Arie Hordijk

Hola, soy palestino. 🇵🇸 Y como la honestidad es poco común en mi política, permítanme confesar algunas cosas. 1947. La ONU me ofreció un estado. Junto a Israel. Fronteras, independencia, reconocimiento. Dije que no. Mis líderes prometieron que la guerra "arrojaría a los judíos al mar". En cambio, lo perdí todo y lo llamaron catástrofe. No porque no me ofrecieran un estado, sino porque lo rechacé. 1948–2025. Los estados árabes podrían haberme integrado, dado derechos, pasaportes, dignidad. En cambio, me encerraron en campos de refugiados durante generaciones, para que siguiera siendo un arma contra Israel. Construyeron palacios para ellos y cárceles para mí. Me usaron como propaganda, no como personas. 1967. Tras otra guerra perdida, podría haber construido un estado en Cisjordania y Gaza. En cambio, insistí en "ni paz, ni reconocimiento, ni negociaciones". Tres noes. Cincuenta años después, sigo sin Estado. Resulta que el rechazo no paga el alquiler. Oslo, década de 1990. Israel dijo: «Intentémoslo». Me dio autonomía. Armas para la policía. Miles de millones en ayuda. ¿Qué hicieron mis líderes? Robaron el dinero, armaron milicias y lanzaron una intifada. Atentados suicidas en lugar de escuelas. Cohetes en lugar de fábricas. Gaza, 2005. Israel se fue por completo. Sin colonos, sin soldados. Tuve la oportunidad de convertir Gaza en un Singapur mediterráneo. Voté por Hamás. La convirtieron en Mogadiscio junto al mar. ¿Miles de millones en ayuda? Túneles, cohetes y palacios para sus líderes, mientras mi gente come comida enlatada en la oscuridad. ¿Democracia? No he tenido elecciones en casi 20 años. Hamás mata a los disidentes en Gaza. Fatah los encarcela en Cisjordania. Mis líderes cancelan elecciones porque están demasiado ocupados luchando por el poder. Religión. En lugar de construir un futuro, pongo a clérigos en televisión enseñando a los niños a odiar a los judíos. Glorifico a los "mártires" que hacen estallar autobuses. Crío a mis hijos con canciones de sangre y fuego en lugar de libros y ciencia. Cambio la esperanza por la guerra santa. Mundo árabe. Los regímenes árabes me llaman "hermano". Pero pregúntenles cuántos palestinos pueden vivir libremente en Líbano, Siria, Egipto o Kuwait. Me excluyen, pero celebran mi muerte, porque mi muerte es su excusa. Absurdo. Sigo diciendo que quiero "construir un estado". E irónicamente, justo al lado está Israel: el vecino que construyó una democracia próspera, una potencia tecnológica, granjas en el desierto, ciudades de polvo. Sin petróleo, sin riqueza infinita, solo coraje. Podría haber aprendido, copiado, colaborado. En cambio, elegí la envidia y la rabia. Obsesión antijudía. Podría haber aceptado a los judíos como vecinos. Podría haber dicho: "Dos naciones, dos estados". En cambio, repito: "Del río al mar". En lugar de exhibir el honor, la hospitalidad y la rica cultura árabe, mostré solo la cultura de la espada: la ira, el extremismo y la sangre. En lugar de gritar salaam (paz) a los israelíes, grité muerte a los judíos. Y luego finjo sorprenderme cuando los israelíes no confían en mí, cuando están enojados, decepcionados y convencidos de que no quiero coexistencia en absoluto. Responsabilidad. Culpo a Israel de todo. Siempre. ¿Mis líderes roban miles de millones? Culpa de Israel. ¿Hamás dispara cohetes desde hospitales? Culpa de Israel. ¿Glorifico la muerte más que la vida? Culpa de Israel. La responsabilidad no es mi fuerte. Soy palestino. Podría haber construido una nación, muchas veces. Elegí el rechazo, la corrupción y la guerra sin fin. Podría haber vivido en paz con Israel, pero elegí vivir a la sombra de su destrucción. Así que sí, soy una víctima. Pero con demasiada frecuencia, soy víctima de mis propios líderes, de mis propias decisiones y de mi propia negativa a abandonar el odio. Y esa, querido lector, es la tragedia que nadie quiere admitir.

