Never Forget Gaza And What It Means About Everything

Israel has killed 21 people in Gaza since dawn today, a killing spree which follows the nearly 40 killed earlier this week, bringing the total number of Palestinians murdered since the fake ceasefire to more than 500.

The latest murders, which included children sleeping in their tents because their homes have already been turned to rubble, come after the return of all the hostages.

Remember when Israel said that if Hamas just gave back the hostages the killing would stop? It was a line repeated ad nauseum by Israelis and Zionists on TV and on social media. The new line is that if Hamas disarms the violence will end.

Only stooges and fools believe these depraved lies.

Israel was killing Palestinians long before Hamas, long before hostages, long before any other pretext the genocidal state and its supporters parrot today for their crimes.

In fact, Jews were killing Palestinians before there was even an Israel.

Zionist terror

In a two-year period between 1938 and 1939, there were 36 bomb and gun attacks targeting Arabs by Jewish-Zionist terrorist groups across Palestine. These included simultaneous bomb attacks on vegetable markets in Haifa and Jerusalem in February 1939, the bombing of a cinema in May that year, then another bombing of the same Haifa market in June. These three attacks alone killed more than sixty Palestinians.

Attacks continued regularly through the 1940s, up to the eve of Israel’s creation. Just one month before Israel came into being, Zionists massacred over 100 Palestinians, men, women and children, in the village of Deir Yassin near Jerusalem.

None of this violence of course was in self defence or in resistance to an occupying power. It was purely colonial and territorial, designed to advance fear, propel ethnic cleansing and achieve the Zionist goal of a Jewish state in Palestine.

And in 1948 this was achieved, not just with help from the west, but also in collaboration with Hitler’s Germany which, in 1933, signed a pact with Zionist leaders that facilitated the transfer of tens of thousands of Jews from Germany to Palestine.

Zionist collaboration with the Nazis is a fact often left out of the officially approved and sanitised story regarding the creation of Israel.

And when Zionists finally got their promised land, not carved out of Europe, the continent that had historically oppressed the Jews, or out of Germany, the country that had just genocided them, but in Palestine, the Zionists continued as they had before, only now with state power behind them.

The Nakba

In the months after Israel was declared a state, about half of Palestine's predominantly Arab population, around 750,000 people, were ethnically cleansed by newly empowered Zionist forces. Homes were stolen, olive groves and vegetable gardens uprooted, and thousands slaughtered during the Nakba. Prominent events include the Lydda massacre, when a nascent Israeli army massacred over 400 Palestinians, including executing 250 people in a mosque; the Safsaf massacre, in which Israeli soldiers executed 70 civilians; and the Abu Shusha Massacre in which dozens of Palestinians were murdered in their homes.

The massacres continued into the 1950s. In November 1956 Israeli troops lined hundreds of Palestinians up against a wall in Khan Younis in Gaza and summarily executed them. An Israeli soldier wrote to his girlfriend: "We killed hundreds, but for me it is not enough."

Decades before Hamas. Decades before hostages. Decades before Netanyahu.

Because it’s not about any of those things. It’s about colonisation, ethnic cleansing, and Jewish supremacy.

Which is why the massacres have continued and haven’t stopped. Khan Younis, now a sea of tents, was bombed by Israel earlier this week.

It is tempting to label the genocide of Gaza a culmination, but that would imply some sort of finality, the end of a process.

But there is no end. Today, February 2026, the blood of Palestinians is still flowing and no one is doing anything to stop it.

Einstein’s opposition

None of this is in any way complicated. And arguing that it is complicated, as many reflexively still do, even after all we’ve seen, is itself a form of genocidal anti-Palestinian propaganda which obscures the crystal clear nature of the situation.

The nature of the situation is this: an ethno-supremacist Jewish state fences off Arab communities behind razor wire and checkpoints in AI-surveilled compounds, steals their homes and massacres them. Daily, weekly, monthly. And it has been doing this literally since the day of its creation.

Some Jews at the time feared this. They feared a Jewish state would become what it now is: a generational evil.

