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The Depraved, Moral Gymnastics of Liberal Zionists

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This is the former speechwriter for Barrack Obama, Sarah Hurwitz, at the Jewish Federation of North America General Assembly this past Sunday. She made some rather provocative remarks there regarding the “disconnect” between younger and older Jews in relation to Israel’s genocide in Gaza. I would like to respond to those remarks directly.

Sarah- “I think since Oct 7, and even before, there have been huge shifts in America on how people think about Jews and Israel and I think that is especially true of young people. So, we are now wrestling with a new generational divide here. And I think that is particularly true in that social media is now our source for media.”

“And it used to be the media you got in America was American media and it was pretty mainstream. You know, it generally didn’t express extreme anti-Israel views. You had to go to a pretty weird bookstore to find global media and fringe media. But today we have social media, which is a global medium. Its algorithms are shaped by billions of people worldwide who don’t really love Jews.”

“So, while in the 1990s, a young person probably wasn’t going to find Al Jazeera or someone like Nick Fuentes, today those media outlets find them. They find them on their phones. It’s also this increasingly post-literate media, less and less text, more and more videos.”

Me- Let me get this straight, Sarah. You are saying that Al Jazeera and Nick Fuentes are ideologically the same? Nick Fuentes, who openly praises Hitler? And what “weird bookstore” are you referencing? Left leaning ones who sold books with Palestinian voices and perspectives? And are you saying that mainstream media once told a single narrative which was all pro-Israel? On this last one, I would agree wholeheartedly. Seldom were Palestinian voices heard in legacy media. But, unlike you, I wouldn’t call that balanced journalism.

Sarah- “You have TikTok just bashing our young people’s brains all day long with video of carnage in Gaza. And this is why many of us can’t have a sane conversation with younger Jews, because anything we try to say to them they’re hearing through this wall of carnage. So, I want to get data and information and facts and arguments and they are just seeing in their minds carnage and I sound obscene.”

Me- Oh, Sarah. You poor thing. You are having a really tough time explaining away the racist nature of the Zionist project, decades of ethnic cleansing and apartheid policies, and US support for all of it because of a “wall of carnage.” How terribly inconvenient for you. As your friend Van Jones quipped: these young people are seeing all those “dead Gaza babies” scroll by on their newsfeed. And they are appalled by it. How rude of the Palestinians to post about their annihilation. And how silly of these young Jews to be moved by such images and videos.

Hate to break it to you, Sarah. But you are obscene.

Sarah- “And you know, I think, unfortunately, the very smart bet we made on Holocaust education to serve as antisemitism education, in this new media environment, I think that is beginning to break down a little bit. Holocaust education is absolutely essential, but I think it may be confusing some of our young people about antisemitism, because they learn about big, strong Nazis hurting weak, emaciated youngsters and they think antisemitism is like anti-black racism, powerful white people against powerless black people.”

“So, when on TikTok all day long they see powerful Israelis hurting weak, skinny Palestinians, it’s not surprising they think, Oh, I know, the lesson of the Holocaust is that you fight Israel, you fight the big powerful people, hurting the weak people.”

Me- My God, Sarah. Where to begin with this one? Are you saying Holocaust education was only about combating antisemitism? It isn’t a lesson on the evil of scapegoating? Dehumanization? Genocide? And that these lessons apply to any marginalized or oppressed people? As someone who has spent a lifetime studying the Holocaust, how did I miss the lesson that it only applied to Jewish people and should be used to defend an ethnostate committing atrocities?

Sarah, normal human beings are appalled by cruelty and sadism. Normal people are repulsed by atrocities and brutality. And they understand that it is wrong for powerful people to violently crush and wipe out weaker people.

Sarah- “The problem is, we’re not just a religion. We’re a nation. Civilization. Tribe. Peoplehood. But most of all we’re a family. And so if you are a young person raised in America who thinks Judaism is a Protestant-style religion, then the seven million Jews in Israel are merely your co-religionists. So, my co-religionists, if I look at them and they’re not practicing my religion of social justice and certain prophetic values then what do I have to do with them?”

“But that’s a category error. The seven million people in Israel, they are not my co-religionists, they are my siblings. But I think if you think of them as merely your co-religionists, it’s easy to slide into anti-Zionism. You don’t necessarily have that connection to them.”

Me- Sarah, if your siblings were murdering children, would you be okay with that? Would you not even say one word in objection? This is not just a dysfunctional family. What you just described isn’t a “family” at all. It is a cult. A death cult, to be more exact.

