Debra Messing and Liberal Zionism’s Inevitable Drift Toward Fascism

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There have been so many spectacular crash outs before and since Mamdani won NYC. But the most intriguing has to be Debra Messing. The former Will & Grace star posted endlessly to her Instagram yesterday. But Messing, who supported Hillary Clinton and has always identified herself as liberal, was sharing content from far right organizations like CPAC, Breitbart, and Newsmax. In fact, she shared at least 100 posts to her Instagram story in one day alone.

Among those shared was a blatantly Islamophobic post which argued that while Judaism and Christianity encourage honesty, Muslims are “commanded to lie if it means spreading Islam.” It went on to say: “He’s revealing their goal: Mass conversion. These two opposing civilizations cannot coexist.” It doesn’t get much more paranoid, genocidal and racist than that, folks.

She even went so far as to share Trump’s antisemitic post in which he wrote: “Any Jewish person that votes for Zohran Mamdani, a proven and self professed JEW HATER, is a stupid person!!!” Mamdani has always condemned antisemitism. But none of that matters to Trump or to Messing, apparently.

Since October 7th, 2023, Messing has been on a rampage. Her support for Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians became her only identity, going so far as to visit the genocidal apartheid state for photo ops with IDF soldiers.

Messing is a case study in the limitations of white feminism. When ones privilege is challenged in any way, the default is often to go to reactionary, racist or even fascist tactics of fearmongering and scapegoating. Messing’s transformation proves that Zionism, like all supremacist ideologies, always leads a person to the far-right.

It has been reported that Messing is currently on holiday in Tel Aviv, apparently finding solace from the melee in Manhattan by being even closer to an actual genocide taking place mere kilometres away.

Kenn Orfanos, November 2025

*photo is of Debra Messing, but not from this week.

Mamdani Wins NYC!

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Last night, I sat in front of my computer with tears in my eyes. They were tears of joy. I was born in New York. I lived the first 20+ years of my life there. So, even though I no longer live there or in the United States anymore, to see this city that I love do the right thing in these very dark times was deeply moving to say the least.

NYC voted for a man who stands outside the Democratic Party elite. A man who espouses values that align with most ordinary people. That living on this planet should not bankrupt a person. That healthcare and housing and education are human rights. That the wealthy should pay their fair share. That genocide is wrong and the criminals who commit these crimes should be arrested and tried.

Despite endless and baseless smears and racist taunts, much of which came from notorious misogynist and senior citizen-killer, Andrew Cuomo, Mamdani prevailed. Despite the efforts of celebrities like Debra Messing who spread horrendous Islamophobic lies, Mamdani prevailed (one wonders if she is okay today, or if she has fled to Tel Aviv on the first El Al flight out of Kennedy). Despite millions of dollars being spent by parasitic billionaires like Michael Bloomberg, Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia, Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton, and hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman, Mamdani prevailed. Despite threats from the fascist, wannabe king in the White House, Mamdani prevailed.

Will Mamdani be able to implement all of the policies he would like to? Probably not. NYC is still deeply capitalist. Its 1% are entrenched, have enormous influence and own much of the media. But despite their empty threats, they aren’t leaving New York after this historic victory. And this win sends a clear message to them that the people of this city are fed up with the soul crushing, life destroying status quo.

Mamdani quoted the late Eugene Debs in his victory speech. Debs, who was born in 1855 and died in 1926, was an American socialist, trade unionist and one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World. He ran five times for President under the Socialist Party of America. That Mamdani chose him is extraordinary for these times. His words go far beyond the sickening bromides and empty platitudes of most politicians.

Mamdani said:

”The sun may have set over our city this evening, but as Eugene Debs once said, “I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity.”

For as long as we can remember, the working people of New York have been told by the wealthy and the well-connected that power does not belong in their hands. Fingers bruised from lifting boxes on the warehouse floor, palms calloused from delivery bike handlebars, knuckles scarred with kitchen burns. These are not hands that have been allowed to hold power. And yet, over the last 12 months, you have dared to reach for something greater.

Tonight, against all odds, we have grasped it. The future is in our hands. My friends, we have toppled a political dynasty.

I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life, but let tonight be the final time I utter his name as we turn the page on a politics that abandons the many and answers only to the few.

