Confronting the Big Lie

9 Sivan 5785 (June 5 2025)

“This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong.”

- Hannah Arendt

These words, written by Hannah Arendt are a useful place to begin. The image in the minds of most useful idiots on the subject of Palestine; that of a barren, desolate wasteland, filthy water, of desperate, and impoverished population is ironically the exact Orientalism these acolytes of Edward Said claim to decry. It is also completely divorced from reality. One of the most acute public health challenges in Palestine is not starvation, but obesity - one study¹ found that a quarter of Gaza healthcare workers are morbidly obese. A systematic review of the literature found that “the prevalence of obesity and overweight in Palestine are high compared with those of some other developing nations, such as Tunisia, especially among adults and people with noncommunicable diseases…”².  So, while I would not move to Tunis, the cradle and catalyst of the Arab Spring, it would be a grave insult to the good Arabs of Tunisia to compare life in Tunis to the Yazidi under ISIS, or the Tutsi in Rwanda, or a Jew in the Warsaw Ghetto.

 In Mapping Our Enemies we stitched together the various factions and archetypes which can collectively be described as the “Coalition of the Big Lie”. It was this imaginary Gaza that was in their heads when Hamas invaded Israel to rape, kidnap, and murder Jews. On October 8th, the Coalition of the Big Lie organized celebrations of the worst slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust - all under the careful supervision of local police departments, who were instructed to observe and keep the peace. The Coalition of the Big Lie came out in force, some to give rousing cliché speeches about “global revolution” and “liberation”, others to eat baklava and light fireworks, others to make a quick buck selling keffiyehs. October 8th was a day about “narratives of revolutionary romanticism, about…the noble Palestinian… primarily to inflame, inspire, and radicalize, or at best to entertain, their own domestic audience.”³

For the Coalition of the Big Lie, October 7th was not about Israel, or Zionism, or the Jew, because antisemitism is never about the Jew, it has always been, and always will be about the antisemite. October 8th for the Reds was the dawn of a new day, filled with a romantic revolutionary potential: a hyper-real October Revolution. If such a devastating, and unexpected blow could be delivered against Israel, then their movement could inflict a similar blow against the rest of the “capitalist machine”. For postcolonialist Reds, October 7th was praxis: “what did you think decolonization meant? Vibes? Papers? Essays?”⁴ and permission to engage in the masturbatory chud fantasy of a post-white, post-West, post-capitalist utopia. The issue is not Palestine, it never was Palestine, the issue was and remains the Revolution itself. October 8th showed them how many people in the “belly of the beast” were disenchanted, alienated, demoralized, and were ready to awaken to a new revolutionary struggle.

For the Greens, October 8th was more spiritually significant than October 7th. The attacks - as showcased by Hamas documents seized by the IDF in Gaza make clear - were a rearguard action.  In the struggle between the decadent Islam of the Abraham Accords - the Islam corrupted by the avarice and degeneracy of al-Yahood - and the Islam of al-Salaf, they prevented the House of Saud from public capitulation. It has supercharged jihad, which is a continuous struggle, until the End of Days. October 7th also rewarded many of their brethren with the honour of martyrdom. October 8th, that showed them the brittleness and weakness of the West, how demoralized and feeble the kuffar had become, and how ready and receptive a bored, atomized, and fragile public would be to dawah, ready to awaken themselves to a new spiritual Jihad. 

For the Blacks, October 7th was an indictment of their own failures. How the hell could the based accelerationist Aryan ubermensch lose out to Tusken Raiders in the sport of killing Jew. Bowers murdered a dozen Jews at the Tree of Life Synagogue, the Sinwars murdered two orders of magnitude more Jews. They did carry with them the possibility of recruiting new faces to der ewige Kampf gegen die Juden, but burdened at that point by their aesthetics being synonymous with evil worse than the Devil itself, they have largely stuck to parroting leftist talking points, and focused on launching a neo-revisionist attack on history itself, picking up where Irving v. Lipstadt & Penguin Publishing left.

