Speech for a Protest

a transcript

Здравствуйте и добрый вечер Долбоёбу;

This was written to be read at a February 2026 demonstration against the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Silwan, not read at the demonstration, then touched up.

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I’d like to talk briefly about theft.

Some parts of Silwan are located in the historical Guy Ben Hinnom Valley, otherwise known as Gehennom. This word, Gehennom is used in both Arabic and historical hebrew to mean the otherworldly hell, where sinners go when they die.

This designation for the physical location of Guy Ben Hinnom representing hell comes from its representations in the Bible, where major later Prophets Jeremiah and Isaiah name it as hellish, where Jeremiah says idol worshiping Kings of Israel performed acts of child sacrifice to Canaanite gods. Molech is my personal favorite.

One of the most famous examples of land theft in the bible is Kerem Navot, Naboth’s Vineyard. A man named Navoth has a vineyard in the north adjacent to the King Ahab’s palace; Ahab attempts to buy the land from him, but when Naboth refuses, Jezebel spreads a lie about Naboth among his neighbors, has him stoned to death, and steals the vineyard.

Such injustice prompts Elijah to deliver a prophecy of destruction; that the dogs would drink Ahab’s blood where they drank Navot’s, and that dogs would eat Jezebel’s corpse. The injustice and incompetence are, by the biblical narrative, inseparable from idolatry.

Ask your common Tamid-Ohev-Otard the primary message of the bible (+by extension all creation) might go along the lines of ‘God promises the Jewish people the land, and now we are following God’s will’. Anything else doesn’t compute, other people outside that sentence don’t enter the equation; the relationship between God and Israel is unconditionally positive, and this land, given to different people thousands of years ago under different commandments, is unconditionally mine.

In Silwan, like any place, the convergence of narrative and material theft aligns; destruction and displacement is done under the guise of history and holiness, they give themselves the name “City of David”. If their unproven archeological claims were true, then it would be from a ruin in Silwan that David looked out and saw Batsheba bathing on the roof.

When these sins of theft were done by Ahab and David, a prophet is sent to offer two paths-- repentance, or destruction. Both of the kings recognize the wrong of their ways and avoid the harsh decrees.

Look around. Look at these people. Look at this guy. If this perverted, sick sick nation has capacity for teshuva, they are too cowardly to try. Death is better than admission.

I want to say that this land belongs to nobody but God, but that’s not entirely true. This land belongs to Palestinians; the settlers and so-called rabbis shit out excuses and generously tear up holy texts to wipe. I come to you, brothers, selling bidets. In a different life we could all be Palestinians; Jews, Arabs, and anybody in the world who wants to come live here, be a resident, and seek citizenship. Palestinian is not an ethnicity, it is a nationality; one state for two-peoples is a misonomer, a democracy means one state for any people.

As Gehennom represents hell, Jerusalem has represented in poetry and iconography a slice of earthly heaven, the city of peace on a hill in the clouds, Canterbury Tales and Melville’s Clarel, the crucifixtion and Mohammed’s dream…

Jerusalem could be earthly heaven, but the more power Jewish people seize, and the more fucking americans keep moving here, the more this place resembles an earthly hell. Unchecked power has made many of the Jewish people here cruel, brash and stupid; they are not intelligent, they grunt like hogs, lust like wild horses, steal with glee, dance besides a murder; they love, love AI. Unflinching self-righteousness is the baseline assumption (shoutout Golda Daphna).

This makes good conditions for ignorance and stupidity, and events funded by the municipality, such as this so-called festival around us, are crucial for maintaining the atmosphere of ignorance, as if everything is fine, as if they are not desecrating this land and the very concept of God and Religion by acting so evilly for such little material benefit.

You don’t even have to believe in a God to see it this way-- especially if there is no God, whatever Religious Zionism worships, it is an idol, and it is false. The settler vision of Silwan is a quiet suburb adjacent to the Third Temple, and the vision of God is nothing but a perverse enabler of ethnic and personal narcissism. No Master of the universe, Big M, no being greater than the tip of their circumcised penises, little p. It’s pitiable and horrific. They are under the impression that God is a larger version of themselves, and since they want to steal and kill, they make excuses that this must be what God wants too. In two steps the highest form of worship, even higher than the ritual slaughter of baby animals, is the ritualistic genocide of an entire people.

In response, I offer my own form of prophecy to all my Jewish Kings over there listening without hearing: Enjoy it while you can. Go out, have a drink then drink some more. Talk to the girls, they’re really pretty, their guns are so big and the buildings are so tall. This land cannot tolerate injustice and neither can I. There was a horrible and clear message which doesn’t seem to get through your thick stupid skulls; no guns, walls, or hi-tech mass surveillance will give you safety. If you’d rather have endless war and endless death than the unfamiliar constraints of equality and justice, then I have laid out a path towards destruction; you are free to continue taking it. Even if you got what you wanted, Silwan, the Temple, and all of Palestine, your greatest curse is yourself. Your sacrifices would be meaningless, your temple would revolt its audience, and your people the scorn of the world. That’s practically already the reality; Israelis are despised worldwide, their temples lack beauty, and their sacrifices are meaningless. The once good name Israel is a curse, and the once holy hebrew language is a tool for evil.

I personally believe that the settlers want Silwan because they are following their own narratives of behaving like the mythical Israel and Judeans of the past. I accept their terms; just like the mythical israel, they worship idols and sacrifice children to false gods. Killing or stealing just to live in the earthly Gehennom is a fast sentence to long residency in otherwordly Gehennom. The alternative is to stop, listen, and change. They think that there will be no consequences, but there will be, I promise, there will be. Worst case scenario is to be treated as we have treated our neighbors.

(A photo from the demonstration. Credit: )