America is Cornell; Cornell is America. Let’s get that out of the way.

A few days ago, a South Park writer, Toby Morton, created a website, CornellSeven.com to break down details in a high-profile sexual assault lawsuit involving seven Cornell students.

Why are satirists doing this? Because we are all exhausted. Having seen what our government has been involved in only in the past four years, while having the audacity to claim Western values, while gaslighting us all about their war crimes all of us are funding—we have finally realized there are no adults in the room. We are the adults. It’s up to us.

A South Park satirist is taking matters into his own hands after Cornell faculty hushed the “incident,” the DA failed to prosecute, and the mainstream media failed to report on it. When the institutions responsible for accountability all look the other way, who benefits from keeping it that way? Billionaire donors.

Who is behind the machinery that makes all of this happen? Billionaire donors. It’s always the Epstein billionaire donor class.

Why was this case reopened after two years? Because Cornell’s student journalists broke the story. They did the job the mainstream media failed to do, deliberately choosing not to cover what happened. The machinery is always the same: crimes happen, cover-up ensues, no accountability happens, billionaire donor class funds this outcome, mainstream media covers for it.

It’s the same principle that has been seen for way too long now. With the genocide our government is funding with our money. With policies that enrich the ruling class instead of benefit our lives. Cruelty to minorities while claiming Western values. Over and over again.

Naturally, the reopening of this case is causing an outcry on social media.

People have had it. Having sympathy for the rapists’ loss of a bright future instead of caring about the rape victim’s welfare is the society designed by the Epstein donor class.

We CAN and MUST reject it. What else can we do but take matters into our own hands and use our collective power and the megaphone of social media to finally demand some accountability?

This article in The Cut—‘What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now,’ by Kate Manne, a professor of philosophy at Cornell University—gets to the core:

“There’s a feeling at times that, while we all know the statistics, protesting sexual assault on campus is a lost cause — and, it must be said, a deeply uncool one. As a feminist commentator, I feel every time I write about these issues that I am swimming against the tide of indifference and himpathy: my term for the reflexive handwringing over the loss of a male perpetrator’s bright future instead of a female rape victim’s welfare. But maybe, finally, the currents are changing: News story after news story about the case has provoked a more vigorous discussion of this case than I, for one, am used to. When I went to work on Monday morning to teach a two-and-a-half-hour seminar, there was a palpable feeling on campus that this is big. This is serious.”

When authorities create a reality where rapists are protected from accountability, it’s up to us to become the digital vigilantes: to name them, expose them, and demand consequences for their criminal actions.

This is not vigilanteism. It’s our fucking DUTY.

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I’m not stunned by any atrocity, crime, horror, or suffering of any kind I hear about anymore. You know by now who rules you, you know all about pedophiles in government carving children, you know about the Epstein class blackmailing their way to power, you know about the Zionist donor class that are okay with exterminating a population for their ideology—what is it to be stunned with anymore?

Don’t confuse this in any way with doom and hopelessness—au contraire, this planet is beautiful, life has so much joy—those who rule us are creating this reality for everyone. What are we doing about it?

There are 3,428 billionaires in this world.

About 500-700 of them are significant political and academic donors.

There are 8 billion of us.

What happened at Cornell University?

According to ABC News, prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the investigation of alleged "gang rape" at a Cornell University fraternity in 2024 after a civil lawsuit filed earlier this month sparked outrage about the incident.

It’s not alleged. It’s a gang rape. Perpetrators talked about it in the Snapchat group chat.

The story is a classic.

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I cannot comprehend how Muslim people find the energy to deal with the Islamophobia they face every single day. I’m exhausted just watching it unfold day in and day out, and lately, the sheer hostility coming from right-wing factions and/or Zionists has made it unbearable to watch.

And I’m just watching.

Islamophobia was invented by Zionists and dutifully adopted by right-wing factions. Let’s just call a spade a spade.

I watch my Muslim friends, famous Muslims, Muslim politicians, and I’m struck by how much dignity and grace they show in the face of it. What kind of upbringing must you have to remain this composed while some of the worst people on earth call you out for things that are the exact opposite of what you have actually done, defaming you in the process? How absolutely evolved must a religion be to teach people to endure this with such dignity?

And maybe, just maybe, this elevated state is exactly why they are hated by so many morally rotten souls?

The Mayor

I cannot watch it. How does he do it? Just take it, smiling through it all, months and weeks of the worst people on earth discussing how offensive it would be if he shows up to the 9/11 anniversary commemoration.

All while he has been commemorating it for weeks. Per New York Times:

• He met with firefighters at firehouses that suffered terrible grave losses on that day, including Ladder 118 in Brooklyn and Engine 24 and Ladder 5 in SoHo.

• He went to Bellevue Hospital to talk with survivors of the attacks, families of victims, and patients suffering ongoing health complications related to the day.

• Last week, he issued executive orders formally honoring victims and their families and empowering city agencies to better respond to sudden emergencies.

• On Monday, his office released a trove of documents about the air quality near ground zero in the months after the attacks.

• And on Tuesday, hours before the conservative politicians held their news conference, Mr. Mamdani held his own in the City Hall rotunda.

The most mind-blowing part of this Islamophobia/Mamdani equation is Rudy Giuliani, whose administration was responsible for numerous post 9/11 deaths, having the gall to make a public statement in his Newsmax interview, saying, “Having lost friends there and being very close to many of the families, it offends me that he’s coming.”

On Tuesday, the Mamdani administration released nearly 200,000 pages of post-9/11 air quality reports. And in those documents, per NBC New York, there is a trove of paperwork within which some notes suggest city officials knew of the potential environmental dangers and legal exposure in the early aftermath of the terror attacks.

NBC reports that one undated internal document—a letter to Giuliani’s deputy mayor, Robert Harding—listed various potential grounds for lawsuits against the city, including health advisories that caused people to return to the area too soon, causing toxic exposure.

The most recent figures for the 25th anniversary of 9/11 count roughly 5,900 cancer deaths among people affected by the WTC exposure and roughly 9,700 total deaths from illnesses associated with the exposure.

This is what Rudi Guliani has done. And he’s offended a current mayor who is trying to expose these irregularities for the people who have died as a result of this negligence—might show up at the commemoration.

I hate it here.

This is what our ruling class is. Criminals of the highest degree, inventing things to pass the blame on immigrants, Muslims, socialists; anyone that challenges their status quo, corruption, and moral rot.

Smiling while greeting

Naturally, Mayor Mamdani came to the 9/11 commemoration. There was absolutely no reality in which the gang-bang of Zionists, right-wingers, Islamophobes, warmongers, and the worst people on earth weren’t going to find something on Mamdani to propagandize their base.

Not just find—look for. Invent.

And they did. i24News reported on the grave offense of smiling. Zohran greeted AOC, and they smiled for 4 seconds while exchanging pleasantries.

Call the SWAT Team.

I’m exhausted.

Aren’t you exhausted?

By the hypocrisy.

Of the worst people in our government, responsible for so much grief and pain, former presidents responsible for millions of deaths around the world, present at the same commemoration, with no one in legacy media scrutinizing their behavior.

Do you know why this man frustrates these Islamophobes so much? Mayor Mamdani? Not because he’s a radical Muslim, like they like to gaslight you in the legacy media, but because he ISN’T. He angers them because his behavior, demeanor, work ethic, and accomplishments break decades-long Islamophobia gaslighting about what Muslims are and why you should fear them.

If you want to know the truth, always look around at what’s happening and who is there when legacy media turns their camera off.

After all was said and done, and the worst people in office came, took pictures, and left—Mayor Mamdani, the one whose presence was “offensive” due to a crime of being 9 years old when the towers fell, the one who is “laughing” in the faces of the victims’ families, a “terrorist,” an “Islamist,” a “jihadist”—was the only politician that stayed to actually have a one-on-one conversation with each family member of the 9/11 victims.

What a world.

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I’m just going to call it, and you’re not going to like it, but this is just Jewish supremacy. You can try to weigh it seventeen times over; it ends at the same corner. There is absolutely no way on earth you could be deaf to human suffering unless you see yourself and your people more worthy than others.

I’m sick and tired of these white American Zionist women. They are all the same, resorting to astounding levels of verbal gymnastics to justify the unjustifiable. They are unsincere, and they know it. They absolutely know the people they are trying to smear are suffering. They just think their ideology is worth the suffering and the lives of others.

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There’s something about seeing the Global Sumud Flotilla activists getting sadistic treatment on camera, after being shot at, kidnapped, beaten, sexually assaulted, degraded, dehumanized, and then beaten at the Bilbao airport that sent me packing. It’s not by any means the worst thing I’ve seen in the last three years, but the meaning behind it, and what it portends, is.

I think it finally dawned on me what kind of world we are actually living in. All this time, I subconsciously kept waiting for something to stop so we could return to some version of normal life, one that at the very least didn’t exist under the constant threat of nuclear weapons looming over everyone’s heads, only to realize that nothing will ever feel normal until Palestine is free of the military occupation.

It finally dawned on me. The stage we’re in. I don’t think we even quite realize the extent of what’s been done all around the world for Israel to have “the right to exist.”

Something about Itamar Ben Gvir slamming a woman’s head on camera, smiling, knowing the entire world will see it, not caring about a possible repercussion for his behaviour that won’t come — I don’t know what finally flipped in me, but something did.

Imagining what they do to the Palestinian people, when they can do this to Westerners who will come off those planes and report everything that happened to them. Dungeons, no one to care what happens to them, no one to hear them, an entire world muted to their suffering, an invisible nation, voiceless, muted — not allowed to rage about what is done to them, every single day since 1948.

Sometimes I do something mundane during the day, cook dinner, or run errands, and I think about those dungeons their occupiers locked them in, muted, voiceless people, abused and abused and abused, tormented by their jailers, for no reason at all but existing. It stops me in my tracks, my whole body gets paralyzed; how do you live, knowing all this? And I only have to live with the pain of realization, not the actual wrath of hyenas, walking around, fronting like they’re human.

It dawned on me that 1930s Germany looked like a warm-up act to what’s happening now. History is not scarier than today. We’re just in it to see it.

Consequence.

There are two sides to this frustration we all feel; one is knowing what is being done to the Palestinian and Lebanese people, and the other is realizng just how much damage this tiny country of Israel that’s producing so much violence and grief has done to the entire international community.

The Basque Police beating the very people who had been tortured only hours prior, in Spain, no less, a very pro-Palestinian country, to hide evidence, knowing these people would be medically examined, should send shivers down everyone’s spine. It’s not about brutality; we have seen unimaginably worse — it’s about the masterminding behind it. The calculation. Premeditation.

We are all very well-versed in Israeli depravity, but realizing just how many parts around the world are working to keep that machine of violence going, and at what human price, is astounding. You just cannot recover once you realize it.

I implore you to read this piece by Ahmed Eldin, where he explains the machinery behind the brutality of the Basque Police; the who, the whys, and how.

Out Loud with Ahmed

Basque Police Beat Global Sumud Flotilla Torture Survivors In Spain

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It’s an ugly, ugly world that Israel has created, so they can “exist.” What is the price of that existence? Is it worth it? It is for them, whilst endangering an entire planet. At what point will the international community decide the price is unattainable?

Kidnapping, torturing, abusing, dehumanizing, and sexually assaulting European citizens is a declaration of war from Israel against Europe. Why isn’t it treated as such?

Right to exist.

A few months ago, when the Knesset passed a death penalty bill that would allow the execution of Palestinian prisoners, a member of Knesset, Limor Son Har-Melech, called the occasion a day where Israel “chose life” and said the decision is an example of “true Jewish morality”. The fact that these psychopaths can pass a death law and call that occasion “choosing life” tells us the Israeli mindset is simply not compatible with humanity.

Also, true Jewish morality?

Look at the pure ecstasy on Itamar Ben-Gvir’s face when that law was passed. What kind of human being gets this excited over the death of another human being? And look at his excitement as he takes us on a tour of the execution chamber for the Palestinian people. The same look of excitement when he taunted and tormented the Global Sumud Flotilla activists this week.

Tell me something. Did apartheid South Africa have a “right to exist?” The world agreed that it didn’t. The world then helped to see its dismantlement. And today, South Africa still exists, but apartheid South Africa doesn’t.

Does a genocidal apartheid state of Israel have a right to exist? No. In the future, Israel will probably still exist, but genocidal apartheid Israel won’t.

Why do pundits who support Israeli war crimes constantly ask, “Does Israel have a right to exist?” It’s because that’s the same question Zionists ask anybody who questions Israel’s behaviour.