That leaves the Whites. Their aversion to the totalitarian poison that murdered millions in the 20th century was aesthetic, not moral or philosophical. Canada is an excellent case-study. On the heels of draconian COVID-19 lockdown measures, which turned ‘ordinary’ Canadians into gleeful snitches against their rule-breaking and immoral neighbors, Canadians were already primed for demoralization. On May 27, 2021, “the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation released preliminary findings of its investigation, saying hundreds of suspected unmarked graves were discovered at a residential school in Kamloops. The suspected grave sites of 215 children, believed to be as young as three years old, were found by the Nation on the site of what was once Canada’s largest Indigenous residential school.” ⁵

For the uninitiated, Residential Schools were systems designed to forcibly assimilate natives into European society. Other First Nations communities soon followed up with their own ‘preliminary findings’. The Trudeau government ordered flags be lowered to half-mast indefinitely. Trudeau arrived in Kamloops the next day, and was photographed kneeling with a teddy bear. It kickstarted a Cultural Revolution overnight. Orange shirts, and the slogan “EVERY CHILD MATTERS” became ubiquitous, spontaneous art pieces went up at other Residential School sites. Trudeau pounced, announcing new rites of penance, a holiday - Truth and Reconciliation Day, as a day of solemn reflection, and mourning for the original sin Canada committed, and for which it could never atone.

Justin Trudeau kneeling with a teddy bear at a residential school in Kamloops, May 2021.

Next, statues of John A. MacDonald, Queen Victoria, and other pivotal figures in Canadian history were vandalized with red paint. Some were torn down, others were pre-emptively removed by cowardly city councils to appease mobs. Churches were targeted because of their historic role in administering the Residential School system. So one Church burned down. Then another, and another, until it was an epidemic. Altogether leading to a 652% increase in anti-Catholic hate crimes. Ultimately, 108 churches burned down (many of which were on reserves and home to Indigenous congregations). Municipalities canceled Canada Day fireworks, and replaced them with ceremonies of solemnity and national shame. 

Holy Trinity Church, Orlow Saskatchewan on fire in July, 2021

But, the ‘preliminary findings’ were not what they appeared. The unmarked graves of children were actually anomalies detected using ground penetrating radar, on the site of an unmarked cemetery known to Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation. No matter. The government promised funding, a coterie of academic experts, and indigenous knowledge keepers to dig up the truth. Four years later, not a single anomaly has been exhumed. Our lapse into Maple Maoism was built on lies.  

It remains a half-broken taboo Canadian politics to discuss the church burnings, and remains political suicide to state plainly that the Big Lie was a Big Lie. Efforts are ongoing to make “residential school denialism” a criminal offence akin to Holocaust denial, a proposal that may pass into law in an omnibus “Online Harms Bill” at some point in the life cycle of the new Liberal government. Canadian Hasbara Inc. has voiced support for this omnibus bill, marketed by both the Trudeau and Carney governments as central to their efforts to combat antisemitism and all other forms of hate.

In the twenty months since October 7th, some of the Whites have been successfully recruited - they have reverted to Islam, awakened their revolutionary, anti-imperialist consciousness, they have seen the wickedness of the kuffar, the Imperialist, the Capitalist, the Jew. They have been programmed, and their programming will be very difficult to undo, because the Coalition of the Big Lie shares many psychological dimensions with cults: pressure to conform, division between “in-group” and “out group”, the collectivization of identity through symbol, ritual, and aesthetics, the shunning of defectors, and so on. This has permitted some to substitute the Mao suit, or the Hugo Boss uniform for the keffiyeh, surgical mask, and combat boots. The same people who recoil at a Roman salute and see dog whistles in every nook and cranny, will then chant to “globalize the Intifada”, announce “glory to all our martyrs”, hold protests in Jewish neighborhoods, in front of Jewish businesses and synagogues. Why?

