Thank you for this piece! It should be broadcast straight into the heads of everyone who thinks this genocide is simply an issue of leadership, as if denouncing Netanyahu is enough. People are now attempting to absolve themselves of their previous complicity and silence, but scarcely any of them have the courage to address the deeper issue at hand, as you have in this article! Looking forward to your next one.
For me the following paragraph tells me that western leaders are not fit to govern.
"Yet perhaps the most damning indictment of this systematic dehumanization is not what it reveals about Israeli society, but what it exposes about the broader Western world that enables it. Even as the death toll in Gaza reaches over 62,000 Palestinians—with estimates suggesting the true number may exceed 80,000 when accounting for undercounting—even as 57 children have died from malnutrition since March alone, even as 71,000 children under five are expected to suffer acute malnutrition over the next year, the Western response remains one of calculated indifference dressed up as concern. When three-quarters of Gaza's population faces emergency or catastrophic food deprivation, when 15.6% of children under two in northern Gaza are acutely malnourished, when babies are dying of starvation while their mothers collapse from hunger, the West's primary concern remains Israel's "right to defend itself." This is not political calculation—this is the arithmetic of racism, the cold logic of who counts as human and who does not."
I'm no longer surrounded by academics, but what I read and hear in the US shows that the current president connects anti-Israeli sentiment with being anti-semitic. Once a person has been labeled that, all sorts of unfavorable things can happen. I appreciate articles like this because I realize how different the truth may be from what we hear here. Also, in the same breath with news on Palestinians is news of Hamas. There seems to be an attempt to get the American public to rally against BOTH because they are connected. And of course the news on Hamas is always violent and hard to stomach. So many people just attach that hate to all Palestinians. I am very interested in the history of Hamas. What gave rise to this group? Are they a thorn in the sides of the typical Palestinians or are they generally supported?
Fuck you and your progeny genocidal biatch. Go back to your flotsam and fester in that genocidal cesspool, biatch. Fuck you till you love me Hijosdemilputas.
I realized recently and almost instantly, how thoroughly I’d passively accepted Israeli- and US supporter- propaganda for my entire life. I assumed the charge that criticizing Israel equaled anti-semitism. How wrong I was, and how eloquently you’ve presented the reality, simply, clearly and honestly. Please keep it up!
great reporting, thank you! As people start to distance themselves, we cannot allow people to forget who was silent, and who was complicit. We cannot just blame the leaders.
Very well written. It was hard to read emotionally but necessary. I really had no idea how hard everyday life was for Palestinians and did not know all of the pertinent history. Thank you for the knowledge. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
I agree 100 percent with all who were enlightened and educated after reading this wonderful, tragic article. This is not a war against Hamas. It is a genocide of the Palestinian people.
So why don't hamasholes hand over hostages and quit murdering their own children and PROVE if this happens. Release the hostages and the world will see the truth, otherwise hamsholes knowingly invite the fight they started and keep using children to hide behind. ‘wonderful and tragic” sick and evil.
No society in the history of man has murdered their own children by hiding behind them and then exploited them for propaganda and press releases.
The world is learning this truth about baby killing cowards hamassholes. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL HAS TOLD THEM TO STOP!!! the world knows and more are learning everyday
Most complicit are the Zionist Evangelical Christians whose beliefs predate the Jewish Zionists.
The millions of duped, inerrant scripture believers, Americans and Anglo Evangelicals who see angels and demons, sometimes "speak in tongues", believing that our times are the "end times" and that Israel is necessary for "God's plan" and the "return of the messiah".
These people,from all walks of life, are silent on the excesses of Israeli Zionists, waiting in a religious stupor for the return of their Saviour and Judgement Day.
They are in the military, "defense plants" making bombs and propellants for tank shells, in finance, local government, your neighbours......
They are the proof that:
"Religion makes otherwise good people do bad things!".
There are no more greater supporters of Israel than these people.
The IDF is a citizen 'army' - in my view its a terror organisation commiting Genocide. The genie is out of the bottle now - we all know what they are up to - they want to murder as many Palestinians as they can, destroy Gaza and put the remaining population in to Egypt in the south of Gaza. 'Israel' is a rogue terror state, always was, they have tried various hues of zioniam over the years and they all amount to the same thing - a murderous group of settler colonialists trying to rob as much land as they can. Tom
Excellent article - it is impossible to overstate how chilling the moral position of Israel and its population is. Only second is the US government and its pro-Zionist propagandists.