Nobody asks that question about any country, but Zionists are constantly asking it about Israel, as part of their propaganda playbook. Because the question leads to the usual yes or no logistical chain. If you answer no, they’ll call you an antisemite. If you answer yes, it means you have to support their ethnic cleansing, expansionary landgrabs, and genocidal behaviour, because all of those things are necessary to ensure that Israel continues to exist.

Do Native Americans have the right to exist in a state of their own on land to which they have a historic connection?

Zionism has nothing to do with Israel’s right to exist. It has to do with how it exists.

I read a great analysis by Dr. Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui the other day. It came to me while I was scrolling through the reactions of Zionists online, and the people supporting them, to the viral video of international activists being abused by Itamar Ben-Gvir and the Israeli army.

Here they were, mothers, fathers, educated, successful, seemingly serious people who somehow believe this level of abuse and violation of basic human rights is justified. Whatever group you belong to, how can something like this ever be justified? How can the decades-long abuse of the Palestinian and Lebanese people be justified?

What has always stunned me most is how unified they all are across every walk of life — citizens, politicians, influencers, journalists, public figures, regular families — all operating in unison to preserve this operation, make sure it runs smoothly, and ensure Israel continues to exist no matter the human cost.

Dr. Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui nails it:

“Jewish supremacy is not a feeling or individual prejudice; it is an operating system, just like white supremacy. And it can be neatly placed within the same foundational critical race theory and sociological framework of analysis.

Despite Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem being the first to introduce the concept of Jewish supremacy to describe the apartheid system of ‘Israel’, the system of Jewish supremacy is also imbedded within the wider white supremacist colonial system of operation we have in the west.

If white supremacy can be defined as a political, socio-economic, and cultural system where white people enjoy structural advantages over other racial and ethnic groups, then Jewish supremacy can be described as a political, socioeconomic, and cultural system where Jews enjoy structural advantages (and protections) over other racial, religious, ethnic groups - true both in occupied Palestine and in the west.

Institutionalization: like white supremacy, it is a pervasive system embedded in workplaces, school systems, governments, and legal systems - both in occupied Palestine and the West. Think of the way the education system focuses on the Nazi holocaust vs every other holocaust in history, and how many holocaust memorials there are in the the U.S and Canada vs memorials for the genocide of its Indigenous peoples.

Systemic Power: like white supremacy, rather than just individual hateful acts, Jewish supremacy represents a structure that perpetuates “Jewish privilege” and “exceptionalism” and provides unequal access to resources, opportunities, power, and protection to Jews OVER all other marginalised groups - both in occupied Palestine and the West. Think of the crackdown on campus protests, the mass suppression of “freedom of speech”, and people losing their jobs for simply saying children should not to be burned alive in tents and sniped in the head and chest.

Individual vs structural: While individual, conscious racism exists, the “system of Jewish supremacy” refers to the broader, often unconscious, societal and institutional structures that value Jewish safety and feelings OVER the actual material harm and violence experienced by non-Jewish marginalised people - both in occupied Palestine by Muslim and Christian Palestinians and those in the West by those who might oppose the self-proclaimed ‘Jewish state of Israel’.

And so, like white supremacy, we can describe Jewish supremacy not just as “shark” (an actor) but as the “water” (the environment) in which society operates.”

They are all in on it because they all “benefit from structural advantages over other racial and ethnic groups.” Their supremacy and the excusing of the loss of human life to uphold it is a “political, socioeconomic, and cultural system where they enjoy structural advantages (and protections) over other racial, religious, and ethnic groups, both in occupied Palestine and in the West.”

Zionism has nothing to do with Israel’s right to exist. It has to do with how it exists.

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This Friday, on the first Good Friday of his pontificate, Pope Leo XIV entered the Colosseum in Rome to begin the Via Crucis. The new 70-year-old pope decided to carry the cross through all 14 stations of the Way of the Cross, holding it up in front of his face for nearly two hours as he prayed “for victims of war, the defense of human dignity, the despairing, and the lonely.”

A chilling sight, seeing the new Pope walking the Way of the Cross where early Christians were martyred.

Talk about a powerful moment. For Christianity? Humanity?

This marks the first time a pope carried the cross for every station in more than three decades. Pope John Paul II was the last pope to do so, carrying the cross from 1980 to 1994.

When asked about his decision to carry the cross for all 14 stations, Pope Leo told reporters he saw it as a sign the world needed right now:

“I think it will be an important sign because of what the pope represents, a spiritual leader today in the world, for this voice that everyone wants to hear to say that Christ still suffers, and I carry all these sufferings too in my prayer.”

Pope Leo extended an invitation to all people, regardless of faith:

“I would like to invite all people of goodwill, all people of faith, all Christians to walk together, to walk with Christ who suffered for us to give salvation, life, and to seek how we may also be bearers of peace and not of hatred.”

Per OSV News, the meditations for this year’s Via Crucis celebration were written by Father Francesco Patton, who formerly served as custos of the Holy Land and drew on his experience walking the historical Way of the Cross through the narrow streets of Jerusalem’s Old City, describing it in both Jesus’ time and today as “a chaotic, distracting and noisy environment, surrounded by people who share our faith in him, but also by those who deride or insult him.”

Biblical parallel that’s somehow still accepted in 2026.

In this way, Father Patton said, the Via Crucis parallels how every Christian is called to incarnate faith, hope, and charity in the real world “where the believer faces ongoing challenges and must constantly strive to imitate Jesus.”

Do you see where I’m going with this? I mean, it’s Easter Sunday, the text and the context are practically writing themselves.

What kind of believer are you?

Each of the 14 stations of the Via Crucis Pope Leo walked in Rome’s Colosseum included a Scripture reading, a quotation from St. Francis, a meditation by Father Patton, and a short introspective litany.

Meditation for the first station:

“Jesus is condemned to death,” called leaders of every kind to account, with Father Patton writing that every person in authority will answer to God in the Last Judgment for how they exercise power, including “the power to judge; the power to start or end a war; the power to instill violence or peace; the power to fuel the desire for revenge or for reconciliation; the power to use the economy to oppress people or to liberate them from misery.”

The tenth station:

“Jesus is stripped of his garments,” drew a sharp connection between Christ’s humiliation and contemporary violations of human dignity. The meditations cited authoritarian regimes that force prisoners to remain half-naked in bare cells, torturers who tear away not only clothing but skin and flesh, sexual abusers who reduce victims to objects, and an entertainment industry that “exploits nudity for the sake of profit.”

The meditation concluded with a call to conversion, “Remind us, Lord, that each time we fail to recognize the dignity of others, our own dignity is diminished.”

The eleventh station:

“Jesus is nailed to the cross,” offered a meditation on the nature of true power in the eyes of God. “You show that true power is not that of those who use force and violence to impose themselves, but that of those who are capable of taking upon themselves the evil of humanity — ours, mine — and destroying it with the power of love that is manifest in forgiveness.”

The litany prayers that followed each meditation gave voice to a wide range of human suffering.

The eighth station:

“Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem,” the crowd prayed to “weep over the devastation of war” and “for massacres and genocides.”

OSV News reports that, throughout the evening, prayers were offered for political prisoners, for people searching for the ultimate meaning of life, for those suffering from addiction, for children whose childhoods have been stolen, for victims of trafficking, for the poor stripped of their dignity, for migrants and refugees, for the lonely, for mothers who have lost children and for those who die alone.

This was all lovely. In theory.

I’m a Roman Catholic. I don’t really practice my religion. I dabble in it. If you want to read about my (funny-ish) religious journey, check it out below.

Every Easter, for the past three years, I share the same post on social media with the same caption that says:

Wishing you a blessed Good Friday. Today, your horoscope and your Christian faith tell you to commemorate Jesus’ crucifixion by speaking out on the injustices in Gaza and today’s crucifying of an entire group of people at the birthplace of your favorite religious leader, because that’s the best possible way to honor him, your religion & your beliefs.

This year, I added the bombing of the sovereign state of Iran in an illegal war of conquest and the bombing of civilian infrastructures in Southern Lebanon to my yearly Good Friday post.

Every Easter, this post steers some trouble. People feel called out. And that is my intention. Every Easter or Christmas, when people dial up their Christian sentiments online, those sentiments, I feel, should be confronted with the reality of a live-streamed genocide, occupation, invasions of sovereign countries, and illegitimate wars of conquest filling our screens.

But I mostly do it to provoke religious people into translating their beliefs into actual words and tangible actions, especially now, in the times of unimaginable violence and impunity.

Does your God approve of this?

As I’m writing this, I took a short break to check my Instagram, and the first thing that filled my screen was two stories posted by a friend of mine: his favorite uncle, killed by an IDF bomb in a civilian village in southern Lebanon. On Easter morning. Just like that, a life that meant so much to someone, gone within minutes. Because people who already have land need more land. My heart sank.

What do you say to someone directly affected by the biblical prophecy of the cult next door?

Every year, I share my Easter post to see how people respond, how believers react, and whether anything changes — to see whether the scale of carnage we’ve been witnessing will move those who remain unmoved by the annihilation of people far away, people who don’t look like them or pray like them.

I’ve been busting my brain for the past three years trying to understand how a religious person can witness this level of suffering, carnage, death, torture, rape, dehumanization, man-made starvation, and medieval brutality, and remain unmoved. Or worse, justify it.

And I came up with nothing but — exceptionalism.

Religion, at its core, is sold to us as a belief rooted in principles of compassion, humility, and service to the oppressed and the less fortunate. Yet exceptionalism, by its nature, fosters superiority and exclusivity, making it an oxymoron when paired with the teachings of most religious doctrines.

So why do they go hand in hand so seamlessly? Why do so many religious people find themselves caught in a sense of exceptionalism, the belief that their faith or cultural identity places them above others?

A weapon.

This contradiction is precisely what turns a tool for unity into a force of division, and more often than not, into an actual weapon, as we see in Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, and across Africa.

Are people too naive to think this tension highlights how religious identity, when warped by exceptionalism, has strayed too far from its intended purpose? Or has this distortion always been a central feature of religion, wielded throughout history as a shield for those who subjugate others?

As I was breaking down the relationship between religion and exceptionalism for this piece, I came across an interview with George Galloway that filled in the gaps for me. George, as always, hits the mark:

“I honestly can’t understand how anyone can look at the pictures and videos that I’m looking at (carnage in Gaza) and come to any other conclusion, unless you believe in exceptionalism, unless you believe that some of us are more exceptional than others, some of us are chosen, therefore some of us by definition are not. I believe that all of us are God’s children, that none of us are exceptional, that none of us are God’s chosen people, that we are all God’s chosen people. We need to make a world that is fair and equitable.”

Exceptionalism is tricky.

It doesn’t reside solely among the privileged, the successful, the affluent, or the well-connected. It manifests in many forms. I’ve seen it among friends from humble beginnings who still believe that their European heritage, Western ideals, and lifestyle represent what the entire world should aspire to.

Arnaud Bertrand once asked himself if religion is either a legitimizing instrument of power — a crown on its head — or a thorn in power's side, standing with the powerless?

Whether we believe in God or not, we embody something greater, and it’s up to us to define that essence. Are we ready to acknowledge that we are all interconnected as part of the human race, and that nothing we hold dear should take precedence over the well-being of others?

Trump and his gang of criminals, driven by their partner — a biblically deranged cult in the Middle East — have pushed us toward a decade of economic uncertainty, and for those less geographically fortunate, toward death. We will all be affected by this war.

The marriage of religion and exceptionalism must be examined and checked daily, and I am not inclined to entertain those who use “their Christianity” to justify racial supremacy or to deflect from the injustices that sustain their privilege.

Everyone who has been paying attention over the past three years can see how often religion is used to legitimize power. Jesus Christ, whose resurrection is being celebrated today, preached humility, compassion, and care for the marginalized — values that stand in direct opposition to the priorities of modern power structures. Yet his teachings are constantly repurposed and commercialized to serve political agendas, including those that justify or accompany imperial wars.

The fact that the entire planet is now at the mercy of economic and geopolitical collapse, mass death and destruction, and even the threat of nuclear warheads, led by Christian Zionists, which contradicts the core teachings of Christianity, is a tragic consequence of bad theology.

Theological crisis.

Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac, a Palestinian pastor, laid out this theological crisis forcefully in his sermon, “Christ is Still in the Rubble,” live from Christmas Lutheran Church in Bethlehem in Dec 2024. He touches on what has been weighing on all of us: how can religious, church-going Christians stay silent on a live-streamed genocide in Gaza? And even worse, how can they support it?

Bombing civilian villages in South Lebanon and taking their land? Bombing Iran, a sovereign nation, in the middle of the negotiations, twice? Massacring 168 of their schoolgirls? 20 teenage female Volleyball players in a gymnasium? Does their God approve of this?

