No Christmas in Bethlehem: A Christmas Story

Jewish Supremacist Terrorism, the Grotesque Inversion of “Feeling Unsafe” and WCNSF

Christmas Shopping, Nativity Scenes and the Semites of Bethlehem

Gaza has been declared numerous times, to be the deadliest and most dangerous place in the world to be a child by numerous human rights organisations such as UNICEF.

The footage is by now too prevalent for people to deny having seen, as are the multiple testimonies of international doctors and surgeons – Palestinian children sniped in different body parts every day, toddlers with amputated limbs, babies with burns from white phosphorus.

As we again approach Christmas and the mindless worship of the cult of consumerism at the shrine of capitalism in all its glory, the glut, excess and bloated overindulgence - it seems timely to remind the majority of people of an unassailable truth: there is no Christmas in Bethlehem.

The forgetting of traditions in unbridled pursuit of materialism presents us with one of those ironies so ubiquitous in our modern culture, one where the birthplace of the figure who is supposedly celebrated through this occasion is a mere abstraction, to be commemorated if anything with little nativity scene model reconstructions complete with hay, shepherds and cradle; pretty hymns in lit up chapels by cherubic children.

Meanwhile in the real Bethlehem, bloodshed and violence reign supreme; settler-sociopaths burn olive trees and beat up the elderly Palestinians who are the Semitic descendants of Jesus while continuing the genocide of the rest of the Semites of Palestine in Gaza, but at a slower pace. The children here struggle to survive each day; no cherubic hymns for our real Semitic children.

In between Nakba’s, the pace of genocide varies; all Palestinians are now displaced into the South and living in tents this winter, controlled demolitions continue to destroy what was left of their homes in Gaza City, aid is still restricted and the borders remain largely sealed and controlled by the thieves and pretenders from Europe and the US, who wish to appropriate the Semitic identity, and label the Palestinians instead, as “Arabs”.

This whole catastrophe is sustained of course, by the Western benefactors of “Israel” which is itself politically Western and culturally largely Western - but with smatterings of Middle Eastern cultural appropriation inelegantly “assimilated” into this unhappy and belligerent little state with ever expanding borders.

Where regular citizens carry around guns and images of hedonism are juxtaposed with biblical imagery into a noxious pastiche that is forced down people’s throats under the familiar and ludicrous label: “the only democracy in the Middle East”.

In reality this democracy has sought to impose itself like a jackhammer, breaking apart fault lines and enacting destruction in its unhinged zeal to create “Greater Israel”, the most dangerous parasite of the 21^st century, shapeshifting, killing and metastatically growing, fat on the blood of children.

This is the democracy in the Middle East, imposing the colonial order of the West and doing its dirty work, whilst pimping out the “Jewish safety” alibi for the West to cloak its crimes in while it bleats “holocaust” and “never again”.

These structures of violence are undergirded by Zionism that is so closely aligned with the capitalism machine that fuels our greed and keeps us in thrall to the next new thing that propels thousands of consumers in their Christmas orgy of gluttony where the true origins of Christmas matter not.

While it can be considered a given that every Jewish supremacist celebrates the death of Palestinian children, it is the larger “grey area” of people who can make a difference because they are ordinary people without the stake of hate driven through their hearts – but they, sadly, are happy to conveniently brush over the most horrific, abhorrent and morally reprehensible crimes when they involve people who are in a land far away and look sufficiently different from themselves.

I have written many times about Gaza’s children because it has always seemed to me incomprehensible how in a world where we hold the killers, brutalizers and defilers of children in a special, subhuman category of moral judgement, the kind of regard where we don’t want to look at their faces let alone interact with them – we somehow allow ourselves to look away; and even, to glibly accept that we may rub shoulders with these killers; maybe even during our Christmas shopping sprees.

Napoli Holy Mothers of Gaza series; thank you Italy for your humanity!

A String of October 7th’s

What has unfolded in Gaza over the past two years is nothing short of a human tragedy; and yet it is only a logical continuation and extrapolation of what has gone on in Gaza for over 76 years, a sustained period of “October 7^th’s” strung together like bloody beads on a necklace of atrocity – it’s just that we never heard about those, because it was the Palestinians suffering at the hands of the colonisers.