Here in the US we don’t learn about world history unless we seek it out on our own. I recommend “The ethnic cleansing of Palestine” by Ilan Pappe and “The Hundred Years War on Palestine” by Rashid Khalidi. The ongoing genocide in Gaza is abhorrent. Understanding the events in the Middle East has chipped away at my faith in humanity. White supremacy has been a plague across Europe and the United States which has resulted in the extermination of many indigenous cultures which is ongoing. Thank you Ahmad for continuing to write about the atrocities being committed against the indigenous people of Palestine. I hope that more people will open their eyes to the inhumanity demonstrated by Israelis whose own history of genocide in Germany show that cruelty and prejudice exist in all cultures. We must continue to open our eyes and hearts to the inherent worth of all humans.
If the genocide is stopped, there must be the political and military will to enact accountability, which at the moment is difficult to imagine. If the genocide is not stopped, this psycopothy will grow stronger. Either way, the Zionist entity, for want of a better description (I really feel we have yet to grasp the full extent of what we are facing) is deeply entrenched in the UK, US, Germany and France to the extent that it's difficult to see where it begins and ends. We see this as the Israelis but Kemi Badenoch, leader of the conservative party in the UK openly admitted in a TV interview this past week, that Israel is fighting a proxy war for the UK. It certainly looks that way. I'm not suggesting the UK is in sole control but the entity that controls the UK is deeply entrenched in this. We deploy RAF spy planes over Gaza from RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, we have special forces operating on the ground in Lebanon, and we have UK police raiding journalists using false court documentation under the terrorism act, where court documents suggest Israeli diplomatic collaboration with the crown prosecution service in Richard Medhurst's case, which is unprecedented; a foreign government involved in directing prosecutions of UK citizens?
Thats without the political cover and the media obfuscation of atrocities by the BBC amongst others in the propaganda of both-sides'ing that suggests an opaque and complex narrative too devisive to allow individual opinion. This is a long way for even starting to look like the end or even the middle. What does an end look like? The dismantling of the apartide state, the recognition of the Palestinian state and reparations and the right of return? Will this new Palestine be allowed an army to defend itself? Will the IOF be disbanded? It doesnt sound probable. Nothing can change without the dismantling of the Israeli state, and its root and branch overseas. This will never happen without military defeat or a leap of human consciousness but the liklihood of it ending with Gaza is naive. Once Greater Israel is established, the occupation will begin empire building and no population will be safe. No moral cost will be too much, red lines will be redundant and a legal, rules based system will be a thing of the past.
Zionism is a tool of the ruling class, which has also used Islam as a tool to divide the Arab world. Saudi Arabia is now selling liquor (forbidden by Islam) in select tourist cities and making business billion dollar deals with Zionists in the U.S. and Israel.
The chaos created by capitalism's never-ending search for profit benefits bourgeois leaders who collaborate with the power center in the USA. This dehumanization which occurs when required to promote wars, both civil and foreign, will not be stopped by overthrowing those dollar-corrupted leaders.
It is a gargantuan task, but the whole system must be replaced with a system that uses the resources of what's left of our earth to sustain and help rebuild it for the humanity who is being robbed of both their lives and dignity. The bulk of the planet is made up of working beings who know their own needs and how to supply them if they can manage to overturn the for-profit framework and develop a socialist one.
I never read anything about Palestinian culture, or contributions in America. The conversation is always about their lack of humanity.
They have made numerous advances in medicine and poetry. That their society values education, personal hygiene, and human dignity.
That they discovered contagion while the west was experiencing a dark age. That their food culture is delicious.
I did not know that the Palestinian population is religiously diverse. I did not know that there are equal numbers of Palestinians and Israeli’s who reside from TelAviv to Hebron.
I celebrated Christmas with some Muslims at their house one year. They placed the Catholic Church in Bethlehem on the screen. The city was loaded with Christmas Lights. They called Jesus, the Great Prophet.
Imagine calling Mohammad, the Great Prophet in America.
Thank you for this piece! It should be broadcast straight into the heads of everyone who thinks this genocide is simply an issue of leadership, as if denouncing Netanyahu is enough. People are now attempting to absolve themselves of their previous complicity and silence, but scarcely any of them have the courage to address the deeper issue at hand, as you have in this article! Looking forward to your next one.
For me the following paragraph tells me that western leaders are not fit to govern.
