ONE HUNDRED Gaza "medical workers" killed in Gazaโdoctors, nurses, administrative staffโare confirmed Hamas and Islamic Jihad combatants, mostly commanders, each one profiled below. Gaza's hospitals were military bases. The "Israel targeted healthcare" is now a proven lie.
The first people to chant โFree Palestineโ were Jews.
Not in 2024.
Not on campus.
Not with the PLO.
In the 1940s, Zionists used that exact slogan to free the Jewish homeland from British rule.
Then the meaning was flipped>
Is Qatarโs funding of Western universities and influencers at risk?
Qatar isnโt broke. Not even close.
But the Strait of Hormuz crisis is forcing Doha to cut some government budgets by up to 30%, slash overseas aid by roughly 85%, and draw on its financial reserves. The IMF expects Qatarโs GDP to shrink 8.6% this year, the steepest contraction in the Gulf.
That raises a bigger question: what happens to Qatarโs billions in Western influence if more of that money has to stay home?
In 2025, Qatar was the largest foreign source of reported gifts and contracts to U.S. universities, exceeding $1.1 billion.
The money may not be disappearing. But the priorities could be changing.
Did you know that Benedict Cumberbatch, Mark Ruffalo, Cate Blanchett, and other actors have expressed support for releasing Marwan Barghouti, the convicted terrorist responsible for attacks that killed, among others, a Greek Orthodox priest in Jerusalem and four other people?
The reason? Moral selective outrage based on ignorance and virtue signaling.
They support the release of a convicted mass murderer because they believe it is the โright thing to do.โ
Why? Because they apparently believe they understand the politics, dynamics, and conflicts of the Middle East well enough to make that judgment from the comfort of Hollywood.
Are they prepared to take responsibility for the bloodshed that could follow? For the next victims in a conflict they do not actually understand, and that does not neatly fit the simplistic Western Marxist frameworks of โoppressorโ and โoppressedโ that are so often imposed on it?
And since when did being a celebrity can qualify someone as an authority on the history and politics of a conflict in which other human beings have to live with the consequences? We have seen what happened during previous periods when Barghouti was free and directing violence.
Apparently, they care neither about Palestinians nor Israelis. For some Hollywood celebrities, all of us can apparently be sacrificed on the altar of moral purity and virtue signaling.
Will they say anything about the worldโs largest displacement crises and the hundreds of thousands killed in Sudan? What about the violence in Congo? What about the persecution of Christians by Islamist extremists in Nigeria?
Probably not.
It doesn't generate enough likes.
And that tells you everything you need to know about these hollow Hollywood moralists.
@MarkRuffalo
The earliest documented organizational use of "Free Palestine" was in 1944 by the American League for a Free Palestine, founded by Revisionist Zionist Peter Bergson (Hillel Kook). It campaigned to end British Mandate rule and establish a Jewish state in the territory then officially called Palestine. The group held its first meeting in May 1944 and dissolved in 1948 after Israel's independence.
Yiddish Zionist songs with similar phrasing ("frei Palestina") appear in early 20th-century Jewish cultural contexts. The slogan's later Palestinian nationalist usage emerged mainly in the 1960s.