What I Learned Before October 7: Why History Matters More Than Ever
Before October 7, before the horrifying massacre that Hamas named the “Al-Aqsa Flood Operation,” I had already been studying the history of the Middle East. Not just modern news headlines or social media trends, but real history — the kind that’s found in documented events, firsthand testimonies, and historical records long before the establishment of the modern State of Israel in 1948.
One event that struck me deeply was the 1929 Hebron massacre. This was not during a war or occupation — this was in a time when the British controlled the region under the Mandate for Palestine. Arab residents of Hebron attacked the peaceful Jewish community, brutally murdering around 67 Jewish men, women, and children. Homes were looted. Families were slaughtered. This happened in a time when there was no “Israeli occupation,” no State of Israel to blame. It showed me that the hatred towards Jews in the land predates the political excuses often used today.
In addition to history books, I also took time to study the Qur’an in Arabic and compared it to the ṣaḥīḥ (authentic) hadiths. This gave me insight into the ideology that has shaped a lot of the current narratives. I noticed disturbing patterns — glorification of violence, deep-rooted hatred for Jews, and complete rejection of Jewish historical connection to the land. I believe if more people of my generation took the time to study primary sources instead of just reposting radical propaganda, they would realize how much deception is being spread in the name of justice.
The truth is, during the events surrounding the 1948 War of Independence, it wasn’t the Jews who told the Arabs to flee — it was the Arab leaders themselves who told the local Arab populations to evacuate temporarily while they launched a war to “push the Jews into the sea.” These orders are recorded and confirmed in multiple Arabic broadcasts and speeches from that time. Yet today, this is twisted into the myth of a “Nakba” caused by Jews.
One of the most shameful alliances in this history is the pact made between Adolf Hitler and Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. This Islamic leader not only supported the extermination of Jews but actively collaborated with the Nazis during WWII. That same Mufti is today hailed as a hero by some. It shocks me that so many modern activists who claim to oppose fascism and racism proudly support ideologies that mirror Nazi propaganda.
Even worse is how many of these lies have roots in replacement theology and Catholic antisemitism. Martin Luther, often praised as a reformer, repeated horrific antisemitic lies — the same ones later used by Nazis. Today’s intersectional activists and 🍉🏳️🌈-flag-waving influencers, who believe they are fighting oppression, are unknowingly repeating the same Nazi lies. The irony is horrifying.
As a Christian born in 1994, I cannot describe how painful it is to see people from my own generation, who claim to be enlightened or educated, spreading genocidal lies on social media with zero understanding of history. They start caring only after a TikTok trend goes viral — not from any real education or critical research.
The October 7 attack wasn’t just a random act. It was the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. It didn’t happen only at Nova Music Festival, but spread across multiple cities and civilian areas. Families were burned alive, children were executed in front of their parents, entire communities were wiped out. If you don’t believe how large the attack was, I urge you to see the scope for yourself at https://october7map.com — it documents exactly how far-reaching and brutal the attack was.
If my generation truly wants to stand for justice, we must start with truth. Not TikTok trends. Not propaganda. But actual history. It is only when we study deeply — with open eyes and open hearts — that we can begin to see clearly. And I truly believe that if more people took the time to research what I have, many would change their minds.
It is not too late to learn the truth. But time is running out.
I’ve known these things since I was a child. At just 10 years old, I came across something that left me horrified and wide awake to what was really happening in the world: a Palestinian children's program called Tomorrow's Pioneers (Arabic: رواد الغد, Ruwād al-Ghad). It aired on Al-Aqsa TV, the official Hamas network, and was explicitly teaching children to hate Jews, not Zionists — Jews. The characters, including a Mickey Mouse-style mascot named Farfur, told kids to become martyrs (shuhadā’), glorified jihad, and called for murder of yahūd — Jews.
It wasn’t IRRTV or any Christian broadcaster that created those clips — they simply exposed what was being broadcast into Arab homes every week. The show aired from 2007 to 2009, yet instead of global outrage, it was mostly ignored. That told me early on that antisemitism, especially in the Muslim world, was being tolerated — even when it was indoctrinating innocent children.