What a pity, Sarah. You cannot stand atop a mountain of corpses and defend what your “family” is doing any more without push back from young Jews around the world. And the whitewashing spin the legacy media used to employ no longer works.

Sarah, you made opposition to this genocide even more imperative, moral and clear. And for that, I thank you.

Kenn Orfanos, November 2025

Trump is a Liar, but he is the Embodiment of the Ruling Class

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While speaking before the brutal King of Saudi Arabia, US president Trump said:

“But we also wanna thank all the people living in Gaza, the residents of Gaza. They, as you know, have begun to move back to their homes. A lot more safety, they say, than they ever had before.”

Gaza has been reduced to rubble from 2+ years of Israeli carpet bombing and demolition. Most of it is uninhabitable. A mass grave with thousands of bodies still under the ruins of their homes. Most are living in tents now, and much of Gaza has faced flooding. And the genocide hasn’t stopped. Israel is still carrying out bombings and mass starvation, with assistance from the US and other Western allies, despite the so-called ceasefire.

But Trump’s lies are always grandiose and fatuous. Designed to overwhelm norms of decency in human interactions. And to undermine the importance of truth telling for social cohesion. This is classic narcissist behaviour, and it is eroding the bonds that keep a society together and functional.

The lies he has told about his relationship to Jeffrey Epstein are an example of this pathology. To the narcissist, it doesn’t matter if lies are exposed. All that matters is if he or she can weave another web of dishonesty and distraction in time to escape the consequences of the previous ones.

This kind of mendacity is staggering to most people because it flies in the face of everything we understand to be normal in human interactions. But the narcissist doesn’t live in this world. They live in a universe where manipulation, grift and deception are legitimate tools for increasing their social control, wealth accumulation and power. Attention, whether negative or positive, is paramount.

Modern American society was fueled by the lies of such narcissists and their sycophants. Primarily by white men who constructed and curated a Machiavellian playbook for obtaining and maintaining power and wealth. They successfully convinced a huge swath of the population that wealth accumulation, hoarding and ostentatious displays are virtuous. This is a class that enjoys extraordinary impunity for their crimes. Few of them ever see a jail cell for such things as theft of wages, labour abuses, sexual exploitation, discrimination or environmental destruction.

Trump is the most glaring example of this. He became president despite a litany of crimes, from fraud to rape. He has enriched himself by peddling valueless coins and pandering to anyone who will give him a lavish gift or shiny award. He is not an aberration. Although he is crass, unsophisticated and vulgar, he is also the grotesque embodiment of the ruling elite in America stripped of all of its pretension.

And he will likely avoid any meaningful consequences for this current scandal. Do not be surprised if names are redacted and swaths of documents are censored because of “national security.” Pam Bondi and her legal team are probably burning the midnight oil to come up with any excuse available to them.

It would be naive and foolish to think that US will do the right thing in regard to the Epstein scandal. The arrangement of power that exists today, and that includes both sides of the political aisle, is incapable of tackling the malfeasance within its own ranks. As I have said before, a nation that has funded and assisted a genocide for two years, the very worst crime against humanity, can easily ignore or whitewash crimes against the most vulnerable among us. Especially when those crimes were mostly committed by wealthy white men.

So, what do we do? Aside from feeling a natural sense of despair, there are some things we can do that are vitally important as human beings. We can and should bear witness. To speak boldly. Speak out against horrendous crimes like genocide. To not buy into the pervasive lie that wealth equates virtue or superiority. To reject any conspiracy theory or idea that demonize, scapegoat or punch down on the marginalized or most vulnerable in society, whether they be immigrants, the transgender community or the unhoused. To support political leaders who espouse our values, without being naive as to their limitations, flaws and the deep rot of the system. Be persuaded by good policies, not charismatic personalities. But, most importantly, to connect with one another in community and learn how to address our own needs by building mutual aid and networks of cooperation.

No one is coming to save us, least of all the wealthy and powerful who run the show. We are the ones we have been waiting for.

Kenn Orfanos, November 2025

How Food Imperialism Hurts Us All

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Ask yourself a few questions: why is it that the only foods in your local supermarket that make health claims are the ultra-processed ones? If your supermarket has a “health food section,” then what does that make the rest of the store? Why are those “health foods” so expensive? Why is even fast food becoming unaffordable? And why are more and more people in the West shoplifting food in supermarkets?

