And I’m with you, Caitlin! Every step of the way. This genocide changed my life in a profound way. Only a horror of this dimension can show who people really are. The ones who support, the silent ones and the others, like us, who are absolutely broken but won’t stop. 19 long months of horror. We won’t forget and we won’t forgive! Thank you for your voice.
First they came for the [insert someone else here]
And I didn't stand up because I wasn't [insert same someone else here]
Then they came for almost everyone else and yet still I wasn't one of them, so I kept my seat
Then they came for me and there was no one left to stand up
How many times must we learn this lesson before we take heed of it the "next time":
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." -Picard
I can only imagine all the hate, the vitriol, the never-ending accusations of anti-semiitism (or worse) that must flow into all of her inboxes.
Day after day.
And yet she shrugs it off, knowing, as we all do, that despite our helplessness, we are on the right side of history.
All the supposed "good guys" and role models we thought would have stood up for Gaza turned out to all be gaslighters and liars. We should only be so brave as her to have called out every last one of them. And not just when things got "out of hand", but from Day One.
One day, maybe far off in the future, a better world will emerge where we look back and wonder how the human race and its leaders could ever have been so cruel, so cynical, and so cowardly.
I don't think we are helpless. In fact, it is the public outrage, especially the well-organized Jewish opposition to Israel, that has bolstered the courage of Gazans and made the resistance effective.
Agreed but saddest thing for me is the realization of all the other Genocides I overlooked because they were just numbers. Remember US Sect Albright asked about 500K children killed in Iraq by sanctions and replied Democracy is always hard won, Vietnam 2.5M etc. When you add the believed $20T in 30 years, the world we lost to protect the 0.5% is incomprehensible.
Wow! And you still have your job ? And the coworkers don't ostracize you ? You are bold and I applaud you. In my small church at joys and concerns I always bring up the children and innocents in Gaza being slaughtered with our tax money and I get blank stares. No one ever comes up to comment or ask questions or if there is anything they can do to change this worst period in our young century. What is it ?
That is conformity. Conformity to TPTB (the powers that be). Conformity to inculcated social culture and norms. Conformity to social status seeking. Conformity to avoid being ostracized from one's peer-group. And the fear that comes along with not belonging in a certain social circle/group.
I work in IT and I find the trick is to keep it to one liners and that’s where Trump excels. Commenting on Microsoft’s exodus of workers for instance and relating it to the support they provide to Israel’s Drones that can identify targets in a crowded but bombing him in a mass casualty event and how that is their strategy which cannot be possible without Microsoft’s Azure service.
Someone at a neighborhood get-together accused me of condoning the murder of Israeli children because I pointed out that the IDF knew about October 7 well in advance.
The Jews keep banging on about the holocaust in an attempt to make us all feel horribly guilty. It is complete bullshit given that they have done to Palestinians what Hitler did to them. We must scream it in their faces every day henceforth. And we should not just forgive and forget until there has been confession, repentance, reform and reparations!
The only Zionist Christian’s I am aware of are all screwed up theologically off beam Americans! Trump would likely pass muster and a whole lot of other fake Christian’s!
There are evangelical Zionists ( I refuse to call them ‘Christian’ zionists as this sullies the name of Christ & His teachings ) that are not North Americans. You find them, albeit in smaller numbers, in South America & the U.K.
I do not care what you believe . As I speak Spanish & write it fluently as well as understand Brazilian Portuguese ( though not as well), I know that there are indeed South/ Central Americans that say ‘to bless israel is to bless God’., ‘those that curse israel will be cursed themselves by God’. If you don’t speak the language you miss those comments in YouTube & other forums.
By his accent I’d say he’s Argentinian or a big ‘perhaps’ Chilean. Spanish speakers have different accents depending where they come from. As well, as using words that other fluent in Spanish speakers do not use or know meaning of it.
“En la última década, sobre todo, en forma notoria y peligrosa, el sionismo ha penetrado con fuerza, tanto en Estados Unidos como en Latinoamérica…” ( In the last decade, especially, & a notorious form , Zionism has penetrated with force, just as in USA like in Latin America.)
