on this day, they put those who they found to rest in peace. They will continue looking for the bones of their loved ones or neighbors, until the last remaining soul killed is found.

They don't just live with the pain of their memories or the ongoing reality of still searching for their dead. On this day, they also have to contend with Serbian nationalists denying what happened under nearly every story and every post about commemorating this genocide.

What has been done to combat this denial? In May 2024, United Nations member states voted to declare July 11 as the International Day of Reflection and Commemoration of the 1995 Genocide in Srebrenica, an annual day of remembrance for victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. Yet, denial is stronger than ever before.

Karadžić.

The History Channel also commemorated the Srebrenica genocide today by posting their investigation on Radovan Karadžić, a notorious war criminal serving life in prison at the Hague, accused of personal and command responsibility for war crimes committed against non-Serbs in Bosnia, under whose command Bosnian Serb forces initiated the Siege of Sarajevo and ordered the Srebrenica genocide in 1995.

He directed Bosnian Serb forces to "create an unbearable situation of total insecurity with no hope of further survival of life" in the UN safe area and was accused by the ICTY of ordering that United Nations personnel be taken hostage in May–June 1995.

Serbian nationalists gathered under this post, too, to voice their disapproval of History and history. Never Again is not an exercise these people practice, as Serbian radical president Aleksandar Vučić has been teaching them for 15 years that denial and invented mythology, rather than reckoning with these crimes, is Serbian national identity. You know, this guy:

And these are the Serbian nationalists’ comments on a report about Radovan Karadžić, the butcher of Bosnia, on the anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide:

Never again?

Last year, on the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, Christiane Amanpour shared a video commemorating the genocide. I watched it again today. Amanpour is a British-Iranian journalist and arguably CNN’s most prominent figure, renowned for her decades of war coverage around the world.

She played a crucial role in bringing the atrocities of the Bosnian War to the world’s attention through her reporting. Known for her chit-chat with Ratko Mladić, the perpetrator of the Srebrenica Genocide, during his engagement in pleasantries with Srebrenica residents before he ordered their slaughter.

Christiane Amanpour was in Bosnia at the time of the genocide. She witnessed it in person, reported on it, and clearly and precisely named the perpetrators and their leader. Yet today, she minces her words about the same kind of atrocity unfolding in Gaza, only on a much larger scale.

Her coverage of the Gaza Holocaust happening for the past three and a half years, livestreamed on our phones, daily, has been shameful. Her reporting about the Palestinian people lacks the moral clarity she once had, and in doing so, she is aiding the ruling system and the very people who not only allowed Gaza to happen but are actively funding it.

As someone with decades of experience reporting from war zones, she never named the perpetrators in Gaza by their names and called for their accountability.

Never Again?

There is one sentence Christiane Amanpour said last year in her video commemorating the Srebrenica genocide that banged me on the head, having lived through almost 4 years of the unspeakable war crimes unfolding live on our phones:

“Even wars have rules, you can’t kill civilians and non-combatants.”

Knowing what we know now, almost four years in, and seeing Israeli forces bomb Palestinian civilians in the tents almost seven months after a supposed ceasefire was declared, can we still pretend that wars are about anything but killing civilians?

It’s time we grow up, become atrocity-literate, and acknowledge that wars have always been about targeting civilians under the pretense of security or self-defense. At their core, wars are about removing the people from the land you want to take and seizing the resources they live on. The military exists to carry out that economic and territorial mission. It has never been about anyone’s safety.

Civilians are not collateral damage; they are the target. Genocide is not an exception to war; it is a tactic. A deliberate tool of the imperial conquest.

Never again?

We are the conscience. “This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal,” said Aaron Bushnell before setting himself on fire in protest of the genocide in Gaza. It is our responsibility to never accept any genocide or massacre or any killing of a civilian population as normal. Not in the past, not in the present, and prevent it in the future by exposing those who committed it and those who are denying it to this day.

Upholding that conscience is not a momentary act; it’s a lifelong duty.

A recommended read on this subject:

Srebrenica: Most well-known manifestation of hate rooted in history

“Forgotten genocides are repeated.”

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Last night’s clean sweep for Zohran Mamdani-endorsed candidates in New York’s Democratic primary sent a clear message to not only the citizens and the establishment of the United States but the entire world: we do not want corporate money in politics; we don’t want fascism on our streets; we don’t want wars; and we don’t want our tax money funding Israel, a state committing genocide and ethnic cleansing of their neighbors and the people they occupy.

I love this breakdown by ABC Eyewitness News:

“New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani flexed his political muscle Tuesday, getting a clean sweep as his three endorsed congressional candidates advanced to November’s general election, ousting two incumbent Democratic congressmen.

The mayor said it was a question of electing “better Democrats” who would “put working people back at the heart of politics.” The approach consternated some in Democratic leadership, but the outcome showcased Mamdani’s rising influence.”

Flexed his political muscle.

You got that right. The people of New York have had enough of establishment Democrats offering absolutely nothing but — we aren’t Trump. Consistently not having a policy, not working for the benefit of your constituents, blasting MAGA and Trump in public while being the kinder, more “progressive” partner of the uniparty ruling this country.

In New York’s 7th Congressional District, Mamdani-backed state Assemblywoman Claire Valdez won over Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso.

In the 10th District, another Mamdani-backed candidate, former city comptroller Brad Lander, beat incumbent Rep. Dan Goldman.

In the 13th District, the mayor’s candidate, community advocate Darializa Avila Chevalier, beat incumbent Rep. Adriano Espaillat.

For State Senate, Aber Kawas, a Palestinian organizer and democratic socialist fighting for affordable housing, immigrant rights, and no money for war, also won.

A sweep.

It’s one of the biggest upsets in a New York House primary. These victories mean three Mamdani allies will step into Congress in January.

And Zionists are shaking in their boots.

AIPAC is livid.

Do you remember this?

Pro-Israel and dark money groups spent a collective $8.4 million across the three races against Mamdani’s endorsed candidates and lost all three!

Democracy is the vehicle to end democracy?

Check out this tweet below, this reaction, and this coping from pro-genocidal, Islamophobic folks who know support for Israel is collapsing at lightning speed.

Check out Politico:

“Progressives who ran hard against the war in Gaza swept a trio of congressional primaries Tuesday in America’s most heavily Jewish city, turbocharging the Democratic Party’s yearslong shift away from Israel.

The results paint a picture of a Democratic Party rapidly shifting on an issue that was once considered a bipartisan prerequisite for success in the Big Apple and beyond.

Progressives’ victories show that harsh criticism of Israel is now not only politically survivable, but can be advantageous in New York City’s dominant party.

“In a Democratic primary, the people who are against the war in Gaza have a massive political advantage in 2026,” said Jon Paul Lupo, a longtime Democratic strategist in New York who served as an adviser to former Mayor Bill de Blasio.

In New York, progressives’ tour de force indicate the Israel criticism that powered Mayor Zohran Mamdani last year remains ascendent. Mamdani boosted Lander, Valdez and Avila Chevalier to victory on Tuesday.

“This signals a substantial shift in policy toward Israel,” said veteran New York-based Democratic strategist Basil Smikle.

“Unfortunately, democratic socialism and anti-Israel Democrats are going to have a stronger footing than ever before,” said Alex Hoffman, a Democratic strategist and donor adviser who wasn’t involved in these campaigns.

“For pro-Israel groups, there really needs to be a rethink of the strategy, the people involved and how money gets spent. Otherwise it’s going to hurt Democrats nationally.”

And you still thing organizing doesn’t work? People cannot make a change? Voting cannot make a difference?

Well, think again!