Key points from his speech worth pondering on:

“This is the result of an exclusionary mentality. Even God, we have made tribal, exclusionary, and selective — a God of one people at the expense of another, one religion over another, one nation over another. In our human racism, we have made God a racist!”

We have made God a racist. Have you ever heard anything so essential?

“Palestine is a human and moral cause, and for the church, it is a theological crisis. It’s about the credibility of our witness; it’s here that we come face to face with the tragic consequences of bad theology. Actually, this is much more than bad theology or even ideology. Zionism and Christian Zionism are ideologies of supremacy; it is racism.”

“Zionism and Christian Zionism turned God into a racist tribal deity of their own image. So we must call things for what they are, and today we also acknowledge all those who stood on the side of justice and truth. All those who said no to dehumanization, many of whom paid the heavy price.”

“Every Herod will pass, every Caesar will fade, for empires have an expiry date.⁠”

“And let us remember that according to Jesus, it is the meek, not the powerful, who inherit the land. In our pain and oppression, we might feel that death has the final word, that Herod is sovereign. But through the eyes of faith, we see that God has the final word.”

If you’re a Christian, does your God approve of this? Be honest with yourself. You’ve seen it all. How can you still justify this?

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Angelina Jolie, Louis Garrel, and the cast of Couture attended the film’s premiere at Pathé Palace in Paris. Louis and Angelina are rumored to be dating. The comments on social media flooded in: “She could be his mother.” “She’s too old for him.” “He should run.”

Angelina is 50 years old, Louis is 42.

I’ve been seeing this kind of commentary for years on the posts of many famous women over 45 — Kate Beckinsale, Sienna Miller, Heidi Klum, Sam Taylor-Johnson, and others. These comments are usually made by very young women, often sounding angry about how these women dress, how active they are on social media, how playful they are in their posts — but especially when they date younger men.

When I see men leaving these comments, I don’t flinch. They’re so obviously bitter and pathetic — a statistic that doesn’t deserve our time, no matter how ridiculous they sound.

But when women do this, it hurts me.

How can we do this to eachother, given everything that exists on this earth is constantly against us?

Internalized ageism, repackaged as concern.

What’s happening here?

Just take a look at some of these comments directed at Angelina:

I attempted to examine this phenomenon of women behaving this way toward women older than them — check out the post below to understand the response it attracted. 1 million views, over 2,000 comments, over 7,000 shares.

What is happening with this youth panic disguised as morality?

Why does a woman living freely bother other (younger) women so much?

It’s because a woman who ages without apology unsettles the fantasy.

It goes deeper.

As I already said, this youth panic, disguised as morality, is age anxiety projected outward. It’s self-hatred on delay.

The fear isn’t age, it’s freedom. It’s the audacity to be with a younger man.

These are the same young women who insist they’re progressive, liberal, and pro-choice, then suddenly become guardians of who women are allowed to date once they cross an invisible age line.

This isn’t about concern. It’s internalized ageism dressed up as judgment. A belief quietly absorbed early on — that a woman’s value peaks young, and anything after that is embarrassing, predatory, or sad. Seeing an older woman desired and unapologetic about it threatens that narrative.

If women don’t expire on schedule, then youth stops being a guarantee. And that’s unsettling. The real discomfort isn’t her age — it’s her freedom. A woman who keeps living, dating, breathing, and taking up space long past the moment she was supposed to disappear.

Again, why is this happening?

It’s a mix of social conditioning, fear, and competition, and not something innate.

It’s because patriarchy teaches women that their value expires. From a young age, women are told youth = worth. Older women who are visible, confident, desired, or free directly threaten that lie.

It’s because of internalized misogyny. Instead of questioning the system that pits women against time, some younger women turn that anxiety outward and police other women.

It’s the scarcity mindset around men. Culture frames male attention as limited and something women must compete for. An older woman who doesn’t “step aside” disrupts that narrative.

It’s the fear of their own future. Seeing older women living fully forces a confrontation with aging, and many respond with denial or hostility rather than curiosity and reflection.

It’s social media distortion. Algorithms reward youth obsession, mockery, and cruelty. Ageist jokes get likes; empathy doesn’t trend as easily.

The irony?

Ageism toward older women is self-hatred on a delay. Every younger woman who mocks aging is rehearsing how she herself will be treated later, unless she chooses to unlearn it.

Older women aren’t the problem. Or your competition. The system that taught women to fear becoming one is.

For some younger women, ageism becomes a way to enforce the rules and feel temporarily safe within them. The irony is harsh: every ageist insult aimed at older women is a rehearsal for how society may one day treat them.

A woman left an interesting comment on my Instagram post about this subject — something I hadn’t given much thought to before. She said that many of these young women spewing ageist bile toward older women grow up to become older women who resent very young girls. I thought about it and realized I grew up around a few girlfriends who were openly angry in our early twenties when boys they liked chose older women. Today, those same women smirk at very young women.

That cycle of hell sent shivers down my spine. It has to be our mission in life, however hard it may be to contain your emotions or your regret, to never allow yourself to become either of those examples. A woman, at any age, is the only person who understands exactly what you went through and what you will go through.

We simply have to break this cycle.

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“My fellow New Yorkers — today begins a new era. I stand before you, moved by the privilege of taking this sacred oath, humbled by the faith that you have placed in me, and honored to serve as either your 111th or 112th Mayor of New York City. But I do not stand alone. I stand alongside you, the tens of thousands gathered here in Lower Manhattan, warmed against the January chill by the resurgent flame of hope.”

It was a long way to here — a year, to be exact — since I joined the new media team of Mayor Mamdani (I cannot stop saying those two words together), helping him reach this moment, standing in –10°C weather, limbs numb by the time he came out to address us all — and the New Yorkers watching at home.

It’s strange, my mother says, the amount of energy and persistence I have, in the middle of so much exhaustion and sleep deprivation — the kind that comes with life in New York — that I’m still able to find it in my body to rally for this man.

It almost feels subhuman, all the canvassing and rallying we managed while working full-time jobs, so this city can finally be led by a man who actually cares about all New Yorkers.

That same endurance, the kind that keeps you moving through exhaustion, cold, and lack of sleep, didn’t come from nowhere. It was forged in the past year itself. Atrocity after atrocity. Your government insisting you didn’t see what you saw. And by the time you put your phone down and pick it up again, a new form of violence has already replaced the one you were forced to absorb a few hours ago.

This man kept me sane through all of it. It’s astonishing what a glimmer of hope, embodied in a single person, can do to a body worn down by years of watching children’s limbs blown apart, by a government that funds it, and by a media ecosystem that insists it didn’t happen.

Hope is contagious. Once it appears, it multiplies. It spreads. And that’s precisely why Mayor Mamdani is a threat to those who thrive on despair, to those who don’t want you to recognize hope when it shows up, or to believe it could grow into something real.

An era of possible futures.

Let’s cling to that hope. The era of possible futures can begin with one man — and metastasize into an unstoppable force. “8 and a half million New Yorkers will speak this new era into existence. It will be loud. It will be different.”

We have to imagine it.

Every minute of this inauguration inspired me, but one thing stood out. A poem “Proof” recited by its author and poet Cornelius Eady. Read it. Cling to it. Let it consume you. You have to imagine it! This is our time.

You have to imagine it.
Who said you were too dark?
Too Large, too Queer, Too Loud? 
Who said you were too poor, too strange, too fat? 
You have to imagine it. 
Who said you must keep quiet? 
Who heard your story then rolled their eyes? 
Who tried to change your name to invisible? 
You’ve got to imagine. 
Who heard your name and refused to pronounce it? 
Who checked their watch and said not now? 
James Baldwin wrote the place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it. 
New York, city of invention, 
Roiling town, refresher
And re-newer,
New York, city of the real,
Where the canyons
Whisper in a hundred
Tongues,
New York,
Where your lucky self
Waits for your
Arrival,
Where there is always soil
For your root.
This is our time.
The taste of us, the spice of us, the hollers and the rhythms and the beats of us and the echo of our ancestors who made certain we know who we are. 
City of insistence, city of resistance. 
You have to imagine an army that wins without firing a bullet. 
A joy that wears down the rock of no. 
Up from insults up from blocked doors, up from trick bags, up from fear, up from shame, up from the way it was done before. 
You have to imagine that space they said wasn’t yours. 
That time they said you’d never own. 
The invisible city lit on its way. 
This moment is our proof.

This moment is our proof.

Let it inspire you. Let Zohran’s inaugural address motivate you into imagining a new world, a hopeful world, and let’s speak it into existence.

“Together, we will tell a new story of our city.

This will not be a tale of one city, governed only by the one percent. Nor will it be a tale of two cities, the rich versus the poor.

It will be a tale of 8 and a half million cities, each of them a New Yorker with hopes and fears, each a universe, each of them woven together.

8 and a half million New Yorkers will speak this new era into existence. It will be loud. It will be different. It will feel like the New York we love.

No matter how long you have called this city home, that love has shaped your life. I know that it has shaped mine.

So, standing together with the wind of purpose at our backs, we will do something that New Yorkers do better than anyone else: we will set an example for the world.

If what Sinatra said is true, let us prove that anyone can make it in New York—and anywhere else too.

Let us prove that when a city belongs to the people, there is no need too small to be met, no person too sick to be made healthy, no one too alone to feel like New York is their home.

The work continues, the work endures, the work, my friends, has only just begun.”

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Because she’s a threat to Israel. After more than 800 days, you should be able to see the pattern clearly. None of this is about Jews, and not even really about Zionists. It’s about Israel — preserving the narrative it needs to maintain its legitimacy. “Safety” is the excuse, not the motive.

Think about this for a second. Kanye West manufactured swastika merch and dropped a song titled “Heil Hitler.” If that isn’t the most on-the-nose basis for being labeled an antisemite, what is? And yet he wasn’t even included in the list of the biggest antisemites of the year.

Why?

Kanye West goes around talking about Jews ruining his career, but he doesn’t threaten the existence of Israel. In fact, he doesn’t even speak about Israel. I haven’t heard him mention it once. Zionists don’t have a problem with people talking about Jews, or even talking shit about Jews, as long as they don’t threaten Israel.

Look at this tweet by Ben Shapiro, a foreign agent, shilling for a foreign country, in the heart of the United States:

Read it again. He’s talking about Ann Coulter talking shit about Jews, but she’s pro-Israel, so he doesn’t mind. He won’t lose sleep.

Is it ringing in yet?

How is Israel threatened? By removing a carefully curated, planted narrative that has been served to the American and Western public for eight decades. How is that done? By informing people about what Israel is actually doing in Gaza. By awakening young people to the realities of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian people.

This is the equation:

Awakening > truth > physical evidence > changing narratives > reaching young minds > reclaiming reality > lack of support for the ethnostate > US public pressure to the US government > halt on military funding = ethonstate threatened.

By this equation, Ms. Rachel is the most dangerous human being on earth for the Zionist ideology and preservation of an ethnostate, Israel.

I’ll explain this through the example of Charlie Kirk. He was a threat to Israel because he was influencing young conservative men who are the primary pool for US military recruitment and, logically, the soldiers expected to fight Israel’s future wars of conquest. If that demographic withdraws its support, and Kirk’s political ambitions continue, he becomes the largest, most influential obstacle to Israeli interests.

Ms. Rachel is even more dangerous because she reaches an even younger demographic—children. Her “crime” was refusing to restrict empathy only to the children we’re politically permitted to mourn. And she committed the biggest crime of all: she SHOWED a Palestinian child on screen.

If you’ve watched The Occupation of the American Mind, you know how hard Israel has worked to prevent any image, or even the suggestion, that Palestinians are human beings. Ms. Rachel not only showed empathy for Palestinian children; she brought a Palestinian child, a double amputee, onto her show and let the world SEE her.

Actual neo-Nazis are marching through American streets with swastikas, openly threatening Jews and planning real violence. There was no comparable outrage or mobilization from Zionist communities in response—no daily headlines, no frantic influencer posts, no sustained pressure. But Ms. Rachel? She’s framed as the ultimate danger.

Ms. Rachel threatens none of these people. What she threatens is their control of discourse—the ability to monopolize victimhood, to push Palestinian life outside the boundaries of moral concern, and to shape how the youngest generation understands the world.

If toddlers learn empathy for all children, Zionist organizations lose the emotional foundation of their propaganda: the belief that some lives are inherently worth more than others.

This is why Ms. Rachel, and not Kanye West, was targeted. Or even Nick Fuentes. Real antisemitism is being ignored because it’s not politically useful. The logic is simple—accusing Kanye West or Nick Fuentes does not silence criticism of Israel. Accusing Ms. Rachel does. Kanye is not educating children about structural violence. Nick Fuentes is not teaching toddlers about empathy.