Serious question, Christians want the Jews there so Christ will come back. Do the Christian despise the Palestinians like the Jews or believe the BS told to them by the predominantly by Jews. If the Jews tomorrow started living in harmony with the Palestinians would the Christians be against it. Do the Jews misdirect and play to their advantage
A respectful correction. Evangelical Zionist Christians have been brainwashed by powerful Pastors to embrace the totally unbiblical relatively recent heresy that once Palestine is fully occupied by Jews then the second Coming of Jesus will happen - and (tough luck on the Jews) if they don't convert to Christianity Jesus will wipe them out. This is not the God of the historic churches - Catholic, Presbyterian, and Anglican etc. Christians in these churches do not believe in a genocide promoting God but in a Creator God who cares for all people on earth - asking of us, righteous behaviour, love and compassion towards all who are in need of food, shelter and truthful advocacy against injustice. Remember that under the Ottoman Empire Jews and Christians and Moslem communities lived together in mutual respect and harmony in Palestine.
Well said. This idea of a "second coming" of Christ that has to happen in the Holy Land with all the Jews there and the other nonsense is a idea that is less than two hundred years old. Mainline Christian denominations denounce it. Nothing biblical about it.
Over 70 years ago, before Israel was a state, roving gangs and militias of Jews attacked, displaced and murdered Palestinians... and this still goes on today. When you look at the illegal settlers performing pogroms on innocent Palestinians in their villages... who do you see? Though I agree not all Zionists are Jews, and not all Jews are Zionists, it's difficult to separate the two when the Zionist narrative began as, and continues to be a Jewish one. It's a bit like the Odd Fellows organization who for centuries was a male only organization and now allows females to join its ranks. They're stilled called the Oddfellows.
The Zionist movement has been around since the late 19th Century.
It is important to distinguish between Zionists and Jews, just as it is important to realize the Evangelical "Christian" hypocrites do not "follow the path of Jesus".
You may not detect the differences in their appearances, but the differences are in their actions and beliefs.
Zachary Foster 5/13/25-- The forgotten history of Jewish anti-Zionism
"For Eastern Jews, Zionism promised not liberation but annihilation. The movement’s tremendous success, especially its mass expulsion of the Palestinian people in 1948, triggered anti-Jewish pogroms in Egypt, Iraq, Yemen and Libya and accelerated the adoption of anti-Jewish laws."
Thanks for that link to some excellent history lessons. Most Americans that I have known are completely unaware. Most of my “Eastern European” Jewish associates are now deceased from old age. They were primarily “leftists” who adhered to Judaic traditions that didn’t comport with Zionism.
Keep telling the stories. Stupidity may be congenital but ignorance can be cured.
Zionism will likely be the catalyst for another Holocaust. What they are doing is indefensible - but then again so is the 50 years reign of IMF and the World Bank.
Most of them are. It’s a sick in the soul tribe. And the ones that called themselves ‘evangelical Zionists’ are Talmudists at heart & in soul & instead of praying to God they pray/ bow to that entity — Diseaserael.
Most of the Jewish people I know are the most antizionist people I know, who were telling me about this before October 7, they are why I already knew Israel was horrible. Norman Finkelstein alone should be enough to keep anyone from being antisemitic, but the key word is always "should."
It is difficult to be anti-zionist without being labled anti-semitic. I don"t have too many issues if people get confused by that. However, the Jewish lobby barks endlessly about anti-semitism when it is in fact anti-zionism that people like me embody. Non-zionist Jews need to stand up to the Zioists and run them out of all positions of leadership if you want the world to love and accept Jews everywhere. The tribe is as broken as the Australian Liberal Party because they strayed from core beliefs.
The Zionist movement has been around since the late 19th Century.
It is important to distinguish between Zionists and Jews, just as it is important to realize the Evangelical "Christian" hypocrites do not "follow the path of Jesus".
You may not detect the differences in their appearances, but the differences are in their actions and beliefs.
You evidently understand this, but tens of millions of Americans do not. Keep on explaining to anyone who will listen. The ignorance of the irrational zealots is easily exploited.
True - Donald Trump is a Zionist and he ain't Jewish. not to worry about the genocide Trump plans to make Gaza the Riviera of the Middle East. What a freak!