This is a time period that does not constitute a historical turning back of the clock to some abstract point that we can scoff at and say: “let bygones be bygones” and “it’s all in the past”. It is the very real backstory of every Palestinian, a trauma that can be remembered in concrete terms – not some intergenerational hoax of imagined holocaust memory but the very real memory and everyday experience that is fundamentally embedded.

76 years is not an imaginary turning back of the clock either, to some mythical, abstract messianic golden age of delusionary superiority that conveniently skips over decades of very real, documented history in order to spit on land deeds and claim divine ownership.

The atrocities experienced by Palestinians are direct, horrendous and multiplicitous, ever present in their experience. We cannot skip over all this and crow about October 7^th when the occupier experiences for a brief moment what they have inflicted for almost a century.

If we mete out our morality upon racial lines, we are just protecting our own privilege. It seems moral blindness is a choice, of those who are complicit through their own history, and prefer to uphold their own privileged identity.

But if you have experienced your mother or father being shot, your home and olive trees burned down, your brother or sister raped in an “Israeli” “detention centre”, your children killed, maimed, injured with white phosphorus – this is not abstract, you will not forget and there are no bygones.

Take this short “selection” of atrocities and multiply them over generations, spread them over a civilian population, and then try to imagine the scale of suffering of the Palestinian people over the past almost a century.

“May Your Empathy Grow Teeth” – quote from unknown Palestine advocate.

It never fails to surprise me how entitled the West can be, and how coddled in privilege, that tiny everyday issues – the quotidian abrasions of life that inevitably arise from moving through time and space - can arouse our indignation when they are inflicted on us; but we cannot somehow place these against the larger tragic tapestry of suffering experienced by others, that we can’t see injustice for what it is, that we choose to believe the hysterical “chosen victims” rather than question our own choices.

Yes, we tend to shrink down our perspective to magnify our own sufferings, yes we sometimes forget in the thick of our own problems and yes we can become caught up in our own emotional dramas; but unless we zoom back out again, we risk losing perspective.

Not seeing the mother gathering dirt from the ground because some crumbs of bread are mixed in with it; not seeing the old man, the same age as your grandfather, displaced from his tent yet again, carrying his possessions as he walks miles in the searing heat.

Not seeing the baby covered in burns from white phosphorus malignantly dropped by “Israel”, its flares lighting up the sky, leaving dark plumes of smoke over a rubble strewn landscape, poisoning the air for the small children playing in that rubble, the soft soles of their feet grimed with the dirt from stones and sand that is ingrained with the radioactive fallout from depleted uranium shells, miniscule droplets of acid being absorbed into their lungs from the phosphorus; a thousand invisible dangers everywhere.

WCNSF is an acronym unique to Gaza, “Wounded Child, No Surviving Family”. Images of young, injured Palestinian children wandering in rubble, have been shown everywhere, and yet people are still happy to go about their business or switch the channel.

Empathy – something that we talk about a lot in the West, because the absence of any wars in the past two generations has meant that we can focus on the finer aspects of our own “suffering”, that we can wax spiritual and indulge ourselves with lofty memes and self-help manuals, we can even incorporate words like empathy into our corporate governance.

But how real is your capacity for empathy? Is it as real as the kind of suffering happening in Gaza? It isn’t indifference that the Palestinians want, but it isn’t pity either, not for a proud, resilient and eminently dignified people; it is about empathy, but empathy without action is like a soggy cardboard shell, a construct that is empty at its heart.

Yes, you may have become used to the kind of empathy that entails squeezing out tears at reality TV contestants’ “plights”, feeling empathy when a contestant gets evicted from Dancing on Ice, or even, irony of ironies, tearing up at a fictional TV character unjustly oppressed, a hero fighting all odds.

This scaling down of what is worthy of our emotions, and the amplification of the mundane everyday that inflates our emotions, leaves no space for the real and turns us into caricatures of ourselves, as well as perpetuating an absurd hypocrisy where we empathize with someone in theory but when it is real we cannot be bothered.

Let me add, that empathy for your own children doesn’t count, and is in fact just a form of self-preservation. The tears of “empathy” at reality TV shows, movies or soaps are just a form of mental masturbation, “easy empathy’ that doesn’t entail actually going deeper nor translating empathy into action.

So: may you develop real empathy, and more than this, may your empathy grow teeth.

