The West, Israel's chief
enabler, must confront the deep poison of Zionism that has corrupted
our politics, media, moral compass, and stolen our humanity
By Fareed Khan
A version of this article can be found on Substack.
In the shadowed corridors of power, where truth is often the first
casualty, our Canadian and Western society teeters on the brink of a
profound moral collapse. This crisis, one of our own making, stems from
the unwavering support Western nations have lavished upon Israel—a rogue
state that has flouted international law since its creation on stolen
Palestinian land.
For
decades Israel and its Zionist agents in the West have coerced,
threatened, bribed and gas lit politicians, news media outlets, and
societal leaders to champion Israel’s interests while turning a blind
eye to its war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. Zionism
has infiltrated and corrupted the very fabric of Western democracy to
the point that Western society consistently sided with Israel even when
it launched wars against its neighbours and committed the most heinous
of crimes. The abyss between the West’s proclaimed values and grim
reality widens daily, threatening not just the Palestinian people but
the soul of our society. The death of truth, as we have witnessed in the
ongoing horrors of Gaza, marks the triumph of unchecked evil that
should have died with the worst horrors of the 20th Century.
Our hold on objective reality frayed irreparably in October 2023, when Israel unleashed its “final solution” on Gaza—an enclave long described as an open-air Palestinian prison and concentration camp, where every facet of life is dictated by Israeli control. What has unfolded is nothing short of genocide, a crime affirmed by the United Nations, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, B’Tselem, renowned Israeli Holocaust scholars, the nations backing South Africa’s case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), international legal scholars. The ICJ itself ruled that Israel’s actions constitute plausible genocide. Yet, in Western media and political discourse, the word “genocide” is verboten, reporters muzzled from humanizing Palestinians or acknowledging the scale of atrocity. Major outlets in the US, Canada, the UK, and Germany—CNN, CBC, BBC, Deustsche Welle—exile this truth, mirroring the complicity of Western governments that could halt the slaughter but instead supply arms and diplomatic cover.
Birthed in 1948 amid the ashes of the Holocaust, Israel, for good or ill was supposed to be a refuge for European Jews in the Middle-East. Instead, it became a monster, perpetrating evils against Palestinians akin to those of Nazi Germany—not in sheer numbers but in the calculated intent to eradicate a people. This is not hyperbole. Israel’s founding involved the ethnic cleansing of 750,000 Palestinians in the Nakba, the destruction and physical erasure of over 500 Palestinian villages, and the seizure of Palestinian land through terrorism and force. From its admission to the United Nations in 1949 under Resolution 273, Israel’s acceptance was conditioned on fulfilling Resolutions 181 (partition plan) and 194 (right of return for Palestinian refugees). It has flagrantly failed both, refusing to allow refugees back and expanding settlements on occupied Palestinian land in violation of international law. This defiance set the stage for decades of impunity, enabled by Western patrons who prioritized geopolitical alliances over justice for Palestinians.
Prominent voices, including Jewish intellectuals who could not be dismissed as biased, have long exposed Israel as a criminal terrorist state. Noam Chomsky, the eminent linguist and political commentator, has decried Israel’s actions as genocidal, arguing that US support for its occupation threatens world peace. He has advocated for a single binational state, rejecting the ethno-nationalist framework that sustains apartheid-like conditions. Chomsky’s critique echoes a historical pattern, one where Israel’s systematic dispossession of Palestinians mirrors colonial genocides, where settlers expel indigenous populations and take over their lands.
Norman Finkelstein, son of Holocaust survivors and a scholar of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, brands Israel a “rogue state“ that violates every international norm. In his exhaustive analysis of the suffering of Gaza’s people, Finkelstein documents how Israel’s assaults—killing thousands, predominantly civilians—are flagrant war crimes, shielded by Western complicity. He asserts that Israel’s intent is not self-defence but the complete destruction of Palestinian society, a genocide in slow motion, accelerated since 2023. Finkelstein’s work underscores how Zionism’s propaganda has inverted victim and perpetrator, portraying oppressed Palestinians as aggressors, and the Israeli aggressors as victims.
