Peter Reynolds

When Israel steals land, occupies territory, subjugates an entire population and kills them with impunity, it’s called “the right to self-determination.”

When Palestinians resist military occupation, it’s called “terrorism.”

When Israel bombs hospitals, flattens homes, and kills tens of thousands of civilians, it’s called “defence.”

When tens of thousands take to the streets to protest genocide it is labelled a hate march in support of “terrorism”.

When a far-right extremist murders an MP, it’s reduced to just “murder” with no ideology, no wider context.

When a pro-Palestinian chant is raised, it’s accused of “glorifying terrorism.”

When Israelis say from the River to the Sea it’s glorious assertion of biblical “identity”.

When Palestinians say from the River to the Sea it’s genocidal “terrorism”.

When Israel and the US illegally bomb Iran it called “preemptive defence”.

When a protest group supports Palestinian rights, it’s proscribed as “terrorist.”

When a single Israeli is kidnapped or killed it runs 24 hour news cycles and state leaders condemn it as “terrorism”.

When 50 Palestinians are killed in a single day it is….. “nothing”.

Let’s be clear: more people have been killed by Western state violence than by Islamist terrorism.

Post-9/11 wars led by the US and its allies have caused over 4.5 million deaths. All Islamist terror attacks globally since 1979? Around 220,000 deaths. Yet only one of these is consistently labelled “terrorism.” The other is sanitised as “defence,” “intervention,” or “stabilisation.”

Political violence is political violence. Whether it’s a homemade rocket or a billion-dollar airstrike. The only difference is who has the media, the money, and the power to write the story.

Resist and fight the deep state propaganda machine that keeps you from the truth.