The recognizable ancestor of the Israel Defense Forces is not the Marquis De Sade, a mere sexual deviant, but your common serial killer with added pathological paraphilia, and the ability to industrialize the scale of his crimes. ~ ilanaThe greater goal of Israel’s legal apparatus and jurisprudence is to fend ...[MORE]

Freedom needs no justification. It is an end unto itself. You are deficient in American solidarity if you don’t stand up for non-violent protest and all speech ~ilana Let us be clear about what freedom of speech à la America truly means:The words people speak, chant, write and tweet; ...[MORE]

There was no need for the AWOL, Missing-In-Action Piers Morgan Media, which was never in Gaza, never stood up for Gaza, and never broke down barriers to reach and report about Palestinians sequestered in genocide. Thanks not to the MIA Media, but to Palestinian journalists, the living and the martyred, ...[MORE]

‘If one million Egyptians try to break the siege on Gaza, the genocide would end’~ Georges Ibrahim Abdallah With a No-Fly Zone … fighter pilots will not be initiating hostilities, but establishing a dome of protection over civilians ~ilanaEnough!The world has built up a head of steam over Israel. Yet ...[MORE]

Israel’s 'strategic perspective' requires everywhere and always an enemy. This designated enemy will be tarnished by a blood libel, an abstraction: he, she or they will be said to be antisemitic, baying for Jewish blood. This blood libel ignores the truth, because when facts and reality are scrutinized, it’...[MORE]

Hasbara and Israeli official myth-history aside, because of Gaza you don’t have to know much history at all to arrive at the truth about Israel. Reality is truth. The reality of genocide gives rise to irrefutable truths. Because of Gazans, the living and the martyred, the truth about Israel ...[MORE]

If we in the West are the most propagandized people in the world; Gazans are the least propagandized. Outwardly captives, Gazans are liberated from the illiberal political propaganda that grips the West ~ilana On ... the malodorous cauldron of death and decadence that is the Israel Defense Forces. Or, perhaps the ...[MORE]

Genocide is a crime, ‘the crime of all crimes.’ It stands alone; no mitigation or extenuation attaches to genocide ~ilanaBecause it is an indefensible crime for which there are no extenuating circumstances or traditional defenses—genocide is neither war nor war crime ~ilanaIF it is portrayed as a war crime; ...[MORE]

The individual’s natural right to life antedates the state apparatus ~ilana Let us not commit the Sin of Abstraction—the sin of escaping into theory, and in so doing, avoiding reality—the reality of Israel’s real sins, real crimes, the crime of all crimes ~ilana Besides often being ...[MORE]