The Machinery of Hypocrisy - Truth Buried Under Sanitized Narratives
We live in an age where power brands dissent as terrorism while financing occupation and genocide abroad. Today marks a deadline, set by Attorney General Pam Bondi, for federal law enforcement agencies to deliver their intelligence files on Antifa activities to the FBI. The Trump administration continues to paint dissent as treason — weaponizing fear — labeled as “left-wing domestic terrorism” and looking to revoke citizenship from naturalized citizens under “foreign operatives” classification.
Former FBI officials warn that the hunt for “foreign operatives” is little more than a pretext to surveil American political speech. Yet the irony is glaring: while Washington scrutinizes activists for foreign ties, its own political bloodstream is saturated with AIPAC money and unconditional support for Israel’s occupation — turning Congress into Knesset. Hypocrisy doesn’t whisper here — it screams.
Meanwhile, Charles Kushner, U.S. Ambassador to France and father of Trump’s son-in-law, laments that nearly half of French youth have never heard of the Holocaust. His concern is valid, but the framing is selective. History, written by victors, is wielded as a moral cudgel rather than a balanced account.
Jewish lives lost in WWII must be remembered, but so too must the lives of others, the colonial subjects sacrificed by Churchill’s empire, and the broader truths buried under sanitized narratives. To question history is not to deny it — it is to demand honesty. Yet honesty is dangerous when it threatens the mythology sustaining modern power structures, including the very foundations of the Israeli state.
The absurdity deepens with the U.S. Coast Guard’s decision to downgrade swastika from “hate symbols” to “potentially divisive.” If the swastika is merely divisive, what then of the Israeli flag — two triangles enshrining a regime of blood and territorial conquest?
Symbols are tolerated or condemned not by their meaning, but by the convenience of those in power. The double standard is grotesque.
And while America debates symbols, Israel builds facts on the ground. Plans to erect 9,000 new housing units in East Jerusalem’s abandoned Qalandiya airport are not urban development — they are acts of erasure. Each illegal settlement slices Palestinian land into fragments, strangling the dream of a contiguous state. This is not policy; it is annexation by concrete.
Since October 2023, Israel’s genocidal crusade on Gaza has killed more than 70,000 people, while raids and settler violence ravage the West Bank. Journalists, doctors, children — none spared. Humanity stripped from Palestinians, their suffering dismissed as collateral, their resistance branded as terrorism.
Even international solidarity is criminalized. A Canadian parliamentary delegation was barred from entering the West Bank, accused of ties to humanitarian organizations Israel labels “terrorist.” For the occupier, anyone who dares to help the occupied is suspect.
The regime’s narrative is enforced globally, dissent extinguished with precision. The world watches as Palestinian voices are bulldozed — sometimes literally — while plans for majestic golf courses and largest amusement parks are drawn to rise on their graves.
This is the machinery of hypocrisy: America surveils its own citizens in the name of freedom, while financing occupation abroad. Israel expands settlements under the guise of legality, while branding compassion as terrorism. Symbols are manipulated, history is weaponized, and truth is suffocated. The Palestinian struggle is not just against occupation — it is against a global system that rewards the occupier and punishes the oppressed.
And as the nights grow longer, the weight of these hypocrisies presses down. Sleep offers no refuge — only nightmares of bulldozed children, of cities turned to ash, of humanity erased. The world may avert its eyes, but the struggle endures. Palestinians remain, scarred yet unbroken, a living testament to resistance against a system that thrives on silence.
Author: Mel Reese
EMAIL ADDRESS:
melreese72[at]outlook[dot]com
We live in an age where power brands dissent as terrorism while financing occupation and genocide abroad. Today marks a deadline, set by Attorney General Pam Bondi, for federal law enforcement agencies to deliver their intelligence files on Antifa activities to the FBI. The Trump administration continues to paint dissent as treason — weaponizing fear — labeled as “left-wing domestic terrorism” and looking to revoke citizenship from naturalized citizens under “foreign operatives” classification.
Former FBI officials warn that the hunt for “foreign operatives” is little more than a pretext to surveil American political speech. Yet the irony is glaring: while Washington scrutinizes activists for foreign ties, its own political bloodstream is saturated with AIPAC money and unconditional support for Israel’s occupation — turning Congress into Knesset. Hypocrisy doesn’t whisper here — it screams.
Meanwhile, Charles Kushner, U.S. Ambassador to France and father of Trump’s son-in-law, laments that nearly half of French youth have never heard of the Holocaust. His concern is valid, but the framing is selective. History, written by victors, is wielded as a moral cudgel rather than a balanced account.
Jewish lives lost in WWII must be remembered, but so too must the lives of others, the colonial subjects sacrificed by Churchill’s empire, and the broader truths buried under sanitized narratives. To question history is not to deny it — it is to demand honesty. Yet honesty is dangerous when it threatens the mythology sustaining modern power structures, including the very foundations of the Israeli state.
The absurdity deepens with the U.S. Coast Guard’s decision to downgrade swastika from “hate symbols” to “potentially divisive.” If the swastika is merely divisive, what then of the Israeli flag — two triangles enshrining a regime of blood and territorial conquest?
Symbols are tolerated or condemned not by their meaning, but by the convenience of those in power. The double standard is grotesque.
And while America debates symbols, Israel builds facts on the ground. Plans to erect 9,000 new housing units in East Jerusalem’s abandoned Qalandiya airport are not urban development — they are acts of erasure. Each illegal settlement slices Palestinian land into fragments, strangling the dream of a contiguous state. This is not policy; it is annexation by concrete.
Since October 2023, Israel’s genocidal crusade on Gaza has killed more than 70,000 people, while raids and settler violence ravage the West Bank. Journalists, doctors, children — none spared. Humanity stripped from Palestinians, their suffering dismissed as collateral, their resistance branded as terrorism.
Even international solidarity is criminalized. A Canadian parliamentary delegation was barred from entering the West Bank, accused of ties to humanitarian organizations Israel labels “terrorist.” For the occupier, anyone who dares to help the occupied is suspect.
The regime’s narrative is enforced globally, dissent extinguished with precision. The world watches as Palestinian voices are bulldozed — sometimes literally — while plans for majestic golf courses and largest amusement parks are drawn to rise on their graves.
This is the machinery of hypocrisy: America surveils its own citizens in the name of freedom, while financing occupation abroad. Israel expands settlements under the guise of legality, while branding compassion as terrorism. Symbols are manipulated, history is weaponized, and truth is suffocated. The Palestinian struggle is not just against occupation — it is against a global system that rewards the occupier and punishes the oppressed.
And as the nights grow longer, the weight of these hypocrisies presses down. Sleep offers no refuge — only nightmares of bulldozed children, of cities turned to ash, of humanity erased. The world may avert its eyes, but the struggle endures. Palestinians remain, scarred yet unbroken, a living testament to resistance against a system that thrives on silence.
Author: Mel Reese
EMAIL ADDRESS:
melreese72[at]outlook[dot]com