Capitalism commodified food in manner never before seen in human history. In fact, many of the disgraced American tobacco companies who peddled their carcinogenic products to the public through ubiquitous marketing campaigns, went to the Big Food industry and applied the same principles to peddling processed food products. Pushing food that is as addictive as any cigarette, and just as damaging. Companies pay lots of money for the marketing firms that mark chips or cereal boxes “heart healthy.” You won’t see a bunch of spinach, or bananas, or avocadoes, or lemons with such claims.

And America has exported its fast food model around the world. This form of imperialism has made human beings less healthy, more depressed and economically enslaved to an omnicidal system. Thousands of acres of rainforest and other vital ecosystems are razed to the ground each day around the world to make room for lucrative monocrops. Hundreds of thousands of tons of food is wasted every day. And the health of billions of people around the world is declining alongside the biosphere we all depend upon.

None of this is new. Colonialism brought cash crops to Africa, displacing traditional methods of food cultivation, land use and trade norms. It brought slash and burn methods to the lush rainforests of Southeast Asia. It also allowed white European settlers to wipe out the buffalo in North America, Russian imperialists to ruin ancient farming practices in Ukraine, and Israeli settlers to burn down thousand year old olive groves. To dominate the land is to dominate the people who live on it. To settle it and exploit it for every dime they could get. And, in many cases, to eradicate the Indigenous people who stood in their way.

Today, the nation of Nauru is a modern example of how food imperialism has almost destroyed an entire people. Denuded of its natural phosphates for the profit of Western multinational agri-corporations, the little South Pacific island of Nauru became temporarily wealthy. But it lost virtually all of that economic gain through corrupt leaders and the predatory practices of international capital investment firms.

With a fishing industry in tatters, farmland polluted and many old practices abandoned for convenience, Nauru became dependent upon cheap, processed, imported foods. Many foods considered inedible were exported there, from turkey tail to lamb flaps. The result: diabetes has skyrocketed as life expectancy has plummeted.

Blaming the people of Nauru or any other people for their collective health plight is like blaming a drowning person for being in a flood. They have been impacted by the dire effects of food imperialism in the exact same way every other working class person on the planet has been impacted. From highly toxic and addictive additives to aggressive marketing to the unavailability of affordable healthy options, they are victims of a system predicated on maximum profit for the few at the expense of the many. In other words, 99% of us human beings on earth.

Food imperialism impacts our local food markets as well. There is little to no choice what food is made available to us. And this is especially true for where we live. Poorer and more racialized communities are routinely neglected and now prices are exploding for everyone thanks to price gouging from the industry and financial speculators.

Even the highly processed, fast foods are becoming exorbitant. Indeed, the stress of buying modest groceries, even in traditionally “middle class” areas, has increased exponentially. Simply put, we are being priced out of living even a modestly decent life on this planet by wealthy and powerful companies and their lobbyists.

While it is incredibly easy to blame individuals for their food insecurity, obesity or health struggles, it is also incredibly lazy. To make these people the butt of a joke is very convenient. It is also punching down. Even shows like “My 600-Lb Life” end up shaming, otherizing and ostracizing people who are in deep crisis for ratings.

Employing judgmental superiority on those who are faced health issues or lack of access to affordable and good food, and weaponizing compassion in service to capitalist spectacle, has become a national pass time in the US. It has become a virtue in some circles. Just look at many of the recent posts or comments from various people about the Trump regime’s denial of assistance for SNAP benefits. Those individuals bought into the lie that lack of money for food is a personal failure, not a systemic one.

But no matter what lies capitalists and their sycophants tell, everyone deserves healthcare and food. And it is not enough to say that these things alone are human rights. Good, quality, affordable healthcare and food are universal human rights.

So, although it has been said many times before, the answer to what do you do the next time you see someone stealing food is: no you didn’t. Instead, fight against imperialism in all of its forms, and fight for the things we all deserve, not only to survive, but to live this life to the fullest.

Kenn Orfanos, November 2025

The Department of War and American Imperialism

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I know that many liberal Americans are appalled by the Trump regime name change of the Department of Defense to the Department of War. But this is actually the most honest thing the regime has done thus far. And that is saying a lot.

The American Empire has always been at war. In fact, it has been in some kind of armed conflict 225 out of its 243 years as a country. Of course, the liberal explanation for this has been to provide justification for its belligerence. “Humanitarian intervention” had oft been the catch all phrase to describe American military action, both overt and covert, in the Global South.