Ilan Pappe, the Israeli historian exiled for telling the truth about Israel’s criminal history, chronicles the nation’s founding as premeditated ethnic cleansing. In his seminal work The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Pappe details Plan Dalet, the blueprint for expelling Palestinians, drawing parallels to genocidal campaigns. He contends that Zionism’s colonial ethos has poisoned Israeli society, leading to the current Gaza genocide where hospitals are bombed and aid blocked in defiance of international law. Pappe’s exile from Israeli academia highlights Zionism’s grip, where dissent is silenced and truth about Israeli crimes is branded as treason.
Miko Peled, born into a prominent Zionist family, the son of the renowned Israeli General Matti Peled—a hero of the 1948 and 1967 wars—has emerged as one of the most unflinching pro-Palestinian voices from within Israeli society. Despite his privileged upbringing and early military service, Peled underwent a profound transformation, particularly after the tragic death of his 13-year-old niece in a 1997 Palestinian suicide bombing in Jerusalem. This personal loss drove him to deeply examine the narratives he had inherited, ultimately leading him to condemn Israel as a “terrorist state” and an apartheid regime.
From his insider perspective, Peled exposes the Israeli military as the world’s best-equipped, best-trained, and best-fed terrorist organization, arguing that Israel’s systemic control over Palestinians—through the denial of basic rights, routine bombing of civilians, and the maintenance of concentration-camp-like conditions in Gaza—amounts to institutionalized terrorism, all sustained by Western indifference and complicity. His courageous critique shatters the enduring myth of Israel as a beleaguered democracy under constant threat, instead revealing a society where widespread public support for ethnic cleansing and genocide exposes deep-seated supremacist attitudes.
Similarly, Gideon Levy, the acclaimed Ha’aretz columnist who has long risked his life reporting from the occupied Palestinian territories, offers a searing indictment of Israel’s moral erosion. He portrays the occupation as a metastasizing cancer that festers through the daily atrocities committed by settlers and soldiers alike, while much of the Western media averts its gaze. Levy has repeatedly warned that Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza has rendered the country a global pariah, its carefully cultivated reputation now in ruins amid the flood of unfiltered images from Gaza documenting widespread horror and suffering. Through his persistent pleas for empathy and humanity, Levy works to rehumanize Palestinians in the eyes of Israelis and the world, directly challenging the Zionist propaganda that systematically dehumanizes them—often reducing them to labels like “human animals“ or terrorist threats to be eradicated. His unflinching journalism stands as a vital counterforce to the narratives that enable ongoing oppression and violence.
Even Albert Einstein, the renowned physicist and committed humanist, issued stark warnings about the dangers of political Zionism. He firmly opposed the establishment of a sovereign Jewish state, believing it would cultivate a narrow, aggressive nationalism that would ultimately inflict deep and lasting harm on Judaism itself. In December 1948, he co-signed a public letter—published in The New York Times—condemning Zionist paramilitary groups such as the Irgun and Stern gangs as “fascist” organizations whose tactics and ideology bore disturbing similarities to those of the Nazis. Einstein’s foresight proves hauntingly prescient today. The creation of Israel in 1948 resulted in the ethnic cleansing of more than 750,000 Palestinians through forced expulsions, the erasure of over 500 Palestinian villages, and widespread terror, planting the seeds of perpetual conflict that Western governments have sustained for generations through unwavering military, financial, and diplomatic backing.
These prominent critics—Jewish intellectuals, historians, and activists of conscience—are far from outliers. Together, they form a powerful chorus exposing the toxic influence of Zionism, which has fuelled endless violent conflicts across the Middle East. Since its founding in 1948, Israel has systematically violated the United Nations Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Geneva and Hague Conventions, the Genocide Convention, and the most fundamental tenets of humanity—all in pursuit of its national and geopolitical ambitions.
