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About Kenn Maurice Orfanos (Orphan)

Kenn Orphan is a social worker, artist, and human and environmental rights advocate.

The End of Israel

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The United Nations just confirmed what every person of conscience has known since the beginning or at least for nearly two years. That Israel has committed genocide in Gaza. It is true that the gears of international law grind slowly. But in this case the gears were impeded at every step of the way, even as Israel continuously broadcast its crimes openly.

No crime against humanity in history has been this well photographed, recorded or documented as Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians. No crime against humanity has been as loudly announced as Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians. What’s most striking is that this is the first known genocide in history where the perpetrators have provided most of the evidence.

Despite Israel’s smear campaigns and ongoing massacre of journalists, it is they, themselves, who have told us what they’ve done, what they are doing, and what they plan to do next.

From IDF soldiers parading around in Palestinian women’s lingerie that they killed or expelled, shooting toddlers in the neck, or assassinating medics, or blowing up hospitals, universities and bakeries, to Israeli media and political leaders openly inciting or calling for genocide. And all of this has only been possible because of Western support, chiefly the support and assistance of the United States.

Only the most sycophantic and obtuse refuse to see what is in plain sight. Those who hollowed out their very souls in exchange for a racist narrative, support a profitable grift, or reinforce devotion to an apocalyptic death cult. And there is literally no hope for any of them.

What comes next should not come as a surprise to anyone. Israel has already begun its spin, denying the obvious and attempting to deflect through outright lies. The US, its colonial benefactor which is now lead by a fascist regime, is doing everything within its power to destroy any opposition or dissent. There are many meaningful and encouraging developments, but the machinery of American Empire is still the most lethal and the most powerful. It will ensure that Gaza is completely erased and its people either annihilated or forcibly displaced. The rest of Palestine will be absorbed into the Zionist state.

There are a few other things that are true as well. In its fever of genocidal mania, Israel has destroyed any normal future for itself. Indeed, this is the end of Israel. It is being blacklisted and shunned, whether publicly or quietly. It no longer enjoys the unassailable image it once had, as European nations begin to distance themselves, threaten boycotts of Eurovision, divest billions of dollars of investment, and make Israeli vacationers feel unwelcome. And despite the sycophancy of its leaders, it has lost the next generation in the West. Like its benefactor the United States, Israel is rapidly descending from its pedestal in the most ignominious manner. Neither of them will ever recover.

This is of small consolation to the Palestinians, who continue to suffer unimaginable cruelty and horror at the hands of the Zionist state. But it is simply a statement of fact. One that both nations will learn the hard way in years to come.

Kenn Orfanos, September 2025

Ezra Klein, Gavin Newsom, and the Death of American Liberalism

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We live in an age of absurdity when a fascist like Charlie Kirk is hailed as a champion of free speech and open debate. Free speech advocates don’t create databases of people they disagree so that they can be harassed, get death threats and have their career’s ruined. This is what Kirk’s Turning Point USA’s did to professors across the United States by creating the “Professor Watchlist.”

Kirk hated free speech, as evidenced by the watchlist and by his own rancid record of punching down on college students who objected to his rhetoric. His “debates” were merely opportunities for public mockery and the platforming of fascist ideas. And these professors, who generally taught the real history of the United States, represented an existential threat to his supremacist ideology.

He didn’t deserve to be shot, but the posthumous honorifics and performative mourning following his murder are beyond absurd. And it isn’t just Magaland that is responsible for that. Vacuous liberals like Ezra Klein have contributed to this kabuki theatre of wailing ninnies.

Klein is a particularly odious example. He penned a nauseating eulogy for the New York Times immediately following Kirk’s demise, claiming Kirk “did politics right.” Would this correct way of doing politics include the professor watchlist? Or paying for busses to the January 6th attempted coup? Klein’s intellectual rot is indicative of the nature of American liberalism, which usually plays handmaiden to fascism by pretending to be a foil while never obstructing its rise in meaningful or material ways.

