The IDF is preventing food, medicine and baby formula from getting into Gaza. The IDF shoots scores of Palestinians every single day as they desperately seek food. The IDF shot toddlers in the head and neck as evidenced by American, Canadian and European surgeons. The IDF has leveled nearly all of Gaza, blowing up hospitals, water treatment facilities, universities, bakeries, shelters, tent cities full of refugees. The IDF uses civilians as human shields to go into buildings ahead of them. The IDF has killed doctors, nurses and surgeons. The IDF has killed more journalists than any other military. IDF soldiers routinely loot houses, wear the lingerie of women and smash the toys of children they either murdered or forced to flee. The IDF posts videos of them randomly blowing up entire city blocks. IDF soldiers were filmed raping detainees at a prison camp. IDF soldiers admitted that they rolled over hundreds of Palestinian in tanks, with many still alive. The IDF executed paramedics and then buried the ambulances they were in. An IDF tank riddled little 5 year old Hind and her family with 335 rounds as she sat waiting for help from paramedics. The IDF blew up the paramedics who came to help her.

So, spare me the handwringing and outrage over a chant calling for the death of this hideous military death squad known as the IDF.

Kenn Orphan, July 2025

*photo is of an IDF soldier pretending to read after setting a library on fire in Gaza.