"Yet perhaps the most damning indictment of this systematic dehumanization is not what it reveals about Israeli society, but what it exposes about the broader Western world that enables it. Even as the death toll in Gaza reaches over 62,000 Palestinians—with estimates suggesting the true number may exceed 80,000 when accounting for undercounting—even as 57 children have died from malnutrition since March alone, even as 71,000 children under five are expected to suffer acute malnutrition over the next year, the Western response remains one of calculated indifference dressed up as concern. When three-quarters of Gaza's population faces emergency or catastrophic food deprivation, when 15.6% of children under two in northern Gaza are acutely malnourished, when babies are dying of starvation while their mothers collapse from hunger, the West's primary concern remains Israel's "right to defend itself." This is not political calculation—this is the arithmetic of racism, the cold logic of who counts as human and who does not."
These are LIES, Hamas NAZI propaganda.
I'm no longer surrounded by academics, but what I read and hear in the US shows that the current president connects anti-Israeli sentiment with being anti-semitic. Once a person has been labeled that, all sorts of unfavorable things can happen. I appreciate articles like this because I realize how different the truth may be from what we hear here. Also, in the same breath with news on Palestinians is news of Hamas. There seems to be an attempt to get the American public to rally against BOTH because they are connected. And of course the news on Hamas is always violent and hard to stomach. So many people just attach that hate to all Palestinians. I am very interested in the history of Hamas. What gave rise to this group? Are they a thorn in the sides of the typical Palestinians or are they generally supported?
Fuck you and your progeny genocidal biatch. Go back to your flotsam and fester in that genocidal cesspool, biatch. Fuck you till you love me Hijosdemilputas.
Is this the best you can do?
Baby killing, genocidal rapists rot in hell . Sons of a thousand sows.
Actually, too good for genocidal fucks.
Mary working hard to save the last tattered remnants of Israeli Hasbara PR 😂
I realized recently and almost instantly, how thoroughly I’d passively accepted Israeli- and US supporter- propaganda for my entire life. I assumed the charge that criticizing Israel equaled anti-semitism. How wrong I was, and how eloquently you’ve presented the reality, simply, clearly and honestly. Please keep it up!
....., and thank you for YOUR honesty, and for finally being willing to open your eyes.
Wonderful and 100% on point, but the people that have the power don’t care.
The whole world is complicit.
great reporting, thank you! As people start to distance themselves, we cannot allow people to forget who was silent, and who was complicit. We cannot just blame the leaders.
Very well written. It was hard to read emotionally but necessary. I really had no idea how hard everyday life was for Palestinians and did not know all of the pertinent history. Thank you for the knowledge. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
I agree 100 percent with all who were enlightened and educated after reading this wonderful, tragic article. This is not a war against Hamas. It is a genocide of the Palestinian people.
So why don't hamasholes hand over hostages and quit murdering their own children and PROVE if this happens. Release the hostages and the world will see the truth, otherwise hamsholes knowingly invite the fight they started and keep using children to hide behind. ‘wonderful and tragic” sick and evil.
No society in the history of man has murdered their own children by hiding behind them and then exploited them for propaganda and press releases.
The world is learning this truth about baby killing cowards hamassholes. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL HAS TOLD THEM TO STOP!!! the world knows and more are learning everyday
Most complicit are the Zionist Evangelical Christians whose beliefs predate the Jewish Zionists.
The millions of duped, inerrant scripture believers, Americans and Anglo Evangelicals who see angels and demons, sometimes "speak in tongues", believing that our times are the "end times" and that Israel is necessary for "God's plan" and the "return of the messiah".
These people,from all walks of life, are silent on the excesses of Israeli Zionists, waiting in a religious stupor for the return of their Saviour and Judgement Day.
They are in the military, "defense plants" making bombs and propellants for tank shells, in finance, local government, your neighbours......
They are the proof that:
"Religion makes otherwise good people do bad things!".
There are no more greater supporters of Israel than these people.
For shame!
Christians support ISRAEL because the TORAH is true and Koran is a hateful satanic lie
“Religion poisons everything”
Christians support Israel because they are indoctrinated fools who think that Jews will convert to Christianity some day.
People in Europe are freaking out about Sharia law taking over. I am more concerned about Mosaic law myself.
..., and the book full of hateful Satanic lies is the Talmud.
Jews killed many prophets let alone people and even now still spit on Christians in Palestine and other places.