Jennifer Welch of the I’ve Had It Podcast did a spot-on breakdown of the historic nature of last night’s sweep:

“What happened in New York last night was the citizens standing up against corporations, against fascism, against MAGA, against corporate Democrats, against establishment Democrats. And this is hopefully going to sweep the entire country.

And people go, "Oh my god, they're so radical.” They're really not.

Not wanting to kill kids, not wanting to fund a country that intentionally targets children is not radical in the least. It is radical, homicidal, and genocidal to kill kids. And then to call the people who oppose that anti-Semitic assholes; this is the biggest bunch of gaslighting, and fuckery on the planet. And good on Zohran for standing up and believing in something and calling these corporate packs out for being the monsters that they are.

And shame on every Democratic politician that takes money from the same fascists that are funding the dismantling of the United States of America and who willfully smile and fund the intentional targeting of kids.”

People have had enough.

Jennifer continues:

“The Democratic Party is now built by corporations. The Democratic Party abandoned Americans, and they're just a MAGA lite, a masterclass in gaslighting. You should be fighting for the American people and listening to what they're saying. They want fighters. You want to go fight for corporations and fight for these lobbyists. The same big tech, the same AIPAC, the same big oil, the same big pharma that fund MAGA also fund the Democratic Party.

And our base just isn't as dumb as the Republican base.

That's what you're dealing with. You're dealing with a high-information voter base. Zohran has proven in the biggest, most capitalistic experiment on the planet, New York City, that you can take on the Democratic establishment, you can take on billionaires, you can take on Trump, you can do all of it, and you can still win. You can endorse three Democratic socialist candidates, not taking any corporate money, and you can still win.

The assholes in this situation are the corporations. The corporations took over the Democratic Party. They are the parasites. What happened in New York City last night is liberation. the first steps of liberation of the Democratic Party back to being a party that delivers materially for the people.

People are sick to death of being lied to. And the Democratic establishment is finding out right now. Your voter base is not nearly as dumb as the corporations that fund you want them to be.”

Truly great analysis by Jennifer, give it a watch when you have a chance!

Congrats, New York! Revolution starts HERE.

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Seeing the images of Israel pounding the ancient city of Tyre in the past week, as well as ordering the evacuation of the entire city on Tuesday, got me reeling. I grew up in the Balkan War of the 90s—bombing historic sites, churches, mosques, harbors, and civilian infrastructures is uncomfortably familiar to me.

My hometown is built around an ancient Roman palace—1,800 years old, called Diocletian’s Palace. If you’ve watched Game of Thrones, you’ve seen the ancient walls of Split. Like historic sites in Tyre, Diocletian’s Palace is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Diocletian's Palace is what the entire identity of the citizens of Split is built on. During the Balkan War, the Yugoslav Army and Navy launched a heavy artillery naval attack on the city. The Yugoslav Navy destroyer Split—ironically bearing the city's name—opened fire on Split, hitting the city center and the port, with Diocletian's Palace among its targets.

The Yugoslav Navy specifically targeted civilian infrastructure, the harbor, and historic parts of Split, all protected under UNESCO World Heritage status, causing widespread panic. Luckily, the naval shell landed just a few yards outside the Golden Gate of Diocletian's Palace. Hitting the palace offered no military advantage. It was personal. It was an attempt at erasure.

After the Battle of the Dalmatian Channels resulted in a major Croatian Navy victory that broke the Yugoslav naval blockade of Split, it forced the Yugoslav Army and Navy to retreat south.

Furious over this naval setback, their inability to take Split, and the ass-whooping they received from a Croatian Navy that had been barely pieced together from civilian vessels, captured equipment, and defecting personnel, Yugoslav forces turned their wrath on the undefended city of Dubrovnik, another UNESCO World Heritage Site. Another Game of Thrones location—yes, the King's Landing.

The blockade and siege of Dubrovnik lasted eight months. The most infamous bombardment, known as the Black Friday Attack, consisted of artillery, naval, and air assaults directed at the UNESCO-protected Old Town.

From. All. Sides. Imaginable.

The city was pounded with such zeal, such fury, making it clear the objective was not military victory or a simplistic land grab, but an attack on culture, heritage, and identity.

More than 11,000 historic buildings were damaged. The Old Town was looted and burned. Monuments, palaces, and churches were engulfed in flames. The entire city of Dubrovnik was left without electricity or water for three months. 194 Croatian military personnel were killed. 88 civilians lost their lives.

The unprovoked, deliberate targeting of a globally celebrated demilitarized zone shocked the world. Dubrovnik had no active military bases, heavy artillery, or soldiers stationed inside the old walls. Its status as an open, undefended cultural sanctuary is why the international community was so deeply shocked by the bombardment.

Attacking such a high-profile cultural landmark without any strategic military objective was an attack on the Croatian people’s morale—a deliberate assault on culture, history, and identity. All while the Yugoslav Army, under Serbian leadership, claimed its actions were defensive.

Every war is built on the same principle: the aggressor claims to be protecting its own security while seeking to expand its territory, blaming the people whose land it covets for resisting and portraying them as a threat to its survival—with the help of a compliant media.

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I wasn’t planning on giving Jack Schlossberg an entire article; I already covered his performance on the I’ve Had It Podcast last week on my Instagram, where nearly 952 people chimed in on his verbal gymnastics about Israel’s war crimes.

But clips of his views — revealing exactly how he plans to govern, if elected —keep resurfacing on social media, and this is another one I want to immortalize on Antagolist, in case he wins, God forbid. We’ll be seeing a lot more of him, I’m sure, and the receipts need to live somewhere.

This was during the ‘No Kings’ protest in New York, and where do I even begin with his rodent voice + boomer politics? Jack says, “We’ve got to get the money out of politics; I do not have a super PAC, or a corporate PAC,” while shilling for Israel before he’s even won the office. Those who don’t do it for the money but for the love of the apartheid game are even more nauseating.

How is this guy so bad at this?

“We will never have no kings as long as billionaires can buy elections.”

Can you see free Palestine, Jack?

“What? I’m not going to say it.”

Wait, why can’t you say Free Palestine?

“Because th th (stutters) that’s not what we’re here for, I’m here for no kings.”

Can you say fuck Israel?

No way, dude, I'm Jewish.

Do you like Zionism?

“We’re not talking about that right now.”

The interviewer demolished him in under 30 seconds. Iconic, to watch, truly.

I had hopes for this guy — not high hopes, but hopes. Given his family was (give or take one black sheep here and there) historically on the right side of — I won’t say things, but that one big thing we need our politicians to be on the right side of —alas, no.

I wasn’t that shocked with his performance on I’ve Had It, as I already heard him give the same “offensive/defensive” spiel about Iron Dome at some conference. And last August, when Chuck Schumer tweeted the following, it was pretty clear what we were getting here. Nothing, in short. We get nothing.

Per ABC, a Senate Majority AIPAC cheerLeader Chuck Schumer, appointed the only grandson of former President John F Kennedy, Jack Schlossberg, to the America 250 Commission, “in an effort to push back against President Donald Trump.”

This is quite literally the only play Democrats have, no substantive policy — just one constant play: “we’re not Trump.” They absolutely refuse to listen to their base or come up with an actual strategy that would remove the fascists in power. We are not as bad as them is not policy, it’s a lazy effort play for the same oligarchs and Zionist masters.

“We know that Donald Trump will try to aggrandize the whole thing and make it part of him and his ego,” Schumer said in a video beside Schlossberg. “There’s no better person to push back on that than you, Jack, and I know you will be there and make sure that when we celebrate our 250th birthday, we remember that America is a nation of justice, equal justice, of unity, e pluribus unum, of treating everybody with dignity.”

