I Don’t Hate Jews. I Hate Israel
October 3, 2025
On October 7, 2023, Hamas atrocities killed about 1200. Since, Israel has killed at least 66,000 Gazans (half women and children), injured 170,000 more, and made life hell for the remaining 2 million.
October 7 capped two decades of the Israeli regime’s facilitating Hamas, to sow discord among Palestinians. That Netanyahu regime is controlled by racist religious fanatics, believing God gave them the land exclusively — every inch. Using October 7 as a pretext to achieve that vision.
By bombing and shooting Gazans, demolishing their housing, and intentionally starving them. Israel denies anyone goes hungry. Claims that Hamas steals food aid (pretty well debunked). Set up a sketchy supposed food distribution system, with daily massacres of dozens of people trying to get that aid. Denies that too.
Help from outside is kept to a trickle; Israel has blockaded an international aid flotilla, and arrested hundreds of participants. Global authorities have officially declared famine in Gaza. Many hundreds already dead from starvation. It’s hard to see how most Gazans can get any food at all. The death toll almost certain to explode in coming months.
Such are the atrocities committed against civilians by Israel’s military, violating international norms of warfare. When not denying grisly war crimes outright, Israel’s regime promises to investigate and hold people accountable. Almost always a sham, a recent in-depth analysis by The Economist found.
Israel has barred news media from Gaza, to hide what’s happening. Nevertheless, at least 200 journalists, risking their lives to report there, have been killed during these two years — a death rate far exceeding that for any other 20th Century conflict. Most in Gaza deliberately targeted, i.e., murdered, by Israeli soldiers. Israel typically makes unsubstantiated claims that those victims were terrorists.
Israeli West Bank settlers, meanwhile, in the vanguard of the Jewish zealot movement, wage an escalating violent pogrom, virtually with impunity, against the 3.4 million indigenous Palestinian inhabitants there. Israel has just authorized a huge new settlement.
Now it has ordered around half a million Palestinians to leave Gaza’s main city, for a distant “humanitarian” zone. A better descriptor might be “hellhole.”
Many have suffered repeated past expulsions. Many are too weakened by hunger, injuries or sickness to travel, and most have no means to do so, except on foot, if they even have shoes. Leaving behind what they cannot carry. In comparison the Biblical exodus from Egypt was a cakewalk. Israel’s Defense Minister warns that anyone not going will be considered a terrorist, to face the full force of Israel’s military assault.
To justify all this, Israel keeps intoning Hamas! Hamas! Hamas! As if there can be much of it left, after two years of this holocaust. Or — are Israelis, by making themselves more hated, Hamas’s best recruiters? Are they preventing an October 7 repeat — or ensuring it?
Yesterday was Yom Kippur, the “high holy day” when Jews fast to atone for sins and reflect upon them.
I still see lawn signs declaring, “We Stand With Israel.” The U.S. regime does, complicit in support and supplying weapons; punishing and trying to deport people who speak out for Palestinians.
Hitler killed 6 million Jews. Israel has slightly more Palestinians to deal with.