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There’s no greater paradox on earth than the week(end) of Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday in America. It’s an unparalleled showcase of the nation’s essence, steeped in hypocrisy, morbidity, and violence. Nowhere else does the contradiction emerge more starkly than on a day meant for giving thanks and reflecting on gratitude, only to give way, as the weekend comes, to a chaotic celebration of consumerism and excess.

This year’s Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday feel especially jarring in the shadow of two years of genocide, displacement, and deliberate starvation unfolding on our phones — followed by a fake “ceasefire” and a mainstream media apparatus actively creating cover so those violations can continue.

We’re celebrating a day, a weekend, a holiday rooted in deliberate misinformation and the genocide of Native Americans — right after witnessing two years of a livestreamed genocide unfold on our phones, followed by a so-called “ceasefire” that ceased no fire, during which 342 Palestinians were killed, including 67 children, and 875 were wounded.

It’s hard to watch the Thanksgiving parade, and all the attempts to rewrite history with gratitude lists or “land acknowledgments” over turkey — the “friendly feast” narrative, designed to whitewash colonization, violence, and mass murder into a peaceful, benign story.

As if that weren’t enough, while the compassionate, clear-minded world supports the BDS, Thanksgiving is followed by Black Friday and Cyber Monday. This consumerist frenzy stands in stark contrast to Native American spirituality, reverence for creation, environmental stewardship, and our basic human need for communion with nature and with one another.

Colonial damage is far greater than Thanksgiving.

But it endures as a symbol of colonialism, nauseatingly romanticized, yet rooted in the very foundations of settler colonialism. It’s not the primary act of colonialism, but it perpetuates a distorted view of history, obscuring the true scope of colonial violence.

The American settler-colonial model has served as a blueprint for other colonial powers. Its unprecedented success in establishing a settler society while marginalizing Indigenous populations is unmatched in scale. Now, Israel, in a cynical attempt to avoid scrutiny, argues that if America could do it, why can’t they?

We’ve witnessed two years of the first livestreamed genocide unfolding before our eyes, as ICE raids and state-sponsored terror crept into our reality. Our Western governments and their propagandists lie, fund, support, and justify atrocities at home and overseas. The history told by the West, from its very beginning, is a series of distorted, whitewashed, and romanticized lies.

We have to keep telling these truths.

Whether it’s the past or present, the only path forward is through unapologetic, radical truth, repeated relentlessly. We must expose lies, share them, and open as many eyes as possible. The education system is rigged in favor of the establishment, and history books reflect the bias of the victors. As Julian Assange warned, social media has the power to change these narratives, which we have proven with our relentless posting about Palestine:

“Working against 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.”

The livestreamed genocide in Gaza and the unspeakable horrors inflicted on a civilian population, funded and justified by the entire West, have laid bare the corruption, insincerity, and manipulation of our governments. The situation is so dire that we no longer resemble a functioning society, but a “transnational security elite that is busy carving up the world using our tax money” — another classic Julian.

Today, we are WikiLeaks.

Instead of living in a humane, civilized, and democratic society, we find ourselves forced to take on the responsibilities of our government, police, and media, much like the people of Amsterdam, exactly a year ago, who had to step in and defend themselves from Israeli football thugs rampaging around their city — while Dutch authorities failed to protect their own citizens.

Julian, again, explains this concept:

“To combat the elite we must not petition, we must take it over, we must form our own networks of strength and mutual value which can challenge those strengths and self-interested values of the warmongers.

When we understand that wars come about as a result of lies peddled to the British public the American public and the public all over Europe and other countries, then who are the war criminals? It is not just leaders, it is not just soldiers, it is journalists.

Journalists are war criminals. While one might think that should lead us to a state of despair, that the reality around us is constructed by liars; it should also lead us to an optimistic understanding — because if wars can be started by lies, peace can be started by the truth.

So that is our task, and it is your task — go and get the truth, get into the ballpark, get the ball, and give it to us, and we’ll spread it all over the world.”

Let’s start with debunking Thanksgiving myths.

Children in schools have been taught a Thanksgiving myth: friendly Indians, unidentified by tribe, welcome the Pilgrims to America, teach them how to live in this new place, share a meal with them, and then disappear. They handed off America to white people so they could create a great nation dedicated to liberty, opportunity, and Christianity for the rest of the world to profit.

That’s the story — a tale of Native people quietly conceding to colonialism. It’s a bloodless narrative and an extension of Manifest Destiny, the belief that white Americans were divinely ordained to expand across North America. This ideology justified westward expansion and fueled policies like the Trail of Tears, forced relocations, violent conflicts, and the systematic destruction of Native cultures, all cloaked in the language of destiny and divine right.

Manifest Destiny / We Are The Chosen People?

In 200-300 years, when all of us eyewitnesses are gone, along with our children to whom we’ll pass down the stories of the first live-streamed genocide in history, will Israelis invent warm, fuzzy tales about sharing falafels with Indigenous Palestinians in Gaza, before the latter peacefully decided to leave, so Israelis could create a great nation dedicated to liberty, opportunity, and Zionism, for the rest of the world to profit?

The history of the West repeats itself, over and over. And it continues to do so, even in 2025, because we’ve grown complacent. We don’t confront power as fiercely or as consistently as we should; we’ve absorbed their gaslighting, their narratives, and the consumerism designed to keep us compliant. Instead of speaking radical truths whenever and wherever they’re needed, we’ve let ourselves be muted.

The people of Palestine have woken us up from this propaganda-induced coma, a term coined by Caitlin Johnstone, a much-needed voice tirelessly working to lead us out of the matrix. She also chose these apt, albeit fighting, words:

“The deck is stacked so heavily against truth, peace, and justice. You will watch powerlessly as your government backs genocides, starts wars, and unleashes nightmare after nightmare upon the global south.

We live in a tyrannical dystopia that’s driving humanity to its doom, and we need to wake up from the propaganda indoctrination and egoic delusions which keep us complying with the status quo so that we can use the power of our numbers to overthrow our oppressors and create a healthy world.”

A radical truth at every turn must become everyone’s mission.

The “First Thanksgiving” didn’t unfold as history tells you. The Wampanoag tribe taught the English settlers (Pilgrims) how to grow crops, leading to a successful harvest. However, the Wampanoag weren’t invited to a “peaceful feast”, otherwise known as the First Thanksgiving. In fact, 90 armed Wampanoag warriors arrived at the feast after hearing gunshots, coming not to celebrate but to protect their people.

This occurred only months after the Pilgrims had robbed their graves and stolen food meant for Native families. The so-called “First Thanksgiving” marked the beginning of violent conflicts, with the colonists later seizing land and imprisoning, enslaving, and executing Native people.

While the legacy of colonialism spans centuries, Thanksgiving perpetuates a narrative that oversimplifies and sanitizes the violence and dispossession endured by Indigenous peoples. Are you even aware of the scale of devastation the European settlers inflicted on Native American populations? It’s one of the most depraved, evil, and violent crimes in history. And what stings the most — it worked. It was successful.

Look at the numbers:

While Americans celebrate and indulge in turkey feasts, Native Americans mourn this day. Since 1970, many Native Americans have participated in the National Day of Mourning on Thanksgiving Day, often held at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts, to commemorate their ancestors and advocate for indigenous rights.

For many Native Americans, Thanksgiving marks the beginning of their oppression, the loss of their land, and the erasure of their culture.

Witnessing a livestreamed genocide for two years, with daily massacres landing on your phone as soon as you open your eyes in the morning, and the reality that America’s past violence mirrors what Israel is currently attempting, makes Thanksgiving and its associated history feel even more nauseating to participate in.

I saw Native Americans at every anti-genocide protest I attended. I’ve seen pictures of them standing in solidarity, in other cities across America. There is a unique bond between Native Americans and Indigenous Palestinians. They understand the pain of cultural erasure, having witnessed it firsthand, while the same attempt is now being made against Palestinians. The parallels are unavoidable, especially since the erasure of Native Americans succeeded, whereas, for 77 years, Palestinians have miraculously resisted erasure.

“We are not Red Indians.”

In his last interview in 2004, Yasser Arafat reflected upon his achievements. Among them was the fact that “the Palestine case was the biggest problem in the world” and that Israel had “failed to wipe us out.” As a final mark of that success, he added the declarative, comparative, and final point of distinction: “We are not the Red Indians, we will not go into the museum. We are a live people with a live cause, that we will carry with us until the end, until victory.”

Twenty years later, Palestine is still the moral center of the world.

For 77 years and counting, the plight of the Palestinian people has remained at a standstill, and that’s purposeful, as maintaining the status quo is necessary for the existence of the state of Israel.

But what’s truly fascinating is that Yasser Arafat got his wish: “For our movement, armed struggle means waging a mass revolutionary war. Therefore, the first stage of our work is to attract the masses. The first thing is to attract the masses of our people and make them live in a revolutionary atmosphere.”

As The Guardian pointed out ten years ago, on the 10th anniversary of Yasser Arafat’s death: “He saw himself as part of a global movement and as a member of an international revolutionary fraternity against injustice — part of the global struggle of oppressed peoples for freedom and liberation.”

Keffiyeh Arafat wore came to symbolize revolution, not just the Palestinian struggle.

And it’s up to us, the global community, to never let the Palestinian people go into the museum. The struggle for Palestinian liberation is a fight against all forms of oppression.

Just as Thanksgiving has been rebranded into a “friendly feast” narrative, whitewashing colonization, violence, and mass murder into a benign story, Israel has spent 77 years attempting the same erasure of the Palestinian people, their culture, identity, sovereignty, and their land. We must resist the distorted version of history that allows Israel to claim the mantle of the “only democracy in the Middle East” and the “most moral army in the world,” obscuring the full scope of their shocking, barbaric violence toward the entire group of people whose land they covet.

We are a live people with a live cause, that we will carry with us until the end, until victory.” — Yasser Arafat

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You need to know three essential truths. Your government cares more about Israel than about its own people. Your government prioritizes Israel over its own citizens. Your government stands with Israel, not with you.

Now that almost all of the Global Sumud Flotilla humanitarians have been released from Israeli dungeons, let’s unpack what transpired and truly grasp the intricacies of this moment. These people embarked on this mission and risked their lives so that we could reach these conclusions — and conclude we must.

Let’s recap.

Israel rolled up to the international waters and snatched people. Sprayed them with skunk water, held them at gunpoint. Took them to dungeons, detained them, gave them no water for 48 hours, gave them infested food, and mattresses. Made them drink toilet water. Made them kneel with zip ties behind their backs for 15 hours. Refused them essential medicine. Foreigners. In international waters. Europeans, Americans, Australians, Brits, Canadians. Taken, snatched, detained.

I watched a live stream from the airport in Athens and Madrid last night and saw a group of recently released detainees arrive — without bras or underpants, dressed in white t-shirts, gray sweatpants, and sweatshirts. They looked visibly disheveled, yet determined not to speak about what they had endured, choosing to redirect the focus to the Palestinian people and the genocide still ongoing.

Something about their clothes was so unsettling. Why are they all dressed in grey sweats? Why did all the women walk out without bras? Men dangling without underpants? What in the Jim Jones is going on here? It quite literally looked like they had all just been rescued from a cult about to catapult them to a semi-voluntary death.

Meanwhile, no countries reacted.

No countries took any action for their own citizens. This means that if you were on one of these Flotillas and were kidnapped by an aggressive, vindictive, trigger-happy “army” currently committing genocide, your country wouldn’t do anything for you. Your embassy wouldn’t rescue you or even inquire about you. The country of your birth or citizenship — the one you pay taxes to, whose government is supposed to work for you — would leave you stranded and unprotected, for Israel.

What an unbelievably tough pill to swallow! Realizing there are simply no adults here. The people who rule you, the ruling class, or as I endearingly call them, the Epstein class, are simply all compromised.

Performative actions?

Meanwhile, Spanish Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said on Monday that the country will file a complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC) regarding the events of the Global Sumud Flotilla: “Any attack on persons in international waters constitutes a deprivation of liberty under domestic and international law.”

Will they actually do anything? Or will they send a warship to “help” the Flotilla and then pull it back from the international waters at the moment they actually needed the protection?

Sweden’s Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard also let out some words and said that the allegations regarding the abusive treatment of climate activist Greta Thunberg are “very serious” if confirmed. ⁠

Investigative journalist Max Blumenthal gives us another indication of where the US government stands, and who’s actually in control:

“Passengers from the Sumud Freedom flotilla, including Greta Thunberg, have been led out after being abused for a week. Mike Huckabee, the supposed US ambassador to Israel, has mocked Greta Thunberg on his Twitter account. Other American citizens are due to be kidnapped by Israel, and what Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador, is saying is: we will not provide consular representation to US citizens because I actually represent Israel.” American citizens attempting to bring aid to Gaza, being kidnapped on the high seas by Israel, will not receive consular representation as they’re abused by Israeli foreign police and security personnel. That is disgusting.”