The Department of War is the most accurate moniker for an agency that has committed or supported some of the most heinous crimes in human history. It carpet bombed Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. It funded military juntas and death squads in Central America. It subverted democratically elected governments in Chile, Iran and the Democratic Republic of Congo. It destroyed Libya and invaded Iraq, a nation that never attacked it. And it has aided and abetted the ongoing genocide in Gaza via its colonial asset, Israel.

The fascist Trump regime is the natural iteration of a centuries long project of domination via violence and threat. “Pax Americana” was a romantic lie that sanitized this reality with the myth of being the world’s “policeman.” Flawed, but noble in its intentions.

The ceremonious name change of this department is merely tearing down that benevolent facade of American imperialism that has obscured its murderous character since its inception.

Kenn Orfanos, November 2025

Samantha Power and the Corruption of the American Liberal Elite

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It should not come as a surprise that the West has used the protection of human rights as a cover for its ongoing imperial project for decades in the Global South. And it has relied on a cadre of liberal apologists to provide justification for its aggression. Case in point, Samantha Power, the former U.S. ambassador to the UN under the Obama administration.

Power liked to portray herself as a champion of human rights. She skyrocketed to fame for her book “America and the Age of Genocide,” where she lambasted the Clinton administration for downplaying and ignoring the Rwandan genocide. But her role as the director of USAID under Joe Biden and during Israel’s genocide in Gaza has revealed her for the grifting ghoul she actually is.

Despite backlash from her staff, she refused to condemn Israel’s horrendous siege on the open air concentration camp that is Gaza. Even as entire families were erased. Even as images of blown up or bloated children flooded newsfeeds. Even as evidence mounted of Israeli war crimes. Power refused to call for a ceasefire. Instead, she parroted Israeli state lies which sought to justify the total destruction and mass starvation policies of the Zionist state.

After leaving USAID, Power seemed to want to whitewash her role in the genocide by lamenting: “I wish we could have ended the war in Gaza far sooner… and done more to end this hell that the people of Gaza have experienced.” But Power did not seem to have any such misgivings when she actually had influence over US policy.

None of this is new for the “human rights superstar.” A series of leaked files revealed recently that Power was colluding with Israeli diplomats to polish the apartheid, now genocidal, state’s global image and help them gain access to coveted UN committees as far back as 2013.

A correspondence between Power and Israeli ambassador to the UN, Ron Prosor, in November of that year revealed how the US ambassador assisted Israel’s admittance to the UN’s Western European and Others Group (WEOG). This helped Israel gain diplomatic cover while glossing over its egregious human rights record at the time.

Power was rewarded for her efforts with high paid speaking engagements. She would go on to scold the UN for its “anti-Israel” bias, while making no mention of its horrendous treatment of Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied territories, or its belligerent posture toward its neighbours in the region. Instead, she relied on questionable intelligence from the apartheid state to saber rattle on its behalf. And during the murderous rampage on Gaza in 2014, Power ran diplomatic cover for Israel as it slaughtered over 2000 civilians.

In 2016, Power, asked the Russians if they had any “shame” regarding their bombing campaign of East Aleppo, Syria. And this revealed her staggering hypocrisy. Russia deserved to be condemned for its military forays, but Power never condemned the US for its destruction of Iraq or Libya. And she never condemned its ally, Israel, for its ongoing project of annihilation of the Palestinians.

Indeed, Power’s service to American Empire, under the guise of humanitarianism, was lauded. That same year, she accepted the American Academy of Berlin’s Henry A. Kissinger Prize. And she was handed the blood-soaked award from none other than the murderous monster himself. Despite her damning criticisms of Kissinger in her books “A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide” and “Sergio: One Man’s Fight to Save the World,” she was able to overlook his crimes and the mountain of corpses he stood atop for the shiny statuette.

Power is a visual aid to the duplicity and corruption of the American liberal elite, whose values always crumble under the weight of their fealty to the American imperial project. She is an emblem of the cruel and mendacious excuse it uses for every one of its wars or covert operations: “humanitarian intervention.” And for that, she has been handsomely rewarded.