Yet Western leaders continue to recite the tired mantra that “Israel has a right to defend itself,” even as this racist apartheid state bombs schools, razes hospitals, engineers starvation in Gaza, and assassinates journalists with complete impunity. This unwavering complicity has poisoned Western societies from within. The United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, and their allies have pour billions in military hardware into Israel—arms that have been used to slaughter innocents—while organizations like AIPAC in the US (now widely regarded as a politically toxic organization) and similar pro-Israel lobbies in other countries, exert relentless pressure to silence dissenting political voices.
The toxicity of Zionism permeates far beyond the halls of government, seeping into the core of Western institutions and everyday discourse. Universities routinely suppress pro-Palestinian voices through disciplinary measures, event cancellations, and funding threats, stifling academic freedom and open debate. Major Western news outlets engage in pervasive self-censorship, marginalizing or outright dehumanizing Palestinian suffering by avoiding terms like “occupation” or “genocide,” framing reporting to align with pro-Israel perspectives, and downplaying civilian casualties. Societal leaders—politicians, influencers, and public figures—cynically conflate legitimate criticism of Zionism with antisemitism, a dangerous tactic that deflects scrutiny from Israel’s criminal actions and shields it from accountability.
This infiltration has been insidious and pervasive, embedding Zionist ideology deep within Western minds and structures over generations. Relentless pro-Israel propaganda has indoctrinated populations, consistently portraying Israel as the eternal victim besieged by existential threats, while systematically vilifying Palestinians as inherent aggressors unworthy of empathy, rights, or even basic humanity. This narrative inversion has taken firm root, profoundly shaping public opinion, driving policy decisions, and dictating media framing across the United States, Europe, and beyond—ensuring that Israel’s violations of international law are met with silence or justification rather than condemnation.
Recent polling data from Israel itself lays bare the extent of extremist radicalization within Israeli society. A March 2025 survey of Jewish Israelis, commissioned by Pennsylvania State University and published by the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz, revealed shocking levels of support for extreme measures against Palestinians. Fully 82% of respondents endorsed the forced expulsion of all Palestinians from Gaza—often framed as “transfer” but amounting to ethnic cleansing, a clear war crime under international law. Even more disturbingly, 47% agreed that the Israeli army should emulate the biblical conquest of Jericho by killing every inhabitant of captured enemy cities, effectively supporting the total extermination of all men, women and children in Gaza. This mirrors the dehumanization tactics once employed by the Nazis against Jews, reducing an entire people to existential threats that justify total eradication—yet the Western alliance continues to provide Israel with political, military, and financial support.
These attitudes among Israelis are not fringe outliers but reflect a broader societal shift, compounded by decades of Zionist indoctrination, occupation, settlement expansion, and impunity. The United Nations has passed repeated resolutions condemning Israel’s actions—more than against any other member state—yet these are routinely ignored, actions supported by the US. Israel’s admission to the UN in 1949 came with explicit conditions, including acceptance of the partition plan and the right of return for Palestinian refugees. It agreed to the resolutions but has fulfilled neither, instead perpetuating a brutal, decades-long occupation and committing genocidal acts with utter disregard for human life and international norms. Western complicity in this defiance not only enables ongoing crimes but erodes the credibility of global institutions and the rule of law itself.
The poison of Zionism is clearly evident in Gaza over the past 27 months, where the ideology has allowed Israel to justify genocide, and commit mass murder with a true death toll far exceeding the underreported official figures that dominate mainstream narratives. Independent analyses of Israeli crimes paints a far more harrowing picture of the scale of devastation inflicted since October 2023. Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has documented more than 75,000 Palestinians killed, underscoring the relentless toll on civilian life.
