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

It is no secret that the Trump regime in the United States seeks to crush any and all dissent. One of the tactics is endless litigation of media behemoths. The other is through the mere threat of litigation. The recent firing and rehiring of comedian Jimmy Kimmel attests to the latter. In that case, the threat failed. But the regime isn’t finished in its ongoing quest to transform American media into either toothless infotainment or an arm of fascist state propaganda.

The American media landscape is already dominated by a small group of wealthy companies. And conservative tech billionaires own social media. Despite this, there has been some measure of freedom of speech and expression, at least in regard to the minimal requirement for journalistic integrity.

But the US is inextricably linked to Israel, its most important colonial asset. And defending the genocidal state at all costs, even if it fractures its Maga base, has become one of the current regime’s primary objectives. Threatening litigation isn’t the only thing they have in their bag of tricks. Buying up all the means of communication and filling it with sycophants seems to be their latest plan. It is manufactured consent on steroids.

Case in point: wealthy Zionist Larry Ellison and his son David, have been busy buying up as many media platforms as they can. The cringe-inducing duo have longstanding ties to Israel and have vociferously defended its murderous attacks against the Palestinians from day one. Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle, has been the biggest private donor to the IDF. Oracle itself is little more than an Israeli colonial apparatus with cultish devotion to the genocidal project. Now the father and son seek to eradicate all dissent by curtailing journalism and muzzling content creators and independent media.

David Ellison bought Paramount. Now he aims to turn the mammoth media outlet CBS into a mouthpiece for Israel. And he is giving the keys to Bari Weiss.

Ever the suck up to the uber-wealthy, Weiss started her lackluster career by going after professors who dared speak out about Palestine without consulting her. She went on to a hackneyed stint at the New York Times where she trotted out stale, bromidic pabulum about the supposed perils of “woke culture.” Essentially, regurgitating the grievances of far-right intellectual poseurs and blowhards like Jordan Peterson.

Weiss, who has used her virtually unknown platform “The Free Press” to spread the most vicious and mendacious apologia for genocide, will likely use CBS as a tool of Zionist propaganda. She has made no secret of the marriage of her devotion to the racist state and her “journalism.” Her holocaust apologetics have been seemingly endless, from pieces that deny the Israeli policy of starvation to blaming Palestinians for their suffering and murder.

With Weiss in tow, the Ellison’s are now planning the takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. According to the Wall Street Journal: the “bid will be for the entire company, including its cable networks and movie studio,” which includes “HBO Max” along with “CNN, TBS, and TNT.” It seems apparent that this whole genocide thing has made them all itchy, especially with public sentiment beginning to turn.

This is why wealthy Zionists have their sights set on social media. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Twitch, TikTok. They understand that the biggest threat to their hegemonic control of the narrative comes from ordinary people sounding the alarm. People who are not intimidated by legacy media and its complicity with fascism and genocide. If they succeed in taking over these platforms, they will rapidly censor or shadow ban any voice that challenges their approved storyline.

But regardless of these monied and high stakes plans and mergers, the jig is up for both Israel and the American Empire. No media putsch can alter their joint trajectories. Both entities are in a state of rot, chaos and marked decline. So, these attempts to seize the microphone appear more like acts of desperation than a hostile takeover. These media outlets are the vestiges of a dying era, with most of Gen Z ignoring them completely. And young people have found creative ways to utilize or subvert social media to their advantage.

No one can unsee the horror the Zionist state has and continues to mete out on a defenseless people imprisoned in the world’s largest, open-air concentration camp. No one can unhear the cries of little Hind as she sat in a car wounded and surrounded by her dead family as Israeli tanks closed in around her. No one can forget the nearly two year campaign of complete annihilation of Gaza.

And these media giants are powerless against the most damning aspect of this genocide: the egos of the genocidaires themselves. Most of the evidence has come from IDF soldiers who have proudly posted their crimes on social media. Or from the IDF commanders who have leveled nearly every hospital, school, mosque, bakery and farm in Gaza. Or Israeli media that has platformed openly genocidal voices. Or from Israeli politicians who talk openly about their hatred of every Palestinian, including children, labeling them all as “terrorists.” Or their intention to starve the captive population. Or their plans to “redevelop” Gaza for illegal settlement.

The Ellison family is one of the wealthiest on the planet. They may soon surpass Elon Musk in being the richest. But they haven’t been paying close attention to the reality that wealth does not beget popularity. Nor does it command people to listen to you. Musk is a prime example of this. The ketamine-addled Nazi has seen his status plummet in recent months. He has become a running joke and punchline. And none of his ill-gotten riches can alter the public perception of him being an unhinged buffoon.

Israel and the US are in a similar state. Both are seen as a pariah. Their image is tainted by genocidal mania, sadism and fascist nihilism. Their citizens are increasingly being shunned when they travel abroad and their allies are beginning to distance themselves from the embarrassment.

They may be able to shutdown dissent or stifle journalistic principles in major American media and even silence some content creators or independent platforms, but they cannot undo what has been done. They cannot sponge away the blood from their hands. The evidence is far too damning. The mountain of corpses is far too high. And we have all seen too much to ever let them forget any of it.

Kenn Orfanos, September 2025

Recently, more than 4,000 film industry workers — including Olivia Colman, Elliot Page, Javier Bardem, Aimee Lou Wood, Mark Ruffalo, Juliet Stevenson, Riz Ahmed, Ayo Edebiri, Tilda Swinton, Ava DuVernay, Adam McKay, Josh O’Connor, Brian Cox and Emma Stone — signed a pledge promising not to work with film institutions or governments that are “implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people.”

The UN, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Physicians for Human Rights Israel, B’Tselem בצלם, Jewish Voice for Peace and most genocide scholars agree. It is now indisputable that Israel is guilty of the crime of genocide.

But like a chorus of braying donkeys, Liev Schreiber, Mayim Bialik, Debra Messing and a long list of holocaust deniers claimed this pledge was antisemitic. They also said it was a form of “collective punishment,” which is rich coming from a group that has ignored or applauded Israel’s decades-long collective punishment of the Palestinians.

Mayim Bialik is perhaps one of the most well known “celebrities” on the list. The former sitcom star and gameshow host infamously endorsed a children’s book entitled “Under Rockets Glow” where a young girl is indoctrinated to believe she is the victim and not the daughter of colonizers. A more apt name might have been “Baby’s First Genocide.”

Debra Messing is another. The former sitcom star embarrassed herself long before the genocide started by attacking progressive Democratic Black women for daring to challenge the conservative slant of the party. After Israel began its campaign of annihilation, she flew to the country on a “birthright” trip where she filmed herself blubbering over IDF soldiers as they prepared to carry out the Final Solution.

Some may find these criticisms too harsh. But there can be no forgiveness for celebrities who choose, even now, to support and defend genocide. None. As they shill for a regime that burns, bombs and starves hundreds of thousands of children, they deserve nothing less than our scorn and contempt.

Kenn Orfanos, September 2025

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