David Gaertner

Hamas is a genocidal cult: Recently uncovered documents from slain Hamas leader and October 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar reveal the depth of his depravity and the extent to which he knowingly steered Gaza toward catastrophe. Handwritten notes drafted a year before the attack show Sinwar anticipated a ferocious Israeli counter‑offensive, even speculating, in his own words, about the possibility of an Israeli nuclear retaliation on Gaza. Despite uncertainty over whether Iran or Hezbollah would join the fight, he outlined a plan to deploy up to ten thousand fighters from Gaza to seize Israeli towns, expel civilians, hold hostages, and wage what he described as a life‑or‑death battle. These notes align with earlier documents from Sinwar’s archive detailing his intent to use extreme brutality to maximize terror, fear, and psychological trauma among Israelis. The implications are stark. Hamas’s crimes against humanity were not only committed against Israelis but also against the Palestinian people. The fascist organization employed ISIS‑grade tactics, fully aware that the attack went far beyond any military objective and could provoke overwhelming Israeli retaliation. Sinwar’s delusions were matched only by his ignorance: Israel does not need nuclear weapons to inflict devastating harm on Gaza. Yet Hamas deliberately launched an intentionally genocidal assault, predicting, and banking on, an Israeli survival response that would devastate Gaza and then be weaponized for global sympathy. In doing so, Hamas sacrificed 2.3 million Palestinians for a propaganda strategy. This alone should compel the immediate, unconditional, and unequivocal rejection of Hamas by anyone claiming to support Palestinian rights. It should erase any doubt that Islamist extremists pose an existential threat to Palestinian survival, freedom, and the possibility of building a society not dragged into wars its rulers knowingly design to be catastrophic. When you are the weaker party facing the most far‑right government in Israel’s history, your obligation is to safeguard your people, not gamble their lives on apocalyptic fantasies. Hamas’s failure to do so is a betrayal worthy of absolute condemnation. It forfeits any Hamas claim to political relevance and demands that those responsible for October 7 be treated as traitors and murderers of their own people.

Will the Democratic Party Shift Course? Last night, I addressed a group of Democratic elected officials, philanthropists, voters, and activists in New York about Gaza, the broader Israel and Palestine conflict, and the troubling trends emerging inside the Democratic Party. I focused on the growing normalization of Hamas, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the wider “resistance” narrative, an ideology that has migrated from campuses into the streets and now into electoral politics. This shift has produced a new class of candidates eager to cater to these destructive sentiments. Even individuals who are not explicit Hamas supporters have adopted inflammatory language and absolutist postures that shut down debate and weaponize accusations instead of fostering democratic discourse. I emphasized to the audience, including local, state, and national officials, that these views do not reflect the diversity of Palestinian experiences, particularly those inside the Gaza Strip. Worse, they actively undermine the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinian people, who have suffered from the collapse of political life, the erosion of public freedoms, the absence of a viable peace process, and the empowerment of extremists. Allowing Hamas’s ideology and the rhetoric of its backers and apologists to masquerade as “pro‑Palestine” within the Democratic Party would harm the party, hurt Palestinians, and distract from the real needs of American constituents whose lives are shaped by far more than oversimplified foreign‑policy slogans. Without hesitation, I made clear that the future of the Democratic Party cannot rest with DSA‑aligned candidates whose positions on Palestine, governance, and economic policy would be disastrous. Nor can it rest with influencers like Hasan Piker, the radical “left,” the misguided “progressives,” the clueless “liberals,” or the wave of prospective candidates in New York, New Jersey, Michigan, and elsewhere who are building platforms on outrage rather than solutions, leveraging Gaza and the Palestinians for political and electoral gains. At the same time, I spoke candidly about Israeli policy choices in Gaza and beyond, many of which have been deadly, counterproductive, and strategically incoherent. Tactical gains have not translated into a sustainable endgame, prolonging the crisis and deepening human suffering. I urged decisive action against violent settler extremism in the West Bank, which is enabled by elements of the Israeli government and must be confronted directly. It is entirely possible to criticize Israeli policies without denying Israeli humanity or indulging fantasies about dismantling the Jewish state – just as it is entirely possible to support Palestinians while rejecting Hamas, terrorism, decades of failed leadership, and a long list of destructive allies.