I have listened to Hitler's speeches (available in English now) and he does not sound like the mass- murdering phsyco they portray him to be. Just sayin........
Same thing with Milosevic's infamous 1989 speech on the 500th anniversary of a battle in which the Serbs defeated the invading Turks, and kept them out of Europe. The Western legacy media literally unanimously, with not a single exception, declared that the speech was a racist diatribe and call to arms against the other Yugoslav ethnic Republics. (At that time, Yugoslavia was still a single Federation whose presidency, since the death of Tito, notated through its six constituent divisions.)
Well, a few years Iater, with th campaign to demonize the Serbs, preparatory to the planned destruction of the last socialist State in Europe, going full speed, the BBC and the U.S.State Department both independently translated the text from Serbian into English.
Lo and behold, mirabile dictu, it turned out there had been a, umm, well, a slight problem. What Milosevic actually said was that the Serbs had along and proud history of tolerance and appreciation for other cultures.
Needless to say, not a single one of the xenophobic media chose to note their dereliction of basic journalism 101. To the contrary, the only notification of the, shall we say, faux pas was in the online site The Emperor's NewClothes (TE NC.net).
Never let the spirit of honesty or integrity interfere with the solemn duty of the "free" media to amplify the Official Propaganda of the warfare stale in its ever-abiding rush to bomb the declared enemy du jour.
If you look through the News papers of the times claiming a holocaust a whole 10 years before it was to have taken place every year during that time the number was always 6 million Jews were being killed and each year passing the number never goes down. So where is the truth in their alleged holocaust. Also there is never any mention of the actual 10 million Christians killed before that!
That our media and politicians except the Greens can watch real- time genocide and human rights violations by Israel and US in Gaza is beyond appalling. Unforgivable.
I keep asking myself why, why is something so evil continuing. This act of horror is for a purpose other than claimed by israel/u.s. The world is doing this by not acting. As I have said before China or Russia could end this nightmare by arriving at the coast of Gaza Palestine with cargo ships filled with food, fuel, and supplies to return water and healthcare. The big FU to the u.s. can you imagine the shame on we in the u.s. China saves the people, the Heroes of China. Please China shame us.
What strikes me most about this genocide is just how quickly we forgot the bloody, violent, unspeakable, and atrocious crimes that we witnessed, and how quickly our societies turned the page with an “oh well… America and Israel, y’know, what are you going to do 🤷🏻♂️?”.
No. I refuse to accept that this is what is left of our humanity.
If we don’t have the spark within us to see and deliver justice to the torn-up children’s bodies we witnessed for months, then we need to cultivate one and turn it into a fire. It is our collective duty to do as you said, never forgive, never forget, and never stop calling for those devilish beings in our governments that enabled this to be held accountable along with the zionist slaughterers of Palestinians themselves.
And I’m with you, Caitlin! Every step of the way. This genocide changed my life in a profound way. Only a horror of this dimension can show who people really are. The ones who support, the silent ones and the others, like us, who are absolutely broken but won’t stop. 19 long months of horror. We won’t forget and we won’t forgive! Thank you for your voice.
It changed my life, my historic "knowledge" too !
I totally agree. Feelings about Gaza say everything about who we are as citizens of the world... of Life
First they came for the [insert someone else here]
And I didn't stand up because I wasn't [insert same someone else here]
Then they came for almost everyone else and yet still I wasn't one of them, so I kept my seat
Then they came for me and there was no one left to stand up
How many times must we learn this lesson before we take heed of it the "next time":
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." -Picard
Of course, Caitlin is correct once again.
I can only imagine all the hate, the vitriol, the never-ending accusations of anti-semiitism (or worse) that must flow into all of her inboxes.
Day after day.
And yet she shrugs it off, knowing, as we all do, that despite our helplessness, we are on the right side of history.
All the supposed "good guys" and role models we thought would have stood up for Gaza turned out to all be gaslighters and liars. We should only be so brave as her to have called out every last one of them. And not just when things got "out of hand", but from Day One.
One day, maybe far off in the future, a better world will emerge where we look back and wonder how the human race and its leaders could ever have been so cruel, so cynical, and so cowardly.