I fear that my life is in grave danger in Gaza in the days ahead. I cannot reveal the details publicly, but I am genuinely afraid of what may happen to me. I am asking the international community, journalists, human rights organizations, and anyone with the power to help: Please help me evacuate Gaza before it is too late. I do not want to become another name on a list of the dead. I want the chance to survive, to live in safety, and to continue my life beyond this war. Please do not wait until something happens to me to take my situation seriously.

#ICYMI: British Islamic Content Creator Muhammad Saifullah: If I Were the PM, I Would Execute Homosexuals, Stone Adulterers & Torture Apostates to Death; Osama Bin Laden Represented Islam and Defended His Country; Israelis Are Worse Than Cockroaches, Jews Are Evil Satanic People

Is Hamas Becoming a Global Identity Vehicle? Support for Hamas has morphed into a transnational phenomenon that is not just about being “pro-Palestine.” Instead, Hamas and what it represents have become a form of rebellious identity expression and a vessel for a sprawling mix of grievances: ideological, economic, cultural, and psychological. Its jihadist violence is being repackaged as a catch‑all outlet for anti‑Western, anti‑capitalist, anti‑white, and antisemitic politics. Whether it is leftism or Islamism, the “resistance” narrative that Hamas ostensibly represents has become quite a normalized interpretation of how to think about October 7 and the past two decades in Gaza, while erasing Palestinian agency, responsibility, and accountability. The inability to truly understand the complexities and actual details of the Israel and Palestine conflict is why so many support Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and the Iranian regime, all of whom are somehow seen as correcting or challenging white-centric dominance and colonialism. The third anniversary of October 7 exposed the scale of this shift. Large crowds in American and European cities used the worst day for Jews since the Holocaust and the most disastrous day in Palestinian history to flaunt their support for violent Islamist extremism. To understand the extent to which the “pro-Palestine” industrial complex has mutated and created out-of-control monsters, consider how incredibly damaging and self-sabotaging the pro-Hamas rallies and actions were. They deliberately chose to brand the Palestinian cause as inseparable from the bloodshed, hostage‑taking, and fascistic jihad of 10/7. These Western pro‑Hamas demonstrators are erasing any distinction between Palestinians and a terror organization that has devastated Palestinian society far more than it ever harmed Israelis. Their behavior naturally triggers an instinctive backlash: a hardening of attitudes, a dismissal of Palestinian suffering, and a collapse of sympathy for legitimate Palestinian grievances. Compounding the problem is the statistically confirmed fact that large segments of the Arab, Muslim, and Palestinian diaspora communities have been unable or unwilling to counter this trend. Some have joined it outright, embracing the “resistance” narrative or hiding behind slogans like “this didn’t begin on October 7” to avoid confrontation with the anti‑Zionist machinery that dominates the “pro‑Palestine” space and to not be called “Zionists” or “traitors” by other members of the community. With diaspora communities paralyzed, universities compromised, and basic civic norms eroded, national‑level responses are now essential. Support for Hamas remains strong three years after October 7 and is growing more entrenched. Think ahead five or ten years: persistent economic strain, deeper ideological radicalization, and expanding networks of Islamist and far‑left extremism. What happens when those marching for Hamas begin entering governments, militaries, financial institutions, and other levers of power? What happens when already‑radicalized youth, with no off‑ramps, continue believing the West, Jews, and Zionists are their mortal enemies? Even if a tiny fraction – less than one‑tenth of one percent – turn to violence, the resulting instability could eclipse that of ISIS and al-Qaeda combined. A coordinated national strategy is overdue – not to suppress legitimate debate on Israel and Palestine, but to draw firm boundaries and stop tolerating the intolerable. This video shows just a small sample of pro-Hamas rallies in major US and European cities two days ago, on October 7.