However, there are other analyses of Palestinian casualties that are far higher. Drawing directly from Israeli military data, Ben Gurion University professor Yaakov Garb’s rigorous spatial and demographic study estimates at least 377,000 Palestinians dead or missing—presumed dead—amid the rubble, and widespread disappearances, with roughly half believed to be children. Even more starkly, a 2025 study by Australian academics Richard Hill and Gideon Polya, building on epidemiological projections from The Lancet and accounting for both direct violence and indirect deaths from engineered famine, blockades, disease, and a collapsed healthcare system, places the total dead and missing at over 680,000. These staggering figures reveal a deliberate strategy of deprivation as a weapon of war, where starvation and denial of aid compound the horrors of bombardment, eroding the foundations of international humanitarian law and human rights. Western governments’ continued military, financial, and diplomatic backing sustains Israeli crimes, allowing violations to proceed with near-total impunity and further undermining the “international legal order” they claim to defend.
When truth is assaulted and twisted in such an Orwellian fashion, monsters are inevitably created. Israel’s leaders and their Western agents, armed with some of the loudest and most well-funded propaganda machinery in the world, have seized control of Western narratives for far too long. But cracks are now widening in this facade, especially in the midst of the unfolding genocide in Gaza. Since October 2023, millions around the globe—from Tokyo to London to New York—have cast off the Zionism’s blinders, pouring into streets in unprecedented protests, numbering in the hundreds of thousands, to demand justice for Palestinians, and an end to the slaughter in Gaza.
The moment has arrived for the West, Israel’s chief enabler, to confront the deep poison of Zionism that has corrupted our politics, media, and moral compass. We must insist on real accountability from our own governments by halting the flow of military hardware and trade that sustains the violence, rigorously enforcing the ICJ’s rulings on plausible genocide, and press for Israel’s suspension or expulsion from the United Nations until it finally honors the conditions of its 1949 admission, which it has defied for decades by denying Palestinian refugees their right of return and expanding illegal settlements on occupied land.
We must expose and challenge those politicians who have been coerced, lobbied, or outright bought by pro-Israel groups, holding them to account for their complicity in Israeli crimes. Similarly, we need to confront media executives and outlets that perpetuate anti-Palestinian bias through selective reporting, language restrictions, and the erasure of Palestinian humanity. These entrenched structures of prejudice—built on decades of Zionist indoctrination—must be dismantled if we are to reclaim an honest public discourse.
Only by wresting truth back from distortion and denial can we pull back from the moral abyss into which we are sliding. Zionism’s adherents have infiltrated and degraded our societies, turning empathy into suspicion and justice into taboo. Rejecting this toxic influence is the path to restoring our shared humanity. The monster we helped birth and sustain through arms, aid, and silence must be starved of support, not continually nourished. For the sake of Palestinians enduring unimaginable suffering, and for the sake of our own souls, the cloak of complicity and darkness must finally be shed.
© 2026 The View From Here. © 2026 Fareed Khan. All Rights Reserved.
Our hold on objective reality frayed irreparably in October 2023, when Israel unleashed its “final solution” on Gaza—an enclave long described as an open-air Palestinian prison and concentration camp, where every facet of life is dictated by Israeli control. What has unfolded is nothing short of genocide, a crime affirmed by the United Nations, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, B’Tselem, renowned Israeli Holocaust scholars, the nations backing South Africa’s case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), international legal scholars. The ICJ itself ruled that Israel’s actions constitute plausible genocide. Yet, in Western media and political discourse, the word “genocide” is verboten, reporters muzzled from humanizing Palestinians or acknowledging the scale of atrocity. Major outlets in the US, Canada, the UK, and Germany—CNN, CBC, BBC, Deustsche Welle—exile this truth, mirroring the complicity of Western governments that could halt the slaughter but instead supply arms and diplomatic cover.
Birthed in 1948 amid the ashes of the Holocaust, Israel, for good or ill was supposed to be a refuge for European Jews in the Middle-East. Instead, it became a monster, perpetrating evils against Palestinians akin to those of Nazi Germany—not in sheer numbers but in the calculated intent to eradicate a people. This is not hyperbole. Israel’s founding involved the ethnic cleansing of 750,000 Palestinians in the Nakba, the destruction and physical erasure of over 500 Palestinian villages, and the seizure of Palestinian land through terrorism and force. From its admission to the United Nations in 1949 under Resolution 273, Israel’s acceptance was conditioned on fulfilling Resolutions 181 (partition plan) and 194 (right of return for Palestinian refugees). It has flagrantly failed both, refusing to allow refugees back and expanding settlements on occupied Palestinian land in violation of international law. This defiance set the stage for decades of impunity, enabled by Western patrons who prioritized geopolitical alliances over justice for Palestinians.
