Don't mention the root causes

February 11, 2026

The deadly explosion from Gaza of Palestinians was the predictable blowing of a pressure cooker. For years the roughly two million Palestinians in Gaza had been living under a full air, land and sea blockade imposed by Israel. Israel also had its hand on the taps controlling water, fuel, medicine, food and movement. Occasionally they would dial a tap down a bit. They called it cutting the grass. To preface the litany of Israeli atrocities in Gaza with a reference to the events of October 7 as the monstrous Hamas-led attack is an attempt to seize and shade the narrative.

We then move to the Bondi massacre, a clear case of murderous antisemitism. The perpetrators’ links to ISIS are apparently accepted. But what is this ISIS? Appearing after the US-led Iraq wars, could it be a Western construct to undermine the entirety of Islamic civilisation? Turn “them” all into terrorists?

The author calls out what he names anti-human ideological movements including Nazism, Stalinism, Maoism, Pol Pot-ism and Jihadist Islamism. Zionism? Don’t mention the war, but especially don’t mention the root causes. We teach the Holocaust. We do not teach the Nakba.