🔥 RARE MOMENT OF TRUTH AT UNITED NATIONS: As world leaders used the UN podium to condemn Israel, we invited courageous Yemeni journalist @JustLuai to tell the truth: “Our problem in the Middle East is neither Israel nor the Jews. It is the Islamist dictatorships.”

Hamas’s October 7 attack against Israel began with more than 4,000 rockets fired from across the Gaza Strip: residential blocks, neighborhoods, farms, refugee camps, near schools, markets, and medical facilities – every layer of civilian life turned into a launch grid. Gazans had no say in any of it. Launchers were hidden underground or by brushes, trees, or shrubs, without consent; only Hamas operatives knew the locations to maintain maximum operational security. Some rocket tubes and racks were reused while others were disposable. In the ensuing hours, days, and months, Israel then struck the launching points which were detectable using Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities, with predictable and often lethal consequences for nearby civilians. Worse, Hamas and PIJ rockets malfunctioned at staggering rates: roughly 15 to 20% fell inside Gaza, killing Palestinians in incidents that were almost never acknowledged as cases of “friendly fire.” People will debate Israel’s response endlessly, and there is a real and substantive conversation to be had – I have been a proponent of this debate myself. But International Humanitarian Law (IHL) is unambiguous: civilian sites lose protection once used for military purposes. The below video captures one of the many initial rocket salvos on 10/7 launched from a residential neighborhood and the recording Gazans stating that "we're gonna eat sh*t after this." So I ask again for the millionth time: when will anyone in the self‑described “pro‑Palestine” space confront Hamas for compromising the safety of Gazans and essentially turning them into defenseless, unwilling, and unconsenting targets/participants in its war of choice that it started against Israel on October 7? Who gave Hamas that right to sacrifice tens of thousands of Palestinian Muslim and Christian lives? How dare the pro-Hamas activists in the Western world who celebrate the "resistance" turn a blind eye to this most horrific and scandalous fact while pretending to be “pro-Palestine”? Where are the Arab, Palestinian, and Muslim-American groups, organizations, community spaces, and those who proclaim to care about Gazans from this crime against the Palestinian people? Accountability will come for Hamas’s crimes and for those who chose silence — in this life and in the next. وَقِفُوهُمْ ۖ إِنَّهُم مَّسْئُولُونَ "And stop them, for they must be questioned." As-Saffat (37:24)

In Trouw las ik het hoopvolle verhaal van Maoz Inon en Aziz Abu Sarah. De Israëliër Maoz Inon verloor zijn ouders op 7 oktober.  De Palestijn Aziz Abu Sarah verloor zijn broer door marteling in een Israëlische gevangenis. (6/8)

This is important 🚨 Woman who left Islam says she goes to coffee shops in New York City and exposes they are giving out free Qurans to Americans to convert them to Islam She has the Quran and shows it’s a heavily edited version that’s been “made for Western audiences” that literally lies about Islam and makes it much more appealing “The problem with this Quran is that it is meant to target a Western audience. And when you read through this Quran, it is heavily sanitized, and it has notes and commentaries that interpret verses, and it is like heavily, heavily sanitized. So when you're reading a problematic verse, it will interpret it the way it is not supposed to be interpreted, but it is targeting specifically a Western audience. So you as an American, when you pick up this copy and when you start reading it and when you start reading the notes, you will be shocked. You will be like, oh, I was wrong about Islam. This is actually a great religion. I didn't know that's what it meant. I was lied to” But she explains how it’s written is all a lie and written as propaganda for Americans to convert to Islam “When you are an average American who doesn't know anything about Islam or has never traveled to the Middle East, you are a target. If you pick up this book, if you go on ChatGPT, if you go even on TikTok and search these things, Islam is going to be painted in a completely different picture, in a completely different way. That's why there's so many people white people who are converting to Islam because they're not getting the full truth” The differences are WILD. In this version of the Quran being given out in America they removed the part that lets men discipline women with physical force. It removed the part where it tells Muslims to kill nonbelievers. The jizya which is the nonbeliever tax in Islam, it’s framed as optional, which is a lie. The examples go on and on and I’ll include them at the end They are mass indoctrinated Americans into Islam by giving them fake Quran books