We are a unique generation — one that has borne witness to a genocide being live-broadcast to the world. More than 72,000 people, the majority of them women and children, have been killed in Gaza in broad daylight. A further 168 girls were massacred in bombings in Minab, yet not a single country issued even a word of condemnation.
We are a generation that cannot claim ignorance. Every generation before us had its excuse — the cables never arrived, the newspapers were controlled, the archives remained sealed for decades. We had none of that. We watched it unfold live: a genocide carried out by the very people whose modern national identity was built upon the memory of being victims of the Holocaust.
I have always wondered how it was possible that thousands of innocents were slaughtered by the Nazis in broad daylight while the world looked away. Now, watching how so many in the West rationalise and defend the genocide in Gaza and the bombing of a girls’ school in Minab, I think I finally have my answer. It is profoundly disgusting and disturbing — not a failure of knowledge, but a failure of morals. Fake values. Leaders who sold their souls for Zionist money.
Today is Arafah — a day of profound spiritual significance to billions of Muslims across the world, across all sects and cultures. It is the 9th day of the final month of the Islamic lunar calendar. According to Islamic tradition, this is the day Prophet Abraham received absolute certainty — Arafa — that his dream commanding him to sacrifice his son Ishmael was a true and explicit command from God, not a whisper of the Devil. He had first seen the dream on previous day and spent that entire day in deep contemplation and uncertainty. It was only on seeing the same dream a second night that all doubt dissolved. The word Arafah itself carries that meaning — to know, to recognise, to become certain.
The next day, the 10th, is Eid al-Adha — when Abraham and Ishmael walked toward the place of sacrifice, when the Devil was stoned at the Jamarat, and when God, having witnessed the fullness of Abraham’s surrender, replaced Ishmael with a ram. Eid al-Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice, commemorates not merely an act, but a three-day inner journey — from doubt, to certainty, to complete submission.
It was also on this same plain of Arafah, standing before 100,000 companions during his Farewell Pilgrimage, that the Prophet Muhammad delivered his Farewell Sermon — a speech that abolished the distinctions of race, tribe, and lineage in a single address: “No Arab has superiority over a non-Arab, and no non-Arab has superiority over an Arab. No white person is superior over a black person, and no black person is superior over a white person — except through righteousness and good deeds.”
Consider this, approximately 30% of the world’s population identifies as Muslim — around 2.4 billion people. Of the 22 Arab countries, only one — Libya, a nation with no functioning central government — formally joined the ICJ genocide case against Israel. Out of 57 Muslim-majority countries in the world, only 4 filed at the court. Four. There were thousands of protests and rallies against this genocide across every continent — from the Australian coast to the Scottish Highlands to the streets of America — and yet virtually none from the Arab world.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov recently remarked that many leaders appear to “fear Donald Trump more than they fear Allah.” He was not wrong.
What Abraham’s test was really about. It was never about the blade. It was about whether the soul, when pressed to its absolute limit, would choose God over everything else. Looking at the leaders of the world today, the answer is painfully clear. They chose otherwise. They chose the deal. They chose the bribe. They betrayed their brothers and sisters. They fight each other along sectarian lines while allying with the very enemies of their own people. Many of these leaders sold their souls and their dignity out of cowardice.
More disgusting still are the leaders who continue to wag their tails before a filthy, narcissistic, psychopathic American president, and before an Israeli Prime Minister who is a war criminal — a man who has lobbied for wars across the Middle East and inflicted generational destruction upon the region, and who many serious Western historians, legal scholars, and public intellectuals have identified as one of the most dangerous and destructive figures of the modern era.
A Parallel Reality
On 29 December 2023, South Africa filed a landmark case at the International Court of Justice — the United Nations’ highest court — accusing Israel of violating the 1948 Genocide Convention through its military campaign in Gaza. It was the first time a state had brought such a case against Israel, and the filing was historic in both its legal weight and its moral symbolism: a nation that had lived under apartheid, that knew from its own bones what systematic dehumanisation looked like, standing before the world’s court on behalf of another people being destroyed in real time.
We must salute the bravery of all human beings — many with no religious affiliation to Islam whatsoever — who sacrificed their jobs and, in some cases, their lives to stand on the right side of history. Among those in the West who did not sell their souls were the leaders and people of Spain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, and Belgium — vocal, consistent, and courageous when courage was costly. So too were South Africa, Namibia, and the nations of Latin America, who were collectively the loudest voices in the world.
There will be no peace in the world until Zionism — a political movement built on ethnic supremacy and sustained by the corruption of global institutions — is fully confronted. Why? Because the thread runs through the entire last century: From the First Zionist Congress in Basel (August 29 – September 3, 1897), to the founding of the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland in London (June 1899); through the carnage of World War I (1914–1918) and the pivotal Balfour Declaration (November 2, 1917) during World war 1; through the fragile years of the Weimar Republic (1919–1933), the rise of the Third Reich (1933–1945), and the full catastrophe of World War II (1939–1945); through the founding of the State of Israel (May 14, 1948) and the simultaneous catastrophe of the Nakba — the forced displacement of over 700,000 Palestinians (1947–1949); through the founding of AIPAC in Washington (1954) and the decades-long ideological and proxy battlegrounds of the Cold War (1947–1991); through the Soviet collapse (December 25, 1991) and the vast power vacuum it tore open across — and into the relentless wars that have since been unleashed across the Middle East for Israel, from the Gulf War (1990–1991) through the invasions of Afghanistan (October 7, 2001) and Iraq (March 20, 2003), the destruction of Libya (2011), the proxy war in Syria (2011–present), and the ongoing siege and devastation of Gaza (October 7, 2023–present): now with Iran, each event precisely dated, each chapter distinct, yet each one linked, each one a node in the same enduring and deliberate strategic architecture.
