Three years ago, on October 7, 2023, thousands of Gaza terrorists invaded Israel, slaughtered, tortured, and kidnapped innocent Israelis. Young women were gang raped to death. Babies were butchered. Children were maimed. Families were burned alive.
The pools of blood were still wet and the dead had not yet been counted before Jew-hating conspiracists began claiming the massacre, which was live-streamed and celebrated by the Gazans, was instead a “false flag” operation, perpetrated by the Israelis against themselves.
Recently, a FlyDubai airline was hijacked and likely meant to become another September 11-style attack where the plane would be flown into a Tel Aviv hi-rise. Instead, in a series of awesome miracles and jaw-dropping acts of heroism by the injured pilot and quick-thinking Israeli passengers, a potential mass-casualty attack was turned into a victory of the human spirit.
And almost immediately, yet again, the Jew-hating conspiracists were promoting the “false flag” fallacy.
Whether in unspeakable tragedy or in miraculous triumph, Jews and Israelis are not allowed to be victims of terrorism. There must always be a hidden Israeli hand behind the violence.
But when it comes to the Arab-Israeli conflict, there actually is a false flag. It is the flag of “Palestine.”
That flag is hoisted throughout the world to push a fiction in which Jews suddenly appear in their own historic homeland as foreign interlopers and Arab invaders are the indigenous nation of the land.
In fact, there was never, at any point in history, a sovereign Palestinian state, kingdom, principality, or realm of any kind. Between the Jewish kingdoms and the rise of the modern state of Israel, the region was only every part of a foreign empire, ruled from abroad.
Similarly, there is no Palestinian ethnicity. During the Ottoman period and afterward, Arabs and others moved throughout the territory that would eventually become the British Mandate for Palestine. People came from different parts of the Ottoman Empire, following economic opportunity, family connections, agricultural development, and changing political circumstances.
Waves of Jewish remigration, accelerating in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, brought capital, agricultural development, infrastructure, institutions, and investment, turning a strip of worthless terrain into a viable land. This attracted Egyptians, Syrians, Lebanese, Circassians and Chechens from the Caucasus, Bosnians and Albanians.
Yet the “Free Palestine” movement projects Palestinian nationalism backward as though it existed for centuries. And exactly like a movie projected on a screen, “Palestine” is merely a story that disappears when the lights come on.
Every element of the “Free Palestine” narrative is fake.
The accusation that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza is thrown around so liberally that many people just parrot it mindlessly. It’s fake.
When Israel won Gaza from Egypt in the 1967 war, the population was 356,000. When Israel handed Gaza over to the Palestinian Authority in 2005, there were 1.3 million Arabs there. U.S. Census Bureau data shows that in 2023, when the Gazans attacked Israel, the population was up to 2.09 million and grew to 2.14 million in 2024 despite the war. The population of Gaza keeps growing and now stands at 2.23 million.
The “genocide” is fake. As is the “famine.”
A new UN report shows levels of malnutrition in Gaza children are comparable to or below those prior to 2023 and significantly lower than those in neighboring countries, including Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, below most countries on earth, including Finland and other European countries. In fact, there’s a higher percentage of obese children than in neighboring Arab countries, and, among adults, there’s a higher prevalence of obesity than in almost every country on the planet, including every country in Europe and North America, except for us American fatties.
Fake famine. Fake genocide. Fake country. Fake history. Fake, fake, Fakestine.
One thing is real, though. Wherever you see the flag of Fakestine, you see Western civilization burning.
The current riots in France feature, you guessed it, the flag of Fakestine. Rioters in Italy, England, and Scotland desecrated their nations’ flags while hoisting the Fakestinian flag. Even in our nation’s capital, “peaceful protesters” burned the American flag while waving the flag of Fakestine.
It is the symbol of a global movement to destroy, ruin, and overthrow everything that is decent, productive, and good for humanity. It is brandished by bad actors and their brainless followers.
Don’t be one of them. Challenge the mythology surrounding the “Free Palestine” movement.
Lies don’t become true and reality does not become false because of mass psychosis, political expediency, or social media clout.
The victims of October 7 deserve remembrance. Israelis who continue to face terrorism deserve security. Western civilization deserves protection. And the future deserves better than the false flag of Fakestine.
S.C. Legoni is a writer, international conflict analyst, and amateur theologian.
