8.11.23 - The Right Side of History

I am not sure what's happening across the world right now, but people are dancing the dubka, allying themselves with the Palestinians, using TikTok to create solidarity, sending messages of hope and fueling resistance. Meanwhile, on the otherside, Zionists - finally people are understanding you can be anti-Zionist without being anti-semetic - have come to the end of their dining out on the West's guilt about the Holocaust. People who have attended birthright, war veterans, Holocaust survivors, are all standing up and saying this is enough. The political capital which the right-wing factions of Israel, how weird and mad, but also congruent with people who have experienced trauma that they reinflict it upon others - on the bodies of Palestinians is now exposed as the raw throbbing madness which just continues.

I suppose Ireland had its own madness, but it was created on the bodies of the women and children who had to submit to the Catholic church. You'd think that freedom meant freedom for everyone - but no, the unmarried women and children conceived out of wedlock are the Gazans in the Irish story. 

Trapped and persecuted, reviled, tortured, humiliated... always - in a society look for the other, especially in societies with monotheistic faiths. But also untrue because there is the caste system... I did say to Lisa, having lots of religions together is good for everyone. On their own they are insane. But because their fundamentalism is diluted they are contained. The caste system may have been subtly practised in Singapore, but certainly, there were opportunities to take in a freer society. The matriarchal nature of the Malay women influenced how Islam was interpreted in South East Asia. Christianity was only ONE of the many religions and therefore couldn't claim that reflected arrogance which it borrows from the Chosen Ones doctrine of Judaism.

BUT I don't know how these people who still can support and condone and enable the genocide taking place in Gaza, how can they not see they are on the wrong side of history? All over the world people are rising up to say enough, no more. People power is coursing over the internet. All the pent up frustration and outrage over land stolen, voices crushed, futures denied are now rushing to the surface. The ummah has come into its own as millions of Muslims are now taking to TikTok to dance, cook, sing, cry, lecture, educate - to take a stand. It is quite something to behold. No longer can the mainstream media spin a thing - they are now being spun into the corner. Including, here we are in the upside down - Piers Morgan. Who knew that after his encounter with Bassem Yousuff he would listen to what the man said?From the purile and lazy and reflexive Do you condemn Hamas? he has now moved to, Ceasefire now. Someone on TikTok commented that Bassem has fixed a loose screw.

It was one of the best comments I have seen about his volte face. Also one of the best comments since this began was from Bassem as well - Israel sees itself as Superman, but it is really Homelander. Such a wonderful analogy with the Superman trope of having to subsume the Jewish identity (Superman was created by a Jewish man) being fueled by Western hypocrisy.

So here we stand, pivoting on history. So far it has played out EXACTLY as I predicted - the usual actors have acted usually, but what I did not expect was the Recuse mission of the TikTok generation. With the clear eyed look on the atrocities being created and the links being made between the Military Industrial Complex, corrupt politicians and hypocrisy, they are taking it down wherever they can.

Good for them I say, Good for them. I never ever predicted this.