Gavin Newsom is another problematic character in this regard. His gushing of grief for Kirk seems almost endless. Apparently, the two shared a warm moment on his show in their shared hatred of transgender athletes that Newsom still cherishes. And yet, we are told that he is the only viable opposition to Trumpian fascism. To many older, white liberals, Newsom charms with his use of memes to “own Trump.” It is a classic case of spectacle over substance.

If nothing else, Charlie Kirk’s death signals the death of American liberalism. An ideology that has always acted as a fortress to protect and save capitalism from itself. Presented as the only rational alternative to leftism, liberalism borrowed the left’s most palatable and inoffensive values and made them central to its ethos, all but ignoring the material concerns of the working class.

Championing equality and human rights ring hollow in a society where the working poor continue to see their status decline. And this is also how liberalism has provided cover for every brutal excess of American imperialism, from war, coups, up to and including the genocide of Palestinians by Israel, the empire’s most important colonial asset. Like so many Americans, white liberals are largely apathetic when it comes to foreign policy.

The result has inevitably been the rise of fascism. Like a ravenous vulture unobstructed from liberalism’s ashes, it ascends while liberals bask in self absorbed revelry, trample on the left for even modest demands, and pander to the very worst elements in society. What is tragically ironic is that figures like Klein and Newsom are busy throwing wood on its funeral pyre.

Kenn Orfanos, September 2025

Israel is Carrying Out its Final Solution as the World Watches

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Israel is ordering the Palestinians in the north of Gaza to take a death march to the south. A people who have been starved and viciously attacked continuously are now being forced to march through a killing zone of snipers, drones and airstrikes.

There are some credible estimates that put the death toll at a staggering 600,000. Gaza already holds the world’s record of child amputees. More journalists have been murdered there than in any conflict since World War II.

Western politicians have either been silent or have supported this genocide. They must never be forgiven for their complicity in this heinous annihilation of a people.

Kenn Orfanos, September 2025

Fascists Eat Their Own

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It appears that Charlie Kirk was murdered by a boy who didn’t believe Kirk was fascist enough. Taylor Robinson wasn’t radicalized by “Marxist, transgender Islamists.” He was a “Groyper,” which is a term used for adherents of the notorious white supremacist, Nick Fuentes.

None of this should come as a surprise. Fascists have a long history of treachery against each other. For example, Adolf Hitler ordered the assassination of Ernst Röhm and other leaders of the SA (Sturmabteilung).

At its core, fascism a death cult and its currency is violence. Its ideological framework is raw power through mockery, threat, sadism and murder. Kirk knew this better than anyone. He employed these tactics through his polished debate performances and incendiary tweets. But he underestimated the threat to his own life from the very lunatics he helped to influence.

Kenn Orfanos, September 2025

Jerry Seinfeld’s Pathetic Attempt to Stay Relevant

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Jerry Seinfeld, the washed up has-been who made a fortune from a vacuous sitcom that celebrated mediocrity, recently compared the Free Palestine movement to the KKK.

The Free Palestine movement includes Jews, Christians, Muslims and others. And it is against occupation, apartheid, colonialism and genocide.

The KKK is a 160 year old white supremacist terrorist organization that spreads racist, white supremacist hatred and encourages violence against Black, Brown, Latino and other minorities.

Seinfeld has used much of his underserved wealth supporting the genocidal state. He once took his kids to an IDF terror camp where he posed for photos like some drunk circus clown out of makeup. His moment has passed and he knows this. That is why he is floundering like a fish out of water, desperately trying to stay relevant in a world that can see right through his decaying grift as if it was glass.

Kenn Orfanos, September 2025

Liberals: Stop Tone Policing Normal Responses to the Death of a Terrible Person

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I was a hospice social worker for over 20 years, so I am quite familiar with death and human reactions to it. That said, I wanted to address some garbage pop psychology going around the internet the last couple days.

First, it is totally normal to feel relieved or to even feel glad when a terrible person dies. This does not mean you support the killing of that person. For example, I had a client whose father was incredibly abusive. He never made amends or apologized. In fact, he continued to be emotionally abusive. When he died, she went out to dinner with friends to celebrate. There was nothing wrong with her response to this. For her, it was cathartic.

