By Maung Zarni
Another day of revolting news updates, emanating from the still center of world’s power – USA. Trump tried to pull a fast one one a visiting S. African President: showed a video of S. Africa committing white genocide against the Afrikaner.
We had a neighbour who died a few years ago: a Boer. A fanatical Christian, she told me and my wife Mandela was “a devil”. We just listened. There was no conversation to be had beyond weather and dog walks with such mind or mindlessness.
With his revolutionary intellectual mind, Mandela would most definitely have shredded Trump, this Class A con-man sitting in the Oval Office in a few minutes.
Post-Genocide Joe, Trump’s USA has continued to provide Israel with a massive quantity of arms, talked criminally rubbish with “owning Gaza” – and turning it into a Freedom Zone – a shift from the real estate man’s rivera.
At the Karim Shalom Crossing less than a year ago – on 29 August 2024 – I saw with my own eyes Made-in-USA armored vehicles coming from inside Gaza, after their morning round of slaughter, heard loud explosion, and saw plumes of smoke a kilometer away from where we were holding a peace vigil.
In this 1 minute video clip, I used the Auschwitz analogy, not lightly. In fact, Gaza’s population subjected to the relently genocidal destruction and slaughter since 8 Oct 2023 is 2.3 million. That is to say, Gaza’s population is 1 million larger than Auschwitz-Birkenau.
[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EdH-H8iEcgY&sfnsn=scwspmo]
Between 50,000 – 54,000 have been killed of which 20,000 were children. Lancet studies estimate, very probably, the actual numbers are 4 times higher than this Hamas Health Department figure.
Everyday I feel physically sick that the world of states – particularly the Western patron states of Israel have given the mass-murderous Jewish Supremacist state a blank check of “self-defence”. In particular, Germany, USA, UK, Czech, France and Hungary are collaborator states.
Genocides are NOT simply single state crimes: they are in fact inter-state joint crimes, whether one looks at Hitler’s Nazi Germany, Aung San Suu Kyi and Myanmar military’s joint genocide against Rohingyas, or the CIA and Suharto-joint genocide in Indonesia in 1965 or Khmer Rouge genocide which Singapore, China, Thailand, USA, and UK were intimately involved.
One third of Cambodia’s population perished in 4 years – between 1975-1979. We are looking at a significant percentage of the Palestinian population across the Occupied Territories.
As a former academic, I am so incredibly disgusted with the Western academia. I couldn’t bring myself to mention any university I was ever associated with in any capacity over the last 35 years. I find taxi-driving a more honorable profession than today’s academic careerism.
The Ivory Tower – run by selfish careerist philistines, with neither moral spine nor intellectual integrity – is on the side of the killers. When I saw Columbia U. President Shipman talking at this year’s commencement, I felt revolted.
(On a personal level, my respect for my older daughter who will turn 26 in a few months shot up! She ditched Columbia for good and transferred to a different institution to graduate before the place got so rotten. She doesn’t have to have that life-long association with the shit institution).
What makes Israel’s genocide so revolting, traumatizing and sickening is that the entire Western world save a few states are collaborators, and we as common and decent humans KNOW what Israel is doing with Western supplies of arms to largely defenseless population under total siege, and we feel largely powerless.
In Israel, I saw Western Imperialism and its White Supremacist Cancer merging with Israel’s Jewish Supremacist Nazism.
This is what makes Israel’s genocide far worse than Hitler’s genocidal invasions of 1930’s and 1940’s: the left and right imperialists (Stalin’s USSR and Churchill and FDR’s UK and USA) fought Hitler.
Have a read. A few items below.
ZARNI
P.S. A few shots a fellow peace delegate from USA Will Allen-DuPraw took at the Gaza crossing.
We were right near Philadeli Corridor, within sight of the Egyptian border.
24 May 2025