I will never forget a discussion I had in D.C. with a group of so-called “pro-Palestine” activists who looked me in the face and told me that sacrificing Palestinians in Gaza was worth it if it brought the Palestinian cause back onto the world stage. So I asked them a simple question: Did any of you lose a home? A child? A mother or father? A brother or sister? Did you bury anyone you love? Did you lose anything because of this war? Their answer was no. And that was exactly my point. There is something deeply rotten in the so-called pro-Palestine movement in the West: Palestinian suffering has been romanticized by people who never have to pay its price, while Hamas’s terrorism has been romanticized because it fulfills their fantasy of so-called “resistance.” From thousands of miles away, they can glorify terrorism, celebrate “resistance,” preach about “necessary sacrifice,” and convince themselves that Palestinian deaths serve some greater revolutionary purpose. Meanwhile, it is Palestinians who bury their children, lose their homes, become displaced, and live with the consequences. Palestinian lives are not yours to sacrifice for your revolutionary fantasies. Gaza is not a stage for your ideological performance. Our dead are not political currency, and Hamas’s terrorism does not become heroic simply because you have decided to call it “resistance” and doesn’t represent Palestinian people or tbeir cause. You do not get to volunteer other people’s children for martyrdom while sitting safely in Washington, D.C. If the sacrifice is always someone else’s family, someone else’s home, and someone else’s life, then it is not your sacrifice. You are simply demanding that Palestinians bleed to fulfill your political fantasy.