Second, it is totally normal to feel joy about the demise of a horrible person. When the news of Hitler’s death reached people in concentration camps, they were jubilant. This was the man responsible for their enslavement and torture. He had murdered millions of people. So, celebrating the end of his reign of terror was to be expected. In fact, it would have been strange if people did not feel this.

Third, it is totally normal to laugh when an evil person dies. When Kissinger finally died, the internet exploded with humorous memes. This was because he was an evil man who was responsible for the deaths of countless people in the Global South and misery that lasts to this day. Laughing about the death of this odious person wasn’t pathological. It was an emotional release.

None of this means that a person approves of or is reveling in murder or violence because they feel this way. It simply means that they recognize that the person who is gone did horrible things to other human beings and now that they are gone, they will not be missed. And they are glad about it because their cruelty has ended.

So, enough with the shaming. Human emotions are complicated and messy. But tone policing them is not only annoying and counterproductive, it is often far more damaging in the long run.

Kenn Orfanos, September 2025

Ultimately, Iryna Zarutska was a victim of Capitalism

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Iryna Zarutska was a 23 year old Ukrainian refugee who had fled her home country after the Russian invasion. She emigrated to the United States, eventually settling in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she got a job at a pizza parlour. But Iryna had ambitions to become a veterinarian. Sadly, her dreams were cut short one night on a light rail train when she was fatally stabbed to death as she sat in her chair by a man with severe and untreated mental illness.

Train surveillance videos captured the entire, gruesome attack from before she sat down to after, when she had collapsed on the floor by her seat, bleeding out. After being stabbed, Iryna looked at her assailant bewildered and in despair. She held her hands to her face crying before losing consciousness from blood loss. None of the people around her came to her aid. It was a few good Samaritans from another car who eventually tried to help her. But it was too late.

Iryna’s story deserves to be told. Her life mattered. But there is another reason people need to know. The far right in the US is using Iryna’s tragic murder as a means to stoke racist hatred. They are also painting the unhoused and people who have mental health struggles as deranged and violent, when in reality only a minute percentage of these populations have aggressive tendencies. The Trump regime has been using it to justify more draconian crackdowns on the poor and unhoused. Even though statistics clearly show a decline in the crime rate in the US.

Progressives and those on the left should not ignore Iryna Zarutska. Her life deserves dignity. It is also imperative to address the conditions that led to her murder. The US, lacking in any kind of universal healthcare, has also steadily defunded mental health programs. And as rents soar, the population of unhoused people has soared with it.

Capitalist systems created these conditions. And its only solution to the inevitable problems that arise is carceral. To lock people up in for-profit prisons. In the end, this only creates more misery, especially for the working class who cannot afford expensive treatments or high end sanitoriums.

Capitalism has also created a culture of indifference. A social milieu where individuality is lauded as a virtue, and selflessness is seen as a weakness. Everything is transactional. Indeed, under the Trump regime, every naked cruelty that capitalism has to offer has been normalized and celebrated. And this is denuding working class communities of agency and solidarity.

Iryna’s life was cut short in a most brutal and heartless way. We should remember and honour her. But we should be reminded that she was ultimately a victim of capitalism. Of its neglect. Of its indifference. And we should not allow her legacy to be used by far right media and politicians to push for even more policies of brutality and heartlessness.

Kenn Orfanos, September 2025

Regarding Grief over the Death of a Fascist

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I just saw a video of a Palestinian child who was shot in the side by an Israeli drone. His intestines were coming out of the wound as he clung to his father. He could not have been more than 12 years old, probably younger. This is all made possible by the US and other Western governments.

So, let’s be clear about something. Those of you who are attempting to shame people who are not grieving the death of a fascist really need to stop. It isn’t working, it’s just incredibly annoying. This is especially true for those of you who haven’t said a damn word about Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Your virtue signaling rings hollow. And it is preachy and tedious when not sealed in the vacuum you have created.