And this hate didn’t begin in 1948. It didn’t start with the "occupation" or any so-called Nakba. It began long before — all the way back to Muhammad himself.
From the very beginning of Islam, Jews were targeted. The massacre of the Banu Qurayza Jewish tribe in 627 CE is one of the earliest and clearest examples. After the Battle of the Trench, Muhammad ordered the execution of 600–900 Jewish men of the Banu Qurayza tribe in Medina. Their heads were cut off in trenches, and women and children were taken as slaves. This is not conspiracy — this is recorded in Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī and Ibn Ishaq’s biography of Muhammad, which Muslims themselves consider authoritative.
From that time onward, Jews became targets under Islamic doctrine and were either forced to convert, pay jizyah (a humiliating tax), or be killed. This is centuries before Zionism or Israel existed. The hate wasn’t political — it was religious and ideological.
Throughout the centuries and up until the modern day, terrorist attacks against Jews have been consistent:
→ 1066 Granada massacre: 4,000 Jews were killed in Muslim Spain by a Muslim mob, sparked by hatred toward the Jewish vizier.
→ 1920 Nebi Musa riots: Arabs incited by antisemitic preaching attacked Jewish communities under the British Mandate.
→ 1929 Hebron massacre: As I mentioned earlier, 67 Jews were brutally murdered — simply for being Jews.
→ 1941 Farhud in Baghdad: Inspired by Nazi propaganda and the alliance between Hitler and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, a pogrom broke out. Hundreds of Jews were murdered, and thousands more were injured and had their homes looted.
→ 1972 Munich Massacre: The Palestinian terror group Black September murdered 11 Israeli athletes at the Olympics.
→ 1980 Antwerp synagogue bombing, 1982 Paris Jewish restaurant attack, 1994 Buenos Aires Jewish center bombing, and many more — all aimed at Jews, not "Zionists."
And since the re-establishment of Israel in 1948, the hate only intensified. But again, it was never about territory — because the so-called Palestinians have consistently rejected statehood offers:
→ In 1947, they rejected the UN Partition Plan, which would have given them a state.
→ In 2000 (Camp David), 2001 (Taba), and 2008 (Olmert Plan), they were offered even more — up to 97% of what they demanded — and they still said no.
Why? Because they don’t want a state next to Israel — they want a state instead of Israel. They don’t chant “We want peace,” they chant "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free." That means erasing Israel and every Jew in it.
And let’s not forget: Jordan was carved out of Transjordan by the British and given to Arabs — 77% of the original British Mandate. If there ever was a land for so-called Palestinians, Transjordan was it. But they never accepted it, because their war is not about land — it is about Jewish existence.
Even the words in Arabic prove it. They don’t say they hate Zionists (ṣahyūnī) — they say "death to yahūd" (Jews). It’s not about politics, it’s about who we are.
I’m tired of watching people my age — millennials and Gen Z — regurgitate Nazi ideology and call it “resistance.” They say they oppose fascism while siding with groups that openly preach genocidal antisemitism. They shout about colonialism while standing with Hamas, whose own charter calls for the destruction of Jews worldwide, not just Israelis.
If we want peace, if we want truth, we must start by exposing the roots of this hatred. It didn’t begin in 1948. It began centuries earlier, and it’s rooted in theology, propaganda, and ideology — not land.
I’ve known this since I was 10 years old. I’m not special. I just chose to study instead of scrolling.
If you dare to learn, start here: https://october7map.com
And never again believe the lie that this is about “Palestine.”
It was always about the Jews.
Another thing that made me absolutely furious is the way Gaza has become a stage — literally — for fake war crimes and propaganda. It’s called Pallywood, and it's not a conspiracy theory. It’s documented. One of the best sites exposing this is gazawood.com.
On that site, you’ll find video after video showing how Gazan influencers and Hamas media teams stage scenes — moving bodies, directing actors, reusing old footage, even importing material from Yemen, Syria, and Iran and presenting it as “fresh evidence” of Israeli attacks. One clip was even exposed as having a Yemeni background, another had a child in a dusty hallway crying — same exact scene, same child — that had previously aired during the Syrian war.