It’s because they had already swallowed the Big Lie, that the system of government and ideals of Western civilization which unleashed unprecedented human flourishing is irredeemable. That they are the root of all evil. The loudest of the Orange Guard rallied overnight to the slogan “from Turtle Island to Palestine, Occupation is a Crime.”  This created the “unity of fields”⁶ between the struggle against the Zionist settler-colonizers of Israel, and the Imperialist settler-colonizers of the Anglosphere. Activists from Samidoun admitted as much on the anniversary of the attacks, when they burned a Canadian flag while proclaiming “Death to Canada, Death to the United States, and Death to Israel.”⁷

Canadian Hasbara Inc. has chosen to double down on the idea of Jewish indigeneity. This is philosophical suicide. Our opponents have already redefined the term. A United Nations fact-sheet describes “form[ing] non-dominant groups of society”⁸ as essential to the definition of “Indigeneity”, a premise wholly antithetical to any coherent form of Zionism.  

With one Big Lie already absorbed into the Canadian national consciousness, embracing another was inevitable.  Demands for an “immediate unconditional ceasefire” sprung up as early as October 8th. Useful idiots on campuses were describing the situation in Gaza as a “genocide” barely a few days later.

The same lugenpresse and political machinery that downplayed and whitewashed burning churches, and the same legal system that permitted it with minimal consequences operated unchanged. The lugenpresse created the Big Lie out of a composite of smaller lies, but the frame is an obvious one: this a struggle between the poor and the downtrodden, the Brown, dispossessed Indigenous Palestinian, versus the rich, wealthy, White, avaricious Colonizer Zionist. Anything, and increasingly, anyone, that does not advance this narrative is to be opposed, omitted, or destroyed. It is the psychology behind why otherwise “empathetic”, “progressive”, “tolerant” elite human capital felt comfortable destroying posters of kidnapped children. Hostages are a source of cognitive dissonance that cannot be ignored, so they had to be purged from the discourse. Tunnels? Purged. Iran and the ‘axis of Resistance’? Purged. October 7th, barely worth a mention. The vast majority of Canadians cannot name any of the eight Canadians murdered on October 7th. Hamas itself has all but disappeared from the picture, it’s not an Israel-Hamas War, it’s an Israel-Gaza war. 

This narrative is reinforced and rationalized through Schrodinger’s international law, applicable and non-applicable depending on the circumstances. The systematic and pervasive violation of international law by Hamas, purged, and in so doing exposes the truth of the endeavour - to demonize, and dehumanize Israeli Jews, and delegitimize the State of Israel. First, came the farcical case against Israel in the International Court of Justice. Then, came the cases in the International Criminal Court against Netanyahu, Gallant, and three dead Hamas leaders. Then came the Hind Rajab Foundation, targeting individual Israelis’ for investigation and arrest whenever they ventured abroad.  In Canada, one communist journalist has even started compiling a list of Israeli-Canadian soldiers.  Finally, when Ireland and Amnesty International could not contort the Convention on Genocide to fit their allegations, they clamored to redefine and expand the meaning of the word. The lugenpresse’s message is simply, that Jews are bloodthirsty, enjoy slaughtering innocent people in the most cruel fashion possible. Although left unsaid, if the Jews are committing the most cruel and heinous of slaughters, then perhaps, the Shoah can be rationalized, and the slate can be wiped clean. 

The lugenpresse then beats the message into public consciousness through saturation. The lugenpresse has used “genocide” with reference to the current Israel-Hamas war than Rwanda, Yugoslavia, Syria, ISIS, Armenia, Myanmar, and Sudan put together. The Big Lie must be repeated often for it to be believed. 

