The “unchilding” of Palestinian children
“Israel says Rafah crossing to open soon to let Palestinians leave Gaza via Egypt” flashed the BBC headline as if Israel hadn’t been killing and committing ethnic cleansing and genocide for over two years. Israel had turned Gaza into an open prison for over years, denying them air, water, borders, and the Israeli killing machines have been killing Palestinians since the so-called ceasefire. In the ideological comfort of the confines of the gathering of Jewish fundraising and communal professionals, former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz showed her Zionist panic about antisemitism and Holocaust education. “But I think it may be confusing some of our young people about anti-semitism because they learn about big strong Nazis hurting weak, emaciated Jews and they think, “Oh, anti-semitism is like anti-black racism, right? Powerful white people against powerless black people. So when on TikTok all day long they see powerful Israelis hurting weak, skinny Palestinians, it’s not surprising that they think, “Oh, I know the lesson of the Holocaust is you fight Israel. You fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people.”. So, that was the point of Holocaust education, and “Never Again”, not just confined only to the Jewish people, for Ms. Hurwitz the issue wasn’t about mass killing of Palestinians in Gaza, it’s a public relations strategy “Hillary Clinton blames social media for radicalizing young Americans against Israel: ‘Pure propaganda’ flashed the Times headline, “ “Smart, well-educated, young people from our own country, … “They were getting their information from social media, particularly TikTok.” The Zionists around the world are panicking. How the Western media and Western politicians became complicit and acted as a mouthpiece for the Zionist colonial state, adopting its narrative and lies. From Hamas fighters killing children and raping women. Israeli ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, bombing hospitals, and the mass killing of Palestinians are always justified or prefaced with the October 7th attack. Palestinian dehumanization by Israeli political and military leaders, for the most part, went unchallenged by Western mainstream media; rather, it has been widely vomited for the general public to consume. Accusing Hams of using Huma Shields to justify the killing of civilians is an old colonial strategy, used by the British during the Arab revolt of 1936-1939 in Mandatory Palestine. Explained Palestinian historian Rashid Khalidi.
Thomas Friedman wrote in the New York Times, in his column titled “Understanding the Middle East Through the Animal Kingdom.” The big idea man portrayed the whole population in the region as various insects, while equating the US to a lion. He ends the column by stating, “Sometimes I contemplate the Middle East by watching CNN. Other times, I prefer Animal Planet.” Actually, as we all know by now, most of Friedman’s big ideas about the Middle East came from his Zionist imagination and Uber drivers; you wonder sometimes how he would write his column after Uber introduced driverless cars. In a speech given by Senator Lindsey Graham at a Republican Jewish Coalition event in early November 2025, he stated, “We’re killing all the right people, and we’re cutting your taxes.”, western liberalism at its best. Justifying genocide and the ethnic cleansing of brown people and the people of the South is nothing but Western colonial racist ideology, which has a rational, Nazim tried to cleanse Europe of the Jews, Racism and Colonialism tried to civilize barbaric blacks, in Africa and New America. Israel’s decades of subjugation of the Palestinians left them living on a life support system that is extended from Tel Aviv; water, border crossing, fuels, electricity, food, and other necessities are squeezed in by the Israeli siege as they wish and based on the Palestinian behavior report card. reported the New York Times. In November, 2023, a Guardian article stated that “Israeli women and children” would be exchanged for Palestinian prisoners who are “women and people aged 18 and younger.” In this case, Israeli children were afforded their protected status as children, while Palestinian children were denied that same status. In response to this particular report, Bisan, a storyteller and journalist in Gaza, asked, “are our children less children than theirs?” Similarly, during the exchange of hostages and Palestinian political prisoners, it was commonplace to see Palestinian children referred to as “teenagers” and “minors.” While these terms may technically be accurate, their use is a deliberate tactic intended to strip Palestinian children of their childness, making their lives and suffering less grievable. In January, 2024, a Sky news broadcaster reported that, “accidentally, a stray bullet found its way into the van ahead, and that killed a three or four-year-old young lady.” This “young lady” was in fact a Palestinian child named Ruqaya Ahmad Odeh Jahalin. She was shot in the back by Israeli regime forces on January 7, 2024, while sitting in the backseat of a shared taxi near an Israeli military checkpoint in the occupied West Bank. Another dehumanizing tactic that has been particularly insidious is that of “unchilding” Palestinian children. A concept developed by Professor Nadera Shelhoub Kevorkian, unchilding involves the transformation and construction of “colonized children as dangerous, racialized others, enabling their eviction from the realm of childhood itself.” In other words, Palestinian children are classified as adults to justify violence committed against them. As the Polish Sociologist and philosopher Zygmund Bauman, in his pivotal work Modernity and the Holocaust (1989), explored the process of removing a person from an actor’s “moral universe” so that moral laws no longer seem to apply to them. The tragic consequences of Zionism, as in Nazim, if you want to get rid of a group of people, or a race, you need to kill all the children!
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