Now I know that many have heard our message only through the prism of misinformation. Tens of millions of dollars have been spent to redefine reality and to convince our neighbors that this new age is something that should frighten them. As has so often occurred, the billionaire class has sought to convince those making $30 an hour that their enemies are those earning $20 an hour. They want the people to fight amongst ourselves so that we remain distracted from the work of remaking a long-broken system. We refuse to let them dictate the rules of the game anymore. They can play by the same rules as the rest of us.

In this new age we make for ourselves, we will refuse to allow those who traffic in division and hate to pit us against one another. In this moment of political darkness, New York will be the light. Here we believe in standing up for those we love, whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many Black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job, a single mom still waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with their back against the wall—your struggle is ours too.

Together, we will usher in a generation of change. And if we embrace this brave new course, rather than fleeing from it, we can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him. And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power.

And we must chart a new path as bold as the one we have already traveled. After all, the conventional wisdom would tell you that I am far from the perfect candidate. I am young, despite my best efforts to grow older. I am Muslim. I am a democratic socialist. And most damning of all, I refuse to apologize for any of this.

Mamdani’s victory will undoubtedly be met with more threats or even actions by the fascist Trump regime. And the corporate beholden, Democratic Party elite will likely try to thwart any meaningful gains of this moment. But Mamdani’s win should be celebrated by every ordinary person today. Because even though we are in dark times, some light has managed to find its way through the cracks.

Be happy about that today, because we all deserve it.

Kenn Orfanos, November 2025

Trump’s Great Gatsby Redux is a Portent

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To say we live in an age of absurdity would be an understatement. But absurdity often accompanies sadism. Case in point: Trump throwing a “Great Gatsby” themed gala on the eve of 40+ million Americans losing their access to food. This is “Let them eat cake” on steroids.

To be sure, Trump has likely never read a book through cover to cover, with the possible exception of Mein Kampf translated into English and his own “The Art of the Deal.” So, the irony of holding a Great Gatsby themed party while millions of his citizens struggle or languish in near intolerable conditions will always be lost on him.

Gatsby, the main character, was a conman who was obsessed with the aristocracy. His nouveau riche credentials didn’t get him the status he craved in their circles, but he threw lavish parties in a mansion he built to display his ostentatious wealth to anyone he could dazzle.

That Trump cannot see such glaring irony is staggering, but not surprising. While he is a narcissist, he is also a proud illiterate and affirmed ignoramus. His dearth of curiosity is legendary. He is only attracted to glitter, gold and gilded mirrors. And he delights in the praise of the vapid courtiers who surround him.

As the nation teeters on economic ruin, Trump has ensconced himself in the illusion of prestige. He lacks the capacity for insight and grows ever more delusional by the day. This does not make him any less dangerous. On the contrary, as he grows even more unhinged by the day he becomes more erratic and paranoid. This is the real reason for the golden ballroom and the renovated bunker that will be rebuilt below.

Narcissism is a poison to its bearer. It promises satisfaction, but only guarantees loneliness and longing. It creates hungry ghosts, never able to sate the empty void within. Trump has cultivated his own narcissism for a lifetime. But no one can avoid the humbling veil of mortality.

Gatsby’s ignominious fate was met while he was floating in his pool. Trump appears to be aimlessly floating for disaster as well. The only problem is that he is taking the entire nation with him.

Kenn Orfanos, November 2025

The American Empire was Built on Racism and Class Exploitation

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The photographs here are but one example of the current cesspit of racism that is churning in the United States. Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy posted a seemingly innocuous photo of him with his children on Halloween. The comments that followed from self-described Maga-Republicans were nothing less than vile.

Ramaswamy isn’t the only Republican to face this kind of raw hatred. Kash Patel also received a flood of racist vitriol after wishing his followers a “Happy Diwali.” And the list goes on and on and on.

In a large sense, vice president JD Vance has also played his own game of Christian nationalism. He admitted publicly that he hopes that his wife Usha converts from Hinduism to Christianity. Given his obvious affection for the widow of the late racist blowhard, Charlie Kirk, the ramifications are significant. From the top down, the rot runs deep.

Recently, Republican slop-posters created a series of AI-generated videos depicting Black women complaining about cuts to the US food assistance program SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). The fake videos used disgusting racial stereotypes of Black women as being lazy and sexually promiscuous, a recurring theme among racists. But none of this gave pause to the conservative news outlet, Fox News, who ran with the story as if it were true.