Prominent voices, including Jewish intellectuals who could not be dismissed as biased, have long exposed Israel as a criminal terrorist state. Noam Chomsky, the eminent linguist and political commentator, has decried Israel’s actions as genocidal, arguing that US support for its occupation threatens world peace. He has advocated for a single binational state, rejecting the ethno-nationalist framework that sustains apartheid-like conditions. Chomsky’s critique echoes a historical pattern, one where Israel’s systematic dispossession of Palestinians mirrors colonial genocides, where settlers expel indigenous populations and take over their lands.
Norman Finkelstein, son of Holocaust survivors and a scholar of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, brands Israel a “rogue state“ that violates every international norm. In his exhaustive analysis of the suffering of Gaza’s people, Finkelstein documents how Israel’s assaults—killing thousands, predominantly civilians—are flagrant war crimes, shielded by Western complicity. He asserts that Israel’s intent is not self-defence but the complete destruction of Palestinian society, a genocide in slow motion, accelerated since 2023. Finkelstein’s work underscores how Zionism’s propaganda has inverted victim and perpetrator, portraying oppressed Palestinians as aggressors, and the Israeli aggressors as victims.
Ilan Pappe, the Israeli historian exiled for telling the truth about Israel’s criminal history, chronicles the nation’s founding as premeditated ethnic cleansing. In his seminal work The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Pappe details Plan Dalet, the blueprint for expelling Palestinians, drawing parallels to genocidal campaigns. He contends that Zionism’s colonial ethos has poisoned Israeli society, leading to the current Gaza genocide where hospitals are bombed and aid blocked in defiance of international law. Pappe’s exile from Israeli academia highlights Zionism’s grip, where dissent is silenced and truth about Israeli crimes is branded as treason.
Miko Peled, born into a prominent Zionist family, the son of the renowned Israeli General Matti Peled—a hero of the 1948 and 1967 wars—has emerged as one of the most unflinching pro-Palestinian voices from within Israeli society. Despite his privileged upbringing and early military service, Peled underwent a profound transformation, particularly after the tragic death of his 13-year-old niece in a 1997 Palestinian suicide bombing in Jerusalem. This personal loss drove him to deeply examine the narratives he had inherited, ultimately leading him to condemn Israel as a “terrorist state” and an apartheid regime.
From his insider perspective, Peled exposes the Israeli military as the world’s best-equipped, best-trained, and best-fed terrorist organization, arguing that Israel’s systemic control over Palestinians—through the denial of basic rights, routine bombing of civilians, and the maintenance of concentration-camp-like conditions in Gaza—amounts to institutionalized terrorism, all sustained by Western indifference and complicity. His courageous critique shatters the enduring myth of Israel as a beleaguered democracy under constant threat, instead revealing a society where widespread public support for ethnic cleansing and genocide exposes deep-seated supremacist attitudes.
Similarly, Gideon Levy, the acclaimed Ha’aretz columnist who has long risked his life reporting from the occupied Palestinian territories, offers a searing indictment of Israel’s moral erosion. He portrays the occupation as a metastasizing cancer that festers through the daily atrocities committed by settlers and soldiers alike, while much of the Western media averts its gaze. Levy has repeatedly warned that Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza has rendered the country a global pariah, its carefully cultivated reputation now in ruins amid the flood of unfiltered images from Gaza documenting widespread horror and suffering. Through his persistent pleas for empathy and humanity, Levy works to rehumanize Palestinians in the eyes of Israelis and the world, directly challenging the Zionist propaganda that systematically dehumanizes them—often reducing them to labels like “human animals“ or terrorist threats to be eradicated. His unflinching journalism stands as a vital counterforce to the narratives that enable ongoing oppression and violence.