I don't think we are helpless. In fact, it is the public outrage, especially the well-organized Jewish opposition to Israel, that has bolstered the courage of Gazans and made the resistance effective.
Jewish opposition to Israel-these are not real Jews.These are self-hating, Fritz Haber Jews. Sorry bunch of traitors.
Well said.
I will never forgive or forget any part of this horror.
Bless you.I agree with you totally.Gaza will define everyone from now on.
Agreed but saddest thing for me is the realization of all the other Genocides I overlooked because they were just numbers. Remember US Sect Albright asked about 500K children killed in Iraq by sanctions and replied Democracy is always hard won, Vietnam 2.5M etc. When you add the believed $20T in 30 years, the world we lost to protect the 0.5% is incomprehensible.
I feel the same. But awareness is the first step toward change. And so many of us are awake now.
I bring up the genocide every time American corporations are mentioned in the office
Don't forget to mention the genocide against Native Americans and First Nations People.
Don't forget the wholesale bombings of millions of poor fishermen and farmers in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.
Wow! And you still have your job ? And the coworkers don't ostracize you ? You are bold and I applaud you. In my small church at joys and concerns I always bring up the children and innocents in Gaza being slaughtered with our tax money and I get blank stares. No one ever comes up to comment or ask questions or if there is anything they can do to change this worst period in our young century. What is it ?
>>"What is it ?"
That is conformity. Conformity to TPTB (the powers that be). Conformity to inculcated social culture and norms. Conformity to social status seeking. Conformity to avoid being ostracized from one's peer-group. And the fear that comes along with not belonging in a certain social circle/group.
I work in IT and I find the trick is to keep it to one liners and that’s where Trump excels. Commenting on Microsoft’s exodus of workers for instance and relating it to the support they provide to Israel’s Drones that can identify targets in a crowded but bombing him in a mass casualty event and how that is their strategy which cannot be possible without Microsoft’s Azure service.
It is like this in my church. I only go now so my wife doesn’t complain.
Someone at a neighborhood get-together accused me of condoning the murder of Israeli children because I pointed out that the IDF knew about October 7 well in advance.
The Jews keep banging on about the holocaust in an attempt to make us all feel horribly guilty. It is complete bullshit given that they have done to Palestinians what Hitler did to them. We must scream it in their faces every day henceforth. And we should not just forgive and forget until there has been confession, repentance, reform and reparations!
I think the Zionist Christians scream more about anti-antisemitism and the holocaust then any group of people.
The only Zionist Christian’s I am aware of are all screwed up theologically off beam Americans! Trump would likely pass muster and a whole lot of other fake Christian’s!
There are evangelical Zionists ( I refuse to call them ‘Christian’ zionists as this sullies the name of Christ & His teachings ) that are not North Americans. You find them, albeit in smaller numbers, in South America & the U.K.
"that are not North Americans."
bullshit.
I do not care what you believe . As I speak Spanish & write it fluently as well as understand Brazilian Portuguese ( though not as well), I know that there are indeed South/ Central Americans that say ‘to bless israel is to bless God’., ‘those that curse israel will be cursed themselves by God’. If you don’t speak the language you miss those comments in YouTube & other forums.
Genocidaire bb thanking Brazilian Evangelical Zionists:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd0990PxR-c
By his accent I’d say he’s Argentinian or a big ‘perhaps’ Chilean. Spanish speakers have different accents depending where they come from. As well, as using words that other fluent in Spanish speakers do not use or know meaning of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pQD2YDpBgY&t=5s
“En la última década, sobre todo, en forma notoria y peligrosa, el sionismo ha penetrado con fuerza, tanto en Estados Unidos como en Latinoamérica…” ( In the last decade, especially, & a notorious form , Zionism has penetrated with force, just as in USA like in Latin America.)
https://parstoday.ir/es/news/am%C3%A9rica_latina-i82652-el_sionismo_y_latinoam%C3%A9rica_(i)
Below photo of Argentinian Zionist Milei.
https://loquesomos.org/la-influencia-sionista-en-america-latina-a-traves-de-estados-unidos/?cn-reloaded=1
There were 600 millions worldwide evangelical zionists in 2023 with more than 120 millions in América Latina & Caribe.
