When Hatred Becomes the World’s New Currency
For two years, my mind has refused to comprehend. It refused to process the horror, the cruelty, the unimaginable barbarism of the terrorists from Gaza on October 7th, the realization that humanity had regressed centuries backward, to slaughter in the name of ideology.
There is no human way to understand such acts. But the ideology isn’t new to me. I know the language that glorifies death; the values that ask to shape a Palestinian identity built on hatred and control; the doctrine that seeks to erase my existence – my people, my country, and the values I live by, and many other Arabs in the region.
What I still cannot comprehend is the world that applauded.
The masses in London, Paris, Berlin, New York, and Athens, crowds of young people who have never been to Israel or “Palestine,” who have never studied the history or understood the complexity, yet hate with passion and ecstasy.
How did a call to destroy Israel become a cultural trend? How did hatred turn into a symbol of social justice? Were these massive street demonstrations genuine, or orchestrated? I wanted to understand how this happened.
How a fundamentalist idea, built on hatred and the urge to destroy, managed to conquer Western public opinion. How hatred became a product, a language, a global currency.
The Hypocrisy of “Justice Warriors”
In 2024, the world reached a record level of human suffering. According to the UNHCR Global Trends 2024 report, over 123 million people were forcibly displaced by war and violence. Of these, 73.5 million are internally displaced – the highest figure ever recorded (IDMC GRID 2025).
Sudan alone now counts more than 11.6 million displaced people. Ukraine entered its fourth year of a bloody war, while Myanmar, Congo, and Yemen continue to sink deeper into endless humanitarian crises.
The war in Syria has lasted for more than 14 years, since March 2011, claiming a staggering human toll. According to the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR), by November 2024 at least 30,293 children had been killed, 225 through torture, with thousands more missing or forcibly detained.
Reports from the UN Human Rights Council’s Independent Commission of Inquiry describe war crimes, crimes against humanity, and even acts of genocide, including deliberate starvation, mass torture, and indiscriminate attacks on civilians (UNHRC 2024; SNHR 2024; IDMC 2025).
And yet, somehow, only Gaza managed to captivate the moral attention of the world. Suddenly, Western streets were flooded with slogans and colors.
Suddenly, violence became fashionable. Not because the suffering there was greater, but because it became a brand. A narrative that served an interest.
The Silence Around the Druze
There is immense suffering that the world simply refuses to see, because it has no organized mechanism or billion-dollar campaign behind it. In recent months, while the world debated Israel’s morality, the Druze community in Syria has endured a quiet genocide.
In the Druze city of Suwayda and its surrounding villages, the summer of 2025 brought massacres, rapes, and kidnappings of men, women, and children, solely because of their faith. Reports describe executions, assaults on civilians, and the destruction of entire villages.
Some hostages remain missing; families fled to the mountains without assistance; for months, the region was under siege, cut off from food, medicine, and basic infrastructure. The Druze look around and see what happened to the Yazidis, the Kurds, and the Christians, ancient communities erased from the Middle East.
And the so-called defenders of human rights? Silent. No protests, no flags, no outcry, only silence. That silence is not random. It is a symptom.
The people flooding Western streets are not heartless; they are morally inconsistent. Their compassion has become selective.
The Architecture of Hatred
Hatred is an engineered system.It is the product of interconnected emotional, political, technological, and economic forces. To understand it, we must look at all its layers.
Psychologically, hatred is an ancient emotion that triggers survival instincts, providing an illusion of control in a chaotic world. Neurologically, the amygdala reacts instantly to threat, making fear and hostility far more contagious than empathy, which demands cognitive and emotional effort. It’s an evolutionary shortcut that now fuels digital virality.
Socially, belonging is easier to build through opposition than through compassion. Modern society seeks coherence and identity; and often, identity is not formed around who we are for, but who we are against. Hatred creates instant belonging, a quick ticket to social acceptance.