Injustice, Iniquity and “Israel’s” Hatred of Infants: The Killing of Innocence

The first step is real, proportionate empathy, as well as using your own critical faculties to look beyond the veneer of lies that passes for “news” in the West.

Although Jewish Supremacist terrorists and their supporters will no doubt use the term “war” and declare that war zones are thus by nature unsafe places for children, we must not allow them to evade responsibility for a concerted, malicious and brutal campaign to not just kill civilians and destroy their infrastructure but to kill and maim children.

The cruelty of Jewish Supremacy is beyond comprehension, and twisted in its nature. Many people have asked me, why do they – the Jewish Supremacists – hate children so much?

The phenomenon of booby-trapped toys is unique to “Israeli” “warfare” and possibly unprecedented anywhere else. When a people who have been coddled beyond belief, given shielding and impunity and indulged in their unhinged, delusional and bigoted beliefs that they own swathes of land that are categorically unlinked to them in any concrete way whatsoever – then the outcome is morally flaccid and mentally weak creatures who see innocent children and babies as the enemy – and are prepared to kill and maim them.

Explosives disguised as water barrels have no purpose other than to kill and injure civilians desperate for water. AI drones emitting the sounds of children crying to lure Palestinians out of their tents at night, and that then shoot upon detecting movement are not weapons but the mechanistic of an abhorrent sadism that uses people’s desperation and instinct for humanity and sympathy to target them. Why are we disgusted at child killers in movies and real life, but offer them understanding when it is an “Israeli”?

Why do we try to believe disingenuous narratives about the “stress of war” making “soldiers” commit isolated acts when we see the dehumanising rhetoric from their politicians, are told time and again by objective international Doctors that children are being systematically targeted and that these orders come from above? “Israeli” PM Yitzhak Rabin said 36 years ago of Palestinian children: “break their bones”, his “broken bones policy” creating a generation of amputees even then.

This world where the truth is inverted so that the aggressor plays victim and even whilst bragging about hunting down and killing babies, claims that they feel unsafe – is a perversion of all that is right, and an inversion of human reason and emotional logic.

It is a world through a twisted looking glass, a world defined, fuelled and sustained by extraordinary malice.

Jewish supremacist Zionists worldwide, flouting their racist ideology that promotes ethno-supremacy, apartheid and genocide, proudly support the killing, are enraged by the sight of a Palestinian flag and carry simultaneous attitudes of entitlement and arrogance together with anger and victimhood complex reminiscent of the “white fragility” outlined by Robin Di Angelo in her seminal book.

It seems young Western woke kids who self-police their own language and admonish those who use the wrong pronouns, will take a couple of decades to catch on that supremacy and fragility not only go hand in hand but that white fragility is the same as Zionist fragility and feminism means feminism for all and not just the privileged.

“Feeling Unsafe”

Any belief of superiority steeped in ethnic and racial identity is a poisonous and destructive mindset that perpetuates hate towards those deemed inferior; the dehumanized objects of hatred are not allowed agency or emotion, their lives are lesser and there is an implicit disproportionality where a tiny act of defiance is met with huge punishment, notwithstanding that the “defiance” is warranted.

Hence, the ongoing farce of “feeling unsafe” by Jewish supremacist supporters of “Israel” over the past 2 years, a term that has become the motto of “Zionist fragility” as they foreground their apparent feelings of being unsafe against the backdrop of complete destruction and devastation in Gaza.

Authors like JK Rowling are recruited through her pro-“Israel” agent Neil Blair to release statements of faux-concern about Jewish children feeling unsafe going to school – this cannot happen, states JK emphatically, at a time when Gazan children have no schools left to go to, let alone food to eat or hospitals to tend to their life-changing injuries.

The repugnant Gideon Falter wasting police time insisting on crossing a road during a pro-Palestine protest, and then attempting to pin “anti-Semitism” accusations on a Metropolitan police officer. Jewish supremacists turning up to pro-Palestinian events and shrieking hysterically that they feel unsafe aided and abetted by the Western media – everybody meanwhile is ignoring them, including the Jews of conscience who are always an integral part of these protests against genocide.

Lets face it, if your primary concern is with your feelings of entitlement during a comprehensive genocide where children are being killed at a rate of at least one every hour, then you are definitively on the wrong side of history; yet foregrounding their own privileged status during a genocide is what we have, sadly, come to expect.