Barf.

I’ve Had It.

On Jennifer Welch’s Podcast, Jack was asked if he’s against more aid to Israel, offensive or defensive, and his response was:

“I do draw a distinction there, and I do think that the US should continue, I would continue funding the Iron Dome in Israel. US and Israel, I hope for a better relationship in the future, and I think that we can get there. They are our historic ally.

I’m not trying to understate the atrocities, the loss of life, and the fact that the situation there is terrible, but I do think that the US shouldn’t fully abandon its ally and should continue funding the Iron Dome.”

When asked if he thinks what Israel is committing are war crimes, he said:

“I would let a court determine that. What I think is, it’s a murderous regime, and it’s not making Israelis safer, in my opinion, or American Jews safer. And I take very seriously, you know, the district I’m running in is the most Jewish district in the country.

I have two grandfathers, one was the president of the US, the other was the president of his temple uptown. And so I take the concerns of people here, anti-semitism on the rise, and the importance of Israel as a homeland for the Jewish people, I take it really seriously. I’ve met so many, especially now running the campaign, people who — it’s very important to them, and to the world, to have a Jewish state that doesn’t disappear and isn’t constantly under threat.

If you were to full scale abandon the Iron Dome program, I do believe you invite attack. I do believe you invite a wider attack that draws the US even further into a war in the region. And it is a nuanced position, but in short, I do not support this war. I would vote against funding this war.”

Jennifer tried, she really tried to lead him out of the pit, but that Zionist upbringing is harder than any sense or logic:

“Do I think that I would remain voting to continue Iron Dome funding because of what I think would happen if we didn’t?

Yes.”

Democrats remain unwilling to change course or listen to their base. We do not want another candidate more concerned with footing the bill for Israel while Americans struggle. He talks about Israel’s safety even when confronted with the IDF sniping children in the head - he’s clearly not his grandfather, nor even his uncle.

We won’t vote for anyone who refuses to condemn Israel’s war crimes. They can fund their own Iron Dome. Arguing that tired “I’m for defensive weapons, not offensive” tells us exactly how he’ll govern: shilling for Israel by pretending there’s a moral distinction while they wipe their neighbors from the face of the earth. Defensive aid allows Israel to be offensive.

Jack is running on being a Kennedy. That’s it. He has no substance, no personality, no youthful perspective, no generational awareness in his politics; he has nothing. His pro-Israel stance is a non-starter.

“We’re not talking about that right now,” Jack says on the streets of New York, when asked about freeing Palestine from its oppressors.

Oh no, we’re definitely talking about that right now, Jack. In fact, it’s all we’ll be talking about for a long, long time. Well into your election.

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What a week, folks. It ended quite well, if you ask me—hopeful, even. The White House posting an image of Donald Trump looking rather defeated, with his Truth Social rambling in all caps: “IRAN HAS JUST ANNOUNCED THAT THE STRAIT OF IRAN IS FULLY OPEN AND READY FOR FULL PASSAGE. THANK ”YOU!” really sets the tone for what this world is becoming. And you should feel very hopeful.

Strait of Iran, Trump says. And in three little words, here lies the incompetence and absolute delusion of the most powerful empire on earth. Defeat.

Let’s revisit what the United States and Israel accomplished in Iran over the past six weeks: a failed coup, failed regime change, and a failed attempt to collapse Iran through isolation and sanctions. They bombed Iranian infrastructure, killed Iran’s supreme leader and members of his family, killed schoolgirls and teenage volleyball players, lied about it, and failed to take responsibility.

They showed the world that they are untrustworthy toddlers at the negotiating table and in the realm of international diplomacy. The outcome of this historic US/Israel tag-team failure was the exact opposite of what they had so arrogantly promised.

What did Iran accomplish?

Iran set ceasefire terms with the United States, pushed Israel out of the negotiations, secured the unfreezing of its assets and lifting major sanctions, preserved its sovereignty, and emerged as an economic power.

It proved itself to be an honest and dignified negotiator, rebuilt its global standing, won over much of the American public by recognizing that the battle is as much about information as it is on the battlefield, and challenged decades of Western moral propaganda.

And most importantly, Iran refused to leave Lebanon out of its ceasefire negotiations. After weeks of relentless misinformation and insults, it even drew public praise from Trump—not that it means much coming from such a flippant figure.

What about Israel?

Check out the tweet below by Yair Lapid, an Israeli politician: “There has never been such a political disaster in all of our history.” Both the US and Israel set out to destroy Iran; instead, as Yair Lapid says, “It will take us years to repair the political and strategic damage that Netanyahu caused due to arrogance, negligence, and a lack of strategic planning.”

Trump set out to Make America Great Again; instead, he exposed the United States to the world as a paper tiger, weakening its military credibility, undermining its diplomacy, and damaging its global standing.

What a brilliant strategic play by Iran. The world won’t go back to what it was before this.

Whatever happens next, this moment may be remembered as one of the most significant strategic turnarounds in recent history.

The blockade.

But the clearest display of defeat came in a single moment outside the White House, when Trump let out a breath that sounded equal parts relief and disbelief:

“The blockade is more powerful than the bombing, if you want to know the truth."

Chris Hedges:

“Iran has brilliantly broken out of Washington's 47 year cage by leveraging their strategic power over the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran has completely shattered the American empire's containment strategy.”

Amir Amini:

“Iran has maintained its sovereignty and completely restored its image on the world stage like a phoenix rising from the ashes. As it stands today, this will go down in history as one of the greatest strategic achievements ever.”

Mohammad Marandi:

“The Zionist regime will always fail against the Axis of Resistance.”

Will this cessation of fire hold?

No, it very likely won’t. We all know Netanyahu and Israel are incapable of restraining themselves from mass murdering civilians. I’m sure they’ll try again, but Iran tied their negotiation proposal to ceasefire in Lebanon and the Strait of Hormuz passage. If Israel breaks it, we’ll surely see another round of boom boom Tel Aviv.

Judge Andrew Napolitano:

“Do the Israelis ever abide by a ceasefire?”

Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson:

“Never. I don't think the Hebrew word must not mean the same as the English word. Netanyahu doesn’t seem to know what it is.”

Real estate crooks.

I don’t think people are fully comprehending how much damage Steve Witcoff and Jared Kushner have done to the American people by convincing Trump to start this war. Doing this while holding security clearances, for the benefit of a foreign country and to the detriment of their own citizens, they should be tried for treason.

There isn’t enough public outcry about the monstrosity of Jared Kushner. He’s basically a clean-cut, more demure Epstein. Kushner is running the same op for Israel by “persuasion” and “business deals” as Epstein did with sex trafficking and blackmail.

Israel’s entire ability to exist while committing such medieval violence on its neighbors and the indigenous people they occupy is made possible by running the kompromat. People need to realize that it is a business model that allowed them to still be standing today, in all their impunity, without anyone in power willing to challenge their war crimes. And if the state runs on kompromat, that business model cannot stop with the death of Epstein; someone else needs to continue running it.

Jared Kushner.

The daily cost of the war on Iran ran from 800 million to 2 billion. If that wasn’t enough damage to the citizens of this country with the biggest wealth gap recorded in history, the Trump administration has sought an extra $200 billion supplemental funding package to sustain these operations.

How about the damage done to the entire world’s safety and economic stability? All this for representing Israel’s interests in the White House.

Iran is resetting the system.

These are groundbreaking times we are witnessing. Iran and its allies are resetting the systems that are running on the Zionist influence of the Western governments. Now that Iran has shown real deterrence and economic power with the Strait of Hormuz, there will be more negotiations that will change the power dynamics, which gives Iran leverage to demand the inclusion of Palestinian rights to self-determination.