While none of the Global Sumud Flotilla vessels reached Gaza to deliver aid to the starving population, having been illegally intercepted by the Israeli regime in international waters, the mission was nonetheless a great success. It achieved exactly what its organizers intended: pressing the record button and aiming it at the many illegal actions of the Israeli regime.

This is precisely why Western governments are working overtime to shield Israel instead of protecting their own citizens — because the only way to make Israel’s crimes appear acceptable to the public is through political power, media control, and diplomatic protection that make the illegitimate seem legitimate.

We are here to remind them, it won’t work.

People are coming! The Global Sumud Flotilla stands as the most successful mission to break the naval siege of Gaza to date — crossing Gaza’s maritime borders, entering Palestinian territorial waters, and reaching 42.5 nautical miles from the Strip before being intercepted.

After decades of the Israeli genocidal regime controlling the narrative and portraying itself as a victim surrounded by radical terrorists, humanitarians on the Flotillas revealed the true face of the occupation, backed by the entire West, showing the world what the Palestinian people have endured for decades.

Israel has been pouring millions into censoring voices and manufacturing propaganda. Palestinians simply pressed the record button. They didn’t need PR firms or celebrity endorsements — all they needed was a phone. And the humanitarians aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla carried their phones on a mission to break the naval siege of Gaza, exposing the occupation from the opposite side of the border.

The power of the people, united in the absence of functioning governments, rules, and laws, becomes all the more dangerous to the ruling class.

Your governments know this.

Israel knows this.

The people are coming!

And we have only just begun.

Before you go, check out the picture of Greta Thunberg and Tiago Avila after being intercepted by Israel. Look at Thiago, one of the coordinators of the Global Freedom Flotilla, look at his smile, in the face of what’s to come — detention, torture, and starvation. The calm on his face, the fearless conviction, and the unwavering resolve speak louder than any words.

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While none of the Global Sumud Flotilla vessels reached Gaza to deliver aid to the starving population, having been illegally intercepted by the Israeli regime in international waters, the mission was nonetheless a great success. It achieved exactly what its organizers intended: pressing the record button and aiming it at the many illegal actions of the Israeli regime.

You should feel good about this mission.

Here’s why:

Sumud stands as the most successful Flotilla mission to date, technically breaking the naval siege, crossing Gaza’s maritime borders, and entering Palestinian territorial waters, reaching 42.5 nautical miles from the Strip, before interception.

After decades of the Israeli genocidal regime controlling the narrative and portraying itself as a victim surrounded by radical terrorists, humanitarians on the Flotillas revealed the true face of the occupation, backed by the entire West, showing the world what the Palestinian people have endured for decades.

Israel has been pouring millions into censoring voices and manufacturing propaganda. Palestinians simply pressed the record button. They didn’t need PR firms or celebrity endorsements — all they needed was a phone. And the humanitarians aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla carried their phones on a mission to break the naval siege of Gaza, exposing the occupation from the opposite side of the border.

The occupation pays influencers, curates photo ops, silences dissent, and manipulates headlines. Flotilla missions expose the fallacies of the Israeli narrative with every trip to Gaza. Israel claims it has the right to kidnap humanitarians at sea because they “illegally entered Israeli waters,” while simultaneously insisting they do not occupy Gaza. If Israel does not occupy Gaza, and humanitarians are sailing toward a people whom Israel claims not to occupy, how can Israel legally intercept a peaceful international aid mission heading toward a territory it does not occupy?

Imagine how fragile the illusion Israel and its allies have built, if just a few phones pointed at their actions are enough to dismantle it. Global Sumud Flotilla showed the world that Israeli illusions and lies require constant upkeep, endless throwing money at it, and sailing to Gaza simply ruins their business plan. This is why all the Flotilla missions are despised by Israel.

Itamar Ben-Gvir came out of his dungeon to yell at humanitarians, calling them terrorists; imagine an actual convicted terrorist calling humanitarians — terrorists, his anger and foaming at the mouth expose how pressed and worried he is about their narrative crumbling down in real time. Why would he be so pressed if the Flotilla’s actions are insignificant?

Everything you ever knew about Israel was a controlled narrative. The only reason the truth managed to come out is because they did not count on the fact that most people did not get convinced, regardless of their decades-long efforts, to see Arabs, Muslims, and Palestinians as lesser people, deserving of death. And because one little owned by China, which did not control the algorithm, and allowed the truth to be spread.

That is why all Flotilla missions are essential in exposing the reality of Palestinian suffering. It’s a chip in the narrative, it’s exposing to the world a genocidal regime that is claiming not to starve the population they are holding under siege, refusing to allow a drop of help and humanity, dignity, and support to reach the people they claim not to hate.

It’s a win.

This week’s investigative report taught us that Israel is paying influencers $7,000 to post their controlled narrative in the service of upholding the genocidal campaign in Gaza. Since they intercepted all the Flotillas, Israel has been tripping over their own feet to make these propaganda explainer videos, claiming no aid was on the vessels. And all that the pro-Palestinian side has to do — is turn our phones on.

Humanitarians on the Flotilla crushed all their narratives and propaganda with a simple record button.

Justice moves slowly, yet this is a win.

The empire is relentless, but so are we.

Next time? 400 ships!

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We all saw that video this morning — a child with a charred face, taking their last breath, intestines spilling out of their tiny body. I instinctively said her, though it could just as easily have been him. I was so distraught I didn’t even check; the body was so destroyed I couldn’t tell the child’s sex.

I think the sight of intestines spilling from a tiny human body is the moment to say — ENOUGH. Ostracize everyone who still has the gall to claim, or who keeps convincing themselves, that Palestinian children are merely “collateral damage” in some gruesome “war” between “Israel and Hamas.” There is no war. This is the annihilation of a people whose land you want to seize, a biblical need to erase the Palestinians, or, as they prefer to call them, Arabs — from existence.

Children are a demographic threat to that goal, to Zionism, and to the ethnostate upheld through relentless violence.

If you haven’t seen the video, I advise you to see it, however gruesome. We have to bear witness, and we absolutely CANNOT normalize seeing this level of medieval violence being done to CHILDREN, women, and men of Palestine.

I want to make you all aware of the speech by the great Naomi Klein, in April of 2004, at the public Seder, and a protest in New York City, against Israeli genocide in Gaza.

Naomi Klein is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses; support of ecofeminism, organized labour, and criticism of corporate globalization, fascism, and capitalism. Naomi Klein is Jewish.

A Seder is a ceremonial Passover meal celebrated on the first one or two nights of the Passover holiday, involving a specific order of rituals, symbolic foods like bitter herbs and matzah, and the retelling of the biblical story of the Exodus from Egypt.

This is the transcript of Naomi Klein’s speech, also published at The Guardian:

We need an exodus from Zionism

This Passover, we don’t need or want the false idol of Zionism. We want freedom from the project that commits genocide in our name

Published on Wed, April 24th, 2004.

By Naomi Klein

I’ve been thinking about Moses, and his rage when he came down from the mount to find the Israelites worshipping a golden calf.

The ecofeminist in me was always uneasy about this story: what kind of God is jealous of animals? What kind of God wants to hoard all the sacredness of the Earth for himself?

But there is a less literal way of understanding this story. It is about false idols. About the human tendency to worship the profane and shiny, to look to the small and material rather than the large and transcendent.

What I want to say to you tonight at this revolutionary and historic Seder in the Streets is that too many of our people are worshipping a false idol once again. They are enraptured by it. Drunk on it. Profaned by it.

That false idol is called Zionism.

Zionism is a false idol that has taken the idea of the promised land and turned it into a deed of sale for a militaristic ethnostate.

It is a false idol that takes our most profound biblical stories of justice and emancipation from slavery – the story of Passover itself – and turns them into brutalist weapons of colonial land theft, roadmaps for ethnic cleansing and genocide.

It is a false idol that has taken the transcendent idea of the promised land – a metaphor for human liberation that has traveled across multiple faiths to every corner of this globe – and dared to turn it into a deed of sale for a militaristic ethnostate.

Political Zionism’s version of liberation is itself profane. From the start, it required the mass expulsion of Palestinians from their homes and ancestral lands in the Nakba.

From the start it has been at war with dreams of liberation. At a Seder it is worth remembering that this includes the dreams of liberation and self-determination of the Egyptian people. This false idol of Zionism equates Israeli safety with Egyptian dictatorship and client states.

From the start it has produced an ugly kind of freedom that saw Palestinian children not as human beings but as demographic threats – much as the pharaoh in the Book of Exodus feared the growing population of Israelites, and thus ordered the death of their sons.

Zionism has brought us to our present moment of cataclysm and it is time that we said clearly: it has always been leading us here.

It is a false idol that has led far too many of our own people down a deeply immoral path that now has them justifying the shredding of core commandments: thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not covet.

We, in these streets for months and months, are the exodus. The exodus from Zionism.

It is a false idol that equates Jewish freedom with cluster bombs that kill and maim Palestinian children.

Zionism is a false idol that has betrayed every Jewish value, including the value we place on questioning – a practice embedded in the Seder with its four questions asked by the youngest child.

Including the love we have as a people for text and for education.

Today, this false idol justifies the bombing of every university in Gaza; the destruction of countless schools, of archives, of printing presses; the killing of hundreds of academics, of journalists, of poets – this is what Palestinians call scholasticide, the killing of the means of education.

Meanwhile, in this city, the universities call in the NYPD and barricade themselves against the grave threat posed by their own students daring to ask them basic questions, such as: how can you claim to believe in anything at all, least of all us, while you enable, invest in and collaborate with this genocide?

The false idol of Zionism has been allowed to grow unchecked for far too long.

So tonight we say: it ends here.

Our Judaism cannot be contained by an ethnostate, for our Judaism is internationalist by nature.

Our Judaism cannot be protected by the rampaging military of that state, for all that military does is sow sorrow and reap hatred – including against us as Jews.

Our Judaism is not threatened by people raising their voices in solidarity with Palestine across lines of race, ethnicity, physical ability, gender identity and generations.

Our Judaism is one of those voices and knows that in that chorus lies both our safety and our collective liberation.

Our Judaism is the Judaism of the Passover Seder: the gathering in ceremony to share food and wine with loved ones and strangers alike, the ritual that is inherently portable, light enough to carry on our backs, in need of nothing but each other: no walls, no temple, no rabbi, a role for everyone, even – especially – the smallest child. The Seder is a diaspora technology if ever there was one, made for collective grieving, contemplation, questioning, remembering and reviving the revolutionary spirit.

So look around. This, here, is our Judaism. As waters rise and forests burn and nothing is certain, we pray at the altar of solidarity and mutual aid, no matter the cost.

We don’t need or want the false idol of Zionism. We want freedom from the project that commits genocide in our name. Freedom from an ideology that has no plan for peace other than deals with murderous theocratic petrostates next door, while selling the technologies of robo-assassinations to the world.

We seek to liberate Judaism from an ethnostate that wants Jews to be perennially afraid, that wants our children to be afraid, that wants us to believe the world is against us so that we go running to its fortress and beneath its iron dome, or at least keep the weapons and donations flowing.

That is the false idol.

And it’s not just Netanyahu, it’s the world he made and that made him – it’s Zionism.

What are we? We, in these streets for months and months, are the exodus. The exodus from Zionism.

And to the Chuck Schumers of this world, we do not say: “Let our people go.”

We say: “We have already gone. And your kids? They’re with us now.

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Happy 4th of July! Let’s celebrate America’s independence from mad King George’s subjugation by subjugating the Native Americans. United, free, and independent, it’s our motto; it only applies to us.

The full circle is poetic, from Mad King George, to senile puppet Biden, to the weakest strongmen on Earth, Trump — the populist, fighter of deep states, only to be purchased by its highest bidder.

Hey, there are fireworks tonight!

We are battling depression daily, seeing genocides on our screens, funded by our hard-won, united, free, and independent state — thanks, Founding Fathers.

Is it really depression, or just the emotional weight of surviving capitalism? Our basic needs neglected, billions funneled into foreign wars, free speech silenced to protect the sensibilities of donors, posing as patriots — pledging allegiance to a foreign cult, posing as a state?

America is an extremist oligarchy whose citizens have zero influence on public policy, Matt Cooke once told me.

Happy Independence Day!