You are right, I was wrong, I read your original post incorrectly.
I read "they are not Americans"
My apologies for poo pooing on your comment.
Yes, they are brainwashed by the narrative! They don't know true history.
Serious question, Christians want the Jews there so Christ will come back. Do the Christian despise the Palestinians like the Jews or believe the BS told to them by the predominantly by Jews. If the Jews tomorrow started living in harmony with the Palestinians would the Christians be against it. Do the Jews misdirect and play to their advantage
A respectful correction. Evangelical Zionist Christians have been brainwashed by powerful Pastors to embrace the totally unbiblical relatively recent heresy that once Palestine is fully occupied by Jews then the second Coming of Jesus will happen - and (tough luck on the Jews) if they don't convert to Christianity Jesus will wipe them out. This is not the God of the historic churches - Catholic, Presbyterian, and Anglican etc. Christians in these churches do not believe in a genocide promoting God but in a Creator God who cares for all people on earth - asking of us, righteous behaviour, love and compassion towards all who are in need of food, shelter and truthful advocacy against injustice. Remember that under the Ottoman Empire Jews and Christians and Moslem communities lived together in mutual respect and harmony in Palestine.
Yep - and its all BS and scripturally wrong.
Well said. This idea of a "second coming" of Christ that has to happen in the Holy Land with all the Jews there and the other nonsense is a idea that is less than two hundred years old. Mainline Christian denominations denounce it. Nothing biblical about it.
I feel the need to point out that this isn't about "the Jews." Not all Jewish people are Zionists, not all Zionists are Jewish.
Over 70 years ago, before Israel was a state, roving gangs and militias of Jews attacked, displaced and murdered Palestinians... and this still goes on today. When you look at the illegal settlers performing pogroms on innocent Palestinians in their villages... who do you see? Though I agree not all Zionists are Jews, and not all Jews are Zionists, it's difficult to separate the two when the Zionist narrative began as, and continues to be a Jewish one. It's a bit like the Odd Fellows organization who for centuries was a male only organization and now allows females to join its ranks. They're stilled called the Oddfellows.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism
The Zionist movement has been around since the late 19th Century.
It is important to distinguish between Zionists and Jews, just as it is important to realize the Evangelical "Christian" hypocrites do not "follow the path of Jesus".
You may not detect the differences in their appearances, but the differences are in their actions and beliefs.
Zachary Foster 5/13/25-- The forgotten history of Jewish anti-Zionism
"For Eastern Jews, Zionism promised not liberation but annihilation. The movement’s tremendous success, especially its mass expulsion of the Palestinian people in 1948, triggered anti-Jewish pogroms in Egypt, Iraq, Yemen and Libya and accelerated the adoption of anti-Jewish laws."
https://palestinenexus.com/articles/jewish-antizionism
Thanks for that link to some excellent history lessons. Most Americans that I have known are completely unaware. Most of my “Eastern European” Jewish associates are now deceased from old age. They were primarily “leftists” who adhered to Judaic traditions that didn’t comport with Zionism.
Keep telling the stories. Stupidity may be congenital but ignorance can be cured.
Zionism will likely be the catalyst for another Holocaust. What they are doing is indefensible - but then again so is the 50 years reign of IMF and the World Bank.
Bollocks, Rock Island.
It's not too difficult at all.
The Americans are not the KKK.
Study Venn Diagrams.
one must take on the rich and powerful if one wants to change things.
Most of them are. It’s a sick in the soul tribe. And the ones that called themselves ‘evangelical Zionists’ are Talmudists at heart & in soul & instead of praying to God they pray/ bow to that entity — Diseaserael.
Most of the Jewish people I know are the most antizionist people I know, who were telling me about this before October 7, they are why I already knew Israel was horrible. Norman Finkelstein alone should be enough to keep anyone from being antisemitic, but the key word is always "should."
It is difficult to be anti-zionist without being labled anti-semitic. I don"t have too many issues if people get confused by that. However, the Jewish lobby barks endlessly about anti-semitism when it is in fact anti-zionism that people like me embody. Non-zionist Jews need to stand up to the Zioists and run them out of all positions of leadership if you want the world to love and accept Jews everywhere. The tribe is as broken as the Australian Liberal Party because they strayed from core beliefs.