Kenn Orfanos, November 2025

COP30: The Cruel Irony of Excluding the Guardians of the Amazon

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Although uninvited, Indigenous leaders came to the COP30 climate summit being held in Belem, Brazil anyway. They stormed a meeting that has become infamous for its vacuous speeches, empty policy promises and martini-sipping fossil fuel lobbyists. And they were met with the full force of the state. Two Brazilian navy vessels escorted a flotilla carrying Indigenous leaders and environmental activists from Belem’s Guajara Bay.

There is an irony of inviting the world’s biggest polluter, the United States, to a conference on climate change. And then being snubbed by it. All while not inviting the guardians of the planet’s lungs. And then attacking them for daring to show up anyway.

Despite this, their message remains the only coherent one. That the wealthy and powerful are destroying the sacred living loam of this earth. Our biosphere. The only home human beings have ever known. That logging, mining, farming and fossil fuel extraction in the forests of the planet, especially the Amazon rainforest, are contributing to a climate that becomes more unstable and angrier by the year. That the genocidal project of capitalist and colonial exploitation and land theft is driving our omnicidal trajectory.

Just last month, scientists issued another dire warning, adding to a litany of critical tipping points. The besieged, carbon absorbing Amazon rainforest may be transformed into a savannah in our lifetime. This would be disastrous for humanity and countless species as the global temperature is predicted to exceed 1.5c around 2030, far earlier than previously estimated.

This is the first time the COP has been held this close to the Amazon. But despite this historic proximity, it continues to close its doors to the forest’s inhabitants and guardians. And this tragic irony is one we will all come to regret.

Kenn Orfanos, November 2025

The Stupidest Timeline

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The new Syrian president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, assumed control of the country after the brutal Bashar al-Assad was overthrown. Here he is with US wannabe dictator, Donald Trump, in the White House.

Prior to his presidency, al-Sharaa was the leader of al-Nusra Front and Jabhat Fateh al-Sham which perpetrated horrendous war crimes that included suicide bombings, forced conversions, ethnic cleansing and massacres against Syria and Lebanon’s Christian, Alawite, Shia and Druze minorities.

None of that seemed to faze Trump as he spritzed the Syrian President with his cologne, bizarrely asking him how many wives he had.

Meanwhile, millions of Americans are going without food, millions more will pay double for their healthcare insurance (thanks to the capitulation of Chuck Schumer and other leading Democrats), masked ICE thugs terrorize immigrants and those who defend them, fishermen are being blasted out of the water by the US military, and the US continues to support Israel as it commits genocide against the Palestinians.

To say we live in the stupidest, most absurd and depraved timeline is a monumental understatement.

Kenn Orfanos, November 2025

The White-Washed Sepulchers of America

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Nikalie Monroe did a social test which she posted on TikTok. She called dozens of churches across the United States pretending to be a mother in desperate need of baby formula. Sometimes she would play a recording of a crying baby in the background. She would say she had no money and that the baby hadn’t eaten several meals.

Despite all this, most of the institutions, that incidentally boasted they were “prolife,” refused to help her, citing such reasons as “You don’t attend the church,” “We stopped doing that,” suggesting she contact “local government,” or simply saying “no.”

It was the smaller, predominantly Black churches, a Buddhist Temple, and several mosques and Islamic Centre’s that assured her that they would help. One pastor, an elderly grandfather, said he would go out and buy the formula himself. Others, including the late Charlie Kirk’s church or the toothy charlatan Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, turned her down. Osteen”s estimated net worth is anywhere from $40 million to $100 million.

And did these churches apologize for their stunning hypocrisy? Or for their glaring lack of compassion and care for a starving baby? Well, no. In fact, the pastor of the Living Faith Baton Rouge Baptist Church said he “doesn’t apologize to Satan.” He then called Monroe a “evil witch” and that his bible didn’t allow such people “to live.” The pastor of Germantown Baptist Church in Kentucky accused Monroe of being a woman of “folly, seductive and knowing nothing” who was trying to catch the church in some “woke liberal” trap.

American Christianity was poisoned a very long time ago by capitalism. The ones who gulped down most of that brew were white, evangelical churches. This is where the noxious “prosperity gospel” was born, which elevated wealth to a virtue and that celebrates slick televangelists who sport gold watches and climb aboard private jets. The one that blames the poor for their plight because they didn’t pray hard enough, they weren’t “trusting Jesus,” or because they didn’t tithe enough money to be blessed. The ones who delight in raining fire and brimstone down on the vulnerable and marginalized in society, yet seldom, if ever, preach about Jesus warnings to the wealthy.