Since the start of the government shutdown, the Trump regime has refused to fund the essential program that assists over 40 million people, half of whom are children and most of whom are white. In the miasma that is social media, there has been a flood of racist memes and posts from the far right. Some go so far as influencers using blackface to get their racist point across to their feckless fans.

And it isn’t entirely partisan. One look at the NYC mayoral race exposes the rancid racism at the heart of Andrew Cuomo’s campaign aimed at Zohran Mamdani. Cuomo has used almost every racist trope in the book in an attempt to defame Mamdani and deflect from his own sexual misconduct charges and elderly killing policies. Most of these attempts have backfired spectacularly.

But the point here is not whether one ruling political party or the other is more racist or not. Obviously, one is far more overt about it and is becoming more and more openly fascist. The bigger picture demands a look at American society itself.

Racism has always been woven into the fabric of American life. The nation that was stolen from the Indigenous population through ethnic cleansing and genocide and built by enslaved people from Africa, has never truly grappled with any of it.

The Civil Rights Movement held promise thanks to the endless work of Black and Indigenous communities. But it is now being eroded by an enormous segment of the white population that has never truly accepted it. And far right white politicians continue to use it as a distraction from egregious economic policies that favour billionaires over their constituents.

But while the Republican Party seeks to whitewash American history of its copious crimes and suppress any discussion of the history and legacy of institutionalized racism, the Democratic Party elite continue to hold on to a romanticized version of it. To many, the election of Obama was enough to live in a fantasy of a post-racial society. After all, why should there be talk of reparations if we can all go to the silly and revisionist musical ‘Hamilton’ together in an unsegregated theatre?

The stark reality is that the American Empire was built on racism and class exploitation. And it is now in steep decline. Its economy is on the brink of collapse thanks to a regime that cares far more about padding the pockets of useless billionaires and enacting business-killing tariffs than addressing the dire needs of its population. Its soft power abroad is waning due to a long history of belligerent foreign policy and blatant hypocrisy and its most recent support and aid of an obvious genocide in Gaza.

The Trump regime is simply the logical result of this vicious bipartisan legacy. Its use of racism to divide people isn’t anything new. It simply has no other tools in its belt than to distract and scapegoat vulnerable and marginalized communities. So, as the American imperial project enters its closing chapters, we should expect even more racist rhetoric and worse.

Given all of this, one would think that racialized people like Ramasamy would wake up from their hypnotic slumber. That they would see Maga and the American project for what it is. But the illusion of inclusion can be a powerful and intoxicating drug. And most of them have overdosed on it.

Kenn Orfanos, November 2025

The Tyranny of Screens

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Whether we like it or not, screens, social media and AI are facets of modern life. Our society has become so integrated with these mediums and processes that it simply cannot exist without them. We depend upon them for everything from casual communications to communiqués, shopping transactions to banking, powering our appliances to the entire energy infrastructure grid.

In many ways, these mediums have enhanced our lives and helped us to stay informed or in touch with people from our past or whom we may have never known. It has helped artists, musicians, writers and content creators launch careers outside of the traditional legacy formats. It has also been an integral part of raising awareness and generating support and solidarity with important social causes or movements, whether it be Black Lives Matter or the genocide in Gaza.

But the dark side of this phenomenon has been the erosion of our critical thinking capacity and the skillsets required for civic engagement. The result is often a dangerous disconnect from reality. And this has been by design. Our brains can only process so much. They have evolved to tackle problems one at a time. To focus on one thing. But we have been conditioned to accept a kind of manic engagement with life.

Tech companies understand this all too well. They have meticulously curated the dopamine reward system to keep us coming back. The use of the colour red, for instance, is no mistake. It creates stress in our brains. A stress that must be relieved by “clicking” on an icon to see what is being “missed.” It is essentially a means of social control via the manipulation of neurochemicals and reward pathways.

And it may have very serious ramifications for our mental health. In fact, there is a new term that is being used: AI Psychosis. Tech companies have been aggressively marketing their AI chatbot services. But by making so many individuals dependent upon a pseudo-assistant/companion, the danger of psychological and cognitive disconnect from reality increases exponentially. For many who struggle with their mental health, the AI “therapist” may seem like a lifeline. But going to a chatbot, one devoid of human empathy, morality or ethics, can lead to disaster.