We must never, ever be complacent about the Palestine question.

These changes in the global power systems could work for American interests too; they only don’t work for the Zionist interests. I predict it will all boil down to how much stranglehold Netanyahu and the casino Zionists from Vegas have over Donald Trump.

Fourth center of global power.

I recommend checking out this opinion piece by Robert A. Pape, meticulously breaking down why Iran is quickly emerging as a fourth center of global power, alongside China, Russia, and the United States. Robert argues that it is not due to economic scale or military capability, but “from its control over the most important energy choke point in the global economy, the Strait of Hormuz.”

“The United States faces a difficult choice: either commit to a long-term effort to reassert control over the Strait of Hormuz, or accept a new global energy arrangement in which U.S. control is no longer assured.

If it chooses acceptance, the outcome is clear: The international system will reorganize with Iran as a fourth center of global power. Yet if the United States chooses to reassert military control, it is in for a long battle, one it could well lose.

The Iran war is not a military conflict from which the United States can simply back out, with things reverting to how they were before. Iran would surely demand a heavy price in a new accommodation with the United States — but this price will surely be less costly than that of the alternative future. This is a transformational war, and if these changes continue for even a few years, the global order will change irrevocably.”

Western arrogance and unchecked power have maybe, possibly, finally met their match.

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Iran’s delegation departed for Islamabad today for negotiations with the United States. This sounds hopeful, one might think, after all, no one wants WW3 to interfere with our summer plans, the World Cup, and gas prices. Yes, this was sarcasm. I’m at my wits’ end.

Negotiations are good. Talks and agreements matter when there’s a credible partner. Traveling to negotiate with terrorists who, on the first day of an unprovoked aggression against your nation, double-tapped your elementary school with a Tomahawk cruise missile, killing 168 schoolgirls, is not diplomacy; it’s futility.

Even the mafia has rules. The United States and Israel have none.

Why would you travel to negotiate with the terrorists who bombed 800 of your schools, over 30 universities, healthcare facilities, and other civilian infrastructures?

Why would you travel to negotiate with the terrorists who openly brag about assassinating your leaders?

Why would you travel to negotiate with the terrorists who bring Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, two real estate crooks who know nothing about diplomacy, two Israel First Chabad fanatics who want to see your entire civilization destroyed?

Minab-168.

The aircraft transporting the Iranian officials to Islamabad was not just a government plane; it was an act of remembrance, an indictment — it was named Minab-168. It’s a tribute to the young schoolgirls erased from this earth by the US/Israeli disregard for human life. Taking a life with such ease, and disregard — an ultimate flex of power.

What could you possibly negotiate with such a demonic, barbaric force?

The images from inside the plane are haunting. Photographs of the young victims, along with blood-stained school bags and personal belongings recovered from beneath the rubble of the destroyed classrooms.

Parliament Speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, who heads the Iranian delegation, posted an image from aboard the aircraft on X, writing simply: “My companions on this flight.”

For our entire lives, we’ve been fed a farce: Western goodness versus Eastern evil. You have eyes and ears — you see it every day. You watch diplomats on both sides, what they say, how they act, and then you look at the side you were taught to fear, the supposed epitome of evil, and all you see is kindness, reason, restraint, empathy, modesty, diplomacy, respect. Tell me you finally see it. The difference is so stark, it’s unbearable.

By naming the aircraft and their mission in Islamabad — “Minab-168,” Iranian diplomats signaled to the world that it would not separate diplomacy from memory, nor negotiations from justice. In carrying bloodied school bags onto a plane bound for peace talks, Iran made clear that it does not approach negotiations in abstraction. It approaches them with the weight of 168 lives — children who will never return to their classrooms.

The shadow of the US double strike on Minab school, in the age of drones and surveillance, needs to loom over these entire peace talks. The United States needs to be forced to confront the human cost of its actions.

Children of Minab are not a footnote in this conflict. They are its conscience.

Israeli asset.

You can measure the state of affairs in the US — and just how much it is influenced, by proxy, by American Zionists — by how many of these voices dominate the government and mainstream media. The number of people occupying the airwaves and newsrooms primarily to advance Israeli interests is nauseating.

A few days ago, Marc Thiessen, a known Israeli asset moonlighting as an American author and columnist, published an article titled 'Iran thinks it has leverage. Here’s how Trump can prove it wrong,’ in The Washington Post. Free version here.

The gall of these people is becoming unbearable. The audacity of the Bezos rag publishing these Netanyahu assets, foaming at the mouth with bloodlust toward Iran, calling for the murder of Iranian diplomats who refuse to bow to them, is exactly what we need to fight with everything we’ve got.

The way these Zionists talk about the death of the people whose worldview they don’t like is truly barbaric and satanic. To be allowed to spread their degenerate, murderous culture through American media while calling to jail people for saying Free Palestine is mind-boggling.

You need to read that entire insult to humanity, but this part is astounding:

“Fourth, carry out a final barrage of leadership strikes, eliminating the Iranian officials who had been spared for the purpose of negotiations. Iran’s leaders must be made to understand that their lives literally depend on reaching a negotiated settlement to Trump’s liking. If they refuse to do so, they will be killed.”

Just to recap: Marc Thiessen's Washington Post op-ed argues that the foreign diplomats’ lives were only spared from the Israeli assassination machine, so that they can accept the Emperor Trump’s negotiated settlement to his LIKING.

Mario Nawfal gets this right:

“Show up for peace talks and a Washington Post columnist will recommend your assassination.

Marc Thiessen just published a piece saying if Iran does not accept Trump's terms, eliminate the negotiating team. The same people who were spared specifically to come talk.

You invited them. They came. Pakistan shut down its entire capital for this. And some guy in Washington with a keyboard and zero skin in the game is writing columns about killing diplomats while they are still at the table.

This is disgusting. There is no other word for it.

You want to know why nobody trusts American diplomacy? This. Right here. You push for talks, someone shows up, and your newspapers start printing assassination wish lists before the first session is even over.”

If Iran walks away from this table tomorrow, nobody should wonder why.

Conclusion:

The Iranians possess high morals and a rich civilization; treachery, betrayal, and assassination are not in their nature. Unlike the other side, whose only skills are lying, deception, treachery, betrayal, and crime. Everyone must decide which side they stand with.

Iranian delegation, I hope you walk away from the negotiating table. The cost for you and for the world will be high, but the time has come to end our complicity in American depravity — tolerating, accepting, accommodating, and justifying its arrogance and barbarity.

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I wrote an International Women’s Day poem in 2024, and I’ve been posting it every year since. It’s always current, always fitting — nothing seems to change. The world has descended into a permanent state of imperial stupor, so it always applies. It goes like this:

This year, I feel like expanding it, given the sheer Western arrogance of this moment — Women, Life, Freedom in action. “Help is on the way, Iran,” claim US and Israeli politicians, activists, influencers, and Iranian diaspora hasbarists; liberation underway, one bomb at a time, war openly marketed as feminism, and the liberation of the Iranian people.

Over the past two years, we watched Palestinian and Lebanese women face levels of violence, displacement, and trauma unimaginable to the rest of us. Entire families wiped out. Mothers and daughters buried under rubble. Hospitals and maternity destroyed.

Yet these women rarely appear in the speeches of the same politicians or social media posts of the people who suddenly invoke feminism when discussing Iran. Like we haven’t witnessed it, livestreamed, on our phones. Women’s rights are not universal principles. They are geopolitical talking points.

Liberating Iran.