Apartheid, Inequality and Gleeful Genocide

There is a spate of staged “anti-Semitic” incidents from all around the world, so desperate are Zionists to prove that it is they who are being persecuted; meanwhile the stabbing of a six-year-old Palestinian boy in the US is rapidly glossed over in the news, and the racist hate crime stabbings of Raish Ahmed and Mohanad Abdullahi in September 2025 pass without a ripple, just to mention a few.

But if wearing a keffiyeh or displaying a Palestine flag, can be deemed anti-Semitic by some entities, then we can see how, just as normal people do around raging malignant narcissists, we must walk on eggshells around those who define what is acceptable and pronounce themselves arbiters of appropriateness.

This dynamic of inequality recurs everywhere that colonialism, ethno-supremacy and racism rear their ugly heads. Indeed it is notably embedded in “Israeli” legislation where the Dahiya doctrine, “Israel’s” official “military strategy” uses disproportionate force to target civilians and their infrastructure if “Israel” is attacked in any way. This is a war crime, just as “Israel’s” apartheid is a crime against humanity.

It is also a dynamic mirrored within the smallest everyday interactions in the apartheid regime; Palestinians must be careful to show no signs of “defiance” or frustration. Curled fists, a frown – all these can result in punishment, arrest, being detained in “Israeli” torture centres. Within an apartheid polarity one side is weighted with privilege and the other with the toxic fallout from this entitlement.

How many crimes does it take for the world to wake up to the truth?

It is not just the “IDF” but the gleefully genocidal phraseology of the senior cabinet members and ministers, who say Palestinian mothers should be killed and it filters down to almost every member of “Israeli” society from the mothers being interviewed for social media, who smilingly say every Palestinian child should be killed, some whilst blithely pushing their prams in the supermarket or buying baby food for their children.

A society that campaigns for the right to rape Palestinians, where recently a whistleblower, a top military lawyer, who leaked the footage of a Palestinian detainee being mass raped with various sharp objects so that his intestines ruptured and he had to have 20 surgeries - was arrested, the “IDF” rapists celebrated on national TV as stars, albeit with face coverings to protect their identities. “Terrorists!” they cry!

The eminent Palestinian surgeon Dr Adnan Al-Bursh was raped and tortured in Sde Teiman prison and then left alone to die of his injuries in Ofer Prison - his only crime, refusing to leave the side of his patients. For the “Israeli’s” every Palestinian is a terrorist and they are the good guys.

How sick and inverted does it need to get?

All this gives lie to the “Hamas” centred narrative and reveals a population positively foaming at the chops to decimate and destroy the Palestinians; you can almost see the strings of saliva dangling from their bloody maws as they voice their bloodlust and fabricate their genocidal fantasies of constructing a “Greater Israel” over the bodies of dead Palestinian children, an unholy land soaked in the blood of innocents.

Even child killers have their own “logic” and theirs is to “kill the terrorists of tomorrow,” - which if we were to apply to all “Israeli” children, would lead us to pre-emptively do the same to them. That is, if we used the same hateful, genocidal logic as they do. But it is “Israeli” children who are taught to chant “death to Arabs” in the classroom; Palestinian children have enough of a job just trying to exist.

Strange how female child killers are somehow the most despicable, repulsive and unnatural of people, the maternal instinct inverted into a monstrous desire to do the unspeakable; Mary Ann Cotton, Rosemary West, Myra Hindley – we rightly recoil from these women, so monstrous do they seem – and yet these are the women and “mothers” of “Israel”, a “country” that has revealed itself to harbour the darkest and most twisted of ideologies.

A Prayer

The coming months are a critical period, where a people who have lost so much, will be living yet another Winter in refugee camps, fearing each day that another rupture will occur in a fragile “ceasefire”.

I hope that as we revel in the December tradition of consumption and illumine the darkness of Winter with our festival of light, abundance and plenty, that we also cast some light inwards and examine our own prejudices and blind spots; that we think of those who are truly oppressed in life and not just in TV shows; and that we use our own privilege to recalibrate the scales of injustice in this world, in our own small ways that can have collective impacts on those who need us - in Palestine, the birthplace of Jesus - and also in Sudan and Congo.