Economically, fear is profitable. Media algorithms reward outrage. Negativity sells, it drives engagement, reactions, and advertising revenue. Research shows that negative content spreads faster than truth or nuance.
Politically, this hate has become infrastructure. For decades, countries like Qatar and Iran have invested billions in building global communication, education, and propaganda systems designed to shape public opinion against Israel and the Jewish people.
Official reports from OFAC (2024), ISC UK (2025), and EUvsDisinfo reveal extensive influence networks: state-funded media, front NGOs, academic programs, philanthropic shells, bot farms, and paid influencers, all working to spread anti-Western and anti-Israeli narratives. This is a well-coordinated global machine.
And perhaps it didn’t begin with algorithms, but with human nature. For millennia, when the world faced crisis, it blamed the Jew. It is the oldest formula for managing collective anxiety: find an object of hate, project your pain, and absolve responsibility.
The Jew has always been the smallest tree in the forest, yet the first to grow, the one to bring light. And every time humanity feared its own reflection, it burned the light-bearer. What was once an antisemitic pamphlet is now a viral tweet.
The ancient mechanism of fear, blame, and temporary relief has evolved into a profitable global system. Today, fewer than 16 million Jews, less than 0.2% of humanity, face a world of over 2 billion Muslims (Pew, 2024), joined by hundreds of millions in the West seeking moral absolution for colonial guilt and a renewed sense of identity.
This is a war of narrative. And when a narrative is well-funded, well-designed, and algorithmically amplified, it becomes a psychological truth, drowning out reality itself.
The Alternative Mechanism: The Politics of Love
The struggle of Israel’s hostage families has shown that love can be a political force, a mechanism capable of mobilizing people and reshaping collective consciousness.
True, this movement may not have reached those millions caught in the web of manipulation, but it cracked the narrative of victimhood and inspired millions of Israelis and allies worldwide, not through resistance, but through compassion, empathy, and the power of family.
They transformed private grief into public morality. They built a movement of unity, demanding justice through the language of humanity. Organized, consistent, courageous love – when intentional and resourced – is not weakness; it is a strategy rooted in life, not fear.
Research by Professor Barbara Fredrickson of the University of North Carolina, one of the world’s leading scholars of positive psychology, shows that positive emotions, especially love and compassion, broaden the range of human thought and action, allowing the brain to shift from survival to growth.
It is a documented neurological process in which trust and connection activate networks responsible for creativity, empathy, and learning (Fredrickson, American Psychologist, 2001).
In other words, love is not a soft ideal; it is a biological, cognitive, and cultural system that expands our capacity to create, cooperate, and build a future.
Similarly, Professor Tal Ben-Shahar of Harvard University highlights love as a mechanism of human development and leadership. He describes love as a state in which a person acts with presence, connection, and meaning, an organizing principle of consciousness. It expands perception, fosters responsibility and empathy, and enables us to see the other as part of a shared whole.
Love, as Ben-Shahar defines it, is an act of human leadership: the ability to drive change and sustain hope amid complexity.
The Real War
The past two years have offered a final historical verdict: this is a war over consciousness and ideology. The true struggle is between fundamentalism that seeks to drag the world backward and humanity that seeks growth, cooperation, and evolution.
Amid the pain and horror, one truth has emerged: The same way hatred can be organized, financed, branded, and weaponized – so can love.
If hatred has become the world’s currency, love is the other side of that coin. It can fund a different economy, one of compassion, creation, and advancement. We can build a global movement that mobilizes people not in the name of rage and fear, but in the name of empathy, progress, and shared humanity.
Not sponsored by extremists and terror networks, but by families, citizens, and communities who genuinely want to build a better life and hope to all. If we learn to invest in it, with research, organization, and long-term vision, love can become a new political force for the century ahead:
A system of consciousness that drives development, not destruction. A force that replaces division with dignity. A movement that doesn’t burn the world or others to be seen, but builds it to last, for all humankind.
