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It is six months since October 7. For six months, IRI proxy Hamas has had the upper hand in our mainstream media, in the realm of “international law” and in the eyes of NGOs, and Iran has used this moment on the world stage to galvanize as much attention as possible to indoctrinate the world with blood libel and classic antisemitism masked as “criticism of Israel/Bibi Netanyahu”. Twitter has become a cesspit of the worst abuse I have ever witnessed in my life. What is out of the bag cannot be put back in.

I witnessed the October 7 footage – what is happening to Westerners via this mind-washing is an adoption of sadistic, terrorist behaviors. The liberally minded are becoming the cruelest and least moral people in our midst. Social alienation is the most traumatic thing you can do to people, and they take pleasure in shunning anyone who falls out of line, in a way that has eerie resemblance to religious fundamentalism. They have become soulless maggots in a factory line, ushering in the end of days, while buying Instagram followers and faking their own engagement to appear more popular and important than they are. What a sad, pathetic reality.

I have been to the Gaza envelope. I have witnessed the atrocities of October 7 with my own eyes, and I have received first-hand reporting on what is going on in Gaza every single day for the last six months. The amount of evidence against Hamas is embarrassing. The amount of justification for the IDF’s war is overwhelming. The extent of propaganda coming out of Gaza, issued by Hamas, and making its way into mainstream media is the greatest example of disinformation we have yet to experience. I say this as someone who has narrowly escaped a fair few disinformation campaigns, but the memories of so many people are short.

Has there ever been a war in modern times in which the country at war against terrorists has been on trial daily in the media and by international bodies? No there has not. It is exclusively reserved for the only Jewish state that exists. THAT has been the biggest pill to swallow: the undeniable return of globalized antisemitism. We are the canary in the coalmine. Antisemitism is the litmus test for a healthy society. We need you to resist this. We need you to speak up. All there is left to do is win this war, eradicate Hamas, bring home the hostages and ensure that the West remains a place of freedom and decency, for all people who stand against the scourge of moral narcissism; an ideology that hasn’t been this popular since Nazi Germany.

I am confident that the times we live in are even more treacherous than those of Nazi Germany. The potential to expand the disease of antisemitism is beyond anything Goebbels could have dreamed of. Every day, my Twitter feed is there to harass and dehumanize me, reminding me of the increased spread of this virus. My email inbox is flooded with hate. One of my accounts was compromised by a hacker, and receives thousands of hate mail per day. Out in the streets, I am launched at by people in keffiyeh. In my private world I am increasingly cast out. On Twitter the hate is not just coming from bots. Real people too. And yet the strangers who harass me are not anywhere near as contemptible as the people I know - journalists, lawyers, feminists, etc - who have made the war their daily hobby, and who passively aggressively post blood libels. Even when I’m not the target, it feels personal to me. I trust my gut. It is personal to me. I don’t believe in coincidences and I can smell jealousy like a shark sensing blood in water.

Since October 7, I have lost even more than I ever thought possible. For the five years prior, the progressive Nazis did everything in their power to erase my entire life story, all of my contributions to the world of art, music and culture and completely delegitimise my value as a once globally celebrated journalist. Without any legitimacy as a journalist, they can dismiss everything I now write as the musings of a talentless hack. And they often do. This morning I received a grotesque email advising me to learn how to read before I put pen to paper again. Alas, I am a journalist with dozens upon dozens of cover stories to my name. I wrote covers and primary features every week for years; for The Guardian, New York Magazine, Time Out New York, Time Out London, NME, Q, Pitchfork, GQ, ELLE, The Sunday Times, Observer, The Telegraph, Grazia, LA Weekly, NPR, BBC online, and many, many more. I was the youngest ever gunslinger to become Deputy Editor of the NME, the biggest music weekly in the world. I was the safe pair of hands for hundreds of celebrities and artists, managers and publicists, and beyond. The only way that my voice could be diminished was by a full-scale attack to entirely delegitimize the once hugely loved and popular me. And that is what happened. I was publicly annihilated before the eyes of all who witnessed, including those who knew it was all a pack of lies, but they did not resist it in public because they were afraid of the consequences. I was collateral for their false sense of security.

Like I say, since October 7, I’ve experienced further echoes of this; the rewriting of my contributions, my history, my place among my peers. The spread of misinformation about the danger of me, despite the amount I offer, with no shrapnel of concrete evidence. I have lost things I never anticipated losing. The influence of antisemites who latch themselves onto others like leeches in an attempt to suck all remnants of goodness and loyalty from them is not a figment of our own personal hysteria. Antisemites are experts at this, striking in the heat of chaos to instill fear and panic among our communities. No connection should be coerced by these means, but this is how cult radicalization happens. And by the time the victim realizes, it is often too late to undo the damage.