That these churches are prolife is of little surprise. Their piety is policy, not compassion. And that policy is about social control and oppression, not enlightenment or liberation. This is how they have absolutely no problem with Israel’s starvation of babies and children in Gaza or even the suffering of Palestinian Christians.

These Christians delight in punishment and otherizing because, like the early American Puritans, their twisted sense of sanctified beatification is a source of sadistic pleasure. There is no mystery that they deify nakedly cruel despots like Donald Trump either. He echoes their hollowed out humanity. A narcissistic bully who revels in punching down on who Jesus referred to as “the least of these.”

Nikalie Monroe’s little social experiment held up a mirror, and these churches had to look at themselves for one, long, uncomfortable minute. But it isn’t really shocking that they lack any capacity for insight. The poison they drank years ago deadened whatever soul they once had. The tragic irony is that they could not see they were the very “white-washed sepulchers” that Jesus once warned about.

Kenn Orfanos, November 2025

The Striking Irony of Zionist Outrage over ‘Miss Palestine’

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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.

Sexual Violence and the Colonial Project

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Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi (left photo) was the Israeli army’s top lawyer. She briefly disappeared, but was later found on a beach in Tel Aviv. Now she is behind bars. Her crime? She approved the leak of a surveillance video that showed the rape of a Palestinian detainee by Israeli soldiers at the notorious Sde Teiman military prison.

After she was found, far right TV personality Yinon Magal, an ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, posted on X with a winking-face emoji: “We can resume the lynch.”

The soldiers who assaulted the Palestinian prisoner allegedly sodomized him with a knife. A medical staffer said, on condition of anonymity out of fear for his safety, that the victim had life-threatening injuries from blunt trauma to the abdomen and the chest and fractured ribs. He had to undergo emergency surgery for a perforated rectum. The victim was returned days later to the prison where he was assaulted.

There were protests in Israel, but not to decry what those soldiers did. They were to defend them. They were enraged by the arrest and prosecution of the soldiers. Several members of the Knesset joined in these demonstrations, which often became violent.

The prime suspect at the centre of this heinous crime is soldier Meir Ben-Shitrit (pictured on the right). But instead of being vigorously questioned by journalists, he has been celebrated by Israeli media, doing a plethora of softball television interviews where he and the other suspects are treated as the real victims.

Recently, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in Israel, released a report on systematic Israeli sexual violence against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank since 7 October 2023.

The report, entitled “More than a Human Can Bear”, provides such incontrovertible evidence of Israeli crimes that “[t]here is no escape from the conclusion that Israel has employed sexual and gender-based violence against Palestinians to terrorize them and perpetuate a system of oppression that undermines their right to self-determination.”

None of this is new. Israel has long used rape and sexual abuse as a weapon or form of collective punishment, as documented by Israeli human rights organizations. Yet this is rarely reported on in the Western press.

Instead, they run stories of “mass rape” on October 7th, along with blatant lies about “decapitated babies,” without ever providing a shred of evidence. Even former US president Joe Biden repeated these lies, saying he saw the photos. The White House later denied the president saw any such photographs. Thus far, not one Israeli woman has stepped forward to allege rape on October 7th.

None of this is to claim that no sexual violence occurred on that day. It is simply to point out that no evidence has been presented by Israel thus far. While there is ample evidence that attests to Palestinians, including child detainees, suffering from abuse.

Colonial projects have long used sexual violence to suppress and demoralize the populations they wished to subjugate. But in tandem with this was a racist claim that the colonized men presented a threat to white women and their purity.

Black men and boys in North America were routinely brutalized, tortured and killed for even the mere hint of sexual impropriety with white women. The tragic and horrifying case of Emmett Till is a testament to those dark times.

Israel is no different in this regard. Anti-miscegenation sentiment has been a pernicious thread through Israeli society since 1948. Even today, Israeli (and some Western political leaders) openly talk about the supposed “demographic danger” of mixed marriages.

Israel is not uniquely racist. It merely echoes the European colonial settler “civilized vs savage” narrative. Politicians like Netanyahu unashamedly repeat this myth by calling their state a “villa in a jungle.” The obvious implication being that Arab cultures and societies are barbaric and backwards.

This latest chapter is a bleak one in the long history of the Zionist project, with genocide being the natural culmination of the supremacist ideology. But it provides us insight into how movements subvert the truth and human decency to advance a mythology of dominance over those it subjugates.

Kenn Orfanos, November 2025