This March, a week into the US and Israeli bombing of Iran, waking up every day to watch the Orientalist myth of “saving Muslim women from their oppressors” play out by dropping bombs on their schools and killing 168 of their children has been a hard pill to stomach.

I’m sick and tired of the language of women’s rights being repurposed every time the Western empire needs to justify wars and geopolitical violence against its adversaries around the world.

Bombs are humanitarian. Military strikes are feminist acts. And the Epstein class of pedophiles and sex traffickers controlling the US government now pose as guardians of oppressed women abroad to justify the imperial domination of the resource-rich Middle East.

We aren’t angry enough, people. They are taking us for fools.

Women, Life, Freedom.

Looks like they went down to the basement and dusted off the Women, Life, Freedom movement, right on schedule. Only when convenient. Only when it serves the Empire, and the Iranian diaspora Zionists.

Diaspora monarchists, Zionists, Washington neo-cons, Israel-first warmongers, and the Epstein class pedophiles grabbed the Women, Life, Freedom movement from the shelf, fronting as the champions of women’s rights, cheering the first two bombs dropped on an Iranian school, massacring 168 girls, and on a gymnasium, massacring 20 female teenage volleyball players.

There’s not a single mainstream media outlet that has published a story about a volleyball massacre. Drop Site News gave it some justice.

Saving Muslim women.

The Women, Life, Freedom movement emerged organically from the experiences of Iranian women confronting their own government and their own social constraints. It was a movement rooted in local agency. It has no business being hijacked by the pedophile class now feigning moral superiority.

Western governments have long justified intervention in the Middle East through a narrative that casts Muslim women as victims waiting to be rescued. The storyline is always the same: Muslim women are oppressed by their backwards culture, religion, and by men around them. Western powers must step in as liberators.

Liberators who preside over Western societies plagued by sexual violence, trafficking, exploitation, child abuse, and deep structural inequality. Liberated by the militaries that carry their own documented histories of abuse, including rape and sexual violence during occupations.

What did the US army do to women in Iraq and Afghanistan? Or to their female colleagues? What did the Israeli army do to women in Gaza, the West Bank, and the Israeli Detention Facilities?

The irony is obscene.

Marketing war as feminism.

Today, on International Women’s Day, the Israeli Defence Forces released a video of a female IDF soldier proclaiming, “As a woman, I’m not here to watch history from the side. I’m here to build it.”

A remarkable reach, and a signature of the most moral army in the world, which has vaporized close to 700,000 human beings in Gaza in the past two and a half years.

After everything we’ve seen come out of that society, what’s a little more purplewashing? Cloaking military action and the massacre of civilians in the language of gender equality, while concealing the suffering those actions produce.

The message is grotesque: our women participate in war equally, so our wars and our massacres are morally validated. Our female soldiers are commanders and pilots; we are a society with progressive values, unlike those backward barbarians we’re bombing into civilization.

The erasure of women’s agency.

The most damaging aspect of the saving Muslim women narrative is that it erases the agency of the very women it claims to defend. It portrays them as weak, oppressed, and in need of rescue, while simultaneously casting Arab men as inherently violent and oppressive.

Women are framed as helpless victims, we must bomb the country to save them; and men are dangerous enemies, we can kill them, they are terrorists. It is a brilliantly nefarious equation, long cultivated by the West and Israel to justify their imperial pursuits.

In reality, women across the Middle East have long histories of activism and political resistance. They have organised movements, led protests, fought authoritarianism, and challenged patriarchal structures within their own societies. Leila Khaled, anyone?

From Palestinian resistance movements to Iranian student activism, women in the region have repeatedly taken leading roles in struggles for justice. Western power structures have been able to sustain their lies about the Middle East for so long because of the Islamophobia deliberately planted in Western minds.

Yet Western narratives portray these women as passive victims waiting for outside salvation. If women are helpless, intervention becomes morally justified. If they are active political actors, the argument collapses.

Their struggle has never required scripts written in Washington or London to justify imperial supervision.

Accusation as strategy.

As I already mentioned, the idea of saving women relies on another stereotype about Middle Eastern men: that they are uniquely violent, backward, and oppressive. It serves several purposes at once. It justifies violence against those men, undermines their legitimate armed resistance to occupation by labeling it terrorism and extremism, and feeds the belief in Western moral superiority.

Western moral superiority, now plagued by the Epstein files. A ruling class entangled in pedophilia, sex trafficking, and exploitation wants to lecture the world about domestic violence, sexual assault, and gender inequality.

The myth that patriarchy belongs to other cultures is comforting to the West. It allows us to avoid confronting our own failures. Patriarchy is not a regional trait. It is a global system.

And the violence exported through imperial wars rarely stays contained abroad. It returns home through militarised policing, surveillance, and a political culture increasingly comfortable with dehumanisation.

The same societies that claim to protect women overseas shoot their own women in the face for protesting ICE violence, then lie about it to the public.

Whose Feminism?

International Women’s Day should be a moment to reflect on solidarity across borders. And solidarity requires honesty.

Unlike dishonest Iranian diaspora Zionists and monarchists who cheer the bombing of their own people “for freedom and democracy,” we need to stay on point: women around the world do not need bombs dropped in their name. They do not need their struggles instrumentalized for the geopolitical narratives of a biblically deranged Western ruling class.

If the language of women’s rights is to mean anything, it cannot be selectively deployed to justify war while ignoring violence produced by the very same policies.

Women around the world need the freedom to define their own struggles, their own movements, and their own futures. And that freedom begins with rejecting the idea that empire has anything to do with liberation. Empire does not liberate. It devastates.

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Did anyone truly believe we’d get a whole week into the new year without state violence, lightly seasoned with yet another breach of international law? I did. I was riding the high of Heated Rivalry Christmas, followed by the historic Mamdani inauguration, and I foolishly believed there were still so many joys in this world — joys our government works relentlessly to suffocate.

And after two years of struggling to find my own sense of meaning, living in a country in perpetual decline, I was determined not to let 2026 be taken from me the same way.

No can do, said the crime syndicate, pretending to be your government.

Only three days into the new year, and it’s already Grand Theft Venezuela. We’re snatching presidents of sovereign foreign countries to steal their resources — or, more precisely, to stockpile oil before attacking another sovereign nation, Iran, in a matter of weeks.

As you already know, the US military attacked Venezuela over the weekend and abducted President Nicholas Maduro, alongside his wife Cilia Flores, leaving at least 40 people dead (latest report has the number at 75 people) in the process.

The most dangerous reality of living in a country in perpetual decline is that the government no longer feels compelled to make its lies believable. The restraint is gone. Now that they have done it, Trump and his ratchet administration are flat-out telling you why; there’s no more chatter about fentanyl or narco-terrorism, or installing freedom and democracy.

Just hear Trump say it with his full chest, following the kidnapping of the President of a sovereign country:

“We’re gonna take back the oil that frankly we should have taken back a long time ago. We’re going to be taking out a tremendous amount of wealth out of the ground, and that wealth is going to the people of Venezuela, and people from outside of Venezuela that used to be in Venezuela, and it goes also to the United States of America in the form of reimbursement for the damages caused to us by that country.”

“We’re going to have our very large United States oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure, and start making money for the country, and we are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so.”

And there you have it, rinse & repeat, like so many times before, the might is right, the oil grab camouflaged in America’s go-to moral sermons. Same savage imperialism, stripped of any disguise. We have social media now, and they aren’t even trying to Colin Powell us into obedience.

Let’s be honest, the US has been doing this forever. Nothing about the latest Grand Theft Venezuela is unique.

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Until Monday night, you could have optimistically believed that the UN was the most impotent organization in the world. I’ve endearingly called them content creators for the past two years. I truly saw no difference between them and an influencer trying to sell you the newest face cream, promising it will make you younger if you just keep applying it.