Didn’t you hear? A cute, hot Muslim who eats rice with his fingers might become the mayor of Gotham City, a radical who isn’t radical enough for our Founding Fathers, who don’t like a regular Muslim who looks just like them. Their brand of Islamophobia is all photo ops at the Qatar World Cup, shopping sprees in Dubai, and flying home on a plane they gifted you, to lecture us about Arab terrorism.

A systematic mass slaughter, live on your screen, didn’t move you. What’s your red line?

They are coming for you, they say. Who’s coming? Those who warn you are the ones coming, and they are already here.

They are coming for you.

Gays are coming for you to ruin your family, trans are coming for you to assault you, non-binaries are coming for you to confuse your kids, Arabs are coming for you to kill you, Muslims are coming to convert you, immigrants are coming for your jobs.

The only one coming for you, your freedoms, and your quality of life — is your government.

America, the mascot of freedom and opportunity that the world is instructed to envy, doesn’t want global stability if it means empowering a competitor. It still clings to the fading echoes of imperial hubris, relentlessly chasing growth, dominance, and expansion.

Your government convinced you that Zionist feelings are more important than small limbs in Gaza being severed from tiny, motionless bodies.

Your government convinced you that chants about deaf deaf to the Gestapo are more problematic than the government with access to weapons, funding the Gestapo.

You cannot celebrate Independence Day today if you aren’t supportive of the Palestinian plight for independence.

The US House voted to conceal the death toll in Gaza, while your future is being decided by 80-year-olds without a future.

We have been emotionally manipulated, time and again, to believe we are under immediate danger from the crazed other. They would kill you and your family too, a bizarre argument that is supposed to make you atrocity-friendly — Alon Mizrahi told me.

There are fireworks tonight!

Who’s the independent party here?

The state of Israel was not created for the salvation of Jews; it was created for the salvation of Western interests. Palestinians are just paying a perpetual price for it — James Baldwin told me.

The empire’s interests are not your interests.

Is the freedom in the room with us?

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My biggest internal struggle over the past twenty months has been finding the words to explain to those silent about the livestreamed genocide in Gaza just how dangerous their silence is. The collection sounds something like this:

• “But I don’t have many followers, who would I inform?”

• “I don’t talk about politics, I can’t start now.”

• “I’m not posting or talking about this genocide, but I’m doing things for Gaza behind closed doors” (they aren’t).

• “I’m a mother, so watching kids being blown up to pieces is too much for me. I just can’t deal with it, emotionally.”

My response is usually embarrassingly naive: “Well, isn’t that the biggest reason on earth to actually care and do more for someone else’s kids being blown to…?”

Forget it.

They never listen, and my cortisol spikes every time I try to explain that their silence isn’t just inaction—it’s dangerous. When enough people choose not to speak, those of us who do are left exposed, outnumbered, and easy to target—doxxed, threatened, stripped of opportunities. That stubborn silence has built an undisturbed little nest right in our collective living room—a comfortable kind of consent that allowed genocide to unfold.

And we watched it unfold. In real time. A genocide, livestreamed on one side of the screen, and on the other, people who just aren’t that bothered by non-Westerners being bombed.

What happened next is quite extraordinary, an event that will be remembered for generations to come. Greta Thunberg, a 22-year-old Westerner who could have easily cruised around the world for the rest of her life, chatting about climate change while pocketing billions; unbothered, adored—instead, she chose to school your friends, your family, the UN, politicians, governments, and international courts on courage and what’s left of humanity by quietly rolling up onto the Gaza Freedom Flotilla sailboat.

But before she did, she addressed the world—especially those questioning whether she was afraid, given that Israel had killed nine activists aboard the Mavi Marmara in 2010 and had struck the previous Freedom Flotilla vessel, Conscience, with a drone in international waters near Malta just a month ago.

Greta’s words are clear and unadorned—the cadence of neurodivergence, and impossible to ignore:

"No matter how dangerous this mission is, it’s not even near as dangerous as the silence of the entire world in the face of the livestreamed genocide.”

If you’ve never felt shame for your lack of rage as an entire people were exterminated before your eyes, unmoved to share and amplify their plight to force governments to stop gunning them down with your tax dollars, now is the time.

Muhammad Shehada explains why talking publicly and protesting about this genocide is paramount in stopping it. He lays out ways the people who refused to stay silent and inactive moved the needle and ultimately changed the tide on support for Israel, a perpetrator:

“Western governments expected that the anti-genocide movement and the protest would die out, counting on our fatigue due to the repetition of atrocities and no end in sight, as well as a mix of police crackdown and suppressive tactics.

What we see now that is draconian unraveling everything that Europe is supposed to stand for in terms of suppression going after individuals to intimidate terrorize and and kill a movement in its butt. But that didn't work. They expected this movement to fade away to become quiet, and disappear. But the opposite happened.”

Our speaking out and relentless protesting, risking jobs, diplomas, careers, freedoms, and futures—is why the tide changed. Those who rule us could no longer excuse the sheer number of war crimes or the unwavering efforts of people continuing to expose them.

This is how impactful and damaging your silence is.

So much so that Greta Thunberg fears your silence more than stepping onto a Freedom Flotilla—despite one of its boats being hit by a drone just a month ago, and another attacked in 2010, when nine humanitarians were killed.

I think it’s time you did the bare minimum—speak out, share, and amplify their mission; it’s imperative for their safety.

What is the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, and why is it an IMPERATIVE that you support it?

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) is a grassroots people-to-people solidarity movement composed of campaigns and initiatives from different parts of the world, working together to end the illegal Israeli blockade of Gaza. It’s a non-violent, direct action to challenge Israel's illegal siege and escalating war crimes.

In FCC's own words:

“We Challenge the Blockade – By sailing vessels to Gaza, we confront Israel’s illegal siege and demonstrate that this blockade constitutes collective punishment of a civilian population, violating internationally recognized rights, including the right to freedom of movement.

We Expose the Nature of the Occupation – Through peaceful, civilian-led missions, we reveal the violent and unlawful behavior of Israeli occupation forces. These include hijacking our vessels and forcibly transporting them to occupied Palestine, assaulting unarmed volunteers, seizing personal belongings, and medical supplies bound for Palestinians in Gaza. Israel’s hostile responses to our missions reflect a wider, ongoing brutality inflicted upon civilians in Gaza on a daily basis.”

Mavi Marmara.

Why did Israel stop the Gaza Flotilla in 2010, a vessel carrying 10,000 tonnes of goods, including school supplies, building materials, and two large electricity generators for people in Gaza, under blockade? Check out this mind-boggling feature by the BBC, trying to convince the public that the Israeli commandos who descended on a ship on ropes from helicopters came to contain the “terrorists on board” and executed nine activists in “self-defence”.

In September 2010, a UN Human Rights Council report said Israel's military broke international laws, that the action by commandos, which left nine dead, was "disproportionate" and "betrayed an unacceptable level of brutality". Israel rejected the report as "biased" and "one-sided".

Commandos who are also victims.

If you are stunned by the journalistic malpractice of the New York Times and the Washington Post today in reporting about the genocide in Gaza, take a look at what kind of nonsense the BBC printed 15 years ago:

“The Israeli commandos faced significant, organised, and violent resistance.”

Israeli commandos executed 9 people with multiple bullets to their heads and chest—activists, on board to deliver aid. The 10th person died a few years later due to the sustained injuries. Then, as today, bringing aid to the starving population under the blockade is an act Israel finds offensive and something it should defend itself from.

Madleen.

The unfortunate mistake the crew and activists on the Mavi Marmara made was embarking on a mission to break the blockade of Gaza and deliver aid to a besieged population—without letting the world know. They didn’t have support on the outside. Israel, known to commit atrocities and war crimes while counting on the world’s unawareness, never allows international journalists to report independently on its actions. But 15 years later, with smartphones in hand and social media as a megaphone, the crew aboard the Madleen, now sailing toward Gaza, is better prepared.

And most importantly—they have us.

The 12 people aboard, the support team on the outside, and all of us amplifying their location, progress, and message are actively ensuring their literal, physical safety.

Greta Thunberg boarded that ship, knowing her high profile and celebrity would strengthen the mission's safety. She quite literally put her life on the line to deliver aid to a starving population and draw the world’s attention to Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza.

People on the board of Madleen vessel are:

Baptiste Andre 🇫🇷, Greta Thunberg 🇸🇪, Şuayb Ordu 🇹🇷, Mark van Rennes 🇳🇱, Omar Faiad 🇫🇷, Pascal Maurieras 🇫🇷, Reva Viard 🇫🇷, Rima Hassan 🇫🇷, Sergio Toribio 🇪🇸, Thiago Ávila 🇧🇷, Yanis Mhamdi 🇫🇷, and Yasemin Acar 🇩🇪.

People on the board of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition, and the outside support, are:

Alana Hadid, Susan Sarandon, Daniel Machover, Abby Martin, Brian Eno, Max Porter, Aiysha Hart, Greta Thunberg, Liam Cunningham, Indya Moore, Guy Pearce, Rahma Zein, Maxine Peake, Melissa Barrera, Lisa Moorish, Nicole Jenes, Juliet Stevenson, Misan Harriman, Khalid Abdalla, Nan Goldin, Susan Abulhawa, Del Naja, and Carice Van Houten.

Follow @gazafreedomflotilla coalition for updates. You can track the boat here.

SHARE. SPEAK. AMPLIFY. FOLLOW.

Wake up!

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They even stole my writing from me. I haven’t written in months—I don’t have the words. They took the one thing I’ve always relied on to make sense of the world. This isn’t writer’s block, and it’s not about having time. It’s that no words feel accurate anymore.

I say they, and you instantly know who they are; I don’t have to name them. They who commit it, and they who fund it. They who justify it and lie about what they’ve done.

It’s far beyond what we once thought would be too much. A new category needs to be invented, and I can’t find the proper words for it. Every single day brings another atrocity, worse than the last. You brace yourself to write about one, and another pings your phone before finishing the first paragraph.

BREAKING! Another death, another massacre. Another body, dismembered in the name of self-defense. The third, the fifth, the seventeenth. Another hospital or a school bombed by the people who don’t bomb hospitals or schools. Another lie, another denial about what we just saw on our screens.

It. Doesn’t. Stop.

I’m not blocked—I’m emptied. There are no words brutal enough to hold this depravity. For the past 19 months, I’ve exhausted every word in my vocabulary: horrific, gruesome, apocalyptic, grotesque. None of them feel strong enough anymore. None of them come close to capturing the glee with which an entire people is being destroyed.

My mind is leaving me.

I wake up every morning afraid to touch my phone; it holds death, blood, breathless babies who barely tasted this world’s air, and children’s feet severed from their legs.

I no longer have the words to describe the depravity of legacy media, scrambling to find the softest, most palatable language for the most grotesque atrocity of our lived experience, all while the world remains complicit in silence. The scenes so harrowing, they make you question your place in this reality.

How do you continue living among those who attempt to justify the mutilation of innocent children, because… Stop giving us your because. We do not accept your because. Your because is not our because.

I cannot take the occupier and their supporters working overtime to flip the reality on its head. Telling us this carnage has a reason, that it must happen, that there is no way to avoid small lifeless bodies lying on a cold hospital floor, lucky to just be dead, and not charred to death, and if we refuse to accept it, then we just hate all Jewish people.

Humanity isn’t built to witness this much carnage—at least not the sane world, the one that wasn’t raised in a cult of supremacy and doesn’t feed on hatred of Arab people. This isn’t even just about land; it’s as if that hatred fuels their entire existence and gives them meaning.

How did we not catch this before?

I feel ashamed that the Palestinian people had to wait this long for the world to finally see them, hear them, and even now, with all this awareness, it’s still not enough. Not even close.

I have no more words; I have said it all. I repeated it all, over and over. The Palestinian people have told you, shown you, it’s on your screens. They’ve done everything humanly possible to make you understand what’s happening to them. They’ve shoved their dead, headless, charred children into your feed. They’ve written their wills for you to read after being blown to pieces by the latest weapons designed to be tested on them, possibly used on us all—if we step out of line.

Scenes from Gaza feel even more harrowing than Auschwitz—this time, they’re livestreamed to our phones, accompanied by the perpetrators’ glee. Nothing, literally nothing, can stop the biblical pain these people have been subjected to: lives erased, childhoods denied. They aren’t allowed to have lives, careers, successes, or accomplishments; their sole purpose is escaping the biblically deranged cult hunting them down.

We’re not even pretending anymore. Biblically deranged cult, helped by the equally deranged US empire, doesn’t even bother to explain anymore—they used to offer us the days of the week written in Arabic as proof of terrorist command centers under the hospitals; now, they don’t even bother.