In addition to this, there is ample evidence of tech companies cooperating, working in tandem with, and even developing technology that increases the surveillance of civilians and independent organizations. That these companies already censor so much online content from those who confront the institutions of capitalism or the continuing colonial and imperialistic projects is troubling enough. But when they work hand in hand with authoritarian governments or despotic regimes to suppress any and all dissent, we are at risk of losing any semblance of democratic norms that we have left to us.

What is even more concerning is how screens have altered the current generation. Children are being taught to be bored with life absent constant stimulation from the screens they carry around in their pockets. Don’t believe me? Ask most teachers these days who have been sounding the alarm for several years now. They cannot get through a lesson plan or assignment without encountering huge amounts of indifference or outright hostility.

And what’s worse, is that the ubiquitous and insidious nature of screens is steadily siphoning off the moral imagination and empathy that are required for healthy human development, social relationships and societal cohesion. How will these children develop healthy relationship patterns and interactions with other children and adults? How will they be able to cope with a world that is nearing the collapse of climate stability? How will they be able to problem solve and address the coming shortages and scarcity? How will they be able to confront despotic political figures and groups who use such crises to scapegoat or enact authoritarian policies?

There is also a huge component of this phenomenon that isn’t being adequately addressed. The tech companies responsible for the denuding of the public mind are also raping the natural world. AI requires extraordinary amounts of resources. Every day, individual data centres consume millions of gallons of water for cooling. Just one data centre has the capacity to use as much water as a small town. Despite efforts to conceal their ecologically catastrophic practices, Amazon dwarfs its competitors, Google and Microsoft, in its consumption of water. In 2021 alone, Amazon used as much water as the city of San Francisco to operate its heat generating AI farms.

Without going so far as advocating for Luddism, there are compelling reasons to reflect on the grave impact of AI in an era of rising fascist authoritarianism, extraordinary economic inequity, and a biosphere that is imperiled by the predations of late capitalist exploitation. Tech billionaires and their corporate behemoths do not believe in democracy or even in humanity or the preservation of the biosphere. This can be seen clearly by delving into the unhinged far-right apocalyptic and conspiratorial thoughts of figures like Peter Theil. Mark Zuckerberg would prefer you jettison your human friends for AI simulations. Jeff Bezos would like you to shop for endless items on your phone without regard for worker’s labour rights or the impact on the planet.

But there are limits to these trends that neither billionaires or their corporate shareholders can control. Despite enormous efforts to control the narrative surrounding Israel’s genocide in Gaza, most see through the lies. Despite the constant flow of pixelated slop, AI generated reels and tone-deaf ads on our newsfeeds, many are starting to connect the dots of their own alienation and atomization to the reality of living in a capitalist dystopia that is growing ever more tedious and out of touch with most lived realities.

There is also evidence that many people are simply letting the whole idea of “casual posting” go. After all, looking at a photo of someone’s meal next to the image of a starving child in Gaza has contributed to the moral outrage and growing dissatisfaction with banality and indifference to the very dire and urgent ethical questions of our age. Seeing celebrities fly off in private jets or sport expensive clothing while most people are struggling in this economy just doesn’t have the same impact it once did.

Screens dominate our lives. This is a truth of living in the early decades of the 21st century. And it should not surprise us that in this stage of brutal and ruthless late capitalism, the wealthy and powerful are continually trying to harness them for profit and social control. But understanding this dynamic is the first step at breaking the spell of the screen and unraveling its digital noose around the neck of humanity.

Kenn Orfanos, November 2025

Performative Protests Are Not Enough Against Fascism

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Trump’s crude response to the “No Kings” protest shouldn’t come as a surprise. Fascist regimes don’t care about protests. Every instance of dissent to their depravity is an opportunity for more mockery and cruelty. Never for introspection or reflection.

As with all fascist regimes, the Trump regime will not be persuaded by civility or appeals to their humanity. Simply put, they have neither. While yesterday’s event was impressive, admirable and perhaps helped some make lasting connections with other like minded people, they will have no real or tangible impact on policy.

These events essentially serve as valves to let off steam or for funneling public rage into managed and watered down safe spaces, such as the Democratic Party, which offers no real resistance to the current arrangement of power.

Fascist regimes aren’t voted out. History has shown that the only way they end is through a coordinated mass movement that disrupts and grinds society and the very machinery of power to a halt, a war or military coup, or the death of the fascist leader, which can take decades.