The Big Lie is believed, precisely because the impulse of the Anglosphere, though atomized subversion, and estrangement from its Christian origins, has responded in a most Christian manner: by finding a scapegoat, and there is no better, no more familiar scapegoat in all of Christendom than the Jew, or a Jewish nation-state. A society that resents itself will destroy itself. Make no mistake, Israel was not the target of October 7th, it was the only available appetizer. The real target of October 7th was October 8th. In the Anglosphere, we see societies that resent themselves, in the process of openly destroying themselves. And like rats trapped in a cage, the Anglosphere begins gnawing at its own leg, willing to cast off the Jews, condemning both to ruin. There are, as always, Jews who prefer to be pure and vulnerable. They are the “Jews of privilege”⁹ whose families escaped the bloodletting of the last century, or they are Jews of stupidity - who have no understanding of their faith, and their people, and no desire to learn anything about it. 

On October 8th, the Hamasniks in our streets proclaimed all at once that October 7th did not happen (“Denial”), that it did happen, but the rapes did not (“Revisionism”), that it happened but Zionists did it to themselves (“Hard Inversion”), that it did happen but that it was the Zionists fault (“Moral Inversion”). That was for the true believers, the already converted. For those they sought to bring into the fold, they added the following: “the Zionists are already doing equally bad, or worse things, and steps needed to be taken to stop them (“Moral Inversion”). The Zionists needed to be villains in the story, in perpetuity, and at all times, no exceptions. 

First, there was a demand for a ceasefire. And good people did not speak up, because demanding a ceasefire was humanitarian, and noble. Then, it became a demand to stop the genocide. And good people did not speak up, because genocide is abbhorent, and if any people should know that genocide is bad, it’s the Jews. Then, it became a moral duty to oppose genocide through direct action; through blocking critical infrastructure, through encampments, through boycotts, divestments, sanctions, and property damage. Then, it became a moral duty to oppose genocide by any means necessary.

And the Blacks, Greens, and Reds, the true believers, have led the Whites down this ladder of escalation, step by step, with softer approaches. They do it through decontextualizing language, and insisting on literalism: “Intifada literally just means ‘uprising’, or ‘to shake off’  (in the same way that Seig Heil literally just means “hail victory!”). Sometimes they will employ a motte and bailey technique: “from the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free”  just means equal rights and freedoms for all in the land, and they will gaslight you relentlessly if you assert otherwise. Otherwise censorious tyrants will appeal to freedom of speech - “even if it means what you think it means, they’re just words, and we have the right to say them!” often invoking the Livingstone Formula, asserting that any accusation of antisemitism is motivated exclusively by the desire to censor and censure criticism of Israel. 

The Whites were led down this ladder of escalation, because they already believed the lie that the society they lived in was evil, that they were guilty for ancestral sins for which they cannot atone, but that they can enact penance through good works, and by joining in a collective, revolutionary, spiritual, and religious struggle. Western leaders know this is wrong, but they are political creatures, their public views are carefully calibrated to respond to the public. Ayelet Samerano, mother of hostage Yonatan Samerano, who's been meeting with world leaders told it plainly - that world leaders are much more critical of Hamas, and much more supportive of Israel in private. Having a backbone carries political costs that many do not wish to bear. Their fecklessness is only accelerating what is to come. 

Two weeks ago, the Big Lie turned fatal. Elias Rodriguez allegedly murdered Sara Miligrim (Z”l) and Yaron Lischinsky (Z”l) “for Gaza” and “for Palestine”. Mohamad Soliman allegedly burned a dozen people in Boulder, Colorado because he wanted “to end the Zionists”. While leaders still expressed outrage and horror, the public reaction was not unanimous, thanks to the efforts of propagandists like Hasan Piker, and clout-farmers like Piers Morgan. The taboo against unapologetic violence against Jews in the Diaspora is over. The Intifada has been globalized. We must prepare, but neither must we despair, for we have overcome worse as a people, and we have the miracle of miracles, a Jewish state, however flawed, to protect us.

Sarah Miligram and Yaron Lischinsky Z”l

.השם יתברך תמיד אוהב אותי ותמיד יהיה לי רק טוב

Signed, 

Abba Eban.

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