Today, they execute medical workers point-blank, bury their bodies and ambulances casually, with no effort to hide it. They don’t even bother to destroy their victim’s phones, knowing that getting caught will make no difference—they can simply say, OOPSIES, MY BAD and the world will accept it.

The world won’t, the people won’t, but your politicians will, and they will hunt you down, Gestapo style, and deport you for interfering with the deviance of their Western values.

They started with illegal immigrants. Moved on to legal immigrants. To residents and green card holders. Soon on to naturalized citizens. Then you, the citizen. No one will survive this, not even those watching from afar. — @PoetsGaza

The Empire, finally exposed to what they have always been, you just didn’t have the phones—completely divorced from reality, thinking they are exceptional, fighting everyone on the planet, whether its the tarrif wars, trade battles, sanctions they impose to everyone fighting their hegemony—giving the world lessons in morality while sending bombs to Israel to mutilate kids in Gaza.

Blabbering about the crimes of Saddam, Gaddafi, Assad, and Putin with such nauseating hypocrisy; Marandi — The United States is so sinister and so evil because it has a murderous culture they are blaming on other nations, but with much more hypocrisy. The West kills, and then they expect you to thank them and to acknowledge their moral superiority.

Homogeny, choosing war over diplomacy, arrogance, corruption. Do you not see how quickly it escalated—from Gaza to unconstitutional human rights violations, to First Amendment rights violations?

Galloway - Why are we doing all this? Bending the entire shape of our society, disfiguring the face of society, why are we doing it? For Israel?

Everything and everyone are exposed.

The entire civilized social order is being dismantled. The international humanitarian organizations do not exist in reality. They are the same as Instagram influencers. The UN is a content creator with no actual power to implement change. The UN is just rules, with no tools. The international law isn’t built to protect Palestine, it was built to contain it.

The International Court of Justice granted Israel a 6-month delay in the genocide case. Six months? An order extending Israel’s time to respond to South Africa’s genocide claims against it for its conduct in Gaza from the original July 28 deadline to January 12, 2026. Do you know what 6 months mean while 150-200 people are being killed daily?

Democrats provoking Russia, Republicans provoking China, both alternately provoking Iran, and everyone they deem a threat to their hegemony—this is why your eggs are $15, and your giving birth bill totals $39,000. This is why New York looks like it’s in the 1970s with the number of homeless, drugged-up people lying on the streets and pissing in subways.

Your government doesn’t reflect your interests; they don’t care about you, a voter in your respective district. Your representatives do the bidding of a foreign nation and reflect the interests of those who funded their elections: Israel and the Israel lobby.

Israel, that “only democracy in the Middle East” and “the most moral army in the world”—imagine the offensiveness, the utter disrespect to our shared humanity, of trying to pin these words to the most depraved cult on earth and expecting us to accept it. To threaten to ruin our lives if we don’t, using evidence they themselves provide, on our own phones?

What is this timeline we’re stuck in? It feels like a Marvel movie where we’ve accidentally been thrown into the wrong reality—surrounded by horrors on every side, with no way out.

Assassinating photojournalists alongside her entire family, just for spite, to hide the truth, after her documentary was announced to premiere at Cannes. Bombing a humanitarian ship in international waters, nearly striking Great Thunberg who was about to board that ship, carrying aid to Gaza. Drone bombing a ship in the middle of Europe, and you still don’t see the audacity these lunatics operate with as a threat to all of humanity?

Do you realize we live in a timeline where Israel could assassinate Greta Thunberg on a humanitarian ship, then say OOPSIES MY BAD, it was a mistake, and the world would accept it, without holding them accountable?

It just doesn’t stop with depravity, those who are committing it, those who fund it, and then try to gaslight you into what you just saw.

Johnstone—"Israel and its western backers understand that truth and support for Israel are mutually exclusive. Those who support Israel are not interested in the truth, and those who are interested in the truth don’t support Israel.”

And as you already know, it’s going to get a lot worse. These 19 months since the genocide in Gaza was launched were just a prep, training your eyes for what you’re about to see. Netanyahu announced to the world that his cabinet approved an expanded military operation, described as a plan to “conquer Gaza”. You know what’s coming. Zionists know they won’t get another chance to do what they are doing now. It’s the least push, now-or-never moment for Zionist aspirations, as Alon Mizrahi expertly says.

A few days ago, Mileikowsky also stood in front of the camera to declare to the world that “Free Palestine is just today’s Heil Hitler.” As Alon Mizrahi rightly points out—”This is not about historical perspective. This is future-facing and indicative of policy.

He explains further:

“What Netanyahu is saying here - the true bone-chilling core of it - is that he is using all his power and influence around the globe to make your government treat you like a nazi. Which only means total annihilation. Netanyahu is letting the entire world know that he and his people, and all the organizations he owns and controls, are going for humanity's throat.”

The aim is not to destroy Palestine: this Netanyahu already takes for granted. The aim now is to destroy human society - or at least Western society, for starters (Israel is deeply involved in lobbying against China in the US).

This is Netanyahu announcing the beginning of Phase II of his war against the West. It is no longer 'defending Israel', or even defending the genocide. It is destroying the fabric of life, and using his power, influence, and control over Western establishments to drive humanity over the abyss and into extreme violence and terror.”

The future is truly anti-zionist, or apocalyptic. Sadly, it’s probably both.

Where do we go from here?

Above all, the real work is within you. You will start seeing the Muslim and Arab countries in the same way you see yourself. You will be conscious of your lifelong learning about Western values being superior to the rest of the planet. You will start reacting to the bombing of children in the Middle East with the same horror you would react if the bomb fell in Rome and slaughtered Italian toddlers, or if a whole building in Midtown Manhattan was struck and a dozen American children were charred to death on 6th Avenue.

Our resistance is changing these mindsets. We aren’t helpless. We can reset this world. YOU can reset this world. You will learn about the people of the Middle East—learn their customs, their culture, learn about Ramadan, learn to honor their holidays the way they honor your fucking Christmases and Easters. And you will raise your children to respect other cultures, religions, and understand that being born in the West does not warrant superiority.

“And the good news is we have truth on our side. The propaganda is deceitful, and the truth is getting more and more exposure. Humans are getting better and better at sharing ideas and information about what’s really happening in our world. We just need to open our eyes. We just need to let truth get a word in edgewise. That’s all that needs to happen.” — Johnstone

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I wrote a poem yesterday about mothers who do not blink an eye at the sight of children, starved, shattered, mauled, and bombed by design.

I wrote a poem about all the mothers who sit in silence, undisturbed by the most televised genocide in history, because it's complicated, because it’s nuanced, because it’s far away.

I wrote a poem yesterday about mothers who feed their children at night; scroll past images of the unfed, dried lips, ash-covered limbs, someone else’s children thirsting for mercy; then slip beneath warm sheets, plotting tomorrow’s plate, undisturbed.

I wrote a poem about mothers who are bold when it’s trendy, vocal when it’s safe, and who believe that motherhood worth praising belongs to a passport, a race, a nation, a faith.

I wrote a poem yesterday about mothers who juice and meditate each day, whose well-being excludes the well-being of others, blind to their privilege, cowardly in spirit.

I wrote a poem about mothers who hold their children tight at night, yet feel no tremor in their bones for mothers who’ve lost every child, who don't shiver at the words: "Wounded child, no surviving family."

I wrote a poem yesterday about mothers who sit in silence, turning away from the worst atrocity humanity inflicts, convincing themselves that guarding their inner peace is an act of love, not complicity.

“Hey, I would love to connect”—a woman, a mother, commented below my poem, sending me a link to her Substack where she talks about signals and frequencies, traumas and unresolved fear; she never talked about Gaza, not once, not one article was devoted to children being blown to bits, daily, on our phones. But she talked about her problems that led to her “digging and release of trauma.”

Her silence doesn’t offend me anymore. Mothers I know and love have already broken my heart into a thousand pieces with their casual disregard for ash-covered limbs, small, grey, motionless.

But it was her choice of that particular poem under which to promote her writing that sent me into a tailspin—a poem about women like her, mothers who remain silent while small bodies thirst for mercy, just moments before another precision strike blows them into another building or splits them in two.

She read those lines, about women and mothers being silent, and she, a silent woman and a mother chose that instance to share reflections on motherhood and trauma, skipping the part where outrage was due—children being mutilated because those in power decided an entire people must be erased for another to take their place.

I called her out; comments are below, in the comment section. I left it there, as a reminder, an alarm to what this world has become, and for you to read it.

She responded that my poem was beautifully written. That she didn’t take it as a bash against women like her who have had a chronic disease and s stroke, which has led to doing the digging and release of trauma. She didn’t realize that was so trivial, but she thanked me for my perspective and education. She said she took my poem as an invitation to open the conversation up and shed light on the importance of celebrating all of humanity on Mother’s Day, and also noted I have a very unkind approach to someone reaching out to me.

Why are women who are not mothers mothering the whole world?

Why is it my duty to tell a mother her trauma means nothing in the eyes of the livestreamed holocaust happening in our lifetime?

Why does it fall on me to teach a woman, a mother, that her writings about expressing deep love, undeniable connection, personal growth, and unwavering commitment despite distance and challenges mean absolutely nothing if she’s unwilling to gift her talent of words to those suffering an immeasurable pain?

Why am I expected to be kind to a woman so self-absorbed she can’t recognize that enduring hardship in a safe, well-fed home is a form of privilege many are denied?

Why is kindness demanded of me in the face of women and mothers whose silence is a form of complicity, while they deny that my anger stems from their role in sustaining war crimes?

I wrote a poem yesterday, about all the mothers who sit in silence at the worst atrocity, livestreamed, daily, for nineteen months, and all she could muster is this.

Rache Brand:

“You have an incredible approach, creating another war on the inside of this platform instead of instilling tenderness and ushering information in a way that meaningfully shifts conversation. I want to connect to your frequency and learn from you.

Why are you so angry at me? I can feel seething tension which is exactly why wars begin in the first place.

You are right, I am a white woman who grew up privileged. I can’t help my beginning. What I can do is be willing to learn and be more aware / open to inclusion and conversation. I would like to learn from you and grow.”

A woman and a mother who never once spoke out about a live genocide unfolding in our lifetime told me that my rage at her complicity is exactly why wars begin. What could be more offensive than those who enable genocide through silence, who uphold the status quo to preserve their own comfort, and then blame our anger, not their apathy, for the dehumanization of an entire people?

You don’t get to learn from me and grow.

You don’t get to use my emotional labor; the information, images, videos, and statistics of mass extermination are all around you — if you cared to see.

You don’t get to be open to the conversation.

There is no conversation to be had, no debate to be made—only you: a woman and a mother, unaware, unmoved, and undisturbed by the pain, destruction, and suffering of small, innocent bodies born on the wrong side of the world.

I wrote a poem yesterday.

To all mothers 
who do not blink an eye
at the sight of children—
starved, shattered, and bombed by design.

To mothers who sit in silence,
undisturbed by the most televised
genocide in history,
because "it's complicated,"
because "it’s nuanced,"
because "it’s far away."

To mothers who feed their children at night,
scroll past images of unfed, dried lips, 
ash-covered limbs,
someone else's children thirsting for mercy,
then slip beneath warm sheets—
plotting for tomorrow's plate,
undisturbed.

To mothers who are always loud for
right kind of mothers,
right kind of children,
lighter in skin—
bold only when it's trendy,
vocal when it's safe.

To mothers who believe
motherhood wears a passport,
belongs to a race,
a nation,
a faith.

To mothers who drink all the juice,
practice yoga, meditate each day,
whose well-being excludes the well-being of others—
blind to their privilege,
cowardly in spirit.

To mothers who hold their children 
tight at night,
yet feel no tremor in their bones
for mothers who’ve lost every child—
who don't shiver at the words:
"Wounded child, no surviving family."

To mothers who sit in silence, 
turning away  from the worst atrocities 
humanity inflicts,
convincing themselves that 
guarding their inner peace is an act of love, 
not complicity.

Happy Mother's Day.

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To the feminists and mothers
who do not blink an eye
at the sight of children—
starved, shattered, and bombed by design.

To the women who sit in silence,
undisturbed by the most televised
genocide in history,
because "it's complicated,"
because "it’s nuanced,"
because "it’s far away."

But always so loud for
the western, girlboss,
Barbie-brand of feminism—
bold only when it's trendy,
vocal when it's safe.

To women who believe
feminism wears a passport,
belongs to a race,
a nation,
a faith.

To women who turn away
from the worst atrocities humanity endures,
choosing silence over justice,
while preaching self-love,
mindfulness,
and the art of inner peace.