The UN is the most useless organization on earth; I’ve said it repeatedly. They show up to file reports, tally the dead, and archive what was already allowed to happen. Their entire job seems to be documenting the atrocities, never stopping them. Don’t even get me started on the veto power.

But, see that’s just the thing. They aren’t useless. The only catch is, they aren’t useful to you or me, or the Palestinian, Sudanese, or the Congolese people — they are useful to the Western establishment. They’re a crucial puzzle of the imperial project. They operate as partners of the Empire. And what they did on Monday effectively makes them part of the crime scene.

The resolution.

On Monday night, the UN Security Council adopted a US resolution detailing the mandate for the Gaza International Stabilization Force outlined in Trump’s Gaza ceasefire plan.

Per Reuters, the text of the resolution says member states can take part in the Trump-chaired Board of Peace, envisioned as a transitional authority that would oversee “reconstruction and economic recovery of Gaza.” It also authorizes the international stabilization force, which would ensure a “process of demilitarizing Gaza, including by decommissioning weapons and destroying military infrastructure.”

This resolution was adopted 13-0-2; 13 countries voted in favor of it, 0 voted against it, and 2 abstained (Russia and China).

Demilitarizing Gaza.

These jokers really expect us to accept their morbid idea — that an occupied population without sovereignty, without a military, and without freedom of movement, one that has just been subjected to the most brutal genocidal campaign by the two most powerful psychopathic powers, is supposed to demilitarize?

Hamas, naturally, said — no way, Jose. In a statement, they reiterated that it will not disarm and argued that its fight against Israel is legitimate resistance, potentially pitting the resistance group against the international force authorized by this resolution.

A peace deal, anyone?

And what was Israel doing in the days leading to the United States passing the resolution that would come in and help them achieve military goals they themself couldn’t achieve for the past two years against the population in flip-flops, with homemade weapons?

On Sunday, per Al Jazeera, “Israel was engaged in a last-ditch bid to change the wording of a United Nations Security Council resolution on the next phase of United States President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan that was recently amended to mention a credible pathway to Palestinian statehood.”

Please mention the two-state solution one more time to me, I dare you.

On Sunday, Netanyahu repeated to his cabinet that his opposition to a Palestinian state had “not changed one bit”. This was one day before the United Nations Security Council would vote on the US-drafted resolution, which would mandate a transitional administration and an international stabilisation force (ISF) in Gaza.

Straight out of Shakespeare.

Iago, Lady Macbeth, and Richard III would be ashamed of what Netanyahu and his government pulled in the last 48 hours to prevent Palestinian statehood before the United Nations Security Council vote on Monday.

He engaged in a last-minute diplomatic push to alter the draft resolution, which the US had changed to include more defined language about Palestinian self-determination under pressure from Arab and Muslim countries expected to contribute troops to the International Stabilisation Force.

The draft now says that “conditions may be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood” after reforms to the Palestinian Authority are “faithfully carried out and Gaza redevelopment has advanced”.

Do you finally realize the scope of this diplomatic farce?

All of you insincere Islamophobes who still parrot the — but Palestinians are refusing any peace deals and offers to have a state, are you finally there? Did you arrive at the Netanyahu pulling Shakespearian chess moves for decades to prevent any coexistence, like ever?

And this is where the United Nations comes in as his tool. Instead of holding him and the state of Israel accountable for the war crimes the entire world saw on their phones, livestreamed, they came out with this vote to legitimize this genocide, and the occupation of the Palestinian people.

Not much different from what the United Nations did in November 1947, when it proposed the partition of Palestine. This is simply a continuation of their original sin.

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The resistance factions came out, naturally, to call these efforts “a new attempt to impose another form of occupation on our land and people, and to legitimise foreign trusteeship”.

Palestinian voices and aspirations for sovereignty have been fully sidelined by the farce and the spectacle of Trump’s Gaza plan, which we knew would happen from its launch. The villains of the world, deciding the destiny of a nation they just bombarded to oblivion, allowing no Palestinians at the table, having a say in their own reality.

Al Jazeera also reports, as of late Sunday night, Hamas and other Palestinian resistance factions called on Algeria, a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, to reject the plan for stabilisation forces to be deployed in Gaza.

“We direct a sincere and fraternal appeal to the Algerian Republic, government and people, to continue adhering to its principled positions supporting Palestine, and its steadfast rejection of any projects targeting Gaza’s identity and our people’s right to self-determination.”

Algeria denied their plea.

Instead, they raised their hand and voted yes on this shameful resolution.

A book could be written about the scale of betrayal the Arab world’s leaders continue to inflict on the Palestinian people. It’s unbearable to watch.

The people in Gaza just endured two years of the most brutal assault, genocide, starvation of its people, fighting the entire Western empire and their most sophisticated weaponry — stateless people without sovereignty and military, and Israel still could not defeat them. The most powerful army in the Middle East, backed and funded by the biggest superpower on earth, could not defeat these orphans from defending their land.

Instead, they needed a resolution passed by the United Nations Security Council, so that the international community could send in the international boots on the ground, to impose Israeli goals — the ones they failed to secure militarily.

The world is literally being asked to police the Palestinian people for Israel!

Russia.

Russia had a golden chance here. The world is finally waking up to the lies — about Israel, about Ukraine, about the brutality of the American Empire. They had a rare opportunity to veto this humiliating resolution and show the world exactly where the violence is coming from, and which side of the hemisphere keeps failing at even the bare minimum of diplomacy.

In the weeks leading up to this vote, Russia was circulating its own resolution to rival the US version, offering stronger language on Palestinian statehood and stressing that the occupied West Bank and Gaza must be joined as a contiguous state under the Palestinian Authority.

They did not insist on their resolution, and they did not use this opportunity to veto the US resolution; instead, both Russia and China cowardly abstained.

Best part? Israel and Turkiye are supposed to be the two countries mediating this resolution on the ground in Gaza. Israel has already said it will not accept Turkiye, a key Gaza ceasefire mediator, having any role on the ground.

This means Israel, a country that has just committed a genocide on these people, will be the ones mediating this “peace deal!”

This farce is hard to swallow even for those least informed; this is like putting Hitler in charge of peace for the Jews in 1945.

Shameful. Humiliating.

Russia’s failure to use this moment to advance its own resolution, or at the very least veto this shameful US draft that renders Palestinian self-determination impossible, raises the question: in practice, how are Russia and China any different from Washington and Tel Aviv?

Sam Husseini tweeted what was on my mind, reading this unfortunate turn of events:

China and Russia abstained. All other US puppet United Nations Security Council members voted yes.

Mark today in your calendars folks: The start of a new imperial crusade.

Craig Mokhiber, a former United Nations human rights official and a specialist in international human rights law, posted a sobering tweet:

“The UN Security Council has just adopted the horrific US resolution with 13 yes votes and 2 abstentions. Not a single member of the Council had the courage, principle, or respect for international law to vote against this US-Israel colonial outrage.

This proposal has been rejected by Palestinian civil society and factions, and defenders of human rights and international law everywhere. 17 November 2025 is a day of shame for the United Nations, and for governments around the world on their knees before the US empire and its violent Israeli client. But the struggle for Palestinian freedom will continue undeterred, with or without them.”

Board of Peace.

Another important detail about this “peace resolution” for you to know. Drop Site News reminds that this vote installs Jared Kushner and Tony Blair’s concept for a foreign “Board of Peace” as Gaza’s governing authority, giving it control over the enclave’s resources and borders. The resolution authorizes the deployment of an International Stabilization Force to disarm the resistance in Gaza. It also creates a Palestinian executive committee for day-to-day administration and ties Israeli withdrawal to Hamas disarmament, with progress reports required every six months to the Security Council.

