All We're Not Saying Is: Give Peace a Chance

As Hope Springs Eternal, the Hamas Loving Celebrity Clusterfuck Is Silent

Pontificators on Parade

“All we are saying is give peace a chance.” — John Lennon

And all I’m saying is: don’t hold your breath. Not when celebrities and keffiyeh-clad, camera-ready evangelists — flanked by idiotic influencers who’ve turned outrage into a brand (Brand X, if you ask me) — have taken center stage. Their hunger for the spotlight exposes how feckless they are. Most of them aren’t even working; this is just a sad attempt at tap-dancing for relevance.

Do you really think any one of these clowns will put their money where their mouths are? Do you honestly believe they’ll suddenly become “good people” willing to help Palestinians rebuild schools, mend broken water systems, or train trauma counselors? Of course not. They have no intention of being part of the solution. Their business is amplifying the problem — often without realizing they are the problem.

Will Greta Thunberg, patron saint of performative protest, load up her Farkakteh Flotilla and actually do something that matters? When the painstaking, grinding process of peace begins, do we expect her and her creepy chorus to roll up their sleeves and offer to be of service? Of course not. They prefer lip service.

Back to the vapid 4,000-plus entertainment-industry hypocrites who signed on to boycott Israeli film institutions — without once demanding, let alone mentioning, the hostages still held by their terrorist daddies. All eyes on Hollywood. When a cultural movement can summon up thousands of signatures at a moment’s notice but cannot muster sustained outrage for people being held in captivity, it isn’t a “movement” — it is moral decay, dressed up as virtue. History will remember this “immoral minority” who will be branded with the scarlet letter of hypocrisy.

This is not about dismissing genuine grief. Innocent lives were shattered in Gaza and in Israel on October 7; that loss should never be minimized. Sincerity, however, is not the same as moral rigor. Some names on the new Jew List probably do care — and most likely, most do not.

Meanwhile, our clickbait-addicted media treats the First Amendment like a sugar daddy for inexcusable language and violent acts: flag-burning, threatening Jews and Christians, and chanting “intifada” in city streets. For two years we’ve watched an Islamist free-for-all with no accountability. This must end — not by silencing speech, but by taking those screaming “globalize the intifada” to task and by establishing a norm that condemns endorsement of hatred instead of healing. Give me a break.

Publishers and social-media companies must stop platforming and elevating performative campaigns without fact-checking. Brands and sponsors need to calculate the reputational risk of aligning with causes that collapse under scrutiny. Until we reward good behavior as much as we tolerate and promote heinous verbal monsters infecting our youth online, we will cease to be a civil society.

Peace is unglamorous. It is slow, boring, and unsexy. It won’t trend — which is exactly why it matters. The clout-chasers will fade, the opportunists will move on, careers will end, and the rest of us will still be at the tables, doing God’s work — rebuilding communities, reputations, and trust.

As we give peace a chance, judge the loudest by their performative nonsense, their lack of courage — as they cower into obscurity.

Have you read or heard my book, “Won’t Be Silent - Don’t Stop ‘til It Matters” yet?