The biggest lie in the entire “Free Palestine” movement is that it was ever about Palestinians.
If it were, the movement would have started with Hamas.
Hamas has spent years torturing Palestinians, executing political opponents, stealing aid, suppressing dissent, imprisoning critics, and using civilians as human shields in a fight it instigated against Israel. Any movement genuinely concerned with Palestinian wellbeing would have made the liberation of Palestinians from Hamas its first demand.
Instead, many activists openly support Hamas, excuse Hamas, or simply pretend Hamas does not exist. That alone tells you this was never really about Palestinian rights.
In fact, some of the most revealing moments came when Palestinians themselves spoke out against Hamas. Western activists who claim to amplify Palestinian voices often ignored them, attacked them, or dismissed them. Apparently Palestinian voices matter only when they support the approved narrative.
The flotilla is another giveaway. It carried no aid. It was a publicity operation designed to generate headlines, provoke a confrontation, and reinforce a narrative about Israel. If the goal had been helping Palestinians, there were countless more effective ways to deliver assistance. The objective was never aid. The objective was optics.
But the clearest evidence comes from something even more revealing: boycotts targeting businesses in Judea and Samaria.
These factories employ thousands of Palestinians who work alongside Israeli Jews. They provide wages, skills, and opportunities that many workers cannot find elsewhere. Entire Palestinian families depend on these jobs.
Yet activists celebrate measures designed to shut these businesses down.
Why?
If your goal is helping Palestinians, destroying Palestinian jobs makes no sense. If your goal is hurting Israel, even at Palestinian expense, it makes perfect sense.
That is why proposals such as Ireland's Occupied Territories Bill are so revealing. Supporters present them as acts of solidarity with Palestinians, yet the immediate victims are often the very Palestinians whose livelihoods depend on economic cooperation between Arabs and Jews.
The same contradiction appeared throughout the Gaza war.
Activists demanded that Israel defeat Hamas while simultaneously opposing nearly every measure required to defeat Hamas. They condemned civilian casualties, yet showed remarkably little interest in the fact that Egypt kept its border largely closed and reinforced its security barriers rather than creating a large-scale humanitarian refuge in Sinai, as it is required by 3(!) refugee treaties Egypt signed.
Had Egypt temporarily allowed civilians - especially women, children, and the elderly - to shelter in Sinai while the fighting was underway, the number of civilian casualties could have been dramatically reduced. Yet there were no global flotillas to Egypt. No campus occupations demanding Cairo open the border. No international campaign treating Egypt as the key obstacle.
Because once again, the target was never saving Palestinians.
The reality is simple: when forced to choose between helping Palestinians and hurting Israel, much of the movement chooses hurting Israel every single time.
Because for many of its leaders, Palestine is not the cause. Palestine is the excuse.
The useful idiots follow along because they believe they are supporting human rights. The antisemites support it because they want a Jewish state to disappear. The Islamists support it because they reject the idea that non-Muslims should exercise sovereignty over land they consider Islamic.
In the process, these "activists" are damaging something far larger than Israel.
They are eroding the very principles that allow democratic societies to defend themselves against jihadist movements and other terrorist organizations. They are redefining self-defence as aggression, turning counterterrorism into a crime, and creating legal and political standards that no democracy could survive if consistently applied.
And like antisemitism throughout history, the damage rarely stops with the Jews.
Antisemitism is a political virus. It begins by targeting Jews, but it eventually infects and weakens the societies that embrace it. The same people cheering the destruction of the world's only Jewish state imagine they are building a more just world.
History suggests otherwise.
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@Neetivaan Imagine clearing upsc and working so hard to become an army officer in the aviation only to fly an old and outdated helicopter. Our pilots deserve better.
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