Even Albert Einstein, the renowned physicist and committed humanist, issued stark warnings about the dangers of political Zionism. He firmly opposed the establishment of a sovereign Jewish state, believing it would cultivate a narrow, aggressive nationalism that would ultimately inflict deep and lasting harm on Judaism itself. In December 1948, he co-signed a public letter—published in The New York Times—condemning Zionist paramilitary groups such as the Irgun and Stern gangs as “fascist” organizations whose tactics and ideology bore disturbing similarities to those of the Nazis. Einstein’s foresight proves hauntingly prescient today. The creation of Israel in 1948 resulted in the ethnic cleansing of more than 750,000 Palestinians through forced expulsions, the erasure of over 500 Palestinian villages, and widespread terror, planting the seeds of perpetual conflict that Western governments have sustained for generations through unwavering military, financial, and diplomatic backing.
These prominent critics—Jewish intellectuals, historians, and activists of conscience—are far from outliers. Together, they form a powerful chorus exposing the toxic influence of Zionism, which has fuelled endless violent conflicts across the Middle East. Since its founding in 1948, Israel has systematically violated the United Nations Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Geneva and Hague Conventions, the Genocide Convention, and the most fundamental tenets of humanity—all in pursuit of its national and geopolitical ambitions.
Yet Western leaders continue to recite the tired mantra that “Israel has a right to defend itself,” even as this racist apartheid state bombs schools, razes hospitals, engineers starvation in Gaza, and assassinates journalists with complete impunity. This unwavering complicity has poisoned Western societies from within. The United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, and their allies have pour billions in military hardware into Israel—arms that have been used to slaughter innocents—while organizations like AIPAC in the US (now widely regarded as a politically toxic organization) and similar pro-Israel lobbies in other countries, exert relentless pressure to silence dissenting political voices.
The toxicity of Zionism permeates far beyond the halls of government, seeping into the core of Western institutions and everyday discourse. Universities routinely suppress pro-Palestinian voices through disciplinary measures, event cancellations, and funding threats, stifling academic freedom and open debate. Major Western news outlets engage in pervasive self-censorship, marginalizing or outright dehumanizing Palestinian suffering by avoiding terms like “occupation” or “genocide,” framing reporting to align with pro-Israel perspectives, and downplaying civilian casualties. Societal leaders—politicians, influencers, and public figures—cynically conflate legitimate criticism of Zionism with antisemitism, a dangerous tactic that deflects scrutiny from Israel’s criminal actions and shields it from accountability.
This infiltration has been insidious and pervasive, embedding Zionist ideology deep within Western minds and structures over generations. Relentless pro-Israel propaganda has indoctrinated populations, consistently portraying Israel as the eternal victim besieged by existential threats, while systematically vilifying Palestinians as inherent aggressors unworthy of empathy, rights, or even basic humanity. This narrative inversion has taken firm root, profoundly shaping public opinion, driving policy decisions, and dictating media framing across the United States, Europe, and beyond—ensuring that Israel’s violations of international law are met with silence or justification rather than condemnation.
Recent polling data from Israel itself lays bare the extent of extremist radicalization within Israeli society. A March 2025 survey of Jewish Israelis, commissioned by Pennsylvania State University and published by the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz, revealed shocking levels of support for extreme measures against Palestinians. Fully 82% of respondents endorsed the forced expulsion of all Palestinians from Gaza—often framed as “transfer” but amounting to ethnic cleansing, a clear war crime under international law. Even more disturbingly, 47% agreed that the Israeli army should emulate the biblical conquest of Jericho by killing every inhabitant of captured enemy cities, effectively supporting the total extermination of all men, women and children in Gaza. This mirrors the dehumanization tactics once employed by the Nazis against Jews, reducing an entire people to existential threats that justify total eradication—yet the Western alliance continues to provide Israel with political, military, and financial support.
