All Eyes On Rafah!
Rafah is a horrible situation because it’s war. An explosion happened. Civilians died. It wasn’t Israel, but as per usual, everyone blamed the Jews. Even the Jews jumped the gun this time. All the Jewish advocates blamed themselves, so accustomed to being gaslit. The IDF strike happened outside the humanitarian area, and then a Jeep packed with explosives inside the humanitarian area mysteriously set fire and ripped through the tent village. Awful. Hamas are awful.
You know what is more horrible than even Rafah? Selective outrage. So everyone is upset about civilian deaths in Gaza (reminder: caused by HAMAS). I get it. I see them. In droves. They’re so loud. Where were they on October 7? Oh they were drinking mimosas. Where were they when we released video footage of our young women being taken captive by rapist terrorists? Oh they were in the streets chanting for Free Palestine. They are the problem. This isn’t about them and their selective outrage and their Instagram stories proving they’re a good person. This is about life and death, and they are marching both Israelis and Palestinians to death at the hands of Hamas.
This here is for the morally bankrupt after the worst day online since October 7. Israel is uncovering all the evidence of a genocide on October 7 from the depths of Rafah in Southern Gaza, and guess what - the world is working overtime to stop it. And they have a new slogan to be spread across all forms of social media:
ALL EYES ON RAFAH
“All Eyes on Rafah” but the Red Cross didn’t find the bodies of the dead hostages underneath the UN buildings. Israel did.
“All Eyes on Rafah” but the UN never revealed that a tunnel system hid beneath the ground that goes into Egypt. Israel did.
“All Eyes on Rafah!” but nobody spotted the Jeep packed with Hamas explosives in the civilian area that caught fire and killed 45 people.
“All Eyes on Rafah!” but everyone is blinded by propaganda.
This is the propaganda. It appeared on everyone’s Instagram account today. I’m sure none of you escaped seeing this monstrosity in your stories. Behold, the snow-capped AI mountains of Gaza.
Yes that’s 35.3 million shares of this image. The faces in this post are people I used to be friends with. No more.
I’m not writing tonight, because instead I picked up my phone and I talked, and then I shouted. I have never given a more impassioned speech in my life:
The above infographic was probably made in China. Just like the keffiyeh they all bought on Amazon. I lost a lot of “friends” today. I counted twelve this morning. I haven’t counted since. Losers.
I live in Paris but I live in a quieter neighborhood fairly far away from the main protest areas (there tend to be specific zones where protests happen in the city : République, Saint Michel, Champs-Elysée, Rue de l'université etc). Last night, at 11pm, there was a protest that came through my street, my little tiny side-street away from anything of importance. So at 11pm on a tuesday night when I'm trying to get to sleep, I had to hear the chants and screams of mostly white liberal young people at my literal doorstep. I've felt relatively safe in Paris up until now because there were strict rules about the protests and the jewish community has security and extra security from the national government. I've gotten used to having to wait in bulletproof security vestibules before entering any kind of jewish space, sometimes using separate entrantes and exits or having bags checked. I've gotten used to the visible discretion of these places. That they often lack signs and are only noticeable by the security cameras and the mezuzot, or the French military who just *happen* to be patrolling that block with their giant guns. But it's so terrifying to see just how mobilized people are against Israel without questionning why they feel the need to be so very involved in this particular conflict and not any of the countless other tragedies happening around the world at this very moment. They seem so blinded by their unexamined antisemitism.
Devastatingly potent. Absolutely gut wrenching to watch, but the moral clarity of what you said — and the way you said it — is irrefutable. It’s hard to argue with the truth. But it’s so much easier to not seek it out, or just ignore it completely. Social media has absolutely obliterated critical thinking. By the way, where are all the eyes on Darfur, or on the concentration camps in China? I guess for those indoctrinated by TikTok, when it comes to genocide, less is more. I have so little faith in humanity. And I believe in Jewish exceptionalism more than ever. When the suicide bombings start happening in the US, all these uninformed woke idiots will regret that they weren’t sharing posts that implored that all eyes be on underneath Rafah.