What to even say?

Hope you now understand that the United Nations’ purpose is not to uphold international law or bring perpetrators of human rights violations to justice. Its purpose is to legitimize colonization, genocide, and imperial pursuits. After all, the UN was created to formalize and recognize the state of Israel on top of the existing Palestinian population. We should never forget its origins.

If the United Nations were actually doing what its mandate claims, it would place neutral forces in Gaza, work with the Palestinian resistance to secure the State of Palestine, disarm Israel, and remove all its nuclear weapons.

Great tweet by Sultan Khan:

The UN just wrapped the US occupation plan in blue flags and called it “peace.” A foreign council to rule Gaza, foreign soldiers to disarm the occupied, and Israel leaves only when Palestinians kneel.
This isn’t peacekeeping.
It’s empire management.
It’s genocide with official paperwork.

I want to leave you with this excellent United Nations Villain’s Origin Story, in case this article didn’t make it clear enough. This analysis is by a brilliant geopolitical, historical buff, Queniform. Please read this:

The UN Was Born as an Instrument of Partition. Today, It Returns to Its First Task.

Today, the UN approved an “international stabilization force” for Gaza - a polite phrase for an occupation army.

Strip the diplomatic veneer and the meaning is blunt: the world is being asked to send its own soldiers to finish what Israel’s armed groups failed to do. An international battalion to impose Israeli goals. Foreign sons dying for a land grab.

This is not a rupture.

This is continuity.

This is the UN returning to its original assignment.

From the Beginning, the UN Was the Administrative Wing of the Zionist Project.

The mythology says the UN was born to maintain peace after World War II. The record says something else. In 1947, the UN Partition Plan carved Palestine with a pen stroke so violent it still echoes. Jews, who owned only 7% of the land, were suddenly “awarded” 56%.

Not through history, not through purchase, not through population, not through consent — but through a vote orchestrated by Western powers already invested in a settler state to secure their imperial corridor between the Mediterranean and the Gulf.

This was no act of impartial global governance.

It was the handover ceremony of British colonialism to its chosen successor.

Britain had failed to break Palestinian resistance — even after the 1936 revolt, even after collective punishments, executions, home demolitions, curfews, and martial law.

So the mandate was passed to a new structure: the United Nations.

The partition plan wasn’t peacekeeping. It was dispossession in legal dress.

2025: The UN Returns to Form.

Fast-forward.

Israel’s army has exhausted itself in Gaza.

The global public has seen the atrocities and refuses to legitimize them.

So a familiar mechanism is revived:

When colonial violence reaches its limit, the UN steps in to launder the next phase.

Under “international mandate,” the same outcome is pursued:

The fragmentation of Palestine.

The containment of its people.

The protection of Israeli expansion.

The neutralization of resistance.

It is the Mandate system without the British flag.

It is the Partition Plan without the word “partition.”

Israel failed to conquer Gaza.

So now the “international community” is being marshalled to do it for them — to impose the political arrangement Israel could not secure militarily.

The World Is Being Asked to Police Palestine for Israel.

Make no mistake:

Occupation does not become legitimate when the uniform changes color.

An international army that enters Gaza against the will of its people is not peacekeeping — it is subcontracted apartheid.

A globalized settler-colonial force.

And its task is clear: to stabilize the conditions for another century of dispossession.

The UN’s Mandate Has Never Changed.

From 1947 to today, the institution has been consistent:

It did not stop the Nakba — it administered it.

It did not reverse the land theft — it codified it.

It did not restrain the settler state — it offered diplomatic scaffolding to build one.

It did not protect Palestinians — it provided procedural cover for their erasure.

What we are witnessing today is not an aberration.

It is the system functioning as designed.

The tragedy is not that the UN failed.

The tragedy is that people still expect the UN to be something it never was.

Its core purpose - from partition to peacekeeping mandates to today’s occupation force — has been to translate Western strategic interests into international legitimacy.

And Palestine has always been the proving ground of that architecture.

Hopeless?

Don’t be. Subjugated, occupied people never achieved their freedom through diplomacy. The path to freedom will be forged by the people of the land, not by resolutions. Hamas will not disarm, and we need to sharpen our resistance to the Zionist grip on politics, culture, and the imperial machinery that sustains it. We can’t give up. Keep fighting!

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November 4th, 11 am, Election Day.

Ladies and gents, my mayor. Your mayor. He belongs to all of us. Yes, I decided to call it already, on the morning of the election, with a whole day of voting ahead, and results to be announced. This reality is already manifested, and I refuse to accept any other version of it. Something has to give.

Elon Musk endorsed Andrew Cuomo for Mayor on Monday afternoon on Twitter. I refuse to call it X, even though I should; it sounds as idiotic as him. So far Andrew Cuomo has gotten the endorsement of Donald Trump, Eric Adams, and Elon Musk. A trifecta of criminals, war criminals, sexual assaulters, corrupt, paid for AIPAC shills — decided to support their billionaire buddy, political party be damned.

Do you now understand that there is no two-party system, and there is no actual democracy? You have the illusion of choice when it comes to a presidential election, but you know now it’s just a uniparty, working for the same billionaire donor, Epstein class. Making your life unbearable, unless you are a 1%-er, is a bipartisan effort.

Did you notice how fast, regardless of their party affiliation, the billionaire oligarchy came out, in the eleventh hour, to protect each other by endorsing Cuomo?

November 4th, 5:30 pm, Election Day.

For the past year, I have worked on Mamdani campaign as a creator and volunteer. I was a part of the Creators4Zohran collective, a canvasser, and today was the last day of our effort to get this man elected into office. The polling places are closing at 9 pm, and we are working until the last minute.

I got called around 5 pm to head out to the polling place next to my house, where a group of Cuomo voters came to intimidate young first-time voters and Zohran’s volunteers, also very young, there to answer questions about the campaign. I head out there, and the scene was quite interesting; Cuomo’s supporters had Israel flags and were yelling at everyone coming out, brave enough to admit they voted Mamdani.

My presence, along with a few peers, didn’t intimidate them, but it quieted them enough that they eventually left.

On my way home, I pondered what about this man angers them so much; and I recalled the piece by Alon Mizrahi — “They Don’t Hate Mamdani Because he’s a Muslim Radical. They Hate him Because he’s a Muslim Normal.” If you need to read one piece today, besides my own, hit this article by Alon — it walks you through the Mamdani phenomenon and explains why he unsettles the Western, Zionist-aligned establishment.

“I discovered Zohran Mamdani just a few weeks ago, on Twitter. I fell for him immediately. He has the clear marks of an excellent brown and Islamic (or at least Islamic-inspired) upbringing: calm, humility, a very sharpened sense of political criticism, but one rooted in a quest for harmony, rather than a revolution. He is, in short, everything white racists, white supremacists, and Zionists told us Muslims are definitely not.” — Alon Mizrahi

November 4th, 7:45 pm, Election Day.

I’m getting ready to go to Zohran’s victory party, before the results are in; I’m so sure of this victory. For the past year, I have been working a full time job, wrote for 4-5 hours per day, and two days I had off to rest, I didn’t have it, I worked on this campaign.

I feel this in my bones, something’s gotta give.

Zohran Mamdani, even without the win that’s surely coming later tonight, is a global powerhouse. How did this happen in such a short amount of time? Creator Matt Ransdell Jr., posted a great rundown of the phenomenon Mamdani:

“What is it about Mamdani that has two of the most powerful men on the planet, Donald Trump and Elon Musk, terrified that he’s gonna win so much so that they’re doing whatever they can at the wall at the buzzer just to prevent that from happening?

