Palestinianism is a Soviet product line that turned a lost war into a religion. Academia, media, and the Western left now treat the liturgy as history. The KGB did not invent Arab grievance. It rebranded it. After Soviet-armed Arab states were routed in 1967, Moscow needed a story that could hit America, isolate the Jews, and keep the Arab street pointed west. Stop saying “throw the Jews into the sea.” Start saying “decolonization.” Stop making it a war against a sovereign state. Turn it into a struggle of “indigenous Palestinians versus European settlers.” It did not matter that half of Israel’s Jews came from Arab and African countries, or that the Arab war against Jewish sovereignty was obvious to nearly everyone before 1967. The conflict was recoded as racism. In 1975 the UN made the recoding official: “Zionism is a form of racism” (repealed only in 1991 after the fall of the USSR). The hinge of the faith is the “Nakba,” and the word’s history gives the game away. Syrian historian Constantin Zureiq coined it in 1948 in “The Meaning of the Disaster.” He was not writing about refugees, but was expressing the humiliation felt by the Arab world as seven Arab armies failed to strangle the Jewish state at birth: they “declare war on Zionism ... stand impotent before it, and then turn on their heels.” Decades later, the same word was given a rebrand and became about refugees. The religion of Palestinianism has a very specific dialect. For example, “occupation” can describe Gaza with zero Israelis and zero Israeli soldiers in it. “Resistance” can mean blowing up a bus, a disco, or pizza shop filled with civilians. Somehow “nonviolent popular resistance” includes a knife attack on a random civilian. Bayt al-Maqdis is Arabic for the “Jewish Temple,” but in the new liturgy, the Temple never existed. Arabs who were simply called Arabs (a people who arrived with the 7th-century conquest) were reintroduced as Canaanites, a population that vanished more than 3,000 years ago. Zuhair Mohsen, on the PLO executive committee, said the quiet part out loud in 1977: there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians, and Lebanese. A separate Palestinian identity “serves only tactical purposes ... The establishment of a Palestinian state is a new weapon in the ongoing battle against Israel.” Once you see the theology, the immunity to evidence stops being mysterious. Palestinianism promises “return” and issues the same instruction, generation after generation: the Jews leave or die, and until then the wound must not close. You cannot negotiate a people out of a faith that made Jewish existence the original sin. You can only refuse to speak the dialect.

January 8 - September 24 2026 259 days since Gaza fierd a rocket 🚀 on its neighbor Israel. When Israel speaks Arabic, the Arabs listen.

I have yet to see @nick_matau lose a debate on Israel/Palestine. He's one reason I had no choice but to reevaluate everything. He exposes a dark history about the PLO that led to a war that killed 100k+, showing how complicated the region actually is. youtube.com/watch?v=MAieTGZz…