They are literally recycling war scenes from other countries and hoping the West won’t notice. And sadly, most people don’t, because they don’t speak Arabic, don’t know the region, and don’t bother checking anything.
I have personally spoken with people in Gaza — and even though they hate Jews, many admit something horrifying that the Western media refuses to report: if you speak out against Hamas, you die.
Plain and simple.
One man told me, “If you go outside to complain about Hamas stealing our aid or using our roof for launching rockets, you’ll disappear by morning.” These are people who know Hamas is using them as human shields. But they are trapped — not by Israel — but by Hamas’ own terror regime.
What angers me most is how TikTok and other platforms are filled with Western teens and so-called human rights activists who claim there’s a genocide in Gaza while not speaking a single word of Arabic. They base all their “evidence” on edited Hamas propaganda clips, emotional music, and “caption activism” with no idea what’s really going on.
They scream “ceasefire” when Hamas just broke the last one. They say “Israel is bombing civilians” without even checking how much effort Israel puts into warning civilians, even while under fire. Israel drops leaflets, sends text messages, calls homes, and posts maps online in Arabic to warn innocent people and direct them to safe zones.
No other military in history has done this while fighting a terrorist group that hides behind its own people.
But the influencers don’t care. They’re too busy following the script Hamas hands them through social media trends, parroting hashtags without ever checking the source. Most can’t even tell you what IDF stands for or where the Gaza-Egypt border is. And when you challenge them with facts — historical, verifiable facts — they call you “brainwashed” or worse.
These aren’t freedom fighters — they’re useful idiots.
They scream about genocide while Hamas shoots people for trying to leave. They wear keffiyehs while knowing nothing about how Hamas kills LGBTQ people, tortures dissenters, and brainwashes kids to become martyrs. These are not freedom fighters. They’re victims of the very regime Western youth blindly defend.
And I’ve had enough.
If you want the truth, look at Gazawood. Look at the lies. Learn Arabic. Ask questions. Talk to the people who actually live there — not the ones paid by Hamas to act for the camera. Don’t let TikTok raise your generation on lies.
Because while you’re posting your fake activism, actual Jewish families are burying their dead — and real Gazans are being slaughtered not by Israel — but by the same terrorists you hashtag for.
And while the world cries crocodile tears over fake Pallywood videos and re-used Yemeni rubble, there is an actual fatwa right now calling for the extermination of the Druze people. Not symbolic, not theoretical — an active religious decree issued by the Supreme Fatwa Council of Syria under the Assad regime. And it’s being carried out in blood by the Syrian Arab Army and allied jihadists across Suwayda and Jabal al-Druze. These aren’t whispers in the dark — we have the footage. We know what’s happening because, just like on October 7, jihadists themselves are proud of what they do and film their own crimes live for the world to see.
The difference? There’s no attention from the West because there’s no antisemitic bonus points in defending Druze. There’s no emotional dopamine hit from accusing Israel this time — so the same keffiyeh-wearing 🍉🏳️🌈 TikTok activists who screamed “Free Palestine” are either silent or, even worse, blaming the Druze for defending themselves.
Where is the outrage? Where are the influencers? Where are the international human rights groups now that real minorities are being butchered in real time?
Instead of speaking up, they’re busy reposting fake war scenes where “victims” are made of dolls and CGI, and “bodies” are actors who open their eyes when they forget they’re being filmed. These people believed photos of reborn dolls and plastic limbs, but completely ignored the real horror of actual decapitated Jewish babies in Kfar Aza and Be'eri.
Those babies had names.
Kfir Bibas, just nine months old, kidnapped by Hamas and paraded like a trophy.
Shay Kedem, a five-year-old boy burned alive in a shelter.
Avigail Idan, just three years old, orphaned when her parents Roy and Smadar were murdered in front of her — she had to crawl out from under their dead bodies.
Emily Hand, nine years old, presumed dead, later found alive, traumatized after weeks in captivity.
These aren’t myths. These are names. Families. Jewish children murdered simply because they were Jewish — and the terrorists who did it filmed everything with GoPros strapped to their chests, streaming it on Telegram.