The IDF is a citizen 'army' - in my view its a terror organisation commiting Genocide. The genie is out of the bottle now - we all know what they are up to - they want to murder as many Palestinians as they can, destroy Gaza and put the remaining population in to Egypt in the south of Gaza. 'Israel' is a rogue terror state, always was, they have tried various hues of zioniam over the years and they all amount to the same thing - a murderous group of settler colonialists trying to rob as much land as they can. Tom
Excellent article - it is impossible to overstate how chilling the moral position of Israel and its population is. Only second is the US government and its pro-Zionist propagandists.
Here in the US we don’t learn about world history unless we seek it out on our own. I recommend “The ethnic cleansing of Palestine” by Ilan Pappe and “The Hundred Years War on Palestine” by Rashid Khalidi. The ongoing genocide in Gaza is abhorrent. Understanding the events in the Middle East has chipped away at my faith in humanity. White supremacy has been a plague across Europe and the United States which has resulted in the extermination of many indigenous cultures which is ongoing. Thank you Ahmad for continuing to write about the atrocities being committed against the indigenous people of Palestine. I hope that more people will open their eyes to the inhumanity demonstrated by Israelis whose own history of genocide in Germany show that cruelty and prejudice exist in all cultures. We must continue to open our eyes and hearts to the inherent worth of all humans.
They AI-faked the Oct. 7 footage too.
If the genocide is stopped, there must be the political and military will to enact accountability, which at the moment is difficult to imagine. If the genocide is not stopped, this psycopothy will grow stronger. Either way, the Zionist entity, for want of a better description (I really feel we have yet to grasp the full extent of what we are facing) is deeply entrenched in the UK, US, Germany and France to the extent that it's difficult to see where it begins and ends. We see this as the Israelis but Kemi Badenoch, leader of the conservative party in the UK openly admitted in a TV interview this past week, that Israel is fighting a proxy war for the UK. It certainly looks that way. I'm not suggesting the UK is in sole control but the entity that controls the UK is deeply entrenched in this. We deploy RAF spy planes over Gaza from RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, we have special forces operating on the ground in Lebanon, and we have UK police raiding journalists using false court documentation under the terrorism act, where court documents suggest Israeli diplomatic collaboration with the crown prosecution service in Richard Medhurst's case, which is unprecedented; a foreign government involved in directing prosecutions of UK citizens?
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/16/aefh-m16.html
Thats without the political cover and the media obfuscation of atrocities by the BBC amongst others in the propaganda of both-sides'ing that suggests an opaque and complex narrative too devisive to allow individual opinion. This is a long way for even starting to look like the end or even the middle. What does an end look like? The dismantling of the apartide state, the recognition of the Palestinian state and reparations and the right of return? Will this new Palestine be allowed an army to defend itself? Will the IOF be disbanded? It doesnt sound probable. Nothing can change without the dismantling of the Israeli state, and its root and branch overseas. This will never happen without military defeat or a leap of human consciousness but the liklihood of it ending with Gaza is naive. Once Greater Israel is established, the occupation will begin empire building and no population will be safe. No moral cost will be too much, red lines will be redundant and a legal, rules based system will be a thing of the past.
Zionism is a tool of the ruling class, which has also used Islam as a tool to divide the Arab world. Saudi Arabia is now selling liquor (forbidden by Islam) in select tourist cities and making business billion dollar deals with Zionists in the U.S. and Israel.
The chaos created by capitalism's never-ending search for profit benefits bourgeois leaders who collaborate with the power center in the USA. This dehumanization which occurs when required to promote wars, both civil and foreign, will not be stopped by overthrowing those dollar-corrupted leaders.
It is a gargantuan task, but the whole system must be replaced with a system that uses the resources of what's left of our earth to sustain and help rebuild it for the humanity who is being robbed of both their lives and dignity. The bulk of the planet is made up of working beings who know their own needs and how to supply them if they can manage to overturn the for-profit framework and develop a socialist one.
An exceptionally well written article. Thank you Ahmad.
I never read anything about Palestinian culture, or contributions in America. The conversation is always about their lack of humanity.
They have made numerous advances in medicine and poetry. That their society values education, personal hygiene, and human dignity.
That they discovered contagion while the west was experiencing a dark age. That their food culture is delicious.
I did not know that the Palestinian population is religiously diverse. I did not know that there are equal numbers of Palestinians and Israeli’s who reside from TelAviv to Hebron.
I celebrated Christmas with some Muslims at their house one year. They placed the Catholic Church in Bethlehem on the screen. The city was loaded with Christmas Lights. They called Jesus, the Great Prophet.
Imagine calling Mohammad, the Great Prophet in America.
A phenomenal encapsulation in lucid form!