The Experts

It’s curious, isn’t it?

That this is the only conflict where every third-rate activist with a flag, a fruit emoji, and an academic transcript that screams “barely passed Year 10 history” is suddenly a foreign policy expert.

Where people who can’t name a single cabinet minister in their own country have strong opinions about Israeli military strategy. Where they demand independent, geo-located, timestamped video evidence of every atrocity committed by Hamas before they’ll even consider using the word terrorist. Of course, the bodycam footage filmed by the killers, on the phones of the victims, and posted to their accounts still left room for reasonable doubt. 

But, naturally, the IDF is guilty until proven innocent. Never mind that no other army fights with such restraint while surrounded by enemies who glorify death. Every strike, every movement, every decision must be pre-cleared and defended to people who couldn’t find Rafah on a map with GPS and a second chance.

Some still think Gaza is occupied. They’re very committed to not knowing. Others quote casualty figures from a genocidal regime’s spreadsheet, as if rapists keep reliable spreadsheets. They don’t mention that Hamas fired rockets from schoolyards. Or that they stored weapons in tunnels beneath hospitals. Or that the dead women were filmed before they were killed.

Instead, they tell us, calmly, smugly, that “criticising the Israeli government isn’t antisemitism” as if we didn’t already know that. As if that’s what we’re angry about. As if the criticism is the issue and not the double standard. Not the silence about sexual violence. Not the way they talk about Netanyahu like he’s the villain—while synagogues are vandalised across the West and Jews are murdered on American streets by killers shouting “Free Palestine.”

We’re not asking for immunity. We’re asking for coherence. 

Without coherence, there is no justice. Only performance. And performance isn’t justice. It’s cover.

Maybe the problem isn’t the war. Maybe it’s that the Jews keep winning them.