And now, the same pattern is repeating with the Druze.
The Syrian regime has sent tanks into Suwayda, shelled villages, and dragged people from their homes in the night. We have names of murdered Druze civilians, such as Sheikh Wahid Balous, a well-known spiritual leader assassinated in 2015 by regime operatives, and the violence has only escalated since then. In recent weeks, dozens of Druze youth, including Fadi Abu Fakhr and Majd al-Din Tawil, were abducted and executed simply for protesting conscription and refusing to join Assad’s army in its campaigns of ethnic cleansing.
But since the Druze aren’t Jews, there’s no media hysteria.
And because they’re not Hamas, the 🍉 crowd doesn’t care.
They only shout when they can accuse Israel.
They only care when the victimhood narrative fits their propaganda needs.
And if it doesn’t, they stay silent or rewrite reality.
And let’s talk about how much hypocrisy that crowd swims in. They scream about human rights while ignoring that Israel is the only country in the Middle East where it is legal to be LGBT. Tel Aviv is literally the gay capital of the Middle East. Meanwhile, Hamas — the very group they glorify — has murdered its own commanders for being gay. Ibrahim al-Makadmeh, a Hamas senior member, was executed in secret after being outed. And in Judea and Samaria, Fadi Abu Shkhaydam, a Western volunteer who came to support the Palestinian cause, was tortured and executed by local extremists when they discovered he was gay. His death was never honored — instead, it was erased.
No protests. No murals. No hashtags.
Because, again, it didn’t serve the narrative.
These people — the so-called “activists,” the “freedom fighters” in TikTok comment sections — are defending regimes that execute gays, brainwash children, beat women, and murder religious minorities. They post black-and-white infographics while real people — Druze and Jews — are butchered for existing, and the perpetrators proudly share it online.
I've known this since I was ten years old. That was the first time I saw the Hamas-run children's show called “Tomorrow’s Pioneers” (Arabic: رواد الغد). It aired on Al-Aqsa TV. One of the main characters was a Mickey Mouse lookalike called Farfur. He taught children to hate Jews, not Zionists — Jews. He told them that the only way to be a hero was to die as a martyr.
He wasn’t the villain — he was the role model.
Even back then, I knew this wasn’t about land. This wasn’t about “resistance.”
It was about blood.
It was about teaching children to kill yahūd, the Arabic word for Jews, not “Zionists” (ṣahyūnī). The word choice was deliberate. The hatred is targeted.
It has always been about erasing Jews. And now, the same groups are going after the Druze — the only other minority in the region who, like the Jews, don’t teach their kids to hate, and don’t execute people for being gay.
And what do these “anti-colonialists” do?
They stand with Hamas, with Assad, with Iran, with regimes that would kill them for their rainbow flag or Western lifestyle in less than a day.
They hate Jews more than they love truth.
They hate Israel more than they love peace.
They only care about causes that give them likes, not lives.
So stop pretending.
This isn’t activism.
This is the same Nazi ideology dressed in new hashtags.
If you can't speak up for Jews or Druze because there's no trend for it, then you were never on the side of justice to begin with.
Here are the names of specific Druze and Alawite individuals known to have been murdered in June–July 2025, whose deaths have been largely ignored or silenced by the pro‑Palestinian activist crowd. Their killers remain uncondemned in the Western “Free Palestine” narrative—they refuse to speak when justice cannot be directed at Jews.
In Sweida (Suwayda) province, southern Syria, intense sectarian violence erupted in July 2025. Over 80 Druze civilians were summarily executed by government‑affiliated forces and allied Bedouin groups, many shot after being dragged from their homes. Among the victims were Fadi Abu Fakhr and Majd al‑Din Tawil, both young Druze men forcibly abducted and executed simply for protesting conscription and opposing Assad’s army during the violence in mid‑July 2025 .
On July 13, during clashes on the Sweida–Damascus road, at least 37 people were killed—27 of them Druze, including two children. Local security forces and Bedouin militias participated. Many of the Druze victims remain unnamed, but these deaths were documented by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and other monitors .