These attitudes among Israelis are not fringe outliers but reflect a broader societal shift, compounded by decades of Zionist indoctrination, occupation, settlement expansion, and impunity. The United Nations has passed repeated resolutions condemning Israel’s actions—more than against any other member state—yet these are routinely ignored, actions supported by the US. Israel’s admission to the UN in 1949 came with explicit conditions, including acceptance of the partition plan and the right of return for Palestinian refugees. It agreed to the resolutions but has fulfilled neither, instead perpetuating a brutal, decades-long occupation and committing genocidal acts with utter disregard for human life and international norms. Western complicity in this defiance not only enables ongoing crimes but erodes the credibility of global institutions and the rule of law itself.
The poison of Zionism is clearly evident in Gaza over the past 27 months, where the ideology has allowed Israel to justify genocide, and commit mass murder with a true death toll far exceeding the underreported official figures that dominate mainstream narratives. Independent analyses of Israeli crimes paints a far more harrowing picture of the scale of devastation inflicted since October 2023. Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has documented more than 75,000 Palestinians killed, underscoring the relentless toll on civilian life.
However, there are other analyses of Palestinian casualties that are far higher. Drawing directly from Israeli military data, Ben Gurion University professor Yaakov Garb’s rigorous spatial and demographic study estimates at least 377,000 Palestinians dead or missing—presumed dead—amid the rubble, and widespread disappearances, with roughly half believed to be children. Even more starkly, a 2025 study by Australian academics Richard Hill and Gideon Polya, building on epidemiological projections from The Lancet and accounting for both direct violence and indirect deaths from engineered famine, blockades, disease, and a collapsed healthcare system, places the total dead and missing at over 680,000. These staggering figures reveal a deliberate strategy of deprivation as a weapon of war, where starvation and denial of aid compound the horrors of bombardment, eroding the foundations of international humanitarian law and human rights. Western governments’ continued military, financial, and diplomatic backing sustains Israeli crimes, allowing violations to proceed with near-total impunity and further undermining the “international legal order” they claim to defend.
When truth is assaulted and twisted in such an Orwellian fashion, monsters are inevitably created. Israel’s leaders and their Western agents, armed with some of the loudest and most well-funded propaganda machinery in the world, have seized control of Western narratives for far too long. But cracks are now widening in this facade, especially in the midst of the unfolding genocide in Gaza. Since October 2023, millions around the globe—from Tokyo to London to New York—have cast off the Zionism’s blinders, pouring into streets in unprecedented protests, numbering in the hundreds of thousands, to demand justice for Palestinians, and an end to the slaughter in Gaza.
The moment has arrived for the West, Israel’s chief enabler, to confront the deep poison of Zionism that has corrupted our politics, media, and moral compass. We must insist on real accountability from our own governments by halting the flow of military hardware and trade that sustains the violence, rigorously enforcing the ICJ’s rulings on plausible genocide, and press for Israel’s suspension or expulsion from the United Nations until it finally honors the conditions of its 1949 admission, which it has defied for decades by denying Palestinian refugees their right of return and expanding illegal settlements on occupied land.
We must expose and challenge those politicians who have been coerced, lobbied, or outright bought by pro-Israel groups, holding them to account for their complicity in Israeli crimes. Similarly, we need to confront media executives and outlets that perpetuate anti-Palestinian bias through selective reporting, language restrictions, and the erasure of Palestinian humanity. These entrenched structures of prejudice—built on decades of Zionist indoctrination—must be dismantled if we are to reclaim an honest public discourse.
Only by wresting truth back from distortion and denial can we pull back from the moral abyss into which we are sliding. Zionism’s adherents have infiltrated and degraded our societies, turning empathy into suspicion and justice into taboo. Rejecting this toxic influence is the path to restoring our shared humanity. The monster we helped birth and sustain through arms, aid, and silence must be starved of support, not continually nourished. For the sake of Palestinians enduring unimaginable suffering, and for the sake of our own souls, the cloak of complicity and darkness must finally be shed.
© 2026 The View From Here. © 2026 Fareed Khan. All Rights Reserved.
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