What is it about Zohran? Hear me when I say that Zohran Mamdani is good. I’m not talking about his talent. We can see that he’s talented. No, I am telling you Zohran is good — and I fear that a lot of people don’t know how to receive that, because this world has made them feel like they don’t deserve good things.

You might have a deeply rooted distrust of politicians, and that is fair, and you might have a deeply rooted distrust of the system, and that is fair too — but the system can’t change for the better until we elect good people to be in charge of changing it. That’s the opportunity we have here.

We have a good man asking you to vote for him, so that he can work for you. Zohran wants to work to better New York, for all of New York. Zohran is not in the pockets of billionaires and all the oligarchs because he’s in the public, with the people.

That would be good for the world, and I think we deserve something good. This is how it happens. This is how change happens. This is how movements happen.”

This is how change happens.

This is how movements happen.

November 4th, 8:50 pm, the Election Day.

I’m in Uber, headed toward Brooklyn Paramount, where Zohran will hold an election night watch party. I’m late, I stopped by the polling place again to help a few more kids volunteering from being intimidated by more nothing-better-to-do thugs trying to prevent the inevitable.

Polling places are open for another 10 minutes. I’m stuck in traffic. It’s 9:03 pm and Decision Desk projects Zohran Mamdani to win the New York City Mayor election.

I’m losing it in the car. I’m late. My trench buddies are calling me. My parents are calling me from Europe, they stayed up until 3 am to wait out the results. They are hopeful.

I arrive in Brooklyn, exit the Uber, run into the closest venue with the screen, and make it in time just as the AP Press officially called Zohran as our next major!

Mayor Mamdani

I start crying.

Everything I endured for the past 10-ish months came down on me, but mostly exhaustion and relief.

People can organize, and people can do it.

November 4th, 2:30 am, Election Day.

“To every New Yorker – whether you voted for me, for one of my opponents or felt too disappointed by politics to vote at all – thank you for the opportunity to prove myself worthy of your trust. I will wake each morning with a singular purpose: to make this city better for you than it was the day before.

Tonight we have spoken in a clear voice. Hope is alive. Hope is a decision that tens of thousands of New Yorkers made day after day, volunteer shift after volunteer shift, despite attack ad after attack ad. More than a million of us stood in our churches, in gymnasiums, in community centers, as we filled in the ledger of democracy.”

We did it.

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I estimated the time of Israel breaking the ceasefire by Thursday, this week. But they surpassed my expectations; only 10 days in, and 97 Palestinian people have been killed. The same people who cheered their miraculous survival for the past two years, only to be deceptively wiped out.

No word in legacy media.

Israel’s genocidal rapists, also known as the occupation army, ran into an unexploded artillery from their previous carpet bombing of Gaza, blamed Hamas for the explosion, started bombing Gaza again, over 120 times, killed almost as many people, and once again cut the aid to the Gaza Strip.

No proper word in legacy media, no storm caused for breaking the ceasefire, or killing civilians during one. Imagine what would happen if Hamas actually broke the ceasefire, killing 97 people along the way?

When the press asked Donald Trump about an incident, he said, “The ceasefire he brokered was still in place”. Hamas leadership, he said, may not be involved in the violations. “We think maybe the leadership isn’t involved in that,” he told reporters aboard Air Force One.

Caught in lies, yet again.

When the Israeli genocidal regime and terrorist militia broke the ceasefire, after the explosion of their own making, this is what they said: “We struck Hamas targets across the enclave, including field commanders, gunmen, a tunnel and weapons depots, after militants launched an anti-tank missile and fired on its troops, killing the soldiers.”

They did none of that, as Hamas had no presence. They invented field commanders, gunmen, a tunnel, and a weapons depot. What did legacy media do? This time they did arrive to the party, but not to reprimand Israel for violating the ceasefire agreement, but to call it a test of the ceasefire.

The New York Times cooked up this gem —Flare-Up of Violence in Gaza Tests Cease-Fire; while CNN gifted us with — US-brokered ceasefire appears to survive first major test as Israel and Hamas affirm commitment to deal.

We know why this ceasefire came about now. Israel was getting heavily boycotted in film, sports, and culture, and the masses were getting unruly. We also knew there was nothing to be excited about when the ceasefire was announced; we have seen too many ceasefires, and we have been paying attention.

This ceasefire means nothing.

David Miller of Tracking Power perfectly explains why: “What is often less well understood – especially when dealing with the Zionists – is that diplomacy is merely the continuation of war by other means.”

As yesterday showed you, don’t let yourselves be lulled by this ceasefire. This is just an obvious buying of some time to release the pressure on Israel, and once things calm down, they’ll resume their assault on Gaza in full effect. Probably even more, now that they don’t have to pretend to care about their extreme colonist POWs.

What’s most brutal about these two regimes, the US and Israel, working in unison, isn’t just their war crimes, but how shamelessly they use the language of peace to advance their goals of war. This face ceasefire plan continues the pattern of the ‘Deal of the Century’ in 2020 and the Oslo Accords of 1993 — using the language of coexistence to prolong Palestinian occupation and land theft.

You don’t cease fire in a genocide.

Fire is ceased in a war between two armies. This latest, manipulatively called “ceasefire,” is only the end of bombardment on a bigger scale; massacres will continue. A ceasefire without a Palestinian voice on the table, and without accountability for those in Gaza who have survived this long against so much, is just the maintenance of the biggest war crimes of our lived experience.

Ceasefire is the word used, so we don’t use the proper words that need to come after a livestreamed genocide — accountability, trials, reparations. Palestinian people deserve accountability, reparations, and trials for war crimes committed against their entire nation.

Until there is a plan on the table that goes after everyone who has participated in this crime of our lifetime, diplomacy is meaningless. Media conglomerates justifying genocide, corporations that profited from the sniping of children, and everyone who cheered and propagandized for this mass murder need to be held accountable. Without accountability, a ceasefire is meaningless. As I said, it’s the language of peace used to maintain their war crimes.

I could write for three days about why this ceasefire achieves nothing for the Palestinian people. If you have been in this movement for years, like most of my readers are, you already know this ceasefire is meaningless. Instead of delving into more analysis, I want to hear the Palestinian people speaking. What do they think? How do they feel about yet again and again, another fake diplomacy brought upon them, without anyone inviting them to have a seat at the table, yet again, designed to keep their status quo indefinite?

Let’s amplify their voices.

I want to introduce you to a Palestinian artist, an illustrator I’ve been following for two years. His work has been piercing my heart ever since I discovered it. I even included one of his illustrations in one of my most-read features, written after that performative glorious ceasefire in January 2024 — the one that never truly ceased any fire, but instead paved the way for the most gruesome, livestreamed massacre the world has ever witnessed.

In the days leading up to this deceptive ceasefire — the days it was announced, and those that followed — Kamal Sharaf offered the most nuanced commentary on this political theater, without uttering a single word.

There’s something about Palestinian art that transcends every boundary of what we understand as art. It’s not just expression — it’s survival. It’s the only language left to a people forbidden to speak their truth. Every line, every color carries the weight of generations silenced, displaced, erased, and yet, somehow, still capable of creating beauty.

Their art is not made for galleries or applause. It’s a record of existence, a heartbeat drawn against annihilation. That’s why Palestinian art feels different. Because it is different. It’s born from pain the world refuses to see, and from a love of land so powerful, it survives even when its people are buried beneath rubble.

His art explained it all.

I have nothing to add to it. Deception, manipulation, propaganda, deceit, pain, dehumanization, injustice — it’s all there.

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