Apparently, carrying out and defending a genocide isn’t enough for some people. Case in point, the Miss Universe contest being held in Thailand.

Zionists are accusing Nadeen Ayoub (Miss Palestine) of not being Palestinian. It’s kind of funny, since they spend half of their time denying Palestinians exist, to saying someone isn’t Palestinian enough.

Ayoub was born in Michigan, but her parents are Palestinian. She grew up in Ramallah in the Occupied West Bank. And she did study in Canada where she earned a BA in Psychology and Literature. She is the first “Miss Palestine” in the pageant’s history. Melanie Shiraz (Miss Israel) although born in Tel Aviv, lived most of her life in the US (Florida and California) until just before October 7th 2023.

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were violently expelled from their homeland during the Nakba. So, being born there was not an option for millions of Palestinians due to ethnic cleansing, Israel’s violation of international law in the “right of return” for refugees and decades of apartheid policies.

But the irony of all of this is that the people spreading these lies about Ayoub don’t seem to have a problem that the “founding father” of Israel, David Ben-Gurion, who was born David Grün in Płońsk, Congress Poland, Russian Empire in 1886. Or that their beloved Golda Meir was born Golda Mabovitch in Kiev, Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire in 1898, and grew up in Milwaukee. Or that huge swaths of Israeli society originally came from somewhere other than what is now Israel.

In fact, the “Jewish Nation-State Law” defines Israel as the national home of the Jewish people and grants the right to national self-determination exclusively to Jews, effectively marginalizing Palestinian citizens of Israel, even if they were born there and even if their ancestors go back centuries. And Jewish people are allowed to come to Israel from anywhere in the world, and they are granted citizenship regardless of where they were born or if they have any ties to the land, other than religious ones. It is called “Aliyah.”

This is the nature of racist ideologies. Stealing land, destroying villages and farmland, and killing hundreds of thousands of people in Palestine wasn’t enough. Their very existence must be erased from the public record.

But regardless of their crass efforts, Ayoub seems to rise above it all.

“We are more than our suffering. We are women and people with dreams, creativity, talents, and we just want a chance to offer that to the world,” Ayoub said.

“I want the world to see that Palestinians are more than just their struggles and their suffering and their pain,” adding, “Palestinians, we have a lot of dignity.”

“My biggest pain, honestly, is the suppression of the identity and beauty. It’s not just what we see in the headlines, not just the suffering. We’re so much more,” Ayoub said. “We’re beautiful, we love life, we just want a chance to show you that life.”

Kenn Orfanos, November 2025

*Photo is of the inane meme circulating in online Zionist circles.