In a 1948 letter to Zionist leaders, Albert Einstein raged that they were ‘terrorists and criminals’, and predicted that colonising Palestine would set up what he called ‘a final catastrophe’ for the Jews.

I don’t mean to recount history, especially for all of you who know it well, but Israel is attempting to rehabilitate itself, Zionists are now in charge of key media outlets including CBS News and TikTok, pro-Palestine content is being heavily censored, and Gaza is slipping from the public consciousness.

My fear is that people get soft-minded. That we get fatigued. That the propaganda works. That Israel and the Zionists, having trained their sights on full information control, succeed. That when Netanyahu says the new battleground is social media, and the forced sale of TikTok was “most important” for Israel, that he’s right. That when the new CEO of TikTok says they are censoring anti-genocide content and are working with over two dozen Jewish organisations to shut down pro-Palestine voices, that they’ll win.

My fear is that after seeing genocide in HD, the comfortable of the imperial core decide it’s too radical to view Israel-Palestine as black and white, when a black and white understanding is the only thing that will do.

So this article is in response to that fear, I suppose.

Because we must never, ever forget what Israel has done to Gaza. What it has done with the support of our governments. The massacres they paid for with our taxes, the children they shredded with our money, the cities, the places of community, worship, laughter, business, and fun they turned to rubble and dust.

Last week an Israeli soldier posted a ‘sunset’ photograph from Rafah on his Instagram. This is what they are proud of. This is what we paid for. This is what support for Israel means. This is Zionism.

The ruins of Rafah pictured by an IDF soldier

And amidst the massacres, we must never forget the individuals. Muhammed Bhar, a young man with Down’s Syndrome ripped apart by IDF attack dogs. A soul so kind and gentle that as the dogs were killing him, he was petting them, trying to soothe them, telling them it was ok. Hind Rajab, a five-year old who, when on the phone to paramedics surrounded by her dead family, told the paramedics she didn’t want to wipe the blood coming from her mouth because it would stain her clothes and her mum would be mad. Hind, who, while on the phone, was murdered in cold blood, her body shredded with hundreds of bullets from an Israeli soldier just metres away. Anas Al-Sharif and all the other journalists killed in Gaza for documenting their own genocide.

Hind Rajab

We must never forget what Gaza says about the monstrous nature of the western system, and of imperialist capitalism.

We must never forget the Palestinians have always been test subjects for western weapons of war and that the drone tech tested in Gaza is now surveilling us in our towns and cities.

We must never forget ICE and US Border Control agents now visiting terror on US cities are trained by the IDF.

We must never forget that there is no talk whatsoever of justice, no talk of holding Israel to any kind of account, no discussion of rebuilding Gaza beyond the criminal Trump mafia racket known as the Board of Peace.

We must never forget that France, the UK, Canada and other western states recognised a Palestinian state not out of a genuine belief in Palestinian statehood or because they consider the Palestinians to be people worthy of a state, but to try and silence critics of their pro-Israel, pro-genocide policies.

Because look what their recognition meant. Nothing. They recognised a state only to let it be destroyed, because the destroyer was Israel.

We must never forget the control the Zionist lobby has over our politics, working behind the scenes to cover up Israeli atrocities, to keep the money flowing to Israel and ensure the country is never held accountable for its crimes.

We must never be cowed by accusations of antisemitism, utilised so effectively for decades to shut down criticism of Israel, the Jews that run it and the Jewish diaspora that supports it.

We must never give in to Zionist disinformation that the conflict is complicated.

Or that it is even a conflict at all.

There is no conflict. There is only a colony of thieves driven by a lust for Palestinian and Arab blood.

There is only apartheid and genocide.

And we have to know that the violence, the genocide and apartheid will only stop when there are either no Palestinians left, or when there is no such thing as Israel. When the ethno-supremacist Jewish state no longer exists. When Zionism is defeated. The violence will only stop when there is one state, called Palestine, led by the expelled, the cleansed and the genocided.

The genocide ends when there is only Palestine, led by Palestinians.

Einstein was right.

Israel has become a generational evil.

And its existence robs us all of our collective humanity.

Ending Zionism and its political project is essential, first and foremost, for the Palestinians.

But it is also essential for any hope of a decent human future.

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