Anyone who peddles in hateful values and has the ear of one of the most powerful people on the planet isn’t just “a guy with a different opinion.” He is a powerful voice that can influence a society toward fascism. This. Was. Charlie. Kirk.

Charlie Kirk was a rotten human being who called George Floyd a “scumbag,” said that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 a “mistake” and had only nasty remarks about the late Martin Luther King, Jr.. He pushed blatantly racist conspiracies like the “Great Replacement theory.” He said God’s word was clear in Leviticus when talking about executing queer people. He mocked the victims of gun violence, going so far as to say some deaths were necessary to protect his “God given rights.” He ridiculed Palestinian suffering while they are enduring a genocide.

These aren’t just “personal opinions.” Trump, Netanyahu and other fascists and war criminals are hailing Kirk as a martyr. His words have not only influenced many young conservative Americans, but they have contributed to an infrastructure of unspeakable misery for millions of people. Kirk was a champion and master debater for sadistic and murderous policies. If you don’t understand this, maybe it is because you live in a bubble of comfortable privilege.

If you want to grieve a fascist, have at it. But don’t expect me to show up at the wake. I grieve for the victims of Kirk’s rhetoric. I grieve for the political violence and that culture he celebrated. I grieve for anyone who had the misfortune of being in his orbit of cruelty.

But I’ll be damned if I shed one tear for a fascist.

Get your priorities straight before attempting to shame people who aren’t interested in sentimental rubbish for a person who did not care one bit about other human beings and made a living off of punching down.

Kenn Orfanos, September 2025

Never Again is an Empty Platitude Unless it Applies to Everyone

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This past weekend, the Los Angeles’ Holocaust museum deleted this Instagram post and apologized. It merely stated that ”’Never again’ can’t only mean never again for Jews.”

It went on to say that “Jews were raised to say ‘Never Again.’ That means never again. For anyone,” followed by “Jews must not let the trauma of our past silence our conscience,” and “Standing with humanity does not betray our people. It honors them.”

This is the Age of Absurdity we now live in. One where simply denouncing the killing of innocent people is seen as offensive to certain people. Thus far, Israel has made its genocidal intentions crystal clear to all but the willfully obtuse and sniveling apologists.

Israel has killed thousands, maimed thousands more, and is in the process of literally erasing Gaza off the map. Its crimes are well documented, with Israeli soldiers and politicians posting continuously about it on their own. And yet, there are some who expect us to ignore all of this and accept their apologia for atrocity.

Anti-Zionist Jews and Holocaust survivors have been at the forefront of the movement against Israel’s decades-long system of apartheid and its ongoing genocide in Gaza. This retraction and ridiculous apology is an affront to them.

Never again is an empty platitude unless it applies to ALL human beings. Shame on the LA Holocaust Museum for capitulating to these idiotic objections.

Kenn Orfanos, September 2025

Marco Rubio: Portrait of a Pitiful Representative of a Dying Empire

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Marco Rubio is one of several pitiful representative’s of a rapidly descending and increasingly irrelevant empire. He thought the world would bend to US bullying because that is what has happened so many times before. But he found out the hard way that American influence is waning fast.

When he tried to stop a Palestinian delegation from attending the U.N. General Assembly in New York this month by refusing to issue them visas, it backfired spectacularly. UN members voted 153-2 to relocate the 80th session to Geneva, Switzerland. You can guess who the two dissenting votes were.

The United States has forever tethered itself to Israel, its last colonial asset. It has gone too far and invested too much to stop now. Their destiny is intertwined with the genocidal ethno-state, the one they share so many “values” with.

And even though Israel is carrying out one of the most sinister and sadistic genocidal campaigns in history with full support and assistance from the US, it has all but sealed its own fate as a pariah state. It will forever be seen as a nation brimming with ghouls who relish in the mass starvation of millions of civilians. That celebrates burning, maiming and blowing up children. One that constantly lies to itself and to the world because it knows no other parlance.

Of course, don’t expect Rubio to grasp any of this. He thinks he will be remembered fondly. In reality, his creepy portrait will be hung in a gallery of shame along side every other odious genocidaire before him.

Kenn Orfanos, September 2025