Over the last few days, we’ve seen an avalanche of first-time statements from businesses, community organisations, artists, gallerists, writers, ‘celebrities’, and other individuals with public platforms.
If this is you, two things are equally true:
Yes, you should absolutely now be joining the fight for the complete liberation of Palestine. Not with a single, sterile social media post. You should now be grieving and raging with your whole heart: disruptive, revolutionary, and uncompromising. And donating1.
Yes, it is too late for you. You watched the shredded flesh of entire Palestinian families every day for 21 months, and you watched in silence. Your personal achievements in any field, past or future, are meaningless. This moral failure will always be the most important thing about you.
For 658 days of unrelenting horror, you watched this campaign of extermination in silent cowardice or complicity. Some of you wrung your hands about ‘antisemitism’ and regurgitated Zionist lies. Quietly utilised your influence to silence others. Muttered about ‘conflict’ and ‘complexity’. Pleaded ‘apolitical’. Grieved the oppressor. Condemned Palestinian resistance.
Some of you simply said nothing.
Now, you are scattering your first few crumbs of solidarity? No, I’m sorry, it’s too late to salvage your miserable reputations. Escalate now for collective liberation.
Ok, but what about our political leaders, media and ruling class? Are we not witnessing a ‘turning tide’ of opinion?
No.
These people are not merely hapless accessories to genocide. They have been — and remain — its operatives and its beneficiaries.
Having merrily cranked the levers of mass extermination and public consent for 658 days (and for decades prior) these repulsive ghouls are now strategising.
Their campaign of death, destruction and colonisation in Gaza is, they assume, nearing completion. And so, without so much as pausing to wipe the blood from their lips, they are attempting to fabricate a few flimsy scraps of plausible deniability.
The liberal arm of imperialism will then mobilise to extract further profit from the performance of hand-wringing over the bones of Gaza.
These operatives will then throw their furious support behind the next western imperialist atrocity. And the next. And the next. And the next.
“But at least they’re finally…”
No. Stop.
Don’t indulge them. Don’t thank them. Don’t consume their ‘news’. Don’t be respectable. Don’t settle for ‘a step in the right direction’. Don’t validate their power. Don’t say ‘Dear Prime Minister’. Don’t capitulate. Don’t give these worthless fucking parasites an inch.
If we live to see a righteous world, they will be ______.
And even then, what depth of hell could ever be sufficient?
Beneath this ‘turning tide’ — beneath the evasive new press releases, the carefully crafted ‘journalism’ about a ‘humanitarian crisis’, the meaningless-by-design ‘recognition’ of Palestinian existence — lies one strategic aim:
The fabrication of a redemptive arc for Zionism and the rehabilitation of its crumbling colonial project in Palestine.
However, Israel was resolutely defeated on October 7th. In its death throes, the entity has exposed itself to the world: an abhorrent imperialist outpost of filth, hubris, fraudulence, sadism, and immeasurable depravity.
