Hate wins elections in 2025

I am not surprised by Trump and Netanyahu’s announcement that Palestinians will be forcibly removed from Gaza. I am a little surprised that Trump said the USA will own Gaza. I am sure Netanyahu was as well, and I am not sure his right-wing cabinet will concur. Jared Kushner was salivating at the land grab of Gaza last year, his views stated publicly. 

But to hear it spoken is an act of such violence, my stomach dropped 1000 feet. To know that certain groups of people around the world will be cheering this is hard to comprehend.

To see the leader of Israel, someone whose family suffered the horrors of ethnic cleansing, endorse ethnic cleansing is another level of hypocrisy. Yet he is the profit of apartheid and genocide, so any morals he may have had are husks wrapped in cruelty.

Is it time to take to the streets yet? As my country refuses to let someone wearing a kefiyah into its Parliament, and the hand-wringing for the rise of antisemitism is a political football, where one side weaponises the horror of any form of racial discrimination to gain points and increases the hate towards Muslims and other black and brown people. Because this is the Trump playing card, and it seems to win elections. Which is so disturbing to me. 

Hate wins elections in 2025.

Is this the best of humanity? This hate? The ability to say one group of people are animals and need to be exterminated? 

If Trump and Netanyahu start this action, then anyone who cares about dignity, justice and equality for all life, must take to the streets. 

Too much has been written in history about this exact moment when the people agree to atrocities. 

We know what happens after that. 

The horror will consume us all. 

Photo January 30th, Article written February 6th 2025.