These killings form part of a broader wave of brutal repression where 83 civilians, including women and elderly Druze, were executed in field operations and mass shootings by pro‑government forces in Suwayda between July 13–17. Among them were survivors who recognized relatives executed on video. Many bodies were found in the streets after a ceasefire took hold. Yet no global hashtag campaigns or outpourings of solidarity followed these massacres .
Turning to the coastal Alawite heartland, the violence that began in March 2025 continues to resonate. Between March 6 and 27, extrajudicial killings of Alawite civilians were reported in Latakia, Tartus, Hama, and Homs governorates. Entire families were executed after being asked if they were Alawites; those who answered "yes" were shot. The total death toll reached well over 1,700 civilians and fighters, with many identified Alawite victims included in mass graves and local burial records. Individuals such as Mohammed Abdullah al‑Ismaili—a 62‑year‑old Arza municipal official—and many of his neighbors in Arza were among those slaughtered in March. Others include everyday families in Sanobar and Baniyas where at least six Alawites were killed in a single day with one eighth‑grader among the victims .
These atrocities committed against Druze and Alawite civilians—executed in broad daylight, filmed, and documented—have received next to zero attention from the same social media activists who deploy every emotional image and hashtag for Gaza. Many in those crowds remain silent or actively spin the narrative to blame the victims or Israel, refusing to address the real perpetrators: jihadist militias and Islamist-led government forces aligned with regimes that echo the ideology of modern Nazis—targeting kaffirs, apostates, religious minorities and LGBTQ persons.
Those who stand silent or blame the Druze for their own deaths are effectively siding with genocide-enabling regimes. If your activism means only amplifying Israeli‑bad narratives, while ignoring jihadist terror against Druze, Alawites, and Jews, then you are supporting a modern-day ethnic cleansing sponsored by Islamist extremists dressed as revolutionaries.
Speak up for justice, not just for viral causes.
Because real victims have names—and deserve more than silence.
There is something I need to say, even if it burns. I am deeply ashamed of Finland.
Ashamed of the silence.
Ashamed of how so many Finnish people are quiet, sitting idle, pretending that because “it’s far away,” it’s not their problem.
Pretending that since the violence and hate hasn't yet come to their personal backyard, they can just scroll past it, or worse, justify it.
But this isn’t neutrality.
This is cowardice.
And it’s exactly this kind of apathy that allowed the Shoah to happen.
It’s this kind of “let's not get involved” that allowed Hitler to rise, allowed the Gestapo to march, and allowed millions to die while neighbors closed their windows and said, “Not our fight.”
And now, I see that same spirit infecting people around me.
We Finns love to brag about being educated.
Then why are we so willfully blind?
Why is it that only when Hamas started their live-streamed slaughter on October 7, people even began to talk — and even then, most in Finland took the wrong side, swallowed propaganda, and defended literal terrorists?
I am ashamed because Finland should have been among the loudest defenders of truth, but we weren't.
And I say this as someone who didn’t wake up to this in 2023 or 2024 or even 2025.
I studied these things for years. I studied Qur'an in Arabic, I studied ṣaḥīḥ Hadiths, I studied Islamic theology, and I studied Middle Eastern history far beyond what the average Finn even knows exists.
And I can tell you this with absolute clarity:
These things do not go away by ignoring them.
They grow. They spread. They devour.
Germany and Poland learned that the hard way.
They thought they could ignore antisemitic poison until it was too late.
And now I see Finland repeating the same sin.
Quiet while Jews are hunted.
Quiet while Druze are massacred.
Quiet while LGBTQ people are executed by Hamas, while being used as shields in propaganda.
And I will not be quiet.
I will not pretend neutrality is righteousness.
And to my fellow Finns, I say this:
You will one day have to do teshuvah. שׁוּבָה.
Repentance. Return.
Because silence now is not neutrality—it is complicity.
Antisemitism is rising.
It is growing here, in Europe, in Finland.
It is the same spirit, wearing new masks.
And if we do not stand now, we Christians will be next.
Because they always come for the Jews first. And then they come for the rest of us.
Wake up before it's too late.
Silence is not safety.
Silence is surrender.
