Jinki Cambronero

A word of advice for people on the side of Palestine and humanity: The big push to re-legitimize Israel has begun. History-faking lies and propaganda will be slammed in our faces 24/7 now, and censorship of voices and deletion of evidence will reach a peak soon. We are entering a new Middle Ages, where the Zionist Church will use all its immense power to reshape and rewrite the narrative and our collective memory. It will be brutal and relentless. 'Palestine is real and occupied, and Israel has committed a genocide' is the new 'the earth revolves around the sun, and not the other way around' (and Zionism's attempt to suppress the truth will be as successful as the Catholic Church was in censoring Galileo and heliocentrism). What can we do to fight this? The best way to fight Zionist propaganda (which is based on sophistry and has no concrete, defensible belief) is to never engage with its current talking point. Instead, we should stick to simple, commonly acknowledged, irrefutable facts. Do Palestinians still live under occupation? Are Palestinians living in Jerusalem citizens of Israel? Are Palestinians free to exit and reenter Gaza at will? Is Israel still building and expanding settlements? What are Israel's set borders according to Israel's own vision? Specifically, as they focus on the Gaza 'peace' nonsense, pouring tons of confusion and obfuscation on it, refocus on the West Bank without losing sight of Gaza or Palestine as one indivisible political and cultural unit. We need to develop and maintain an agenda (with legal, social media, diplomatic, and cultural implications) that is totally independent of the current PR campaign Zionism is waging. When they try to re-legitimize, we should not follow their narrative lead into the shifting sands of contemporary Zionist yada yada. We should lead with our own story and incorruptible standards: what is the status of Palestinians now? What gives Israel the right to force a military dictatorship on them for 60 years? Lastly, a special effort should be made to move Americans from 'I don't like my country's support for Israel, and the power Israel has over my country' to 'I need to be active and involved in righting the wrong my country helped Israel do unto the Palestinians'. No one must be allowed neutrality on Palestine: it is the cornerstone of 21st-century human freedom. If Western and Jewish elites are allowed to wipe off an ethnic group from existence and global consciousness in this digital and connected era, then humanity, especially in the West, is doomed.