This is not to crush the hopes of those who participated. On the contrary, those ordinary people who rallied did so because they understand something is terribly wrong and that they needed to do something. For many, this was their first time protesting. And that is commendable. But false hope is as dangerous as despair because it can often lead to complacency.

White, heterosexual American liberals have never had to face the terror of state violence before. This is new terrain. But they can learn from Black Americans who led the way with bus boycotts and bridge shutdowns. Or Queer Americans who shutdown entire cities with riots against police brutality. Or the movement against the Vietnam War. Or, more recently, the anti-genocide encampments on university campuses.

Hope lies in the copious examples of courage from marginalized and oppressed groups. Begin there.

Kenn Orfanos, October 2025

*The attached photo is Trump’s response to the protests, which is self explanatory.

Barack Obama and the Parlance of Empire

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The dehumanization of the Palestinians is something that comes natural to most Western leaders. And Barack Obama is no different in this regard.

Barack Obama knows full well that Israel committed genocide. He knows Gaza was obliterated by the Israeli military. He knows entire families were erased from the civil registry, yet he only mentions Israeli families. He knows that Israel decimated almost all of Gaza’s healthcare infrastructure, leveled hospitals and killed scores of doctors and nurses. He knows Israel destroyed universities, grade schools and entire city blocks. He knows Israel deliberately starved the people of Gaza. To omit these facts is a staggering feat of dehumanization.

But he is doing what every centrist politician in the West has done for decades. He is trying make this situation seem like a dispute between equals. He is making this all about the Israeli hostages while purposefully omitting the great injustice that led to October 7th. He is pretending that this is over and that we should all be “encouraged and relieved” instead of being horrified and enraged. He is nullifying the monstrous crime that was committed by using the language of “conflict.” And that is an outright lie.

Israel is the occupier. Israel has ethnically cleansed historic Palestine. Israel blockaded Gaza long before October 7th, making it the world’s biggest, open-air concentration camp. Israel built an apartheid state over decades which culminated in genocide.

In addition to this, Obama is once again asserting American power on the people of Palestine whether they like it or not. To “rebuild Gaza” as if it were wiped out by a natural disaster. As if this was a tragedy and not official policy. Daring not to admit that it was Israel with the total support of the United States that destroyed it. And that is because of the unspoken truth.

Israel is the most important colonial asset of the United States. It has invested billions of dollars in it over many decades. It essentially serves as a US military base in the Middle-East.

Obama is often thought of as the pinnacle of American decency. A man who brought dignity to the White House. But he is really just another emperor in a long line of American emperors. Even when not in power, they continue to uphold the only acceptable narrative of American imperialism. And Obama is the most eloquent in the parlance of empire among them.

Kenn Orfanos, October 2025

Regarding the Recent Ceasefire Plan

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I want to choose my words carefully because I understand the deep trauma that Israel and the United States has inflicted on millions of Palestinians. And not just for the last two years, but for decades.

It is because of that last sentence that I am cautious about celebrating a ceasefire and a plan for the end of this genocide when it comes from a fascist regime. And it is too early to tell if this will last, or if it is yet another distraction.

Certainly, other states (Qatar, Turkey, Egypt) were involved. But this is a US plan. And the American Empire, as it is in steep decline, can never be trusted. Everything it does is spectacle and farce. Its primary colonial asset and military base in the region is Israel. It has invested hundreds of billions of dollars in it. So, it will maintain it as long as the empire stands.

That said, if one Palestinan life is spared by this “agreement” I will rejoice. But I understand the dynamics and duplicity of empire too well to celebrate its supposed achievements.

Gaza has been completely obliterated. It is highly likely that hundreds of thousands have been slaughtered. It may never be habitable in the foreseeable future. And it isn’t clear who will pay the 80+ billion dollars to rebuild it.

To be sure, Israel will continue its colonial settler project in the occupied territories. The West Bank will be absorbed into the Zionist state, and Palestinians will be forced into bantustans on their ancestral lands. The illegal settlers will continue their pogroms protected by the IDF.

But Israel, like its colonial benefactor the United States, will never be accepted by the majority of the world again. Their myths of morality and greatness are forever sullied. The slow decay of the American Empire will ensure the eventual demise of its colonial assets.

They will try desperately to normalize every crime they’ve committed by buying the media and criminalizing dissent. But we have all seen too much. Their cynical game of baseless smears and propaganda is over, and all but the obtuse know this.