The Zionist movement has been around since the late 19th Century.
It is important to distinguish between Zionists and Jews, just as it is important to realize the Evangelical "Christian" hypocrites do not "follow the path of Jesus".
You may not detect the differences in their appearances, but the differences are in their actions and beliefs.
You evidently understand this, but tens of millions of Americans do not. Keep on explaining to anyone who will listen. The ignorance of the irrational zealots is easily exploited.
True - Donald Trump is a Zionist and he ain't Jewish. not to worry about the genocide Trump plans to make Gaza the Riviera of the Middle East. What a freak!
I have listened to Hitler's speeches (available in English now) and he does not sound like the mass- murdering phsyco they portray him to be. Just sayin........
Same thing with Milosevic's infamous 1989 speech on the 500th anniversary of a battle in which the Serbs defeated the invading Turks, and kept them out of Europe. The Western legacy media literally unanimously, with not a single exception, declared that the speech was a racist diatribe and call to arms against the other Yugoslav ethnic Republics. (At that time, Yugoslavia was still a single Federation whose presidency, since the death of Tito, notated through its six constituent divisions.)
Well, a few years Iater, with th campaign to demonize the Serbs, preparatory to the planned destruction of the last socialist State in Europe, going full speed, the BBC and the U.S.State Department both independently translated the text from Serbian into English.
Lo and behold, mirabile dictu, it turned out there had been a, umm, well, a slight problem. What Milosevic actually said was that the Serbs had along and proud history of tolerance and appreciation for other cultures.
Needless to say, not a single one of the xenophobic media chose to note their dereliction of basic journalism 101. To the contrary, the only notification of the, shall we say, faux pas was in the online site The Emperor's NewClothes (TE NC.net).
Never let the spirit of honesty or integrity interfere with the solemn duty of the "free" media to amplify the Official Propaganda of the warfare stale in its ever-abiding rush to bomb the declared enemy du jour.
If you look through the News papers of the times claiming a holocaust a whole 10 years before it was to have taken place every year during that time the number was always 6 million Jews were being killed and each year passing the number never goes down. So where is the truth in their alleged holocaust. Also there is never any mention of the actual 10 million Christians killed before that!
So will I, in my own small scale.
And thank you Caitlin. The world needs more like yourself.
That our media and politicians except the Greens can watch real- time genocide and human rights violations by Israel and US in Gaza is beyond appalling. Unforgivable.
I keep asking myself why, why is something so evil continuing. This act of horror is for a purpose other than claimed by israel/u.s. The world is doing this by not acting. As I have said before China or Russia could end this nightmare by arriving at the coast of Gaza Palestine with cargo ships filled with food, fuel, and supplies to return water and healthcare. The big FU to the u.s. can you imagine the shame on we in the u.s. China saves the people, the Heroes of China. Please China shame us.
that is part of the 'grand chessboard'-strategy as well. we're not the only ones being dragged down by not being able to stop this.
We are 100% with you Caitlin, thank you and keep up your amazing good work.
What strikes me most about this genocide is just how quickly we forgot the bloody, violent, unspeakable, and atrocious crimes that we witnessed, and how quickly our societies turned the page with an “oh well… America and Israel, y’know, what are you going to do 🤷🏻♂️?”.
No. I refuse to accept that this is what is left of our humanity.
If we don’t have the spark within us to see and deliver justice to the torn-up children’s bodies we witnessed for months, then we need to cultivate one and turn it into a fire. It is our collective duty to do as you said, never forgive, never forget, and never stop calling for those devilish beings in our governments that enabled this to be held accountable along with the zionist slaughterers of Palestinians themselves.
Blues for Palestine, I have left behind what I was able. It speaks for me and hopefully for Hosny Salah:
https://open.substack.com/pub/vinlopresti/p/blues-for-palestine?r=b8qtt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
As for those who were mute or disinterested, their legacies will be what they are. I cannot speak for them.
To use your words, changing only one -- "It will always be the single most defining characteristic about who they WERE as human beings."
I will never forget it. And if my bio becomes reality, I will BREAK Israel.