The surest way for any go-getter to get ahead right now is to promote antisemitism and pretend that they’re merely outraged by the war in Gaza. People with zero integrity are happy to do this to earn their keep and anoint themselves heroes in the community of the good. Heil Hitler. It’s meaningless. They are morality narcissists, using the pain of others to get ahead. They are not helping the Palestinians, they are doing what they do to all they purport to “help”; they are isolating the Palestinians further, as they isolate all people they dig their claws into. They are driving the Palestinians towards Hamas, and away from Israel. And Israel is the only player with the power to establish statehood for the Palestinians (Hamas certainly have never). It’s not the NGOs, or the international lawyers, or the United Nations who will established a Palestinian state. It is Israel, and only Israel. Everyone else is busy profiting off the hatred that Hamas is drumming up. How much do you think South Africa’s lawyers are making in the case against Israel at the ICJ?

This week, we have seen the worst of it. The folks, including propagandists masked as journalists, and attention-seekers masked as international lawyers have rubbed their knees in glee over the deaths of seven aid workers in Gaza. An accidental death that the IDF has claimed responsibility for and taken disciplinary action towards all who were accountable. They have spoken the names of the dead in vain to further their antisemitic agendas. These people have said nothing - ever - about October 7, or the hostages in Gaza. The hostages are emblematic of how powerless we are to save lives. It’s also emblematic of how hypocritical the people are who perform a projection almost every day that their work saves lives. They don’t advocate for victims, they prey on victims to serve their own egos. If only those narcissistic “advocates” would join our scream, maybe we could do the impossible.

I’ll never not be shocked by how little integrity matters to the people who claim they represent others. I’ll never not be dismayed by how little “liberals” care to understand any Jewish perspective that takes them out of their comfort zone. If I had my way they wouldn’t be allowed near the vulnerable. The most malicious, morally repugnant groups of bullies are progressives - worse even than Mens Rights Activists. How can the same group of people who are positively fascist about kindness and empathy be the most abusive people in every discussion? Maybe they're full of shit.

Please pay attention to the red flags. Red flag: your humanitarian pal has never mentioned the hostages, the atrocities of violence against women and girls on October 7 or terrorist organization Hamas. Red flag: your do-gooder hero feigns empathy to virtue signal the position of least risk while presenting that they're participating in a defiant resistance against the powers that be. Red flag: in the same breath your charitable friend ostracizes and freezes out anyone who stands to expose their grift.

A few days ago, international lawyer Natasha Hausdorff returned to eviscerate the media bias. Watch all ten minutes of this:

Natasha Hausdorff puts it perfectly. International law is being abused by international lawyers and the media in order to delegitimize Israel – and this is to the detriment of all law-abiding states. So whether or not international lawyers have antisemitic intent, and I would argue that it's more likely than not, their participation in abusing the law to sentence Israel to crimes she has not committed against a terrorist regime, and to stop a war against an Iranian terror proxy without any agreement from Hamas to return the hostages, lay down arms and agree to abandon the dream of destroying the Jewish state entirely, is treacherous. Not merely for Israel, but for the state of international law in the face of terrorism, full stop. International lawyers are normalizing the misuse of international human rights law to prevent law-abiding democracies from defending themselves against terrorist regimes. This isn’t about abusing the law to merely silence civilians under attack; it’s about abusing the law to leave them for dead.

If this continues, there will never be a legitimate war fought by the West against Islamist terrorism. That is the truth, and I am kindly putting it to you, to the detriment of my own continued existence.

To my Jewish brothers and sisters, I know you are deflated, but remember this. We are right, and history always shows it. We are not just fighting for our lives and for the truth, but we are fighting for humanity as a whole, for common decency, for acceptance of reality. We stand tall against the lies and deceit and betrayal. We fight for our own as we have consistently fought for the communities around us. We fight when it is unpopular to do so — for ourselves and our neighbors. We take risks like no other. They who purport to be moral gatekeepers are not like us. We are not the same. We fight because it is the right thing to do, despite what it costs us. Israel is the only nation that stands between the West and Jihadist terrorism. They will know it before long. To quote my once favorite Twitter user Claire Voltaire:

“The world has forgiven Germany for an industrial scale genocide against Jews, but will never forgive Israel for winning a war they didn’t start.”

My biggest wish for this is that this essay and these words I’ve ushered in the last six months don’t become another cause for people to apologize to me years from now after they’ve seen the light. We don’t have years. We have months. We have weeks. We have days. We have minutes. We have seconds. This has already unravelled to a point of no return. We don’t have a moment to waste.

Here I am a few days ago with Hillel Neuer, another hero and truth defender. Hillel is the head of United Nations watchdog UN Watch, and he does the job of the United Nations according to the wishes of Eleanor Roosevelt, who is now turning in her grave over what the so-called protectors of humanity have become.

Shabbat shalom. We Jews have to maintain hope. But we need all of our allies to stand strong next to us right now. Please don’t abandon us. In doing so, you will abandon yourselves.