And one thing to celebrate is the Palestinians themselves. Their integrity in the face of genocide has never wavered. They’ve put our leaders and media, with all their racism, empty platitudes and hypocrisy, to shame. They’ve ripped the mask off of Western imperialism and smashed it to dust. Their humanity is unmatched. And for that, I am forever grateful.

Kenn Orfanos, October 2025

This was a Genocide from Day One

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There are those who want us to still believe this is a war. But wars don’t look like this.

One side has an army, navy, air force, nuclear weapons and support and assistance from the most powerful nation on the planet. The other has either nothing, some stones, or occasionally a handful of imprecise rockets.

One side has one of the most wealthy economies in the region. The other lives virtually in poverty, has no control over its own economic sector, is prevented from certain economic ventures and is forced to use the currency of the other side.

One sides population can and has enjoyed going to the beach, to restaurants, to nightclubs, to school, to the theatre and on lavish cruises and trips abroad. The other lives in tents and struggles to find food and clean water to survive while avoiding indiscriminate airstrikes and bullets from snipers or drones or navigate a brutal system of apartheid imposed by the other side.

One side controls the freedom of movement for the vast population of the other. The other side face military checkpoints, walls, segregated roads, arbitrary detainment and interrogations every single day from the other side.

One side can settle almost anywhere in the country and even in legally recognized, occupied lands with the protection of the military, and they are still citizens with full rights simply for their religious affiliation, even if they weren’t born there. The other side is walled off from their ancestral lands, harassed daily by illegal settlers and subject to military raids and tribunals from the other.

One side controls the sea, land and airspace of the other.

One side controls the electricity, fuel, medicine, food, water and daily necessities of life of the other.

One side founded a nation on a land that had a people. The other side was ethnically cleansed and has suffered for decades because of that land theft and dispossession.

The obtuse, willfully ignorant and dishonest frame this as a war. But wars are fought between equals. Wars are equally costly for both parties. Wars see similar rates of casualties. Wars do not have one side controlling virtually every aspect of life of the other side.

No matter how many times they try to frame this as a war, the facts will always attest to this being a genocide carried out by an apartheid state from day one.

Kenn Orfanos, October 2025

Greta Thunberg has been Abducted by the Genocidal State of Israel

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Greta Thunberg, along with 400+ activists, has reportedly been abducted and detained by Israel for committing the crime of attempting to bring baby formula to Gaza.

A report from The Guardian said Greta was being “kept in a cell infested with bedbugs” and denied adequate food and water. The Swedish embassy met with Greta and confirmed these reports.

Another member of the Flotilla said that he saw her being forced to hold the Israeli flag for photos.

“They dragged little Greta by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” said Turkish activist Ersin Çelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla.

Journalist and detainee, Lorenzo D’Agostino, reported that he had seen Greta ‘wrapped in the Israeli flag and paraded like a trophy.’

As repugnant as these reports are, none of them should come as a surprise.

Israel murdered prominent Palestinian-American journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh. It has killed hundreds of doctors, nurses and more journalists than in any conflict since World War II. Its snipers have targeted and shot children in the head and neck and shot different body parts of civilians for fun. It has used rape as a weapon against detainees. It has all but leveled Gaza, destroying nearly every school, apartment block, bakery, church, mosque, university, farm, water and sewage treatment facility and historic site. And it has in all likelihood murdered hundreds of thousands of people.

But the animus toward this one young woman has been off the scale. In fact, many Western politicians and media figures have openly voiced their disdain for her and even made veiled threats or wished ill-treatment upon her, from Piers Morgan to Lindsay Graham. Indeed, they are all complicit in their collaboration with the genocidal state.

But even as its wealthy supporters try desperately to change the narrative by buying up every news and social media site it can and censoring content, or throwing money at whatever lowlife influencer will do their biding, or by hiring shameless, no talent propagandists like Bari Weiss, Israel has lost the PR battle. Its main adversary has always been itself. It turns out, you cannot livestream the annihilation of a people and then expect most decent human beings to still support you, welcome you in their countries, or visit your resorts that are built over mass graves.

Greta Thunberg has been laughed at and disparaged by the political and media elite. But this is one of her greatest achievements. Their mockery, in a time where we are witness to their unspeakable evil, sycophancy, avarice and apathy is a badge of honour. Her integrity and courage has helped us all see them for the pile of pustulous parasitic worms they are.

Kenn Orfanos, October 2025