Happy International Women’s Day 🌹

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Nothing like waking up to find Western philosophy’s finest relics tastefully scattered across the ruins of Gaza—courtesy of artificial intelligence—right there on your screen. Golden statues, cash raining from the sky, gluttony—nothing says civilization like dropping symbols of excess onto the ground zero of a genocide you funded and committed.

That video.

Trump shared this AI-generated art piece, but you just know a Zionist made it. They tag-teamed this one. Just as they tag-teamed the genocide.

Caitlin Johnstone summed up this collaboration from hell in the simplest, yet winning words:

“This video is simultaneously the most American thing that has ever happened and the most Israeli thing that has ever happened.”

And she expands:

“Fake. Gaudy. Sociopathic. Genocidal. Emblematic of all the ugliest values that both dystopian civilizations have come to embody.”

If we had paid any attention to what has happened over the past 16 months, you'd know this AI music video embodies the entire premise of Zionism. Flaunting. Laughing on top of dead bodies. Disrespecting other cultures, religions, customs.

They’ve spent the entirety of the genocide they imposed filming videos of themselves mocking the Palestinian people’s lack of water, food, electricity, and basic human needs. Look at what we have! And yet they try to steal everything from the people they claim have nothing.

This constant need to flaunt what we have and you don’t, and who supports us and not you, this overwhelming drive to be superior, is the clearest proof of the very supremacy they’re desperately trying to convince you they don’t have.

This video is their finest display yet—gold, cash, the shiny Riviera, gluttony—all artificially dropped into the ruins of Gaza; the poorest people on Earth, who overcame a century of billion-dollar hasbara and won over the entire world with more heart than all the gold in existence ever could.

The world can’t be deceived anymore.

Have you ever seen people who have nothing yet have absolutely everything? Take a look at Gaza. Take a look at those people who just survived a genocide that’s probably coming their way again—decorating the debris with graffiti, art, flowers, and balloons for the upcoming Ramadan. Happy. Content. Kind. Loved by their community.

And Israel? Israel has everything, but really, it has nothing. They have machines, drones, and hi-tech weaponry, yet their whole lives are dedicated to “explaining Israel”. What a sad life, your entire existence being in the service of a biblical derangement that kills people on both sides of the aisle.

I often wonder—do any Israelis ever ask themselves why Israel always needs to be explained? I’m Croatian, and I’ve never had to explain Croatia to anyone. If anyone from my government, or my teachers, or my parents would tell me to do it, the first thing I would ask would be: Why? What have you done? Why would something righteous need an explanation?

I know that video made you nauseated. But an American-Israeli tandem flaunting their depravity serves as a reminder to all of us appalled by their orgies on top of Palestinian bodies. It’s good to see them for what they are, in all their glory. We knew it, but having a visual of this depravity only reaffirms our steadfastness to fix this world and reject the one the video suggests could be.

Caitlin again came up with the collection of words that need a literary award:

“It doesn’t get any more American than this, and it doesn’t get any more Israeli. This soulless, artless, conscienceless expression of egotistic masturbation lubricated with the blood of dead children is the empire at its most honest. This is the very best this globe-dominating power structure has to offer our world.”

I mean, what artistry—read these words again:

This soulless, artless, conscienceless expression of egotistic masturbation lubricated with the blood of dead children is the empire at its most honest.

Yesterday, I spoke to some people who voted for Trump, and the first thing they told me was: “Omg, did you see that video?”. And continued, “This is the most appealing, nauseated thing I have ever seen, and the detail—men in beards, dressed as women, twerking—why are they disrespecting and mocking Muslim culture and religion”—I did not vote for this.

I know what you’re thinking right now. Boo hoo, let’s give them an award for expressing some humane thoughts, I get it. I get your emotion. But please stay focused on the main thing, the premise, the foundation of what created this carnage in the Middle East. A decades-long project of gaslighting you into hating Muslims and Arabs—invented by Israel, executed by the entire West.

This is why all the wars are allowed to happen. This is why America and the West are justified to terrorize the world for their financial gain.

To have these myths debunked is to start healing this world, and if the staunchest right-wing supporters of Trump get appalled with that video and call me to tell me about men twerking naked being an insult to the Muslim religion—people, we are healing this world.

More and more people are waking up to the West’s depravity, while gaining a deeper appreciation for the richness of other cultures—their traditions, values, and hospitality. The West’s hegemony isn’t just collapsing politically; it’s losing its grip on our minds and hearts. Are you the same person you were 16 months ago? I’m not. Do you still care about the same things you did back then? I don’t. And isn’t your life fuller now, surrounded by thoughtful, compassionate people you’ve connected with while witnessing a genocide unfold in real time?

The battle is here, between the two worlds laid before you.

Caitlin:

“This entire civilization is diseased. Not just the United States and Israel but every nation on earth that is subject to the metastases of their cancerous influence. They’re making us all dumber, sicker, nastier, crueler. Less creative. Less artful. Less caring. Less insightful. They are poisoning our minds and turning our hearts into shit.”

Don’t you see it? This abomination of a video, shared by the sitting American president, lays out exactly what you’re fighting against. They showed you gold statues standing in the ruins their bombs created, cash raining down on bodies buried beneath the rubble, and Elon Musk gorging himself at ground zero of a famine that has claimed lives just as their bombs did. They showed you just how out of touch—and out of mind—they truly are.

I’ll repeat this for you: “This entire civilization is diseased. Not just the United States and Israel but every nation on earth that is subject to the metastases of their cancerous influence. They’re making us all dumber, sicker, nastier, crueler. Less creative. Less artful. Less caring. Less insightful. They are poisoning our minds and turning our hearts into shit.”

This video clearly shows you the worlds that clash here. A white savior complex, bringing cash, gold, and orgies of excess to the poorest land on Earth, right? But why do the richest people on Earth covet this small, poor land?

“A country that has a GDP per capita 20 times that of its neighbor and is backed by the world’s richest country and an endless array of billionaires and tycoons cannot stop stealing from its poor neighbor and cannot stop destroying the little livelihood and success its neighbor has.”

“It cannot stop burning its neighbor’s olive trees, killing and stealing its sheep and cattle, taking over water sources, and gobbling up more and more of the tiny stretch of land its neighbor still owns after decades of incessant armed robbery.’

— Alon Mizrahi

Alon captures the entire nuance of that video in the article he wrote in November of last year:

“The war effort that Western establishments and corporations muster against humanity’s conscience and consciousness is gargantuan. But, for all their money and power, they can’t accomplish their devilish take. Why do they fail so miserably? What do the people get about Palestine, and won’t relinquish?”

Check out this poetry right there:

“Israel is the hi-tech: the big data, the cloud, and AI; Palestine is the family olive tree that has passed from one generation to another for hundreds of years, with its DNA probably mingled with that of the people who have lovingly cultivated and harvested it, grandparents, children and grandchildren, and all over again.”

“Israel is the quadcopter with its machine guns and cutting-edge photography equipment; Palestine is the two brothers dying in each others’ arms, barefoot and pure-hearted, and sacred as life was on the first day it appeared on earth.”

“Israel is the stealth pilot with his million-dollar helmet; Palestine is the makeshift rescue teams of anonymous people who risk their lives, or whatever remains of them, to save a stranger.”

Do you see it? Do you hear it? Do you understand?

“If Israel is allowed to win, humanity may never have another chance. We will all be chased by robodogs, quadcopters, and AI cameras for the rest of our lives, and our children will not even hear of autonomy unless spoken of in the context of machines.”

Israel is the real estate; Palestine is the ancestral piece of land that can never be commodified and holds the spirit and honor of a family and a community.

Can it be any clearer what worlds clash here?

Humanity gets it.

“The architects of the robotic, avaricious theft and murder know the people get it, and they panic: a free Palestine, the very longing for a free Palestine, threatens to derail their entire technologically advanced slaughterhouse plan. They know they cannot stop it - no force on earth can stop a crowd galvanized, electrified, by unshakable morality and justice.”

“They will be defeated. The US and Israel will be defeated. And Palestine will be free and will continue to live in humanity’s minds and hearts as an inspiration and a lesson - a grand, painful, memorable, sweet lesson - that the people can triumph over the bankers, the professional deceivers, and the robodogs.”

Free Palestine will be a triumph for all of humanity and all of history.

And people get it.

Remember the feeling of nausea you experienced watching the Trump Gaza, 2025 video? Now, compare it with the feeling of watching the video the youth of Gaza created as a clapback.

See that feeling? Free Palestine will be a triumph for all of humanity and all of history. And the people get it.

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It’s the inequality that kills me. Watching it daily, how did I not notice it before Gaza? Or was it not egregious enough to break through our perception? Watching Palestinian people be so worthless in the eyes of the entire world, watching the Israeli Armed Forces dump their bodies, excavate their bodies, drive over them, steal their organs—bodies of people they tortured with glee, before turning them into lifeless bodies.

Watching Hamas hand over the small bodies of the Bibas children, small bodies that were never supposed to be taken in the first place; how desperate you have to be to steal small children, to have a bargaining chip, to force the world to pay attention to your decades-long plight, acknowledge your existence—how desperate you have to be to resort to war crimes to bargain for your human rights that should have been inherent?

I don’t want to hear judgments from the warm sofas in your living rooms, all of you who bark at strangers on the street who bump into you and invade your personal space by accident, or cut you off in traffic—how dare you decide what’s morally righteous when someone takes your house, snipes your children in the head and uses your parents as human shields.

I mourn these children. My heart dropped when their death was confirmed! Why are children paying our tabs with their lives?

Their small bodies, handed over in the casket, with white gloves on those who carried them. White gloves, a sign of respect; these kids weren’t supposed to be taken. I mourn these children. Red Cross was there, present, to hand them over. Where was Red Cross when the Palestinian bodies were dumped like cattle, stolen four times, excavated, and dumped again, wrapped in blue plastic bags?

Where was Red Cross when children carried the small bodies of their younger siblings in grocery bags?

I cannot take the sight of lifeless small bodies, I cannot take the inequality of some bodies being more important than other bodies. I cannot take the sight of thousands of small bodies being mauled to death, shredded to pieces; small bodies are small bodies, wherever they come from.

Those children weren’t supposed to be taken.

Those children weren’t supposed to be shredded to pieces.

I cannot take legacy media talking about one set of small bodies while ignoring the enormous amount of other small bodies that just happened to be born on the other side of the wall.

I cannot take the occupier and their supporters working overtime to flip the reality on our heads.

We have phones, and you like to brag.

When will this cycle of violence ever end? Violence begets violence; when will the legacy media start talking about the violence that begot all this violence?

Have you ever heard of an occupation that wasn’t violent? Why is the violence that occupies legitimate and self-defense, while resisting the violence is just—violence?

Why is one set of small bodies being unalived intolerable to the world, but unaliving the entire population for decades is tolerated and encouraged? It’s like the world’s entire balance depends on harming these 2.2 million souls in that small, remarkable strip of land.

Sorry, 1.8 million, the president told us when he planned their luxury move. Where is the missing 400,000? Dust on their own land?

Land.

There is so much land in this world, and so many resources—enough for every breathing soul. It’s the inequality that kills me, how some people hoard everything while others must suffer for the basics.

What is about this small remarkable strip of land that everyone covets?

We know what it is.

Only one set of small bodies unalived is important to this world. Other small bodies with 355 bullet wounds riddled into their small body aren’t important to this world.

It’s the inequality that kills me. Rage is justified, handing over small bodies in caskets is seen as a spectacle. Meanwhile, boat tours are offered to Israeli families to watch small bodies in Gaza burn to death, and it barely registers in the Western conscience.

Those children weren’t supposed to be taken.

But they were.

Killed by their own government.

Handed over in the white gloves.

It isn’t complicated.

It’s only complicated when you want to stake something from someone, Ta-Nehisi Coates once said.

Land. Resources.

There’s nothing complicated about decades-long, brutally oppressed people bursting for liberation.

These people have repeatedly told you, begged you—they want liberation.

There came a moment when they stopped asking nicely.

By any means necessary, Malcolm X once said.

It’s exactly in the violence where we come to the biggest injustice. One side is allowed by the world and morally justified to violate the other side, and the other side isn’t allowed, Aaron Mate once said.

I cannot take the sight of small bodies unalived anymore.

I hate myself; I spent an hour looking for a pretty picture of lifeless small bodies for this article.

Or is this a poem of my rage?

Those children weren’t supposed to be taken.

Why aren’t any Palestinian voices allowed in mainstream spaces to plead their case? Must they plead it by means of violence and by taking small children?

This inequality is killing me.

Selective rage is killing me.

And I cannot take one set of small bodies being more important than the thousands of other small bodies on the other side of the wall.

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