We’re not all Americans! When a group of supposed “Americans” marches through the streets of New York and chants “we support Hezbollah here” and “we support Hamas here,” not to mention their overt, clear, and unequivocal support of the fascistic Islamic Republic of Iran’s regime, we’ve reached a point where it is critical, however uncomfortable and controversial, to make explicit declarations and take clear stances. Clueless Americans, including “paper Americans” who are Americans in name only and are mere extensions of their backwards and violent native homelands, insist that celebrating terrorists and Jihadis, are not actually American. Being an American entails much more than merely being a U.S. citizen; Americanism is a spirit, a way of life, an ethos, a willingness to reject what is harmful, unjust, regressive, backward, and despicable. You can disagree with U.S. and Israeli actions all you want, and I certainly do in numerous instances. However, such disagreements should never translate to overt support for terrorists like Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Ayatollah’s regime. Such disagreements should never justify ceaseless attacks on Jews, synagogues, and Israeli-Americans, while hiding behind the fake guise of “Islamophobia.” It is time that Americans begin the messy journey of cleaning house, recognizing the failure of endless immigration, boundaryless multiculturalism, and suicidal tolerance of the inherently intolerable. It is time to make access to freedom and Western privilege available to individuals who will actually enhance and bolster our societies, not to those who seek to destroy them from within. It’s time to reject Islamism, political correctness, fascism, and “Third-Worldism”, which is a disease that seeks to import the ills and disasters of developing nations, not their strengths and unique characteristics. This does not at all mean endorsement of hate, violence, bigotry, racism, xenophobia, or anti-immigrant sentiments, for multiple things can be true at once. Immigrants are and have been the backbone of American ingenuity, especially those coming from rough backgrounds and struggling nations. Plus, many of the most toxic, horrendous ideas are promoted by natives, often white, far leftists, who have no real appreciation for their privilege, and endorse the most destructive ideas and proclamations using academia, journalism, or “social justice” activism.

Women in Gaza are for sale! The Islamofascists in both Gaza and the West Bank are now cooperating to sell off some of Gaza’s most vulnerable and desperate widows among the rubble, in conditions that mimic the sexual slavery of ISIS. Supposed West Bank financiers are now sending money to Gaza to help sell off, marry off, without any choice or desire, Gaza’s widows who lost their husbands during the war following Hamas’s October 7th attack on Israel. There are pimps, female “matchmakers” who are little more than deliverers of women, financiers, in some cases, little to no family to say yes or no, and widows across the age spectrum, some of them teenagers. This is the sick, horrendous, evil behavior that Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Islamism, and the dark lords of Muslim Palestinian society are involved in and support. This is what so many in the West, including Arab, Muslim, and Palestinian-Americans, are refusing to speak out against by not opposing Hamas and Islamism. This is what university students on elite American campuses support with their despicable, hateful, misplaced, and ineffective “activism” that’s supposedly “pro-Palestine.” Free Gaza’s women from sexual slavery! Free Gaza’s women from servitude! Free Gaza’s women from forced marriages! Free Gaza’s women from the Palestinian ISIS! Free Gaza’s women from the backward elements of social and religious regression!

Millions of aid dollars continue to be wasted every single day in the Gaza Strip, thanks to the criminality of Hamas and an entire syndicate of influencers and a new class of millionaires who steal vast sums of money and supplies. In this video, a massive amount of food, including raw and cooked chicken, along with cooked rice, are thrown in a garbage pile near a tent city, only to be discovered by displaced people who decry this crime and evil act. Either elements of Hamas threw this food away because they didn’t receive taxes or some of it, or those who received the funds to feed people stole most of the money and just took some photos pretending to prepare food for distribution to send to donors, but lack the will or infrastructure to distribute food. Regardless, it is time to say once again that maximum caution should be exercised when sending donations to small efforts/groups and individuals claiming to feed people or provide for their needs. Some are indeed doing just that and working hard to deliver, while others are either profiting massively and becoming millionaires, working with Hamas to launder money, or diverting donations away from effective and capable organizations. Tragically, this video is a microcosm of the state of play in Gaza over the past two decades, especially under the fascistic control of Hamas’s terrorists, where billions of dollars have been wasted for absolutely nothing.

I wish that President Trump would stop heaping praise upon Qatar & realize how devastating a role the gas Sheikhdom has played in the region, including in Gaza, where the Strip became a Hamas emirate thanks to billions of Qatari $ & turning Al Jazeera into the group's mouthpiece.

Hamas has abducted 65-year-old Adel Asfour, father of my friend and anti-Hamas activist Mustafa Asfour, as a way of pressuring him into silence to stop/end his social media activism against the Islamist terror group, despite living in Belgium and being out of Gaza. The terror group is doing the same with many families of Gazans who are abroad to inflict maximum cost upon those who even think of going after Hamas's fascistic rule, criticize its behavior, or demand better for the people of Gaza. This has been done dozens of times in the past few weeks alone, with the terror group massively escalating its attacks against the people of Gaza in a desperate bid to maintain its violent rule, despite nominally agreeing to turn power over to the US-endorsed technocratic committee for the administration of Gaza. If you still support Hamas and proclaim to be "pro-Palestine, you are an evil, fascist, ignorant, irritated, antisemitic, vile, and pathetic bunch of noise. Shame on anyone who still endorses Gaza's ISIS regime, pretending it is somehow a form of "resistance."